速成英语口语第五册 Lesson 13 The Day I've Been Having

Lesson 13 The Day I've Been Having

第13课 我的一天

You wouldn't believe the day I've been having. First of all, there was some kind of emergency at LAX, so my initial¹ flight was delayed by more than an hour and a half on the tarmac.

你不会相信我这一天。首先，洛杉矶国际机场有紧急情况，所以我的第一次航班在停机坪上延误了一个半小时。

So, by the time I got here to O'Hare, my connecting flight was already preparing to take off. Suffice² to say, I missed my flight out of Chicago and had to check in again for a new boarding pass.

然后，当我到达奥黑尔时，我的转机已经准备起飞了。也就是说，我错过了离开芝加哥的航班，不得不再次办理登机手续，领取新的登机牌。

And just my luck, all of the flights today are overbooked except for a red-eye that will put me in London at 4 a.m. tomorrow, just three hours before I'm supposed to do my presentation.

幸运的是，今天所有的航班都超额预定了，除了明天凌晨4点的红眼航班，也就是我要做报告的前三个小时。

Oh well. At least they bumped³ me up to executive⁴ class because the economy and business were already full. At least now I can get some shut eye during the flight.

哦，好吧。至少他们把我提升到了公事舱，因为经济舱和商务舱已经客满。至少现在我可以在飞行中休息一下了。

1 initial   

adj.最初的，开始的，词首的；n.首字母，姓名的开头字母；vt.标注姓名的首字母于

参考例句：

• After she'd overcome her initial shyness,she became very friendly.她克服了起初的羞怯之后，变得十分友善。
• The experiments have given initial results eventually.那些试验总算初见成效了。

2 suffice   

vi.足够，有能力

参考例句：

• Some bread and soup will suffice me.有面包和汤对我来说就足够了。
• Here a single example will suffice.这里只举一个例子就够了。

3 bumped   

凸起的，凸状的

参考例句：

• In the dark I bumped into a chair. 我在黑暗中撞上了一把椅子。
• I bumped against an old friend in town today. 我今天在城里偶然碰见了一个老朋友。

4 executive   

adj.执行的，行政的；n.执行者，行政官，经理

参考例句：

• A good executive usually gets on well with people.一个好的高级管理人员通常与人们相处得很好。
• He is a man of great executive ability.他是个具有极高管理能力的人。