美語情景對話 第1057期:Morning Routine 晨間日程

Paul: Hi, Amy.

保羅：嗨，艾米。

Amy: Hi.

艾米：嗨。

Paul: How are you?

保羅：你好嗎？

Amy: I'm all right. Thanks. How are you?

艾米：我很好。謝謝。你呢？

Paul: Yeah, pretty good. I was thinking the other day about routine. I mean, do you follow like a strict routine?

保羅：我也很好。我前幾天在思考生活日常。你有遵循嚴格的日程嗎？

Amy: Not really. I'm pretty laid-back, I think.

艾米：沒有。我認爲我很悠閒。

Paul: I see.

保羅：我知道了。

Amy: Work days, you have to follow a routine, I guess because you have to get ready, you have to get out the door. But on days off, I just do what I feel like pretty much. Pretty relaxed.

艾米：當然工作日要遵循日程安排，因爲你要做好準備，出門上班。不過在休息日的時候，我會做喜歡做的事情。享受放鬆的生活。

Paul: Well, that I think is important isn't it, to relax on your days off. But like on a work day, so what do you do first in the morning?

保羅：嗯，我認爲在休息日放鬆很重要，不是嗎？那在工作日，你一般早上最先做什麼事？

Amy: I think probably what everybody does first. I have to go to the bathroom.

艾米：我想這應該對所有人來說都是最先做的事。我會先上衛生間。

Paul: Okay. I mean, what do you do after that? Do you make yourself a hot drink?

保羅：好。那之後做什麼？你會給自己衝杯熱飲嗎？

Amy: I wash my face and brush teeth, pretty much, and then cajole my daughter into getting on with her morning routine as well, making sure she's ready.

艾米：我會先刷牙洗臉，然後哄女兒，讓她開始她的早上準備工作，以確保她做好準備。

Paul: I see. So you've got to get two people ready.

保羅：我明白了。你要讓兩個人做好準備。

Amy: Yes, I do. How about you?

艾米：對，沒錯。你呢？

Paul: I just need to worry about myself really. I think that's enough, you know.

保羅：我只需要擔心自己。那就夠了。

Amy: Is that a big task?

艾米：這是個龐大的任務嗎？

Paul: Yeah. Well, I always have a cup of tea in the morning. First thing, I always put the kettle on and make a hot drink. And I usually try to eat like a good breakfast, not just a piece of toast or something but maybe some eggs, scrambled eggs and maybe some bacon and some toast. Yeah, I try to leave the house with a full stomach.

保羅：是的。我一般早上會喝一杯咖啡。首先，我會燒水，然後衝杯熱飲。通常我會吃頓豐盛的早餐，我的早餐不是隻有一片面包片，而是有炒蛋、培根和麪包片。我在吃飽後纔會出門。

Amy: Yeah, that's good. I try to do that as well. Sometimes, we're pretty rushed and breakfast is sometimes eaten in the car. But we do get full stomachs eventually.

艾米：這很好。我也會盡量這樣做。有時我們的時間很緊張，那我們就會在車裏吃早餐。不管怎麼說我們也吃飽了。

Paul: Right, right.

保羅：嗯，對。

Amy: Do you ever have fruit with your breakfast?

艾米：你早餐吃水果嗎？

Paul: I don't. I know some people eat like a grapefruit. Actually, occasionally, I have a banana.

保羅：不吃。我知道有些人會吃柚子。實際上，我有時會吃根香蕉。

Amy: Hmm.

艾米：嗯。

Paul: Yeah, because I just find it's really easy, and convenient, and quick.

保羅：因爲我覺得吃香蕉很容易，而且方便又不費時間。

Amy: I agree.

艾米：我同意。

Paul: But stuff like, you know, grapefruits and oranges, you have to peel them. Yeah, I just don't have the time really in the morning.

保羅：不過像柚子和橙子這樣的水果，還要剝皮。我早上沒有那麼多時間。

Amy: Too much like hard work?

艾米：太費事了？

Paul: Yeah. But if I stay in like if I'm on a holiday in a hotel and they have like a nice breakfast, I always try to eat fruit. So I always try to eat a bit of everything actually.

保羅：對。不過如果我去度假，酒店提供可口的早餐的話，那我會吃水果。我儘量各種食物都吃一些。

Amy: When it's there in front of you, ready.

艾米：因爲那些食物已經擺在你面前了。

Paul: When it's made for you, yeah.

保羅：對，因爲食物已經爲你做好了。

Amy: I do that, too, definitely.

艾米：我也會這樣做的。

Paul: Yeah.

保羅：嗯。

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重點講解：
1. cajole sb. into doing sth. 哄騙；勸誘；說服；
例句：It was he who had cajoled Garland into doing the film.
是他勸服嘉蘭拍這部片子的。
2. get on with 繼續做；開始做；
例句：They got on with their work after a short rest.
他們休息片刻後繼續工作。
3. make sure 一定要；設法保證；
例句：It may freeze tonight, so make sure the plants are covered.
今晚大概會有霜凍，一定要把花草都遮蓋好。
4. in front of 在…前面；
例句：She curled up in front of the fire with a book.
她蜷曲在爐火前看書。