Not only was Hagrid twice as tall as anyone else, he kept pointing at perfectly ordinary things like parking meters and saying loudly, " See that, Harry? Things these Muggles dream up, eh? "

这不仅因为海格比普通人要高大一倍，而且他还不地对一些诸如汽计费器之类很平常东西指指点点，大声说：“你看见那玩艺儿了吗，哈利？这又是麻瓜们搞出来什么名堂，嗯？”

How many hours did you put in the parking meter?

你计费表上走了多少个小时啊？

You look at a parking meter or a pickle slice or the foam in your cup of cappuccino and you think, hey, that looks like a face.

你看计时器、酸黄瓜片抑或是卡布奇诺杯中奶泡，然后想：嘿，这好像人脸啊。

Not only was Hagrid twice as tall as anyone else, he kept pointing at perfectly ordinary things like parking meters and saying loudly.

这不仅因为海格比普通人要高大一倍，而且他还不地对一些诸如汽计费器之类很平常东西指指点点，大声说话。

Judy's ears twisted and turned as she used her excellent hearing skills to listen for expired parking meters.

迪耳朵扭来扭去，她在利用敏锐听觉本领来留神听着计时器超时声音。

" Forget it, just forget it.... When does the parking meter run out? " she asks instead.

“算了，还是算了… … 你付了多久费？”她转而问道。

Otherwise, these dark grey parking meters, you can park here for up to an hour.

否则，这些深灰色计时器允许你在这里最多一小时。

And that includes $2 I already spent on my parking meter.

其中包括我已经在收费表上花费 2 美元。

Well, and that, yeah, the parking meter boss is like so chaotic.

好吧，那个计时器老板真是乱得一塌糊涂。

The city of Los Angeles makes $57 million a year from its parking meters.

洛杉矶市每年通过收费表赚取 5700 万美元。

I can't tell you how many times my card, credit card, has gotten stuck In either a parking meter or gas station, whatever, where you have to insert your card and then pull it out.

我无法告诉你有多少次我信用卡在计时器或加油站等需要插入后取出地方被卡住。

And I remember doing the sum and working out at one hospital that I was earning less per hour for my shifts than the parking meter I could see outside the window was earning.

我记得有一次在一家医院算账，发现我每小时值班费竟然比窗外计时器赚钱还少。

Meaning we all saw the guy arguing with the parking meter out front, and we saw everything that I saw on the way in here, and that's what you're kind of speaking to.

意思是我们都看见了那个在前面计价器旁争论家伙，也看到了我一路走来所看到所有情况，而你所说正是这些。

Nowadays, many parking meters take credit cards, but we probably would still use the same expression, " to plug the meter" – to put coins into the parking meter.

现在很多计时器都可以刷卡，但我们可能还是会用同样表达方式， “to plugg the meter” ——往计时器里投硬币。

Parking meters are usually on the street, but you can also find some public parking meters in " parking lots, " in separate areas just for parking cars.

计时器通常在街上，但你也可以在“场” 找到一些公共计时器， 那里专门用于放汽区域。

When there's a parking meter in front of your house and it costs $100 an hour, but the ticket is 50 cents, you break the law.

当您家门前设有计时器， 每小时收费100美元，而罚单却只需50美分时， 您会选择违法。

Los Angeles, like many cities, has many parking meters, and that's how it makes part of its money.

洛杉矶和许多市一样，设有众多咪表，这也是其收入来源之一。

Did you knock over a parking meter?

你是撞倒了一个收费表吗？

I didn’t have any small change for the parking meter.

【small，smallness】我没有零钱投收费表。

And usually on Sunday parking meters are free.

通常周日计时器是免费。