Lesson 95
1 return [ri&`&tə:n] n.往返
2 train [trein] n.火车
3 platform [&`&plætfɔ:m] n.站台
4 plenty [&`&plenti] n.大量
5 bar [bɑ:] n.酒吧
6 station [&`&steiʃən] n.车站,火车站
7 catch [kætʃ] v.赶上
8 miss [mis] v.错过
Lesson 95 Tickets, please. 请把车票拿出来。
Listen to the tape then answer this question. Why did George and Ken miss the train?
GEORGE: Two return tickets to London, please.
What time will the next train leave?
ATTENDANT: At nineteen minutes pasteight.
GEORGE: Which platform?
ATTENDANT: Platform Two. Over the bridge.
KEN: What time will the next trainleave?
GEORGE: At eight nineteen.
KEN: We&`&ve got plenty of time.
GEORGE: It&`&s only three minutes to eight.
KEN: Let&`&s go and have a drink.
There&`&s a bar next door to the station.
GEORGE: We had better go back to the station now, Ken.
PORTER: Tickets, please.
GEORGE: We want to catch the eight nineteen to London.
PORTER: You&`&ve just missed it!
GEORGE: What! It&`&s only eight fifteen.
PORTER: I&`&m sorry, sir. That clock&`&s ten minutes slow.
GEORGE: When&`&s the next train?
PORTER: In five hours&`& time!
乔治:买两张到伦敦的往返票。下一班火车什么时候开?
服务员:8点19分。
乔 治:在哪个站台?
服务员:2号站台。过天桥。
肯:下一班火车什么时候开?
乔 治:8点19分。
肯:我们时间还很宽裕。
乔 治:现在才7点57分。
肯:让我们去喝点东西吧,车站旁有一个酒吧。
乔 治:肯,我们现在最好回车站去。
收票员:请把车票拿出来。
乔 治:我们要乘8点19分的车去伦敦。
收票员:你们刚好错过了那班车。
乔 治:什么!现在只有8点15分。
收票员:对不起,先生,那个钟慢了10分钟。
乔 治:下一班车是什么时候?
收票员:5个小时以后!