时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:突破英文对话


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3. Thanks for Filling Me In 谢谢你让我知道 
 
 
A: This seat taken? 
 
B: No, go ahead, be my guest. I haven’t seen you before. Are you new in engineering? 
 
A: Yeah, I just switched my major from computer science——too much math! I couldn’t take the pressure. 
 
B: Well, don’t expect it to be any better here! What’s your name, anyway? 
 
A: Sam. What’s yours? 
 
B: Ben Jones, but everybody calls me “BJ”. 
 
A: BJ, huh? Well, I’m not going to tell you what my nickname 1 is! Oh, here comes the professor. What’s his name, anyway? Scarey, or something like that? 
 
B: James Kerry. But we call him “Big Jim” because he’s so short. 
 
A: To his face? 
 
B: No. Are you kidding? He has a bad temper. I know he wouldn’t think it was funny. I think it’s really funny. He is a little guy. He’s not a bad teacher though. 
 
A: Well, that’s good to know. Thanks for filling me in. 
 
B: Anytime. 

1 nickname
n.绰号,昵称;v.给...取绰号,叫错名字
  • She called me by my nickname.她叫我的外号。
  • Why do you fasten such a nickname on her?你为什么给她取这样一个绰号?
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