杰夫的一天 第53期：開車上班講解(4)

To re-adjust means to adjust again. “Re-adjust”是“重新調(diào)整”的意思。

That prefix re, means again in English, usually. 前綴“re”在英語中一般是“重新”的意思。

To adjust means to-to move them so that I can see properly — I can see into the mirror. “Adjust”的意思是調(diào)整它們這樣我就能看清楚鏡子里的物體。

There are two types of mirrors on your car: there's the rear, "rear," view, "view," mirror, 汽車上有兩種鏡子：第一種是后視鏡(rear view mirror)，

and that is in the front of the car, on the front window of the car. 它在汽車的前面，汽車的前窗上。

The front window of your car is called your windshield, "windshield," the windshield. 汽車的前窗又叫做擋風(fēng)玻璃(windshield)。

So, on your windshield, on the top in the middle, is your rear view mirror, and that allows you to see cars behind you. 因此，后視鏡位于擋風(fēng)玻璃的正中央，它能讓你看到身后的車子。

There are also mirrors on the side of the car, usually on both sides, and those are called the side mirrors. 還有一種鏡子通常在汽車的兩邊，那些鏡子叫做側(cè)視鏡。

"I turn on the radio to listen to the drive time traffic report." “我打開收音機(jī)收聽上班高峰期的路況播報(bào)。”

Drive time is the time of day when most people are either going to work or coming back from work. “Drive time”是白天大部分人上班或下班的高峰期。