美語情景對話 第1336期:Seasonal Clothing 季節性服裝(1)

Todd: So we are Jenn, how are you today?

託德：我們要開始錄音了。嗨，珍，你今天怎麼樣？

Jen: Hi Todd, I'm fine thank you. How are you?

珍：嗨，託德，我很好，謝謝。你怎麼樣？

Todd: I am doing pretty good. It's kind of getting colder, so I like that, I don't like super hot weather.

託德：我非常好。現在天氣越來越冷了，我喜歡這種天氣，我不喜歡超級炎熱的天氣。

Jen: Really, it's kind of opposite for me because I really hate that it's getting colder day by day.

珍：真的嗎？我和你正相反，因爲我我討厭這種越來越冷的天氣。

Todd: Oh you don't like the cooler weather?

託德：哦，你不喜歡逐漸轉涼的天氣嗎？

Jen: No, my fingers start swelling and it's really tough because you cannot really go outside. You just want to stay in your bed all day, you become very unproductive I guess.

珍：不喜歡，我的手指已經開始腫脹了，這非常痛苦，因爲不能到外面去。只想一整天都呆在牀上，我認爲這樣會變得沒收穫。

Todd: Yeah, I guess I can kind of ... Yeah, I know what you mean by that. But, at least in the winter, at least in the fall you can wear warmer clothes so I enjoy that. Although I don't like having to do so much laundry because you wear so many more clothes. In summer, it's just so easy to do your laundry I think.

託德：嗯，我想我能……好，我知道你的意思。至少在冬天和秋天可以穿暖和的衣服，我很喜歡這點。不過我不喜歡洗衣服，因爲天氣冷的時候穿的衣服也多。我認爲夏天的時候洗衣服很方便。

Jen: Yeah, you're talking about warmer clothes. But the thing is, if it was summer you wouldn't really feel like wearing any warm clothes at all because that would be unnecessary. That's why I would rather go for summer than winter.

珍：對，你剛提到了暖和的衣服。不過問題是，夏天根本不會想穿暖和的衣服，因爲沒必要。所以相比於冬天，我更喜歡喜歡夏天。

Todd: Well I know, but what I'm saying is that in the summer you don't have to wear so many clothes. You just have a tee shirt, shorts, that's about it, pants.

託德：我知道，我的意思是，夏天不用穿那麼多衣服。只要穿T恤、短褲或褲子就行了。

Jen: Yeah, and your laundry problem would also not exist.

珍：對，所以你的洗衣服問題也不存在了。

Todd: Exactly. Although, I don't have that many clothes anyway. I have the same three pairs of pants that I wear, so that's the benefit of being much older. How about you, do you have lots of clothes?

託德：沒錯。不過其實我也沒有那麼多衣服。我有三條一樣的褲子，這是年紀逐漸大了以後的好處。你呢？你衣服多嗎？

Jen: Yeah, but I think even if I was older I would still have a lot of clothes. Maybe it has to do with me always shopping all the time.

珍：多，我想我年紀大了以後仍會有很多衣服。也許這是因爲我經常去購物。

Todd: Actually, what do you do with your clothes for the season? Do you pack away your clothes for the season? Do you pack away your winter clothes or your summer clothes?

託德：你怎麼處理那些季節性衣服？你會把季節性衣服收起來嗎？你會把冬天的衣服或夏天的衣服收起來嗎？

Jen: Yes, actually during winter I pack all my summer clothes and tuck it away somewhere. And during summer, I do the opposite yeah.

珍：會，實際上冬天的時候，我會把所有夏天的衣服收起來，放好。夏天的時候，我會把所有冬天的衣服收起來。

Todd: Yeah, I now am regretting it so much because in the summer it was so hot this summer and I had these big sweatpants and sweaters and they were taking up space in my closet and I just threw them away. And I knew winter was coming and I would regret it, and now I regret it because I have to go buy all new sweatshirts.

託德：嗯，我現在非常後悔，因爲今年夏天太熱了，我的那些長的運動褲還有毛衣佔了衣櫃很大地方，所以我就把它們扔掉了。我知道冬天的時候我會後悔，現在我真的後悔了，因爲我不得不去買新的運動衫。

Jen: Why would you do that?

珍：你爲什麼要那樣做？

Todd: I just hate clutter and yeah, it was really short sighted wasn't it?

託德：我只是討厭雜亂，那樣做目光短淺，是吧？

Jen: Yeah, it was. I'm so sorry, but yeah I'm being blunt but you should have just packed it and put it somewhere you couldn't see so it didn't bother you that much.

珍：對，沒錯。我很抱歉這麼說，不過坦白說，你應該把那些衣服收起來，放到某個你看不到的地方，這樣就不會令你那麼困擾了。

Todd: I know.

託德：我知道。

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重點講解：
1. day by day 每天；天天；逐日；
例句：Day by day I am getting better and better.
我在一天天地好轉。
2. tuck away 妥善收藏；安全保管；
例句：I tucked the box away in the linen drawer.
我把盒子藏在放棉織品的抽屜裏。
3. take up 佔用，花費(時間、空間或精力)；
例句：All those rodents are easy to care for and take up very little space.
所有這些齧齒目動物都容易照看，而且只佔很小的空間。
4. throw away 扔掉，丟掉；
例句：I've got boxes of old clothes in the attic, which I really should throw away.
我在閣樓上有好幾箱舊衣服，真該都扔了。