C14T1S1 Crime report form
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. 当别人跟你聊天时提到不好的事情、不开心的事情时，都可以用到这句表达。比如别人跟你说：“我的雅思这次只考了3.5分”。你就可以满脸关切地回道：“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、住户。常见同义替换词：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 访问，拜访。Why don't you come over to my office after class. 你，放学到我办公室来一趟。
interior ↔ exterior 一组反义词，内部的和外部的，务必读对。
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 这个词，雅思听力超高频出现的词汇，你们自己查查字典看看例句，好好学学这个词！
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 发生，举行。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。一般的储蓄卡叫做 debit card 呆逼卡。
inside compartment 这个词了解一下，就是包包里面的小分层。
quite a bit of cash, quite a lot, quite big, quite interesting 注意像“quite”这种小词的使用，会让你的语言更加地道和自然。我们可以把它理解为国民口头禅，比如我们中国人特别喜欢用“可能”这个词：我当时可能是这么想的，我将来可能会这么做。
withdraw (withdrew, withdrawn) v. 取钱，注意过去式和过去分词的变化。相应得存钱的说法就是: save some money, deposit money.
account n. 账户
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. 抢劫，盗取。
OFFICER: Yes. So you say the theft occurred yesterday?
occur v. 发生（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. 这种结构表示强调，I do remember 我确实记得... 听力中听到强调结构就要知道后面会出现重点信息。
all of a sudden 突然（有出乎预料的意味）。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 让我想想（在这个语境下不是让我看看）
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 英国国民口头禅“quite”再次出现
OFFICER: Colour of hair?
LOUISE: I do remember that - he was blond. All the others were dark-haired.
blond / blonde a. 金色的。这两个拼写都是正确的。
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 联系你的保险公司。这个短语里注意两个词的重音，'contact, in'surance
ten digit 10个数字
LOUISE: Thank you. So should I...
