美語情景對話 第1175期:A Typical Day 典型的一天

Todd: So Aimee, let's talk about routines?

託德：艾米，我們來談談日常生活吧？

Aimee: OK.

艾米：好。

Todd: What time do you get up most days?

託德：你每天幾點起牀？

Aimee: I get up ... I get up about six.

艾米：我大概6點鐘起牀。

Todd: Oh, wow! That's early. I'm about the same. I get up at 7ish, usually.

託德：哇哦！這麼早。我也差不多。我通常7點鐘起牀。

Aimee: OK, and what do you eat for breakfast?

艾米：好，你一般早餐吃什麼？

Todd: I usually have toast. I'm lazy. I don't cook in the mornings, so toast, but I always have coffee.

託德：我吃麪包片。我很懶。我早上不做飯，所以我一般都吃麪包片，不過我早上會喝咖啡。

Aimee: Right. Yeah, that sounds good.

艾米：好。聽上去不錯。

Todd: Yeah, I love coffee. Do you have coffee every morning?

託德：對，我喜歡咖啡。你每天早上喝咖啡嗎？

Aimee: I have coffee every morning. I also have hot water and fresh lemon juice, every morning.

艾米：我每天早上都喝咖啡。另外我每天早上還會喝熱水和新鮮的檸檬汁。

Todd: Why?

託德：爲什麼？

Aimee: Because it is good for your body, and I enjoy it.

艾米：因爲那對身體有好處，而且我很喜歡。

Todd: OK. Good. So when do you leave the house most days?

託德：好，很好。你每天什麼時候出家門？

Aimee: I leave the house about seven o'clock.

艾米：我大概7點出門。

Todd: Wow, that's early.

託德：哇哦，那很早。

Aimee: It is. Maybe between seven and seven-thirty. Yeah. How about you Todd?

艾米：對。我大概7點到7點半之間出門。你呢，託德？

Todd: A little later, usually around 8.

託德：我會晚一些，我通常8點左右出門。

Aimee: OK.

艾米：好。

Todd: And where do you eat lunch every day?

託德：你每天午餐吃什麼？

Aimee: Every day? I eat lunch at work every day, so I will buy something from the cafeteria at my work, or I will bring something.

艾米：每天？我每天在公司吃午餐，我會從自助餐廳買午餐吃，或是帶午餐。

Todd: Most days, what do you have for lunch?

託德：那你基本上午餐都吃什麼？

Aimee: I have a sandwich and a smoothie.

艾米：一個三明治和一杯冰沙。

Todd: Mm, that's healthy.

託德：嗯，很健康。

Aimee: Yeah.

艾米：對。

Todd: You're healthy.

託德：你很健康。

Aimee: No, not really. (laughter) Yeah, sandwich and a smoothie and probably a chocolate biscuit.

艾米：不是，不完全是。（笑）三明治，冰沙，可能還有一塊巧克力餅乾。

Todd: Ooh, OK. That's not healthy.

託德：哦。那就不健康了。

Aimee: It's not. And you?

艾米：是不健康，你呢？

Todd: I eat at the cafeteria every day at my school and I always have salad every day. I love salad, yeah! I usually have a very healthy lunch. I have lean meat. Chicken usually and a salad and tea.

託德：我每天在學校的自助餐廳吃午餐，我每天都吃沙拉。我喜歡沙拉！基本上我的午餐很健康。我喜歡瘦肉。我的午餐基本上是雞肉，一份沙拉和一杯茶。

Aimee: That does sound healthy.

艾米：聽起來的確很健康。

Todd: It is, kind of. A healthy meal of the day. So, every day, who do you talk to?

託德：對，還好。一天中健康的一餐。那你每天都和誰說話？

Aimee: I talk to my children every day. Yes, we talk a lot.

艾米：我每天都和孩子們講話。我們談很多事。

Todd: What do you talk about?

託德：你們都談些什麼？

Aimee: We talk about our everyday routine. I remind them to do their tasks, and I remind them to get on with ...

艾米：每天的行程。我提醒他們做作業，繼續做……

Todd: the chores?

託德：家務活？

Aimee: Yes. Chores and their routine.

艾米：對。家務活和他們的日常安排。

Todd: What do they do? What chores do they do?

託德：他們都做什麼？他們做什麼家務？

Aimee: Well, they're still young, so my two-year old doesn't do anything. She brings her plate to the kitchen when she's finished. She's good at that actually. My eight-year old, she folds her clean laundry and puts it away.

艾米：他們還很小，兩歲的孩子什麼都不做。她吃完飯以後會把盤子放到廚房去。這個她很擅長。8歲的孩子會把洗好的衣服疊起來收好。

Todd: Oh, that's good.

託德：哦，那很好。

Aimee: Yes.

艾米：對。

Todd: Nice. Very responsible. So when do you get home most days?

託德：不錯，很負責。你每天幾點到家？

Aimee: I get home around six o'clock. How about you Todd?

艾米：我6點左右到家。你呢，託德？

Todd: Oh, I get home late. I get home around ten o'clock.

託德：哦，我到家很晚。我大概10點纔到家。

Aimee: Oh, that is late.

艾米：哦，那太晚了。

Todd: Yeah, very late. So I work late. I live alone so, I work late and I go to the gym and sometimes I go eat at a restaurant.

託德：對，很晚。我工作到很晚。我一個人住，所以我下班晚，晚上我還要去健身房，有時我還會去餐廳吃飯。

Aimee: Nice.

艾米：好。

Todd: I never cook.

託德：我從來不做飯。

Aimee: I never go to the gym.

艾米：我從來不去健身房。

Todd: (Laughter)

託德：（笑）

Aimee: (Laughter) What time do you go to bed then?

艾米：（笑）那你幾點睡覺？

Todd: I go to bed early actually. I get home at nine or ten and I go to bed by eleven usually. And you?

託德：我睡得很早。我差不多9點或10點到家，大概11點上牀睡覺。你呢？

Aimee: Eleven's early.

艾米：11點很早。

Todd: It is early.

託德：是很早。

Aimee: OK, I think I'm probably about the same. Eleven o'clock. Yeah, I go to bed about eleven o'clock.

艾米：好，我想我可能和你一樣。11點睡覺。對，我11點左右睡覺。

Todd: OK, so how many hours do you sleep most nights?

託德：好，你晚上睡幾個小時？

Aimee: I guess I get about seven. Six or seven hours.

艾米：我想7個小時左右。6或7個小時。

Todd: Yeah, I get eight. I love sleeping.

託德：嗯，我睡8個小時。我喜歡睡覺。

Aimee: I sleep more at the weekend.

艾米：我週末會多睡一會兒。

Todd: Hmm! You sleep in Saturday and Sunday?

託德：嗯！你週六和週日睡懶覺嗎？

Aimee: I try if I can. Sunday is easier to sleep in.

艾米：如果可以的話，我儘量睡會兒懶覺。週日睡懶覺很容易。

Todd: OK, thanks Aimee.

艾米：好，謝謝你，艾米。

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重點講解：
1. get on with 繼續做；開始做；
例句：Be positive about your future and get on with living a normal life.
要對自己的未來充滿信心，繼續過一種正常的生活。
2. be good at 擅長的；精通的；能幹的；
例句： always was good at amateur theatricals.
我一向擅長業餘表演。
3. put away 把…收起；放好；
例句：Her bed was crisply made, her clothes put away.
她的牀收拾得很整潔，衣服也收起來了。
4. sleep in 睡懶覺；
例句：My nieces and nephews did the farm chores, so I got to sleep in.
我的侄女和侄子在農場幹雜活，所以我睡了懶覺。