Up in the Air-3

Flirtation
  • Are you satisfied with Maestro(租车)?

  • Yeah, I am.

  • A little stingy(小气) with their miles. I like Hertz.

  • No, Hertz keeps its vehicles too long. If a car has over 20,000 miles, I won’t drive it.

  • Maestro doesn’t instant check out(立即结账). I like to park and go.

  • Hertz doesn’t guarantee navigation.(导航保护)

  • It’s funny. You don’t seem like a girl who needs directions.

  • I hate asking for directions. That’s why I get a nav.

  • That new outfit, Colonial, isn’t bad.

  • Is that a joke?

  • Cuz their kiosk placement(售货亭分布) blows(糟透了).

  • They never have available upgrades.(尽力改善)

  • Basically, it’s a fleet of shitboxes(一堆破车). I don’t know how they’re still in business.

  • Maplewood card. How dare you bring that into this palace(宫殿)?

  • Hilton offers equal value and better food, but the Maplewood would give some warm cookies at check-in.

  • They got you with the cookies, did they?

  • I’m a sucker for simulated hospitality(虚假的热情款待).

  • There’s an industry term(行业术语) for that. It’s a mixture of “faux” and “homey.” “Faumey.”

  • Oh my god. I wasn’t sure this actually existed. This is the, the American Airlines

  • It’s a Concierge Key, yeah.

  • What is that, carbon fiber(碳素纤维)?

  • Graphite(石墨)

  • I was pretty excited the day that bad boy came in.

  • eah. I’ll say. I put up pretty pedestrian numbers. Like sixty thou a year, domestic.

  • Don’t patronize(看不起,呸) me. What’s your total?

  • It’s a personal question.

  • And we hardly know each other.

  • Come on. Show some hubris(傲慢的). Come on, impress me. I bet it’s huge.

  • You have no idea.

  • I don’t want to brag.(自吹自擂)

  • Let’s just say I have a number in mind. I haven’t hit it yet.

  • This is pretty fucking sexy.

  • Hope it doesn’t cheapen our relationship.

  • We’re two people who get turned on by elite status. I think cheap is our starting point.

  • There’s nothing cheap about loyalty.

  • So, we came up with this master plan, which was for me to put gauze, to put bandages on both my hands. Then we got on the plane, transatlantic, flying to Zurich.

  • Walked up… Waited till it was dark, and walked up to the bathroom with her. Everybody was watching the movie, and I was like…

  • Give me some details.

  • Well, it’s not so easy. Have you ever tried it? It’s not so easy.


  1. That store really blows, and I won’t go there again!(那家店真是逊毙了,我再也不会去了!)
  2. You can’t stay in business without cash.(没有现金,可做不了生意。)
  3. Once we get the computer installed we’ll be in business.(电脑一安装好我们就可以开始了。)
  4. She bragged endlessly about her high score.(她没完没了地秀高分。)

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Based on the following story, continue the story by writing two paragraphs, paragraph 1 beginning with "A few weeks later, I went to the farm again. " and paragraph 2 beginning with "I was just about to leave when the hummingbird appeared."respectively with 150 words. I was invited to a cookout on an old friend's farm in western Washington. I parked my car outside the farm and walked past a milking house which had apparently not been used in many years.A noise at a window caught my attention,so I entered it. It was a hummingbird,desperately trying to escape. She was covered in spider-webs and was barely able to move her wings. She ceased her struggle the instant I picked her up. With the bird in my cupped hand, I looked around to see how she had gotten in. The broken window glass was the likely answer. I stuffed a piece of cloth into the hole and took her outside,closing the door securely behind me. When I opened my hand, the bird did not fly away; she sat looking at me with her bright eyes.I removed the sticky spider-webs that covered her head and wings. Still, she made no attempt to fly.Perhaps she had been struggling against the window too long and was too tired? Or too thirsty? As I carried her up the blackberry-lined path toward my car where I kept a water bottle, she began to move. I stopped, and she soon took wing but did not immediately fly away. Hovering,she approached within six inches of my face. For a very long moment,this tiny creature looked into my eyes, turning her head from side to side. Then she flew quickly out of sight. During the cookout, I told my hosts about the hummingbird incident. They promised to fix the window. As I was departing, my friends walked me to my car. I was standing by the car when a hummingbird flew to the center of our group and began hovering. She turned from person to person until she came to me. She again looked directly into my eyes, then let out a squeaking call and was gone. For a moment, all were speechless. Then someone said, “She must have come to say good-bye.”
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