讨厌的事情
时间:2005-10-20 16:00:00
(单词翻译:单击)
A:Hello,
你好
B:Hey,Drew,it's me,
嘿Drew,是我。
A:Marco,I know it's you.What's up?
我就知道是你。最近怎么样?
B:Nothing,I found a word today,But I don't know it's meaning,
没什么,今天我找到了一个词,我不知道它什么意思。
A:What is it?
什么词?
B:I don't know how to read it.
我不知道怎么读
A:Then spell it for me.
那就拼写一下吧
B:P E T P E E V E.
:P E T P E E V E.
A:Ah,it's pet
peeve1.
知道了,是pet peeve.
B:What does that mean?
那是什么意思?
A:A pet peeve is something that you really hate,
就是指你讨厌的事情。
B:Like what?
比如说呢?
A:ie:Maybe you don't like people bothering you when you're watching a movie.That is a pet peeve.Or maybe you hate people nagging,That's also a pet peeve,You know what I mean?
比如说。也许你看电视的时候不喜欢别人打搅呢,那就叫做pet peeve。或者是你讨厌人们唠叨,那也是pet peeve,你懂吗?
B:I got it. Thanks,buddy,By the way,what are your pet
peeves2?
懂了,谢了,哥们儿。顺便说一下,你讨厌什么?
A:Many of them,ie:I don't like people rushing into the bus before I get off,You know it's crazy,When the door opens,there suddenly come in a thousand people,and there's absolutely no way for you to get off.
很多东西。象我讨厌在我下车之前人们就往上挤。你知道那很疯狂的,当门刚打开,突然间上千人挤进来。你根本下不去。
B:There's nothing we could do about it.
我们也没办法啊。
A:Another of my pet peeves is I hate it when I'm with my girlfriend,there's a third guy,sitting there,bla,bla,bla,you know
还有就是我讨厌和我女朋友在一起时,别人坐在旁边,唠唠叨叨的。
B:That is awful
是很讨厌
A:Yes.Like last Friday,my girl came by.You know she comes only once a week and Brian was just sitting there,watching TV.I got realy angry.He didn't even know he'd outstayed his welcome.
是的,比如说上周五,我女朋友来我这儿。你知道她一周才来一次,Brian就坐在那儿看电视,我气坏了,他甚至不知道他已经不受欢迎了。
B:Did he leave?
那他走了吗?
A:No,we did.
他没有,我们走了。
B:Chinese people never do that.They
surely3 know when to say goodbye.
中国人从来不那么做。他们知道什么时候该走。
Attention Please…特别提醒
[你可以请外教反复帮你模仿/训练下面句子/词组的正宗美式发音
[1]pet peeve这个词表示人们所不喜欢的事情,比如说有人吐痰,或在公共场合吸烟等,但要记住,这个词不用来指那些你改变不了的事情。象天气或是全球变暖等。
[2]He'd outstayed his welcome.这句话的另一种说法是]He'd overstayed his welcome.当有人在你家十多天,根本不把自己当外人时,他们就已经outstay their welcome了。
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