时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


Dealing 1 with an Apartment Super


George: Did you call the super about fixing the leaky faucet 2


Louise: I called him on Monday, but I haven’t heard back yet. 


George: Well, call him again. This window is stuck and it won’t close. 


Louise: I’ll call him, but I think he’s avoiding our calls. 


George: He’s the worst super we’ve ever had. He’s in charge of the maintenance 3 around this place, but instead, he hides out in his apartment. Whenever there’s a problem, he tells us he’s too busy to get to it right away. Too busy doing what, I’d like to know. 


Louise: Maybe he is overworked. There are 25 units in this building, so it’s conceivable that he’s busy making repairs – somewhere. 


George: That’s what he’s counting on, people like you who give him the benefit of the doubt. All the while he’s drinking coffee and reading the newspaper somewhere. Mark my words. 


Louise: I’ll call him again. Maybe we’ll catch him in his apartment. 


George: Save your energies. 


Louise: Where are you going and what are you doing with that baseball bat? 


George: I’m going to track down that super and bring him back here. Come hell or high water, he’s making those repairs – today! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 dealing
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
2 faucet
n.水龙头
  • The faucet has developed a drip.那个水龙头已经开始滴水了。
  • She turned off the faucet and dried her hands.她关掉水龙头,把手擦干。
3 maintenance
n.维修,保养,扶养费,维持,保持
  • His small farm provides maintenance,but not much more.他的小农场能使他们维持生活,但仅此而已。
  • He has to pay maintenance to his ex-wife.他必须给前妻赡养费。
学英语单词
6-deoxyaldohexose
Actinomyces madurae
alicyclic stem-nucleus
altricialism
apertura tympanica canaliculi tympanici
application-to- application services
attractive woman
bag and baggage
balanced-unbalanced circuit(balun)
begaze
black cap
boozes
breeding age
buffer input/output memory
California Conservation Corps
Cerrobend
cervical muscle
chloropicrinism
ciaos
commercial symbols
controllable factory overhead variance
cooperative enterprise
crumbcruncher
cuscamine
double cylindrical shade wall lamp
dronist
ecomanagement
effluction
elastic brace
ex-Scientologists
expansileosteolysis
external detector
fayful
fetwas
film plane
focusing defect
fulbes
fyces
gas turbo-alternator
gathering system of natural gas
Gössäter
Haigh fatiguetesting machine
hatchmen
hepaticoliasis
hiring freezes
hydrological prognosis
interstitiated
invitation-only
isoamylurea
Jecheoncheon
Kaiserswerth
krumrie
lallygagged
lincroft
mastonia mediotincta
medmenhams
miseronis
moschate
multiple stage separating column
Net User
old master
parallel accumulator
planning survey
position vector
present to
price-floor
propaphos
pyruvyl
queenston
renewal random process
Rhodie bar
right to appeal
Scarlatti Seamount
screw adjusting outside caliper
Scutellaria subintegra
shumai
Sialosemeiology
slow set-back
soda-mineral
spoon mustard
squalamines
stochastic learning model
system behavior
tchekhov
thanheiser
timidly
tomoglumide
too-busy
top of the world
touch somebody for
Trimastix
trophic nerve
twin aggregate
u-ni-ty
uapt
vanillin test
vapour-deposited coating
Vaucheria
west indian satinwoods
without doubt
Wohl-Ziegler reaction
worktops