高教版公共英语3级精讲班讲义16

公共英语3级精讲班第16讲讲义

Dialogue

Dialogue 1:

A tourist is looking for the Tourist Information center and asks a passerby for directions.

1. I’m trying to locate the Tourist Information Center.

我正在找旅行咨询中心。

locate

1) 找出，指出（某人、某事物）的准确位置或地点

locate an electrical fault

locate a town on a map

I’m trying to locate Mr. Smith.

2) be located 将（某物）设置在某处

A new factory is to be located on this site.

The information office is located in the city center.

2. I always seem to get lost when I try to follow directions.

当我听从别人方向时，总是迷路。

Dialogue 2:

A tourist wants to go to the Brooklyn Museum and asks a passerby for directions.

1. As soon as I get underground I lose my sense of direction.

我一进地铁就没有方向感。

lose the sense of direction

2. Say, I’m going in that direction. I’ll show you where it is.

我正朝着那个方向走，我告诉你它在什么地方。

I’ll show you where it is.

宾语从句用陈述句语序。

3. Think nothing of it.

没关系。

Monologue 1:

May Hunter is at a travel conference and exhibition in Manchester, England. She is talking about her first and second day there.

1. It’s full of life, lots to see and do in the evenings.

它到处充满生机，在晚上有很多地方可以参观有很多方式可以娱乐。

2. It seems as if I am going to enjoy myself here for the coming day.

看起来我在即将到来的日子里可以在这儿充分享受了。

the coming day 即将到来的日子

3. I went to the conference to register and to set up my exhibition stand.

我到会议去注册并且准备我的展览摊位。

4. Things are going well.

一切都顺利。

5. I set out our brochures ready for the official opening.

我们摆放好我们的宣传书册等着正式开幕。

set out 安排或摆放

We’ll need to set out chairs for the meeting.

She set out the pieces on the chess-board.

Dialogue 3:

1. Sally Brown, a journalist, is talking with Peter Smith, a government official in charge of transport planning, about the transport policy he is working on.

记者莎莉·布朗正在和负责交通规划的政府官员彼得·史密斯关于他正在计划的交通政策进行交谈。

1）in charge of 处于控制或支配某人、某物的地位

Who’s in charge here?

He was left in charge of the shop while the manager was away.

2）work on 忙于做某事

He is working on a new novel.

2. By the year 1700, Britain had a whole network of canals and rivers.

到1700年，英国已经有了一个运河和湖泊交通的一个完整的系统。

3. With a bit of forward planning, we could still move constructions materials by

waterway, though I’d agree that the main potential of the canal routes today is the recreational use.

虽然，我得承认运河交通今天的潜在作用主要是娱乐作用。未来计划中，我们仍然用水路来运输建筑材料。

forward 向着将来的，向着未来的

from this time forward

Look forward and consider the advantages of a larger house.

4. Britain’s rail network is still second to none.

英国的铁路交通是世界上第一的。

second to none 不亚于任何事物和人

As a dancer, he is second to none.

5. A lot of our trade s with Europe and before the Channel Tunnel, there was a very good container industry. The containers could either be hooked onto lorries or loaded onto ships. Why not adapt the rail network to allow it to cope with containers?

铁我们的很多贸易都是和欧洲进行的，在运河隧道之前，我们有非常好的集装箱工业。集装箱的货品或者使用卡车运送或者使用船只运送。为什么不使用铁路来运送集装箱的物品呢？

1) be hooked onto和---联系在一起

2) adapt --- to --- 适应（新环境）

Our eyes slowly adapted to the dark.

She adapted herself quickly to the new climate.

6. You couldn’t have loading bays and cranes at every station along the line.

在沿线每个车站你们没有卸货港和起重机吗？

7. No, but you could have freight terminals in each of our major cities. Loading could take place during the night to avoid congestion.

是的，但是你们在主要城市肯定有货物集散地。为了避免拥挤我们晚上必需装货。1）freight terminals 货物集散地

2）loading装货

8. Disabled people will be given taxi vouchers and there will still be ambulances driven by professionals.

我们会给残疾人发放出租车的代金券，并且由专业人士驾驶救护车。