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331.How soon can I get my new card?

申請信用卡可能已經成為很多人的樂趣。因為信用卡公司為了吸引客戶，往往以昂貴的禮品作招徠，不管你是為了禮品還是有實際需要而申請信用卡，如果趕著要拿到新卡，可以問：How soon can I get my new card?（要多快才能拿到我的新卡？），或者可問：When will my new card be ready?（我的新卡何時辦妥？）申請新卡也可能是因為舊卡被刮花，英文可說：My card has been defaced. 或者毀壞了(My card has been destroyed)、被偷 (My card has been stolen.)、遺失 (My card has been lost.)或過了期 (My card has expired.)。 對話 Shawn:So I feel like going on a spending spree.How soon can I get my new card? 尚偉:我想盡情花錢，要多快才能拿到我的新卡？ Bank Manager:Excuse me. Let me check this out for you. When did your last card expire? 銀行經理:對不起，讓我幫你查一查，你的舊卡何時過期？ Shawn:Oh, it didn´t. You took it away from me and then you cut it up. 尚偉:噢，沒有過期。是你們拿去然後剪碎了它。 Bank Manager:Ok, that shouldn´t have happened. Let´s see what it says. You were convicted of credit card fraud. 銀行經理:好吧，這不應該發生的，讓我查看電腦怎麼說。你犯過信用卡詐騙行為。 Shawn:Yeah, but that shouldn´t affect my credit rating right? Haha… 尚偉:對呀，但這不該影響我的信貸評級，對嗎？哈哈…… Bank Manager:I´ll tell you what I´m going to do for you. Security! 銀行經理:我會告訴你我會如何處理，警衛！ 《信用卡詐騙》 尚偉想重新領取信用卡，對銀行經理說：I feel like going on a spending spree.（我想盡情花錢）。Feel like是「很想」的意思，第九輯第十二課已有細述；spree是「無節制的狂熱行為」，例如：a shopping spree（瘋狂購物）、a drinking spree（開懷暢飲）、a killing spree（肆意殺戮）等。Our team went on a scoring spree and won by ten goals to zero. 即「我們球隊大開殺戒，以十比零取勝」。 尚偉犯過英文稱為credit card fraud的信用卡詐騙罪，要再領卡是妄想了。Fraud是法律上說的詐騙罪，犯詐騙罪者叫fraudster，例如：Shawn is a fraudster. Don´t believe him.（尚偉是個騙子，不要信他）。Fraud的形容詞是fraudulent，動詞是defraud。Defraud是及物動詞 (transitive verb)，即必須和受詞 (object) 連用；這受詞只可指受騙者，至於被詐騙的東西，可用介系詞 (preposition) of帶出，例如：(1) He was defrauded of $100,000.（他被騙去十萬元）。(2) He earned his living by fraudulent means / by fraud.（他以詐騙手段謀生）。 信用卡詐騙之外，常見的還有computer fraud（藉電腦詐騙）、mail fraud（藉郵件詐騙）、insurance fraud （保險詐騙）等。這些都是刑事罪，被判罪叫做to be convicted或to be found guilty (of fraud)。Convict作名詞，指已定罪的犯人；像尚偉那樣有前科的人，叫ex-convict。留意convict作名詞，重音在第一個音節；在動詞，則在第二個音節。