捷进英语 lesson 42

RICHARD:Can I help you out there?

CARRIER:That's very nice of you.Could you get thte ones in this hand.

Thanks.Great.176,176....

RICHARD:Where's Madeleine?

CARRIER:Oh,she's on vacation for a couple of weeks.I'm just the replacement¹.

Would you hold this for just a second?

I thought I saw a big envelope in here for 176...

I should probably check my bag.

RICHARD:Here.Shall we just put these here for the time being?

CARRIER:Thank you very much.

CARRIER:You look very familiar to me.But I can't put my finger on it.

Do I look familiar to you?

RICHARD:No,I can't say that you do.

CARRIER:Then,where would I have seen you?

RICHARD:Well,..I don't forget a face,but sometimes I forget where I saw the face.

RICHARD:Maybe you saw...

CARRIER:Wait.Let's just check the name.

That's be the tip-off.Hobart.Hobart.Hobart.Wait!

I've got it.You look just like my cousin.Chuck Dagger².

He lives in Pittsburgh.Do you know him?

RICHARD:Ah,no.

CARRIER:I'm glad I figured that out.That would have bugged³ me all day.

Okeydoke.Here's your mail,Mr.Hobart of Number 176 Brook⁴ Street.

I will see you tomorrow!

RICHARD:Hey there.

YVONNE:Hey yourself.

RICHARD:Where's Nan?

YVONNE:Beth needed a ride to the maol.Nancy'll be right back.

Won't you be glad when Beth gets her driver's license⁵?

RICHARD:Are you kidding?My child out there on the roads by herself?

YVONNE:Ah,well,your child asked me if she should look at cars with 6-cylinder engines.

When the time comes.

RICHARD:And she tells us not worry.

YVONNE:That's nothing.Wait until she tells you not to wait up.

RICHARD:Yesh.Yeah,Joe warned me about that.

YVONNE:How is Joe?

RICHARD:He's fine.Hey,did you know Sandra Copney when you worked with us?

YVONNE:Oh yes.I was so happy to leave her behind when I quit.

RICHARD:Well,she's leaving.

YVONNE:For prison?

RICHARD:What was that story?About coffee?

YVONNE:The Battle of the Coffeemaker.

She would finish off a pot of coffee and not make more.That is so rude.

One day I reminded her very nicely to make another pot.

She said she didn't know how.I offered to teach her.

And she told me not to bother because then she would have to do it.

That's when I called her an arrogant⁶ little groundhog.

I did.I said,"You arrogant little groundhog."

RICHARD:Well,the groundhog is leaving.Excuse me.

RICHARD:Hello?...Oh in Danny.What's up?...Oh yeah?...OK.

I'll be right up.Plumbing⁷ problem.

YVONNE:Have a good time.

MICHAEL:It wasn't dripping this morning.

DANNY:It just started.

RICHARD:Is there anything wrong with the water pressure?

MICHAEL:Not that I've noticed.

DANNY:I wouldn't have noticed this except that I'm trying to fall asleep

and the dripping drives me crazy.

RICHARD:Well,it should be simple enough.

DANNY:We would have fixed⁸ it,

but it days in the lease not to repair anything ourselves.

RICHARD:That's right.

DANNY:I feel stupid calling you up for this.

But trying to fall asleep,it was all could hear.

RICHARD:Don't worry.It's nothing a little tightening⁹ won't fix.

RICHARD:OK.First I'll take it apart and we'll examine it for crachs.

MICHAEL:Is a crack causing it?

RICHARD:We won't know until we check.

DANNY:Maybe the washer is old or missing.

RICHARD:Maybe.We'll check for that too.

Now is it turning clockwise that untightens it?

MICHAEL:From abouve?Counter-clockwise.

DANNY:Counter-clockwise. Counter-clockwise. Wait.

RICHARD AND MICHAEL:What?

DANNY:Listne.The dripping's gone.It stopped.

MICHAEL:No more dripping faucet¹⁰.

RICHARD:Well,that takes care of that.

MICHAEL:Yeah.Thanks for coming up.

RICHARD:No problem.I'm glad I could help.

1 replacement   

n.取代，替换，交换；替代品，代用品

参考例句：

• We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.我们很难找到一个人来代替我们的助手。
• They put all the students through the replacement examination.他们让所有的学生参加分班考试。

2 dagger   

n.匕首，短剑，剑号

参考例句：

• The bad news is a dagger to his heart.这条坏消息刺痛了他的心。
• The murderer thrust a dagger into her heart.凶手将匕首刺进她的心脏。

3 bugged   

vt.在…装窃听器（bug的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• The police have bugged his office. 警察在他的办公室装了窃听器。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He had bugged off before I had a chance to get a word in. 我还没来得及讲话，他已经走了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 brook   

n.小河，溪；v.忍受，容让

参考例句：

• In our room we could hear the murmur of a distant brook.在我们房间能听到远处小溪汩汩的流水声。
• The brook trickled through the valley.小溪涓涓流过峡谷。

5 license   

n.执照，许可证，特许；v.许可，特许

参考例句：

• The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
• The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。

6 arrogant   

adj.傲慢的，自大的

参考例句：

• You've got to get rid of your arrogant ways.你这骄傲劲儿得好好改改。
• People are waking up that he is arrogant.人们开始认识到他很傲慢。

7 plumbing   

n.水管装置；水暖工的工作；管道工程v.用铅锤测量（plumb的现在分词）；探究

参考例句：

• She spent her life plumbing the mysteries of the human psyche. 她毕生探索人类心灵的奥秘。
• They're going to have to put in new plumbing. 他们将需要安装新的水管。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

9 tightening   

上紧，固定，紧密

参考例句：

• Make sure the washer is firmly seated before tightening the pipe. 旋紧水管之前，检查一下洗衣机是否已牢牢地固定在底座上了。
• It needs tightening up a little. 它还需要再收紧些。

10 faucet   

n.水龙头

参考例句：

• The faucet has developed a drip.那个水龙头已经开始滴水了。
• She turned off the faucet and dried her hands.她关掉水龙头，把手擦干。