【在生活中學習語言】Weighing a Purchase 秤重
【在生活中學習語言】Weighing a Purchase 秤重
2008年08月03日蘋果日報
對話
Customer:Can I have this fish weighed?
顧客:可以幫我秤秤看這條魚多重嗎?
Clerk:Yes, you can. Let’s see. It comes to half of a kilogram.
店員:當然可以。我看看。這條魚有半公斤重。
Customer:Is the price marked on the sticker?
顧客:價錢會標在標籤上嗎?
Clerk:Yes. Let me show you. Here is the price per gram. Over here is the total weight in grams and here is the total price.
店員:有的。讓我指給您看。這裡是每公克的價錢。這裡是以公克計算的總重量,還有這邊是總價。
Customer:I see. Thank you for pointing them out for me.
顧客:我知道了。謝謝你指給我看。
「句」細靡遺
.Can I have this fish weighed?
可以幫我秤秤看這條魚多重嗎?
不管是生鮮超市還是傳統市場,最吸引人的就是新鮮肉品或是活跳跳的海鮮了。這些要以重量計價的產品,當然得先過秤才知斤兩囉。接下來我們就來瞧瞧,外國顧客通常都怎麼詢問秤重的問題,而您是否聽得懂他們在問些什麼呢?
Can I have this fish weighed?
= Can I have the weight of this fish checked?(可以幫我秤秤看這條魚多重嗎?)
Can you help me weigh these shrimp?(可以幫我秤秤看這些蝦子多重嗎?)
Please weigh this piece of pork for me.(請幫我秤這塊豬肉。)
Where can I have this fish weighed?(哪裡可以讓我秤這條魚的重量?)
Is there a scale for me to weigh things?(請問有磅秤讓我秤東西嗎?)
*scale n.磅秤
例:Is it alright if I use the scale?(我可以用這台磅秤嗎?)
字字珠璣
.weigh vt.秤重 & vi.重達
例:The nurse weighed me and took my temperature.(護士幫我秤體重和量體溫。)
*weight n.重量
例:How much do you weigh?
= What is your weight?(你的體重是多少?)
例:Can you guess the weight of this watermelon?(你能猜出這顆西瓜多重嗎?)
.sticker n.標籤;貼紙
例:Ted likes to collect all kinds of stickers.(泰德喜歡收集各式各樣的貼紙。)
.total a.總計的 & n.總數
例:What does the total of my purchase come to?(我這次買的東西總計是多少錢?)
*in total= in all
總計,總共(與數字並用)
例:These fruits cost me five hundred dollars in total.(這些水果總共花了我 500 塊錢。)
.point out... 指出……
例:Only good friends can point out your flaws in a kind way.(只有好朋友才會好意地指出你的缺點。)
常春藤解析英語
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