介绍:
Foreign visitor: Hello, can you take us to the Friendship Hotel?您好。您能送我们去友谊宾馆吗？
Taxi driver: Sure. Step in and bang the door, please.没问题。请上车，用力把门关上。
Foreign visitor: Do you think we can get to the hotel before 11:00?您觉得您能在11点以前把我们送到友谊宾馆吗？
Taxi driver: We should make it if the lights are with us.如果一路绿灯，我们就能及时赶到。
Foreign visitor: This is not the rush hour. The traffic’s not very heavy.现在不是上下班高峰时间。路上
(about 10 minutes later)大约过了10分钟 交通并不拥挤。
Taxi driver: We are lucky. Here we are just in time. 27 yuan,please.我们运气不错及时赶到了。
请付27元。
Foreign visitor: Thanks a lot. Let’s call it 30 yuan.非常感谢。就算30元吧。
Notes
rush hour (上下班) 交通高峰期
Here we are just in time. 我们到了，刚好没晚。
Let’s call it 30yuan. 就算30元吧。（您就收30元吧。）
Exercise1
1.we should make it if the lights are with us.
the traffic is not heavy (交通拥挤，堵塞)
the road is not crowded with cars.
the lights are not against us.
there are not too many cyclists(骑自行车的人)along the road.
Exercise2
根据下列情景和提示,两人一组编一段对话.
A, a taxi driver, is talking to B, an athlete (运动员) from the U.S.A.
A : [welcomes b to the taxi]
[says the traffic is heavy]
[drives as fast as he could]
[arrives just in time]
[the fare is 27 yuan]
B : [asks if the taxi is taken]
[has an appointment at the east gate of the Olympic Center at 4:30]
[is in a hurry]
[thanks A and pays the fare and asks B to keep the change]
A: Hello sir, good afternoon!
B: Are you available? Are you free? Can I get in?
B: Can I get in?
A: Hello sir, good afternoon!
B: I have an appointment at the east gate of the Olympic Center at 4:30
A: (says the traffic is heavy)
B: Can I get in?
A: Hello sir, good afternoon!
B: I have an appointment at the east gate of the Olympic Center at 4:30
A: This is rush hour. The traffic may be terrible!
B: (in a rush)
