美語情景對話 第1145期:Meg's Place 梅格的公寓

Todd: So Meg, do you live in a house or an apartment?

託德：梅格，你住在房子裏還是公寓裏？

Meg: I live in an apartment near the train station.

梅格：我住在臨近火車站的公寓裏。

Todd: Oh, you live downtown.

託德：哦，你住在市中心。

Meg: I do.

梅格：沒錯。

Todd: Do you like living downtown?

託德：你喜歡生活在市中心？

Meg: I do like living downtown because it's so convenient. Everything is close by, grocery stores, the mall, the station.

梅格：我的確喜歡住在市中心，因爲很方便。附近什麼都有，有雜貨店、有購物中心，還有車站。

Todd: Oh, that's great. So what about your apartment? Do you have a nice apartment?

託德：哦，那很不錯。你的公寓怎麼樣？你的公寓漂亮嗎？

Meg: It's a nice apartment, but it's really small.

梅格：我的公寓很好，不過非常小。

Todd: Oh yeah? How many rooms?

託德：是嗎？有幾個房間？

Meg: Well, there are three rooms. But each room is pretty small. There's a bedroom, a sitting room like a living room, and the kitchen room.

梅格：有三個房間。不過每個房間都很小。有一間臥室、一個起居室，還有廚房。

Todd: Oh, wow. So in your bedroom, like, do you have a big queen size bed, a small bed?

託德：哇哦。你臥室裏的牀是大牀還是小牀？

Meg: I have a small twin size bed or a single bed in the bedroom because it's pretty small. So there's not much space for a big bed.

梅格：我臥室裏有一張小的單人牀，因爲臥室很小。沒有足夠的空間放大牀。

Todd: All right. So do you have a TV in your bedroom?

託德：好。那你臥室裏有電視嗎？

Meg: No. Actually, I don't own a TV at all.

梅格：沒有。我家裏沒有電視。

Todd: Really? So there's no TV in the living room, too.

託德：真的嗎？所以起居室裏也沒有電視。

Meg: There's no TV anywhere in the apartment.

梅格：公寓裏沒有電視。

Todd: Wow. What do you do in your house?

託德：哇哦。那你在家裏時做什麼？

Meg: I have a laptop computer. So usually, I can watch some TV shows or videos on my laptop.

梅格：我有一臺筆記本電腦。通常我用筆記本電腦看電視節目和視頻。

Todd: All right. Okay. Do you like to watch movies in bed?

託德：好。你喜歡躺在牀上看電影嗎？

Meg: Yeah. Sometimes I like to watch movies in bed or sometimes I prefer to sit in the living room and watch movies.

梅格：對。有時我喜歡躺在牀上看電影，有時我喜歡坐在起居室裏看電影。

Todd: Right. So you must have high-speed Internet.

託德：好。你家的網速一定很快。

Meg: I do. Yes. I have an Internet box that my laptop can connect to.

梅格：對，沒錯。我有一個筆記本電腦可以連接的上網盒。

Todd: Okay. Cool. Do you have a nice big sofa?

託德：好，真酷。你有大沙發嗎？

Meg: I have two small sofas. So you can push them together to make one big sofa or you can keep them separate. Usually, I keep them separate because there's more room for people to sit on.

梅格：我有兩個小沙發。可以把兩個沙發拼在一起，做成一個大沙發，也可以分開用。通常，我不會把兩個沙發拼在一起，因爲這樣有更多的空間，方便人們坐在上面。

Todd: Okay. Now, you like to cook. So you must have a nice kitchen.

託德：好。你喜歡烹飪。你一定有個很棒的廚房。

Meg: Unfortunately, I have a very tiny kitchen.

梅格：不幸的是，我的廚房非常小。

Todd: Oh no. How do you cook?

託德：哦不。那你怎麼做飯？

Meg: I have to use some extra tables to have more space. The counter is really small, so there's not much space. So I have an extra table I use for preparing the food.

梅格：我要用其他的桌子來增加空間。廚房的操作檯太小了，沒有太多空間。所以我在準備食物時要用其他的桌子。

Todd: Okay. Do you have an oven?

託德：好。你有烤箱嗎？

Meg: I have a very small toaster oven. So it's not really an oven.

梅格：我有一個很小的烤箱。其實算不上烤箱。

Todd: All right. So do you have a microwave?

託德：好。你有微波爐嗎？

Meg: I do have a microwave and a small refrigerator and one burner, like a stove top burner.

梅格：我有一個微波爐，一個小冰箱，還有一個煤氣竈。

Todd: Okay. Do you cook every night?

託德：好。你每天晚上都做飯嗎？

Meg: I don't cook every night. Sometimes, I'm too busy. And sometimes because my kitchen is so small, I get a little frustrated. So I just pick up some food from a restaurant.

梅格：我不是每晚都做飯。我特別忙的時候就不做。而且因爲廚房太小了，所以有時我會沮喪，那時我也不做飯。我會從餐廳買飯回家。

Todd: All right. Now, you live in an apartment, so how many floors does your apartment building have?

託德：好。你住在公寓裏，那棟公寓樓有多少層？

Meg: The building has five floors and I live on the fifth floor.

梅格：5層，我就住在5樓。

Todd: Nice. Fifth floor.

託德：好，5樓。

Meg: Yeah. The view is nice, but unfortunately, there's no elevator.

梅格：對，視野不錯，不過不幸的是，沒有電梯。

Todd: Oh no.

託德：不是吧。

Meg: So you always have to take the stairs.

梅格：只能爬樓梯。

Todd: Wow. Five flights of stairs.

託德：哇哦。要爬5層。

Meg: Five flights of stairs everyday. But it's good exercise.

梅格：每天都要爬5樓。不過這是很好的鍛鍊。

Todd: So you're on the fifth floor. Do you have a balcony?

託德：你住在5樓。有陽臺嗎？

Meg: I have a small balcony where my washing machine is and I can also hang out my laundry out there.

梅格：有一個小陽臺，我把洗衣機放在陽臺，方便我晾衣服。

Todd: Oh cool, washing machine is outside.

託德：不錯，把洗衣機放在外面。

Meg: It is outside. It's a little different from my house in America.

梅格：的確是在外面。和我在美國的房子不太一樣。

Todd: So from your view, what can you see?

託德：從你住的地方往外看能看到什麼？

Meg: I can see the train station from one window and all the restaurants downtown. And from a different window, I can see the mountains.

梅格：從其中一扇窗戶看出去，我可以看到火車站和市中心所有的餐廳。通過另一扇窗戶，我可以看到高山。

Todd: Oh nice. Yeah, the mountains are nice.

託德：不錯。山很漂亮。

Meg: Yeah, it's really pretty.

梅格：沒錯，真的非常漂亮。

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重點講解：
1. close by 在附近；在近旁；
例句：Did a new hairdressing shop open close by?
附近是不是新開了一家理髮店？
2. pick up 買東西；
例句：At the very least, you'll want the hotel to have some sort of mini-mart where you can pick up water, soda, and small bites to tide you over.
至少，你會希望酒店有小型超市讓你可以買一些水，飲料，食品來填飽肚子。
3. hang out 晾曬（洗好的衣物）；
例句：I was worried I wouldn't be able to hang my washing out.
我擔心自己沒法把洗好的衣服晾出去。
4. be different from 有差別的；不同的；
例句：She's different from the common run of students.
她跟一般學生不同。