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。
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abyla carina
accommodation of funds
after booster pump
ahead and astern reach measurement
amped-up
arguability
assembly and test
Attachment process
autothermally
beam intensity
begin the dance
beyond exception
body measurement
Boreda
brev
cameramans
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capestan
cinepazide maleate
circuit recloser
cliently
clinical guidelines
closed loop
cochlearine
completely constituted trust
connecting cold
conus orbignyi
coxal bone
cryptosporidium
darning lasts
divider stage
drum ... into
emotivities
et alibi
experientable
express agency
flat keel
grindeline
head lobe
hemelgarn
housing projects
individual-level health problem
interim account
keystone sack
lawries
Le Buisson-de-Cadouin
level of education
lig. incudis posterius
local temperature rise
ludens
Machilus thunbergii
managerial personnel responsibility system
meningorachidian
meteororesistant
microwave scatterometer
minor diameter fit of spline
misidentification
moyesii
nasal glioma
nitrogen-burst
Nordwalde
order of presentation
palladios
papal infallibility
paper-baseds
peeler cotton
plate plastic stress problems
powerbock
prior to planting
professional-class
Protoachlya
pseudoterminal
pycnomorphic
pyrolysis unit
quaestio juris
radio-frequency electrostatic quad-rupole
relational schema
roadbed pressure
Salicylazosulfagyridin
scarus chameleon
section shrinkage rate
show someone up
solodized soil
space industry
stickhandled
T pulse
taphrina farlowii sadebeck
Taygete
telecommunication administration
the more fool you him
third man argument
thumping
to get on it
transflective LCD
Typhlops
unlacquered
uphole geophone
Virtanen, Artturi Ilmari
Waltham Abbey
waste condensate pump
wheat-straw
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