和谐英语

VOA常速英语:Lost Luggage Ends Up Here

2012-03-06来源:VOA
短语讲解:
1. Amazingly, some people never pick up their luggage at airport baggage-claim carousels.

pick up拾起, 捡起; 抬起
例句:I would have picked it up if I had noticed it.
我如果看见的话, 我早就把它拣起来了。

2. The airlines collect the items and, for 90 days, attempt to find their owners.

attempt to试图,企图
例句:He attempted to get in touch with them but without success.
他试图和他们联系, 但未成功。

3. So once insurance companies have paid for lost bags and their contents, and they no longer belong to passengers, a unique store in the little town of Scottsboro, Alabama, buys them - sight unseen.

pay for赔偿
例句:He paid for the damage done.
他赔偿了造成的损失。
belong to属于
例句:Victory belongs to the most persevering.
胜利属于最有毅力的人。

4. The “Unclaimed Baggage Center,” is so popular that the building, which is set up like a department store, is the number-one tourist attraction in all of Alabama.

set up建立,建造, 创立, 竖立
例句:Plenty of foreign firms have set up factories here.
很多外国公司已在这里开办工厂。

5. Each day, clerks bring out 7,000 new items, and veteran shoppers rush to paw over them.

bring out出版, 生产(某物)
例句:Tom has brought out another new book.
汤姆又出版了一本新书。