【finish work】下班/结束工作
【get off work】下班
【clock off】在工厂用时钟打卡下班
【knock off】下班
口语表达：
What time do you knock off?
你什么时候下班？
I was late for work 5 times, so I got fired.
I had to fire 3 people at work today.
中文里说的买菜，英文不太说buy vegetables
vegetables指的是蔬菜，buy vegetables表示只买蔬菜，没有水果和别的东西，和中文的“买菜”不太一样。
可以用【groceries】：水果、蔬菜、各种日常用品
I’m just off to buy some groceries.
我正要去买些菜。
Can you pick up some groceries while you’re out？
你出去的时候能买点菜吗？
【grocery store】卖水果、卖蔬菜的小店
【convenience store】便利店
也可以说：a little store小店
A：Hi, could I book a table for 6 people for Tuesday nigt?
B：Certainly Sir, what time?
B：All right, so that’s a table for 6 at 6pm.
A：No wait, I got that wrong. It should be 7pm.
B：Ok, 6 people, at 7pm. That’s no problem.
A：Do you think we could get a private room? It’s quite an important event.
B：I’m sorry, we don’t have private rooms.
A：OK, then could we get a table in a quitter part of the restaurant. Somewhere where we could have a little more privacy.
好的，我们可以在餐厅安静一点的地方吗？找一个隐私更好一点的地方。
B：OK Sir, I’ll see what I can do.
如果一个外国朋友跟你说go for Chinese是去中国的意思？还是学习中文？
这里的Chinese指的是Chinese food
如果一个外国朋友跟你直接说Chinese，他可能指的是Chinese food
Let’s have Italian tonight.
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