高频英语口语对话 第484期:买二手车(1)

 　　unit 541

　　买二手车（1）

　　dialogue

　　英语情景对话

　　A:Hello, I am Amy, so you are Tony?

　　A:你好，我是艾米，你是托尼么？

　　B:Well, yes. Nice to meet you!

　　B:嗯，对，很高兴见到你。

　　A:Nice to meet you. How old is your car?

　　A:我也是。那么，你这辆车开多久了？

　　B:Three years old, with 35,000 miles on it. It has power windows, door locks, cassette¹ player, AC, and new tires.

　　B:三年，开了35,000英里了。有自动车窗、自动门锁、磁带播放器、空调和新轮胎。

　　A:There is a dent² in the front. Is that from an accident?

　　A:前面有点凹进去了，撞过车？

　　B:No, someone hit it with something.

　　B:没有，被人拿东西砸了一下。

　　A:Can we take a test drive?

　　A:可以试开一下么？

　　B:Sure. I will come with you.

　　B:当然，我和你一起去。

　　A:Okay. The engine is quite. The breaks are OK. The alignment³ is a bit off. I don't like the suspensions⁴. Tony, how much are you asking for?

　　A:好吧，发动机声音挺轻的，刹车也可以，车轮有点偏。我不喜欢这个安全带。托尼，你要多少钱？

　　B:$7,900.

　　B:7,900美元。

　　A:I will take it to a garage to have it checked over. If everything is fine, I will give you $5,000.

　　A:我要到修车店检查一下。要是没毛病的话，我给你5,OOO美元。

　　B:No way. $ 7,000.

　　B:不行，7,000美元。

　　A:Come on, there is a dent that's not pretty. I am not sure if you had an accident. Let's make a deal. $5,200, that's it!

　　A:你看，前面撞了，又这么不好看，不知道你是不是出过车祸。我们折中一下，5,200美元！

　　B:I can not do that.

　　B:不行。

　　A:I will leave you my number. Give me a ring if you change your mind.

　　A:我给你我的电话号码，你要是改变主意了，就给我回个电话。

　　B:Okay.

　　B:好的。

1 cassette   

n.卡式录音带盒；卡式胶卷盒

参考例句：

• He inserted a cassette into the machine.他把一盒录像带放入机器。
• And let's not forget our cassette player and some tapes.还别忘了带上我们的卡式录音机和一些录音带。

2 dent   

n.凹痕，凹坑；初步进展

参考例句：

• I don't know how it came about but I've got a dent in the rear of my car.我不知道是怎么回事，但我的汽车后部有了一个凹痕。
• That dent is not big enough to be worth hammering out.那个凹陷不大，用不着把它锤平。

3 alignment   

n.队列；结盟，联合

参考例句：

• The church should have no political alignment.教会不应与政治结盟。
• Britain formed a close alignment with Egypt in the last century.英国在上个世纪与埃及结成了紧密的联盟。

4 suspensions   

n.悬( suspension的名词复数 )；悬架；暂停；悬浮液

参考例句：

• The two players are appealing against their suspensions. 这两名运动员请求取消对他们的停赛处罚。
• In 1972, International Harvester, Ford, Chrysler, General Motors and Volvo applied for suspensions. 1972年，国际收割机械公司、福特汽车公司、克莱斯勒汽车公司、通用汽车公司和沃尔沃汽车公司都申请了缓期。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法