商务英语情景口语之日常事务第十章乘公交车上下班 Commuting

Commuting 乘公交车上下班

Useful expressions 常用表达法

Beginner 初级

1, Where’s bill? 比尔在哪儿？

2, He’s late again. 他又迟到了。

3, Traffic is probably holding him up. 可能路上耽误了。

4, He commutes from the suburbs. 他从郊区坐公交车来上班。

5, He takes the train, remember? 他乘火车上班，你忘记了吗？

6, Well, the train shouldn’t be late. 噢，火车可不会晚点。

7, Why doesn’t he just drive to work? 那他为什么不开车上班？

8, It’s too difficult to park your car in the city. 在城里找地方停车太难了。 9, How do you get to work every day? 你每天怎么去上班？

Intermediate 中级

1, It’s not easy commuting every day, we should cut him some slack. 他每天坐公交车上下班不容易，我们应该放他一马。

2, That means there is only one explanation. Bill must have overslept! 那就说明只有一种解释，比尔一定睡过头了。

3, He must get started on his commute about 6:30, no telling what time he actually gets up. 他必须在6：30左右坐上公交车，不知道他到底是几点起床。

4, In all, the trip’s got to take more than two hours. 这一路上总共要花两个多小时。 5, The commuting with public transportation is killing me. 坐公交交通工具上下班会把我累死的。

6, Also, the traffic coming in from the suburbs is a nightmare. 而且，从郊区开车进城简直是太恐怖了。

7, The drawback is that the subway is more expensive than the bus. 缺点是乘地铁比坐公交汽车费用要高。

8, Just thinking about taking the bus every day makes me tired! 一想到每天要坐公交汽车我就烦得要命!

9, It’s out about a ten minute bike ride from my house to the office. 骑车从家到办公室只需10分钟左右。

Advanced 高级

1, Even though the traffic is bumper-to-bumper out there, I don’t think it’s heavy traffic that makes bill late. 即使那儿路上的汽车一辆接一辆，我认为比尔也不会因为交通繁忙而迟到。

2, Well, to be fair, since he’s coming all the way from Lancaster, he’s got to get up much earlier than the rest of us. 好了，公正地讲，由于他从兰开斯特远道过来，所以比我们所有的人都要起得早。

3, That’s right, because he’s got to get to the train station from his house, then take the blue line into the city, then switch trains to the red line. 是这样。因为他得从家赶到火车站，然后乘蓝线进城，接着再换乘去红线的火车。

4, The subway was so packed this morning, I got totally squished by about a hundred busy commuters on the way to work.. 今天早晨，地铁里挤满了人，我来上班的这