Key Notes:
1. go through/proceed through:
go through: 1) officially approve 官方许可,通过 (especially pass a law)
e.g. Everyone expects the bill to go through Congress quickly.
( 所有人都希望那项法案尽快通过国会审议)
2) to suffer or experience something bad 经历,遭受
e.g. My grandparents went through the hard time before liberation.
( 我的爷爷奶奶经历了解放前的艰难生活)
3)practice something, for example, a performance 练习(比如表演)
e.g. Let’s go through the song one more time.
( 我们再来练一遍这首歌)
4)look at/for something carefully 仔细寻找/察看
e.g. I went through all of our closets, but I still can’t find my tennis racket.
(我找遍我们所有的柜子,依然不见我的网球拍)
proceed: to do something next, 做接下来的事情,对话中是说“通过移民局审查后,要接下来接受隔离检查)
2. Relating terms to Customes:
1) immigration office: 移民局
2)the Quarantine Inspection: 隔离检查
3)Disembarkation Card: 登陆卡
4)The prohibited Articles list: 违禁物品表
5)Free Quota List: 免税限额表 Quota: 限额;配额 e.g. Most countries have an immigration quota/strict quota on imports. (大多数国家都移民人数限制/严格的进口配额)
6)Contraband: n. goods that are brought into or taken out of a country illegally. (禁运品)
3. If I have nothing but personal belongings. 是 “what if I have nothing but personal belongings” 的口语省略形式。“nothing but” 意思是“only;merely” 仅仅,只有,but=except;other than
e.g.: My father left me nothing but a worn leather suitcase.(我爸爸除了一只破旧的皮箱外,什么都没给我留下)
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