直捷英语(附mp3和字幕) Unit 42

RICHARD:Can I help you out there?
[00:21.60]CARRIER:That's very nice of you.Could you get thte ones in this hand.
[00:27.98]Thanks.Great.176,176....
[00:39.70]RICHARD:Where's Madeleine?
[00:40.99]CARRIER:Oh,she's on vacation for a couple of weeks.I'm just the replacement¹.
[00:43.90]Would you hold this for just a second?
[00:49.08]I thought I saw a big envelope in here for 176...
[00:55.27]I should probably check my bag.
[00:57.77]RICHARD:Here.Shall we just put these here for the time being?
[01:00.67]CARRIER:Thank you very much.
[01:02.76]CARRIER:You look very familiar to me.But I can't put my finger on it.
[01:09.24]Do I look familiar to you?
[01:11.52]RICHARD:No,I can't say that you do.
[01:14.23]CARRIER:Then,where would I have seen you?
[01:15.72]RICHARD:Well,..I don't forget a face,but sometimes I forget where I saw the face.
[01:21.53]RICHARD:Maybe you saw...
[01:23.42]CARRIER:Wait.Let's just check the name.
[01:25.73]That's be the tip-off.Hobart.Hobart.Hobart.Wait!
[01:34.03]I've got it.You look just like my cousin.Chuck Dagger².
[01:41.02]He lives in Pittsburgh.Do you know him?
[01:42.91]RICHARD:Ah,no.
[01:45.10]CARRIER:I'm glad I figured that out.That would have bugged³ me all day.
[01:50.09]Okeydoke.Here's your mail,Mr.Hobart of Number 176 Brook⁴ Street.
[01:56.69]I will see you tomorrow!
[02:05.78]RICHARD:Hey there.
[02:20.59]YVONNE:Hey yourself.
[02:21.89]RICHARD:Where's Nan?
[02:23.38]YVONNE:Beth needed a ride to the maol.Nancy'll be right back.
[02:26.57]Won't you be glad when Beth gets her driver's license⁵?
[02:29.47]RICHARD:Are you kidding?My child out there on the roads by herself?
[02:33.26]YVONNE:Ah,well,your child asked me if she should look at cars with 6-cylinder engines.
[02:38.98]When the time comes.
[02:40.66]RICHARD:And she tells us not worry.
[02:43.25]YVONNE:That's nothing.Wait until she tells you not to wait up.
[02:47.35]RICHARD:Yesh.Yeah,Joe warned me about that.
[02:50.26]YVONNE:How is Joe?
[02:51.74]RICHARD:He's fine.Hey,did you know Sandra Copney when you worked with us?
[02:55.85]YVONNE:Oh yes.I was so happy to leave her behind when I quit.
[03:00.34]RICHARD:Well,she's leaving.
[03:01.73]YVONNE:For prison?
[03:03.02]RICHARD:What was that story?About coffee?
[03:07.03]YVONNE:The Battle of the Coffeemaker.
[03:10.42]She would finish off a pot of coffee and not make more.That is so rude.
[03:18.50]One day I reminded her very nicely to make another pot.
[03:24.10]She said she didn't know how.I offered to teach her.
[03:27.58]And she told me not to bother because then she would have to do it.
[03:32.86]That's when I called her an arrogant⁶ little groundhog.
[03:37.15]I did.I said,"You arrogant little groundhog."
[03:43.73]RICHARD:Well,the groundhog is leaving.Excuse me.
[03:49.61]RICHARD:Hello?...Oh in Danny.What's up?...Oh yeah?...OK.
[03:57.10]I'll be right up.Plumbing⁷ problem.
[04:02.69]YVONNE:Have a good time.
[04:17.76]MICHAEL:It wasn't dripping this morning.
[04:19.54]DANNY:It just started.
[04:21.82]RICHARD:Is there anything wrong with the water pressure?
[04:25.30]MICHAEL:Not that I've noticed.
[04:26.98]DANNY:I wouldn't have noticed this except that I'm trying to fall asleep
[04:30.67]and the dripping drives me crazy.
[04:33.96]RICHARD:Well,it should be simple enough.
[04:36.26]DANNY:We would have fixed⁸ it,
[04:37.94]but it days in the lease not to repair anything ourselves.
[04:40.92]RICHARD:That's right.
[04:42.10]DANNY:I feel stupid calling you up for this.
[04:45.29]But trying to fall asleep,it was all could hear.
[04:47.86]RICHARD:Don't worry.It's nothing a little tightening⁹ won't fix.
[04:51.34]RICHARD:OK.First I'll take it apart and we'll examine it for crachs.
[04:55.61]MICHAEL:Is a crack causing it?
[04:57.10]RICHARD:We won't know until we check.
[04:59.50]DANNY:Maybe the washer is old or missing.
[05:03.38]RICHARD:Maybe.We'll check for that too.
[05:05.16]Now is it turning clockwise that untightens it?
[05:09.84]MICHAEL:From abouve?Counter-clockwise.
[05:12.82]DANNY:Counter-clockwise. Counter-clockwise. Wait.
[05:16.90]RICHARD AND MICHAEL:What?
[05:20.06]DANNY:Listne.The dripping's gone.It stopped.
[05:24.05]MICHAEL:No more dripping faucet¹⁰.
[05:26.23]RICHARD:Well,that takes care of that.
[05:28.63]MICHAEL:Yeah.Thanks for coming up.
[05:31.63]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。