GEORGE: Two return tickets to London, please.
What time will the next train leave?
ATTENDANT: At nineteen minutes past eight.
GEORGE: Which platform?
ATTENDANT: Platform Two. Over the bridge.
KEN: What time will the next train leave?
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!
单词
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