流利美国口语6.1

（单词翻译）

W: You look so excited. What’s on your mind?

M: I am thinking about my Chrisman present.

W: What are you going to have?

M: A huge toy plane. My mother promised to give it to me if I behave myself before Christmas.

Dialogue 2.

M: Anna, what’s troubling you?

W: I felt sick at heart.

M: Why?

W: Tom didn’t send me flowers on Valentine’s day.

M: Did you send him chocolates?

W: Me? Why should I?

Dialogue 3.

W: How can I afford my summer vacation to Tibet? I am broke.

M: Why don’t you tighten¹ your belt a little? You’ve been scattering² money.

W: You can say that again. I resolve to squeeze my dollar and pinch my pennies for the next vacation.

M: You set it.

Exercise.

1. I wish Halloween fell on Friday, so that we would play the whole night.

2. You made my day.

3. Tom didn’t send me flowers on Valentine’s day.

4. What do you and your family and friends do on that occasion?

5. Dishes of various types came in quick succession.

6. People toasted each other over the new year dinner.

7. People were overjoyed and got drunk.

8. In the middle of the excitement we couldn’t help singing and dancing.

9. The Chinese Yizu people gather around the big torches in their villages, singing and dancing and playing musical instruments. And this could last a whole night.

10. The torch parade looks like a long fired dragon.

11. The smell of the roast turkey and pumpkin³ pie set my mouth watering.

12. Out of gratitude⁴ for the first harvest, the settlers decided⁵ to celebrate a special day to give thanks to God and the Indians.

13. My memories about the Spring Festival in my childhood is still very fresh.

14. The big family dinner is always the most important event of the celebration.

15. Although many years have passed since the first celebration, the pattern of the celebration has not changed much.