每天三分鐘學英語 第478期:這樣和老外聊故宮,既有bi格又接地氣

Hey can you get me a souvenir? Something cool like the ones they have at the Forbidden City.
嘿，你能給我買個紀念品嗎？像是故宮裏那些很酷的東西。

Souvenir /,suːvə'nɪə/
紀念品

The Forbidden City
故宮

I’ll be on the lookout for something like that. I guess those Forbidden City souvenirs are selling well. Can’t believe they did 1.5 billion yuan in sales.

我會留意的。故宮那些紀念品賣的很好吧。 不敢相信他們的銷售額居然有15億人民幣。

Sell well
賣的很好

The new iPhone isn't selling well. That's why prices are dropping.
新的iPhone賣的不好。這就是爲什麼降價了。

The cookies I made sold well. They were all gone in an hour.
我做的小餅乾賣得很不錯。一小時就全賣完了。

Do/generate…in sales
產生了/帶來了…銷售額

We did $100,000 in sales last month. It was our best month yet.
我們上個月的銷售額達到了10萬美元。 這是我們目前做得最好的一個月。

The ad generated millions in sales for the company.
那個廣告爲公司帶來了數百萬的銷售額。

I should visit the Forbidden City in the near future. The U.S. just returned a bunch of relics. Maybe they’ll be on display soon.
我近期應該去逛逛故宮。美國才歸還了一堆文物給中國。可能近期會展出來。

In the near future
近期，不久的將來

I'll see Carol in the near future. I'm going to Europe next month.
我近期會見到Carol。我下個月去歐洲。

That's not gonna happen in the near future. You don't need to worry about it.
近期是不會發生的。你不需要擔心。

I can’t believe that guy hoarded all those cultural artifacts from around the world.
我都不敢相信那個人居然囤積了來自世界各地的文物。

Hoard [hɔːrd]
囤積

My roommate hoards a lot of stuff. She doesn't like to throw anything away.
我室友囤了很多東西。她什麼都不想扔。

My grandpa hoards a lot of glass jars. I don't know what he does with all of them.
我爺爺囤了很多玻璃罐。我不知道他拿這些來做什麼。