美語情景對話 第1261期:Do you take time to dress up every day? 你每天都花時間打扮嗎?

Vitalis: My name is Vitalis from Uganda.

維塔利斯：我是維塔利斯，來自烏干達。

David: My name is David from Kenya.

大衛：我是大衛，來自肯尼亞。

Vitalis: David!

維塔利斯：大衛！

David: Yes, Vitalis.

大衛：嗯，維塔利斯。

Vitalis: The thing that I take personally time for dress up while going to school. Do you take time to dress up?

維塔利斯：我每天在去學校之前都會花時間打扮。你會花時間打扮嗎？

David: Well, normally I take time to dress up but it depends on like if I've woken up early, am I late for school, something like that but, on a normal basis I don't take so much time to dress up. I just take whatever I can get, so that I don't ... cause I don't want to be late. Just dress up and make sure, like, everything is in order, then I leave my house and I head to school cause I also don't want to miss the bus cause apparently there not so many buses where I live, so I don't want to miss my last bus, which would be something really, but ...

大衛：通常我會花時間打扮，不過這要視情況而定，要看我是否起得比較早，或者上學是否會遲到等等，不過通常我不會花太多時間打扮。我只是看到什麼穿什麼，因爲我不想遲到。我基本上就是簡單裝扮一下，確保一切就緒，然後我就會離開家去學校，因爲我不想錯過公交車，顯然我住的地方沒有太多公交車，我不想錯過最後一班公交車，那很重要……

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重點講解：
1. dress up 裝扮；打扮；
例句：I need to dress up a little to attend my friend's wedding.
我得稍稍打扮一下去出席我朋友的婚禮。
2. depend on 視情形而定；看情況；
例句：The enterprise should depend on its concrete situation and developing needs, work out a practical plan of network sale.
企業要根據自己的具體情況和發展需要，制訂切實可行的進軍網絡銷售的計劃。
3. make sure 一定要；設法保證；
例句：You have to make sure you're comparing like with like.
你必須確保是在進行同類比較。
4. in order 整齊；井然有序；
例句：Someone comes in every day to check all is in order.
每天都有人來檢查是否一切都井然有序。