预定出租车服务
A:Please send a cab to the Hilton Hotel.
请派辆出租车到希尔顿酒店。
B:Your name and your cellphone number, please?
您的姓名和手机电话号码?
A:My name is Li Ming, phone number is 13900000000.
我叫李明,手机号码是13900000000。
B:When do you want this service?
什么时候要车?
A:Tomorrow moring at 8:00 o’clock.
明早8点。
打错电话
A:I'd like to make a person-to-person call to Nanjing, China.
我想打一个通到中国南京的叫人电话。
B:Who do you wish to talk to?
您要找谁呀?
A:To Mr. Li at 6632-6973.
找李先生,号码是6632-6973。
B:will you hold the line, please? There is no Li at that number.Will you check the number again, please?
请稍等一会儿好吗?那个号码查无李先生。请您再核对一下电话号码好吗?
A:What the number I gave you, operator?
接线员,我给你的号码是多少?
B:It's 6632-6973.
号码是6632-6973.
A:I've given you a wrong number.
我给错电话号码了?
B:I'm afraid you have the wrong number. I suggest you look in the phone book.
我想您打错了。我建议您查一下电话簿。
Utilities & Furniture-(家具)
A:This is a nice place, but you need to get some furniture.
这地方不错,可你得弄些家具。
B:I have some I can bring from our place, and there’s some more out at my parents’.
我住的地方可以搬一些过来,而且还有一些在我父母家里。
phone
A:Do you have a bed?
你有床吗?
B:Yeah. I have one from college at my parents’ house.
有啊。我父母家有一张我大学时代就用过的床。
A:Can I take a shower?
我可以洗个澡吗?
B:Sure, but I don’t have hot water, yet.
当然可以,可以还没有热水。
A:Really?
真的吗?
B:No, they’re coming tomorrow morning to turn the gas on. My phone should be working then, too.
是呀,他们要明天才来帮我把煤气接上。电话也到时才可以用。
A:Well, do you want to go get some dinner?
那么,你想去买些东西当晚餐吃吗?
B:Yeah, I can’t cook anything until tomorrow, anyway.
好的,得到明天才可以自己煮。