Eztalk美语【46】To do list 待办事项

Dec. 23, Brooke and Jack¹ are talking about their wedding

Jack: What are you doing? Checking the "to do" list for the wedding?
Brooke: Yep. There's still so much to do!
Jack: So let's start by checking off what we've already done.
Brooke: Did you reconfirm the plane reservations for all the Taiwanese guests?
Jack: Not yet, I was busy getting that videographer who films stuff for the Net.
Brooke: Cool! I can't believe he agreed to go all the way to Dallas with us!
Jack: Hey! We're paying for his ticket!

check (v.) 　
确定，核对。之后的check off意指「确定核对过后，做记号以辨别」

reconfirm (v.) 　
重新确认，confirm (v.)是「确认订位」

reservation (n.) 　
订位，订票

videographer (n.) 　
录像师

film (v.) 　
摄影

Dallas (n.) 　
达拉斯。仅次于休斯敦，为美国德州第二大的城市

十二月二十三号，布鲁克和杰克在讨论结婚事宜

杰克：你在做什么？确定婚礼的待办事项吗？
布鲁克：是啊，还有好多事要做喔！
杰克：那我们先把已经办好的事划掉。
布鲁克：你有去重新确认台湾宾客的预订机位吗？
杰克：还没，我忙着连络我们婚礼网站的录像师。
布鲁克：酷！不敢相信他真的答应大老远跟我们去达拉斯！
杰克：嘿！我们付他的机票钱耶！

1 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。