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
-astine
acoloutha
alternative statement
antiprostaglandin
average agreement demurrage
avian influenza
Azerbaijan SSR
barrel blank
beerhood
benzol blend
body side bearing
bulk separation
calcasieu l.
catalytic synthesis
causeway
cheiromantist
chief officer of police
clean air devices
compound plate evaporator
considera
coronachs
cross section ionization detector
cross sensitization
Cuvieroninae
dynamic power output
economic selection cutting
electric-current loop
electronic retailing
emophytic
empyreal
endways transported hitch
exit receipt
extra play
extrafollicular zone
fast-acting
first-draw
flame projector
glyptus courierei
gonycampsis
grade of freshness
groove for sash
haining silk
hemelysin
heteranthery
hypoesthetic
ichno-genera
industrial thermometer
inter-nationalizations
internal-gear
jq
Kamenskiy
kunitachis
last in first out method of inventory costing
leaping of divide
level of debt
lingula pulmonis
manyattas
mean blood pressure
methylacetophos
midround
military communication satellite
myringitis
narcotization
Ninja Pinch
oceanodromas
off-set socket wrench
opening for spark plug
operation symbol
pachoulis
part winding start
perimeningeal tissue
phreatic water surface
polystichum kodamae tagawa
Port Augusta
pseudo-game
publicity poll
quick-changest
REPOL
restless night
runlevels
salicylaldehyde acetylhydrazone
self-actualizer
shore power connection box
shuttlewise
single base powder
soft hematite
starrier
statistical entropy
supporting sentence
t'ai ch'ang po shih
Tel'novskiy
tellen
tonoplast membrane
traveled lane
tulip skirt
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
universal banks
vertical multi speed motor
wagen
Yong'an