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女 ：下午好，我能为你做些什么?
马 丁：是的。我想买张电影票。
女 ：今天的吗?
马 丁：对，电影是什么时间开演?
女 ：两点，4点，7点30分，还有9点15分。
马 丁：我买一张4点的票。
女 ：多少张?
马 丁：只要一张。
女 ：今天的吗?
马 丁：对，今天的，4点的。
女 ：对不起，我没有4点的票了，你要另外时间的票吗?
马 丁：你有什么时间的票。
女 ：两点钟和9点15分的。你要一张吗?
马 丁：不要了，谢谢。
女 二：你好。
马 丁：你好，我要买张电影票，你还有票吗?
女 二：是的，有。你要几点的?
马 丁：电影都有几点的?
女 二：12：30、3：15、5：30、8点，还有10点的。你要几点的?
马 丁：5点半。
女 二：你要哪部电影的票?
马 丁：对不起，请再说一遍。
女 二：你要哪部电影的票?有3部电影。
马 丁：我不知道。
男 ：能为你效劳吗?
马 丁：你有今晚的票吗?
男 ：没有。
马 丁：你有什么时间的票?
男 ：我有下周的票。
马 丁：哪一天的?
男 ：星期二晚上的。
马 丁：下周谁参加比赛?
男 ：巴尔的摩队和纽约队。
马 丁：比赛是什么时间?
男 ：8点。
马 丁：比赛什么时间结束?
男 ：有时10点结束，有时10点30分结束。
马 丁：你有3张票吗?
男 ：当然有，你要3张票吗?
马 丁：是的，座位在哪儿?
男 ：这里，或这里，或这里。你要哪些座位?
马 丁：就这里，那很好，我要3张票。
男 ：好的，稍候。
男 二：晚上好。
马 丁：晚上好，我要买张票。
男 二：到哪儿?
马 丁：到费城，去费城的火车是几点?
男 二：下趟火车2点45分。
马 丁：我不是今天去，明天的火车是几点?
男 二：2点45分，去费城的火车是每天2点45分。
马 丁：只有那么一趟吗?
男 二：不是。
马 丁：其它的火车是什么时间?
男 二：早上6点15分，下午3点45和晚上10点30分。你想买1张吗?
马 丁：我今天不想买票，谢谢。
男 二：不用客气。
FEMALE: Good afternoon. May I help you?
MARTIN: Yes, please. I want to buy a ticket for the movie.
FEMALE: For today?
MARTIN: Yes. What time is the movie?
FEMALE: At two o’clock, four o’clock, seven-thirty, and nine-fifteen.
MARTIN: I want a ticket for four o’clock.
FEMALE: How many?
MARTIN: Only one.
FEMALE: For today?
MARTIN: Yes, for today, at four o’clock.
FEMALE: I’m sorry. I don’t have any tickets for four o’clock. Do you want another time?
MARTIN: What time do you have tickets for?
FEMALE: Two o’clock and nine-fifteen. Do you want a ticket?
MARTIN: No, thank you.
FEMALE2: Hi.
MARTIN: Hello. I want to buy a ticket for the movie. Do you have any tickets?
FEMALE2: Yes, I do. What time do you want?
MARTIN: What time is the movie?
FEMALE2: Twelve-thirty, three-fifteen, five-thirty, eight o’clock, and ten o’clock, What time do you want?
MARTIN: Five-thirty.
FEMALE2: Which movie do you want?
MARTIN: Pardon?
FEMALE2: Which movie do you want? There are three movies.
MARTIN: I don’t know.
MALE: May I help you?
MARTIN: Do you have tickets for tonight?
MALE: No, I don’t.
MARTIN: When do you have tickets for?
MALE: I have tickets for next week.
MARTIN: Which day?
MALE: Tuesday night.
MARTIN: Who is playing next week?
MALE: Baltimore and New York.
MARTIN: What time is the game?
MALE: It’s at eight o’clock.
MARTIN: What time does the game finish?
MALE: It sometimes finishes at ten or ten -thirty.
MARTIN: Do you have three tickets?
MALE: Of course. Do you want three tickets?
MARTIN: Yes. Where are the seats?
MALE: Here. Or here. Or here. Which seats do you want?
MARTIN: Right here. That’s very good. I want three tickets.
MALE: OK. Wait a minute.
MALE2: Good evening.
MARTIN: Good evening. I want to buy a ticket.
MALE2: Where are you going?
MARTIN: I’m going to Philadelphia. What time is the train to Philadelphia?
MALE2: The next train is at two forty-five.
MARTIN: I’m not going today. What time is the train tomorrow.
MALE2: At two forty-five. The train to Philadelphia is at two forty-five every day.
MARTIN: Is that the only train?
MALE2: No.
MARTIN: What time are the other trains?
MALE2: At six-fifteen in the morning. At two forty-five in the afternoon. And ten-thirty at night. Do you want a ticket?
MARTIN: I don’t want a ticket today. Thanks.
MALE2: You’re welcome. Practice 2：用 what time 询问确切时间。
Examples:
MARTIN: What time is the movie?
What time do you have tickets for?
FEMALE: What time do you want?
MARTIN: What time is the game?
What time does the game finish?
(Source: wwenglish.com)
Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid Autumn Festival are the three important festivals in China. People eat different food on these festivals. They are rice glue ball, zongzi and moon cake.
The Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. People eat different food. The rice glue balls, which are eaten on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, or the Lantern Festival, are the last items for the spring festival. On the lantern festival, it is said that every household eats glutinous rice dumplings. People in the north and south call it differently and make it in different ways.
In north, people make it by roll. The fillings are made with grounded sesame, peanuts or bean paste, mixed with sugar. The fillings are then dipped with water and rolled in the glutinous rice flour until it is big enough. Most people are busy now. So they normally buy it instead of making it themselves. Street hawkers make it. But the rice glue balls sold by some famous long-standing stores, are warmly welcome.
Comparatively, people in the south would like to make it by themselves. They first mix glutinous rice flour with water. Then they make the fillings with grounded chestnut, peanut, sesame, jujube paste or bean paste. Then they start to make it. In south China, the rice glue balls made by Ningbo in east China and the Lai Tang Yuan made in Chengdu in southwest, are very famous.
The rice glue balls, cooked by boiling, tastes sweet and soft. People who like sweetness would find it delicious. People eat glutinous rice dumplings as a wish for reunion.
The glutinous rice dumplings, or zongzi, are eaten on the Dragon Boat Festival, or the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It is wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves. People in different regions use different materials to make it. In east China, like Suzhou, Jiaxing and Ningbo, the fillings would be bean paste, chestnut, jujube paste or fresh meat. In north China, it would be jujube or preserved fruit.
As a kind of food for festivals, zongzi has been eaten for a long time. The folklore goes that people ate it to commemorate a patriotic poet, Qu Yuan. It is said that in the 3rd century B.C., the poet committed suicide because his country had been invaded. People commemorated him by throwing glutinous rice, stored in bamboo tube, into the river. Later they wrapped it with reed leaves and strings. That’s how the food developed. Some people give it as a present when visiting friends and relatives on the Dragon Boat Festival.
The Mid Autumn Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the eight lunar months. People eat moon cakes for family gathering. The cake is round, like the full moon, with fillings inside. There are some patterns on the surface of the cake. During the mid autumn festival, people would place some cake and fruit.Moon cakes are different in different regions. Those made in Beijing, Suzhou, some areas of south Guangzhou and Chaozhou in Guangzhou are most famous. The fillings can be made of sugar, jujube paste, bean, ham, fruit, or cream, etc. It is also one of the presents that people can take with them when visiting friends and relatives on Mid Autumn Festival.
(Source: culture.chinese.cn)
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