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口语交际对话:你往哪里去?

线话英语|2015-05-08 15:25:40

  口语交际对话故事梗概】

 

 

  在驾车去Pete Waters的农场的路上, Grandpa 在凑近切斯特顿的一个汽车加油站停下来加油,并意外的从加油站的工作职员那里知道了一条去农场的近路的口语交际对话背景介绍。

  Attendant: Hello. What can I do for you?

  Grandpa: Hi. Fill 'er up. I need a full tank.

  Attendant: Check the hood?

 

 

  Grandpa: No, thanks.

  Attendant: Whereaboutsare you headed?

  Grandpa: Pete Waters' farm, near Chesterton.

 

 

  Attendant: I know it well. Pete Waters's lived around here almost as long as I have.

 

 

  Grandpa: How long is it going to take for me to get here?

 

 

  Attendant: About fifteen minutes. There's a short cut -- if you know it.

  Grandpa: No, I don't. Could you tell me how to use the short cut?

 

 

  Attendant: Sure. You take the next left turn. You'll see a stop sign. Make a right at the stop sign. Stay on that road, and you'll cross a blue bridge. Then you'll see a big old red barn. That's the back of Pete Waters' place.

 

 

  Grandpa: That's quite a difference from the directionsthat Pete sent me.

 

 

  Attendant: Now, if you take that route, it's probably a lot simpler, but it'll take you ten minutes longer.

  【语言点精讲】

 

 

  1. Fill 'er up. I need a full tank.

  Fill'er up: 给车加满汽油。是常用的非正式说法。这是美国特有的俗语,专用于在加油站加油时;'er是 her的省略音。为了节省人工,当初加油站常设顾客本人着手加油的油泵,这句话的利用频率大为降落了。

  tank: 汽车上的油箱。

  2. Check the hood?

  要不要检讨一下引擎、机油什么的?

 

 

  口语交际对话中知识点拓展:美国是汽车王国,个别家庭都有两部以上的汽车,各地加油站密布,大部分加油站都分自助区(self service)跟全套服务区(full service),前者要顾客自己加油,后者由服务员帮忙加油,并供应擦窗,检查机油等服务,价钱较贵。

 

 

  3. Whereabouts are you headed?

 

 

  你往哪里去?

 

 

  Whereabouts: 哪里,等同于 Where。在美国有些地区习惯于用这个词。

 

 

  be headed (for a place): 是“朝某处去”,其语言略俗。

  4. You take the next left turn. You'll see a stop sign. Make a right at the stop sign. Stay on that road, and you'll cross a blue bridge. Then you'll see a big old red barn. That's the back of Pete Waters' place.

 

 

  这是加油站的工作人员在告诉Grandpa去农场的近路。让咱们来看看其中的一些表白。

 

 

  take the next left turn. : 在下一条路口左转。

 

 

  a stop sign:停车标志。在小路与大路交叉的地方,在小路一侧常有写STOP的标记,示意车子到此应先停下,看清大路上不撞车危险后再前进。

  make a right : 右转。也可能说“make a right turn”或者 “turn to the right”。

  Stay on that road, and you'll cross a blue bridge. : 在那条路上开,你会经过一座蓝色的桥。

  barn:口语交际对话中的这个单词,一般来说是美国农场上的大牲口棚,下层栓大畜生,上层贮饲草。有时旁边还有一圆柱塔形建造,蕴藏饲料。亦指贮谷物的建筑物,谷棚。

  5. Now, if you take that route, it's probably a lot simpler, but it'll take you ten minutes longer.

 

 

  喏,你要是走那条路线,可能简单得多,可是要多花10分钟的时间。

 

 

  a lot simpler: 简略得多。在比较级上增添表示程度或幅度的状语时,要加在比拟级的前面,又如: a little harder(有一点难),much bigger(大得多),an inch longer(长出一英寸),somewhat quicker(多少快一些)。

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