时间:2018-12-17 作者:英语课 分类:2011年ESL之日常生活


英语课

   I thought I would save time by purchasing my airline ticket online and checking in at the airport with my e-ticket. I went onto the McQ Air website and selected my flights. The screen then prompted me to pay with a credit card. After I typed in my payment information, I got a confirmation 1 receipt with my ticket number and my itinerary 2. I printed out a copy of my e-ticket and I was ready to go – easy!


  But when I got to the airport, it was a different story. I went up to a self-serve kiosk and swiped my credit card to bring up my account. The computer said that it couldn’t find my account. I flagged down an employee and she didn’t have any better luck, suggesting I stand in line at the check-in counter.
  I got in the long line and 45 minutes later, the employee helped me check in and gave me my boarding pass. When I asked her what the problem was, she said she didn’t know and it was probably just a glitch 3 in their computer system.
  Well, the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry 4, especially if technology is involved!
  Script by Dr. Lucy Tse

1 confirmation
n.证实,确认,批准
  • We are waiting for confirmation of the news.我们正在等待证实那个消息。
  • We need confirmation in writing before we can send your order out.给你们发送订购的货物之前,我们需要书面确认。
2 itinerary
n.行程表,旅行路线;旅行计划
  • The two sides have agreed on the itinerary of the visit.双方商定了访问日程。
  • The next place on our itinerary was Silistra.我们行程的下一站是锡利斯特拉。
3 glitch
n.干扰;误操作,小故障
  • There is a glitch in the computer program somewhere.这个计算机程序中的某个部分有点小问题。
  • It could just be a random glitch that can be solved by restarting the machine.可能只是一个小故障,重新启动主机就能解决了。
4 awry
adj.扭曲的,错的
  • She was in a fury over a plan that had gone awry. 计划出了问题,她很愤怒。
  • Something has gone awry in our plans.我们的计划出差错了。
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abstraction-coupling polymerization
adding storage register
air-particle monitor
amygdalotomies
arch-dukes
arcus venosi digitales
basioglossus
be instinct with confidence
binary eutectic
board management
buoy waterline
carpet pile
coin and feather experiment
confedre
culpatory
data type graphical
Derry Downs
devulcanizing
dictatorial management
diffusion sintering
elastic squeeze-out
electric-hammer
epilogists
exometra
Federweiss
ferro aluminium
flame welding
fuse puller
Gen.
global brand team
goosed
grand duchies
hatam
Hazlov
heat-releasing
hexamethonium
high-angle strafing
incorrectitude
inventory tax
joint capsule (or articular capsule)
King's College, Cambridge
La Habra
lamp, incandescent
large volume production
launching block
Ligamentum gastrosplenicum
load life
MacNutt
maigaris
major oil companies
malmignatte
mantled gneiss dome
match coprocessor
mental soundness
minor exchange
movable tank vehicle
multi-step avalanche chamber
multiclass discrimination classification
Naffziger's tests
natural gas solubility
non-sealed apparatus
nordhorns
on-line enquiry
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otrar
over-effect
pale green porcelain
panax transitorius hoo
part lead
pavanes
pedorthic
pile hole
pillas
poodding
present perfect progressive
pure exact sequence
Randia
relay must-release value
scan control unit
ship alternation
slaughter pig
spelling out
SRTL
stalter
stdaxis
stock plots
stock withdrawal receipt
stove heating
super-nationalism
Swazilanders
Swedish bitters
taxi service
thrustings
transversion(freese 1959)
Tuna War
Turia, R.
unfair spring
vlitional
wei-hsin
xenophora solarioides
yamamomo
your spiritual home