美語情景對話 第943期:A Few Bad Habits 壞習慣(1)

Erina: So Mike, do you have any bad habits?

惠裏奈：邁克，你有壞習慣嗎？

Mike: Of course not. I'm perfect, I've no habits that are bad. Yes, I do have some bad habits. One of my bad habits is fidgeting and I think I'm a very high energy person so, especially when I'm on the phone, mixed with my slightly obsessive compulsive tendencies, I tend to arrange all the things on a desk so if there are pens and books and different things on the desk, I would be turning them and arranging them in order and pretty much always using my hands and keeping them busy and although this might not be such a bad habit, perhaps for people who are with me or next to me they might be a little bit uncomfortable because it seems like, you know, I'm a bit nervous or, you know, have something on my mind so...

邁克：當然沒有。我非常完美，我沒有壞習慣。好吧，其實我有一些壞習慣。其中一個壞習慣是小動作太多，我認爲我是一個精力充沛的人，尤其是打電話的時候我會有輕微的強迫症，我要把桌子上的東西整理得井井有條，如果桌子上有鉛筆、書或其他東西，我會把它們整齊擺好，而且我一直在使用雙手，我的手閒不下來，不過這可能並不是壞習慣，也許我旁邊的人會感覺有些不舒服，因爲看上去像我很緊張或是我一直在想事情……

Erina: Not in confidence for your speech, yeah.

惠裏奈：對你說的話感到不自信。

Mike: Right, in fact that's not the case but what happens is I start playing with things.

邁克：對，可是實際情況並不是那樣，可是我就是會擺弄東西。

Erina: I've seen you do that before.

惠裏奈：我以前看到你那樣過。

Mike: Oh have you?

邁克：哦，你看到過？

Erina: Yeah.

惠裏奈：對。

Mike: Well then I guess that really shows it is one of my bad habits. You know, I think that I do that to focus because, you know, while I'm speaking to somebody or while I'm on the phone, I arrange things on the desk and that is kind of metaphorically me arranging my thoughts in my head which is probably where this habit has come from.

邁克：嗯，我想這可以說明這的確是我的一個壞習慣。其實我這麼做是爲了集中注意力，因爲我在和別人說話或是打電話時，我也會整理桌上的東西，我想這可能表明我的頭腦正在整理思緒，可能這個習慣就是這麼來的。

Erina: I see. Yeah, do you have any other bad habits other than fidgeting?

惠裏奈：我明白了。除了小動作以外你還有其他壞習慣嗎？

Mike: Well maybe a bad habit is driving quickly and I'm not sure if that's considered a bad habit but I guess when I get behind the wheel of a car I sometimes get impatient and that impatience drives me to put more weight on the gas pedal and in turn I go faster and of course speeding is not a good thing especially when you get pulled over by the police. So that's a bad habit that I might have to work on.

邁克：另外一個壞習慣是開車太快，我不確定這會不會被看作是壞習慣，不過我在開車時有時會變得不耐煩，這種不耐煩就會讓我去猛踩油門，所以我越開越快，不過在你被警察截停的時候，速度就不是什麼好事了。我想這是我要改掉的一個壞習慣。

Erina: Yeah, definitely. You don't want to lose your licence.

惠裏奈：沒錯。你也不想被吊銷駕照。

Mike: No.

邁克：對。

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重點講解：
1. on the phone 在通話；
例句：She has been on the phone all morning.
她整個上午都在打電話。
2. in order 整齊；井然有序；
例句：Everything in the house is in order.
這座房子裏一切都井然有序。
3. on one's mind 擔心；惦記；掛念；
例句：The spectre of unemployment was always on his mind.
他心頭一直縈繞著可能失業的恐懼感。
4. other than （用於否定陳述後）除了…以外；
例句：I can't think of two people more suited to each other than you and David.
沒有人比你和大衛倆人更般配的佳偶了。
5. in turn 繼而；轉而；反過來；
例句：This, in turn, has generated current account surpluses.
這繼而導致了經常賬戶盈餘。
6. pull over （通常因司機危險駕駛，警察）令（駕車者或車輛）停靠路邊；
例句：The patrolman signaled for the speeding driver to pull over.
巡警發出信號警告那名超速駕駛的司機靠邊停下。