美語情景對話 第1309期:Has your life changed? 你的生活有變化嗎?

Aiste: Hello. This is Aiste from Lithuania and Christophe from Belgium and now we're going to talk about a question that's called have you changed? Christophe, do you think you've changed in your life and if that is the case how?

艾斯蒂：我是艾斯蒂，來自立陶宛，這是克里斯托弗，來自比利時，我們要討論的問題是：你有變化嗎？克里斯托弗，你認爲你的生活改變了嗎？如果改變了，那有什麼變化？

Christophe: I think I have changed from the way I look compared to how I looked ten years ago. When I was in high school, I had Brylcreem in my hair that was, and my hair was all like this and like very ugly and I also had glasses with really thick, thick glass. So I looked like a dork.

克里斯托弗：我認爲和10年前相比，我的樣子變了。我上高中時，會在頭髮上塗髮蠟，我的頭髮就會這樣，全部往後梳，那其實很醜，而且那時我還戴鏡片非常厚的眼鏡。那使我看上去像個呆子。

Aiste: A dork? Well?

艾斯蒂：呆子？是嗎？

Christophe: What about you?

克里斯托弗：你呢？

Aiste: Well, when I was small, I would have had very, very long hair and my mum used to dress me with kind of Sound of Music style dresses that were very girlish but I wasn't really getting into the fashion of that time, primary school, so that wasn't very....

艾斯蒂：我小時候頭髮非常長，我媽媽會讓我穿電影《音樂之聲》裏那種很少女的裙子，不過當時我不喜歡那種打扮，那是我小學的時候，所以……

Christophe: That's poor Aiste.

克里斯托弗：艾斯蒂，那很糟糕。

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重點講解：
1. compared to 與…相比；和…比起來；
例句：So, compared to what used to be, society is way ahead; compared to what might be, it is behind.
因此，比起過去的狀況，現實社會已大大進步了；然而與可能達到的目標相比，則又遠遠落後了。
2. used to do sth. 過去常常；過去曾；
例句：I used to do that when you were a little girl, remember?
在你還是小女孩的時候我曾經那麼做過，記得嗎？
3. get into 喜歡；
例句：You get into gardening, and I get into video games.
你喜歡園藝，而我喜歡電子遊戲。