T= Travel Agent C= Caller
The caller is purchasing an airline ticket.
打電話的人正在買機票。
T: What date would you like to depart, sir?
旅行社職員:您想哪天啟程呢,先生?
C: Do you have any seats for September 16th?
打電話者:你們9月16日有位子嗎?
T: Let's see... I'm afraid the 16th is fully booked. But I have seats for the 17th.
旅行社職員:我看看……恐怕16號已經(jīng)訂滿了。但17號有位子。
C: The 17th will be fine.
打電話者:17號可以。
T: And what date will you be returning?
旅行社職員:那您要哪一天回來呢?
C: Hmm, I guess on the 28th.
打電話者:嗯,我想是28號吧。
T: Okay, you' re booked on American Airlines flight 710,departing JFK at 6: 40 p. m. on September 17th. Your return flight is flight 711, 'departing London' s HeathrowAirport at 11:15 a. m. on September 28th.
旅行社職員:好的,您訂的是9月17日晚上6:40在肯尼迪機場起飛的美國航空710班機?;爻淌?月28日早上111:15在倫敦希思羅機場起飛的711班機。
C: Sounds good. Thanks a lot.
打電話者:聽起來很不錯,真謝謝你。
單詞學習筆記
1.caller n.來電者
2.purchase vt. 購買
例:The government announced plans to purchase technology from the U. S.
(政府宣布向美國采購科技設備的計劃。)
3.depart vi.& vt. 啟程,出發(fā)
depart for+地方名詞 前往某地
=leave for+地方名詞
例:Mr. Jones is departing for California tomorrow.
(瓊斯先生明日將前往加州。)
4.I'm afraid + (that) 從句 恐怕……
I'm afraid( that) we don't have any rooms available.
(恐怕我們沒有任何空房了。)
5.fully adv.完全地
6.book vt. 預購/訂
book a room 訂房
book a table 訂餐位
例:The couple booked a room at the beach for their honeymoon.
(這對夫婦為了度蜜月在海灘旁預訂了一個房間。)
7.flight n. (飛機的)飛行班次
8.JFK 肯尼迪(美國第35任總統(tǒng);此處指肯尼迪國際機場)
= John Fitzgerald Kennedy
9.本文:
Your return flight is flight 711, departing...
= Your return flight is flight 711 and you depart...
回程是……起飛的711班機。
注意:
兩句在一起無連接詞連接時,需把第二個動詞改為現(xiàn)在分詞。
He stood there watching people pass by.
(他站在那里看著人們經(jīng)過。)