【话匣子英语】加拿大的银行

 安德鲁今天把自己的网上银行锁死了，因为他连续输错三次密码了......

Andrew: I’m pretty good. How are you?

 

Maura: Yeah, yeah. I’m all right. So what’s been happening with you lately?

 

Andrew: I had a pretty frustrating¹ day today. I was on the phone all day long with my bank.

 

Maura: Oh, I hate that, when you have to call and wait, and you already have a problem, and you just get more frustrated². What happened?

 

Andrew: Yeah. It was really frustrating, actually. It was my own mistake. I locked myself out of my online banking³ because I forgot my password.

 

Maura: OK, right. Yeah, if you make three mistakes, so if you try to get into your bank account three times and you’re wrong three times, it automatically locks you out, right?

 

Andrew: Exactly. So it’s a good idea to choose a complicated password because then you won’t get hacked⁴, but it’s also hard to remember. So I locked myself out and it took forever to get my password reset⁵ so I could get back into my bank account.

 

Maura: Right. I bet they asked you a ton of information to make sure that you were really Andrew.

 

Andrew: Yes. And I also learned you have to be a good speller to do this, because there are a bunch of personal questions that they will ask you to confirm your identity. However, they won’t ask you for the full word, they’ll just ask you for the third and seventh letter of the word. So you have to spell all the words in your head and figure out, “Oh, the third let is a W and the seventh letter is an A.” And yeah, I guess this is another security measure, but it was challenging.

 

Maura: Yeah. Actually, I’m just thinking how much more challenging it would be if English wasn’t your first language, because it’s already challenging enough for a native speaker.

 

Andrew: Exactly. I wouldn’t want to do that in a language that wasn’t English, for me.

1 frustrating   

adj.产生挫折的，使人沮丧的，令人泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的现在分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's frustrating to have to wait so long. 要等这么长时间，真令人懊恼。
• It was a demeaning and ultimately frustrating experience. 那是一次有失颜面并且令人沮丧至极的经历。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 frustrated   

adj.挫败的，失意的，泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
• The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 banking   

n.银行业，银行学，金融业

参考例句：

• John is launching his son on a career in banking.约翰打算让儿子在银行界谋一个新职位。
• He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.他具有广博的银行业务知识。

4 hacked   

生气

参考例句：

• I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
• I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。

5 reset   

v.重新安排，复位；n.重新放置；重放之物

参考例句：

• As soon as you arrive at your destination,step out of the aircraft and reset your wristwatch.你一到达目的地，就走出飞机并重新设置手表时间。
• He is recovering from an operation to reset his arm.他做了一个手臂复位手术，正在恢复。