2017中级口译考试语法词汇搭配巩固（四）
Everyday Expressions
n. [C] 小汽车 (美语中也用 automobile)
He goes to school by car.
n. 车厢 (美语中也用carriage)
Cafe cars are operated on trains by the Railways. (列车上有吸烟休息室的餐车由铁道部门经营。)
n. 其他车辆
I go to work by street car every day. (有轨电车)
车身--- body
轮胎--- tire(British English: tyre)
前灯--- headlight
方向灯--- turn signal
保险杠--- bumper
引擎盖--- hood
方向盘--- steering wheel
后视镜--- rearview mirror
行李箱--- trunk
挡风玻璃--- windshield
发动机;引擎 --- engine
变速箱--- transmission
离合器 --- clutch
仪表盘 --- dash board
跑车--- coupe(2 door sporty car)
轿车--- sedan(4 door family car)
三排以上座位的豪华车--- limonsine
敞篷车--- convertible
吉普类车---SUV (sport utility vehicle)
刹车--- brake
防死刹车系统--- ABS (Anti-lock brake system)
车牌--- license plate
常见搭配 Useful Phrases
晕车 --- car sickness
缆车 --- a cable car
车祸 --- car accident (短时间的)
停车场 --- car park
车费 --- car fare
习语与俗语 Idioms & Slangs
car pool(ing) --- 为了节省parking space, 几人共同使用一辆车
car jack --- 在车中强行抢车
生活用语 Street Talks
A: Can I borrow your car tonight?
B: Just make sure you don’t wreck it.
A: Nancy, you want to go to a movie now?
B: Sorry, I can’t leave now. I’m car pooling today
电影对白 Transcripts
句型 Do you have a patrol car in the vicinity of twelve hundred Glenview Road? 《毕业生》
Did the dry cleaners have your car? 《情归巴黎》
I was just taking her hand, to help her out of a car. 《西雅图夜未眠》
The car is down this way. 《西雅图夜未眠》
Please do not leave your car unattended. 《毕业生》
对话 Mr. Carlson: Is that the new car out there? The little red Wop job?
Mr. Braddock: That's Ben's graduation present. 《毕业生》
Mrs. Robinson: We'd go to his car.
Ben: Oh no. In the car you did it?
Mrs. Robinson: I don't think we were the first.
Ben: What kind of car was it?
Mrs. Robinson: What?
Ben: Do you remember the make of the car?
Mrs. Robinson: Oh my God.
Ben: Really. I want to know.
Mrs. Robinson: It was a Ford, Benjamin. 《毕业生》.
名言 Quotations
I don’t even like old cars … I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.
J. D. Salinger (b. 1919), U.S. author. Holden Caulfield, in The Catcher in the Rye, ch. 17 (1951).
