but Mr.Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons.
但詹姆斯。斯科特先生未能為他新的汽車修理部搞到一部電話機,所以他買了只鴿子。
新概念英語第二冊 Lesson 5 No wrong numbers

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telephone ['t?l?'fon] 詞頻1 詞根: tele
n. 電話;電話機;(電話機的)話筒;受話器; vt.& vi. 以電話傳送(消息),給(某人)打電話;用電話與(某人)交談;
?? tele遠,傳送+phone聲音→遠方聲音傳過來 → 電話
"The telephone was out of order, but is functional now."
電話剛才壞了, 但現在可以用了.
近義:phone, call, blower, telephonic
twelve [tw?lv] 詞頻1
num. 十二;十二個;十二點鐘;十二歲; adj. 十二的;十二個的; n. 十二;十二個;
"I first got hooked on scuba diving when I was twelve."
12歲時我開始迷上了帶水肺潛水.
近義:dozen
cannot ['k?n?t] 詞頻1
=can not;未可;不能;不可;
"You cannot stay here ad infinitum without paying rent."
你不付房租就不能永遠住在這里。
garage [ɡ?'rɑ?] 詞頻3 詞根: 看護
n. 車庫;汽車修理站;飛機庫; vt. 把…送入車庫;把(汽車)開進車庫;
?? gar(car車)+age: 車庫 g(哥)+ar(car)+age(年紀):哥哥把上了年紀的車送到 修車廠
"a house with a built-in garage"
內設車庫的房子
bought [b?t] 詞頻1
v. 購買,購得( buy的過去式和過去分詞 );做出犧牲以獲得;夠支付;買通;
"He bought extra food in anticipation of more people coming than he'd invited."
他預料來的客人會比邀請的多,就多買了食物。

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