OFFICER: Good morning. What can I do for you?

LOUISE: I want to report a theft. I had some things stolen out of my bag yesterday.

OFFICER: I'm sorry to hear that. Right, so l'll need to take a few details. Can I start with your name?

• I'm sorry to hear that. ?當(dāng)別人跟你聊天時提到不好的事情、不開心的事情時，都可以用到這句表達。比如別人跟你說：“我的雅思這次只考了3.5分”。你就可以滿臉關(guān)切地回道：“I'm sorry to hear that.”然后心里狂喜。

LOUISE: Louise Taylor.

OFFICER: OK, thank you. And are you resident in the UK?

• resident ?n. 居民、住戶。常見同義替換詞：citizen / inhabitant / dweller / locals / native

LOUISE: No, I'm actually Canadian, though my mother was British.

OFFICER: And your date of birth?

LOUISE: December 14th, 1977.

OFFICER: So you're just visiting this country?

LOUISE: That's right. I come over most summers on business. I'm an interior designer and I come over to buy old furniture, antiques you know. There are some really lovely things around here, but you need to get out to the small towns. I've had a really good trip this year, until this happened.

• come over ?訪問，拜訪。Why don't you come over to my office after class. 你，放學(xué)到我辦公室來一趟。

• interior ? exterior ?一組反義詞，內(nèi)部的和外部的，務(wù)必讀對。

• antique ?a. 古老的；n. 古董。注意重音，an'tique

OFFICER:?OK. So you've been here quite a while?

LOUISE: Yes, I'm here for two months. I go back next week.

OFFICER:?So may I ask where you're staying now?

LOUISE: Well at present I've got a place at Park Apartments, that's on King Street. I was staying at the Riverside Apartments on the same street, but the apartment there was only available for six weeks so I had to find another one.

• available ?這個詞，雅思聽力超高頻出現(xiàn)的詞匯，你們自己查查字典看看例句，好好學(xué)學(xué)這個詞！

OFFICER:?OK. And the apartment number?

LOUISE:?Fifteen.

OFFICER:?Right.

OFFICER: Now, I need to take some details of the theft. So you said you had some things stolen out of your bag?

LOUISE: That's right.

OFFICER: And were you actually carrying the bag when the theft took place?

• take place ?發(fā)生，舉行。The meeting?should?take place on the?fifth?of May.

LOUISE:?Yes. I really can't understand it. I had my backpack on. And I went into a supermarket to buy a few things and when I opened it up my wallet wasn't there.

OFFICER: And what did your wallet have in it?

LOUISE:?Well, fortunately I don't keep my credit cards in that wallet - I keep them with my passport in an inside compartment in my backpack. But there was quite a bit of cash there ... about ￡250 sterling, I should think. I withdrew ￡300 from my account yesterday, but I did a bit of shopping, so I must have already spent abou ￡50 of that.

• credit card 信用卡。一般的儲蓄卡叫做 debit card 呆逼卡。

• inside compartment 這個詞了解一下，就是包包里面的小分層。

• quite a bit of cash, quite a lot, quite big, quite interesting ?注意像“quite”這種小詞的使用，會讓你的語言更加地道和自然。我們可以把它理解為國民口頭禪，比如我們中國人特別喜歡用“可能”這個詞：我當(dāng)時可能是這么想的，我將來可能會這么做。

• withdraw (withdrew, withdrawn)? v. 取錢，注意過去式和過去分詞的變化。相應(yīng)得存錢的說法就是: save some money, deposit money.

• account ?n. 賬戶

OFFICER: OK.

LOUISE:?At first I thought, oh I must have left the wallet back in the apartment, but then I realised my phone had gone as well. It was only a week old, and that's when I realised I'd been robbed. Anyway at least they didn't take the keys to my rental car.

• rob ?v. 搶劫，盜取。

OFFICER: Yes. So you say the theft occurred yesterday?

• occur ?v. 發(fā)生（一般不及物）。Something unexpected occured.

LOUISE: Yes.

OFFICER: So that was September the tenth. And do you have any idea at all of where or when the things might possibly have been stolen?

• do you have any idea of sth. = do you know sth.

LOUISE: Well at first I couldn't believe it because the bag had been on my back ever since I left the apartment after lunch. It's just a small backpack, but I generally use it when I'm travelling because it seems safer than a handbag. Anyway, I met up with a friend, and we spent a couple of hours in the museum. But I do remember that as we were leaving there, at about 4 o'clock, a group of young boys ran up to us, and they were really crowding round us, and they were asking us what time it was, then all of a sudden they ran off.

• a couple of = many

• do + v. 這種結(jié)構(gòu)表示強調(diào)，I do remember 我確實記得... 聽力中聽到強調(diào)結(jié)構(gòu)就要知道后面會出現(xiàn)重點信息。

• all of a sudden 突然（有出乎預(yù)料的意味）。All of a?sudden?someone?grabbed?me?around?the?neck. 突然，有人抓住了我的脖子。

OFFICER: Can you remember anything about them?

LOUISE: The one who did most of the talking was wearing a T-shirt with a picture of something ... let's see ... a tiger.

• let's see / let me see ?讓我想想（在這個語境下不是讓我看看）
  

OFFICER: Right. Any idea of how old he might have been?

LOUISE: Around twelve years old?

OFFICER: And can you remember anything else about his appearance?

LOUISE: Not much. He was quite thin ...

• quite thin 英國國民口頭禪“quite”再次出現(xiàn)

OFFICER: Colour of hair?

LOUISE: I do remember that - he was blond. All the others were dark-haired.

• blond / blonde a. 金色的。這兩個拼寫都是正確的。

OFFICER: And any details of the others?

LOUISE: Not really. They came and went so quickly.

OFFICER: Right. So what I'm going to do now is give you a crime reference number so you can contact your insurance company. So this is ten digits: 87954 82361.

• contact your insurance company 聯(lián)系你的保險公司。這個短語里注意兩個詞的重音，'contact, in'surance

• ten digit ?10個數(shù)字

LOUISE: Thank you. So should I...