时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:Eztalk美语会话


英语课

Paul checks out the collectible area


Salesman:[Walking over] Do you like that vintage clock? It's almost fifty years old.

Paul:Really? It almost looks brand new. And the color designs are so retro.

Salesman:Well, in the fifties, that clock used to be inside a drive-in burger joint 1.

Paul:No way! My parents used to hang out at those places.

Salesman:This is one of my favorite items.

Paul:How did you get it?


collectible (n.)

= collectable (n.) 珍品(古董、搜藏等)。collectible area 旧品的区域

I can sell you my collectible baseball cards.

我可以卖给你我收集的棒球卡。


vintage (a.)

古老的,陈旧的。

A: What do you do in your free time?

你空闲时都做些什么?

B: I collect vintage clocks.

我搜集古董钟。


retro (n.,a.)

复古的;复古的事物

A: What kind of music does the club play on Fridays?

这家俱乐部星期五晚上演奏哪种音乐?

B: Retro. And it's usually from the 80s.

复古的。而且通常都是八○年代的。


the fifties

五○年代

My dad grew up in the fifties.

我爸生长在五○年代。


drive-in burger joint (n.)

停车场餐厅,是一种五○年代常见的营业模式,客人购买食物后,就直接在店家的停车场食用。drive-through (a., n.) 免下车的,就是「得来速」;免下车餐厅、商店。burger joint 是「汉堡店」。joint是「场所,店」

Our parents used to eat at drive-in burger joints 2.

我父母常在停车场餐厅吃饭。


hang out

闲逛

We should hang out more often.

我们该常常一起出来玩。


item (n.)

对象,物品

Would you like to try on this item, miss?

小姐,您要试试这一件吗?


保罗在卖搜藏品的区域闲晃


售货员:(走上前)你喜欢那个古董钟吗﹖它已经快五十岁了。

保 罗:真的﹖看起来跟新的一样。而且这配色好复古。

售货员:呃,在五○年代,那个钟曾放在停车场汉堡店里。

保 罗:不会吧!我爸妈从前常在那种地方约会。

售货员:这是我最喜欢的搜藏品之一。

保 罗:你怎么取得的



1 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
2 joints
接头( joint的名词复数 ); 关节; 公共场所(尤指价格低廉的饮食和娱乐场所) (非正式); 一块烤肉 (英式英语)
  • Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on gas mains. 各种各样的伸缩接头被安装在煤气的总管道上了。
  • Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on steam pipes. 各种各样的伸缩接头被安装在蒸气管道上了。
学英语单词
ancient prescription
aonidiella taxus
apparent wave length
azaftozine
ballistic case
Ballyhalbert
bankocrat
bi-dialectal
big spoons
black majority rule
buddy list
button gauge
cahiered
camping trip
Carpesium Abrolanoides linne
category of spaces
concupiscential
Continal
convergent evolution
Da Fano bodies
deffayt
direct driver
dishwasher powder
disjunctional
distributive search
drain the transmission
ecopathogenic
eddy conductivity
evaluate in terms of money
familyfun
fasi
Figuil
foggie
for hours
gamma crystal
gandal
gas train
half-listeneds
herbarium specimen
hidden traitor
hypnagnosia
inductive code
influence mine
initial tableau
jack off
keep ... balance
line of constant scale
machine available ratio
main cone
mirror light
monoatomic layer
movable oil plot
moyenne
musculature
Nasua
natural gamma-ray spectral log
Nebuchadnezzars
nilk
noblesses
noncoherent communication
nonessentials
nuchi bana bushi odori (okinawa)
ocean farming and animal husbandry
operations control
ottar
pavementartist
pebble tool
pedorthists
peritectic structure
permanent tissue
plagioclase lherzolite
plasma neutrino process
pollution of oil ship
pool type reactor
profit-loss breakeven point chart
protoverine
rabbit-foot
red gun pole piece
regulating characteristics
selective dump
self-oiling bearing
semidouble
she'arim
Sikongo
sintering coal
skate over
sporotrichotic chancre
stone cresses
storage of fat
straightarrow
strain-induced precipitation
stromal adenomyosis
strong connectedness
supporting device
system of macroeconomic management
systema digestoriums
tear-streaked
third-reading
trypsin
unmakes
virilise
You could have knocked me down with a feather.