从ABC到流利口语-unit19

UNIT 19 At the post office

Here’s your receipt now. Please have it well-wrapt and sailed.

Where is the nearest post office?

How do I get the post office?

What time do the post office open?

How much is the air mail letter to the People’s Republic China ?

Excuse me . Could you please find the postcodes for all those letters?

I’d like to send this letter special delivery.

I’d like to send this letter to NewYork.

Please pays this airmail stagger and Envelop¹ when you send it airmail.

I want to have this letter registered.

It’s not overweight.

Do you have conmainer to this stamps?

Is this sufficiently² stamped?

How long does this letter take to go there by email?

What does this parcel contain?

I want to send this telegraph, How much per word?

Where can I buy envelops³ and writing paper?

This is your postal⁴ receipt.

Would you give me an international stamp Q-band , please?

Can I catch the last mail today?

The parcel counter is the third on the left.

If the cable is urgent ,the rate will be doubled.

Please send this order.

Conversation

Dialogue 1

A: What’s the postage on this letter to HongHong ,please?

B: Oh, I have to check. Do you need anything else?

A: Yes, Five one dollar stamps, please.

B: That will be fourteen dollars in all.

Dialogue 2:

A: Three twenty-five cent stamps ,please.

B: Here you are .seventy-five cent ,please.

A: And please sent this letter by registered mail.

B: Is there anything valuable in it?

A: There’s a check of two hundred dollars and photograph.

B: Shall I make out a receipt?

A: No. don’t bother.

B: That‘ll be ninety-five cents in all.

Dialogue 3:

A: Next ,please. Hello, may I help you ,sir?

B: I want to send a registered airmail letter to France.

A: Ok, it comes four dollars twenty cents.

B: Here is five dollars.

A; Here is your change. Please wait for your receipt of the registered mail.

B: I also want to pack up my package. This is the notes.

A: Let me see. En.. just a minute. Here it is . I need your signature on this note.

B: Oh ,one more thing, where can I mail this letter?

A: Drop it in the mail box mark out of town. at that corner.

B: Thank you very much.

A: You‘re welcome.

Dialogue 4:

A: Would you please wait this letter to see with the postages ?

B: do you want to sent this letter by ordinary or registered mail?

A: By ordinary airmail please.

B: Anything valuable in it?

A: A post order for four hundred dollars.

B: In that case ,you’d better have a register.

A: Will I be informed that my friend gets the letter.?

B: Yes. When your friend gets it ,he’ll sent the receipt which you send it by mail. then you can be sure he’s received.

A: All right . I have a registered then.

Dialogue 5:

A: Would you tell me how I send this parcel to ShangHai ,China? It contains only books.

B: You may send it as printed matter.

A: I wonder if you could have ensured here.

B: Of course. How much would you want to ensure this books for?

A: Let me see. I think I can have the ensured five hundred dollars.

B: five hundred dollars ,so you’ll pay ten dollars for the insurance. That’s two percent of the total value of the article.

A: Here ‘s the check for hen dollars.

1 envelop   

vt.包，封，遮盖；包围

参考例句：

• All combine to form a layer of mist to envelop this region.织成一层烟雾又笼罩着这个地区。
• The dust cloud will envelop the planet within weeks.产生的尘云将会笼罩整个星球长达几周。

2 sufficiently   

adv.足够地，充分地

参考例句：

• It turned out he had not insured the house sufficiently.原来他没有给房屋投足保险。
• The new policy was sufficiently elastic to accommodate both views.新政策充分灵活地适用两种观点。

3 envelops   

v.包围，笼罩，包住( envelop的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• He glued many envelops yesterday. 他昨天用胶粘了许多信封。 来自辞典例句
• Ask your friends or mother and father to save used envelops for you. 让你的朋友或父母为你留下用过的信封。 来自英语晨读30分（高二）

4 postal   

adj.邮政的，邮局的

参考例句：

• A postal network now covers the whole country.邮路遍及全国。
• Remember to use postal code.勿忘使用邮政编码。