美語情景對話 第719期:Shopping 購物

Todd: So, Shona, you talked about shopping today. You bought some food and you bought some furniture. Are you a big shopping fan?

託德：夏娜，你今天去購物了。你買了食物還有傢俱。你很喜歡購物嗎？

Shona: Not really to be honest. I'm not one of those people who go shopping every weekend or every weekday, or you know, but to be honest, like if I am around shops, and I do see something that I really like, I don't have much will power, and I will buy it, which isn't great, but yeah, I have accumulated like a few, you know, things over the years, specifically clothes, which I do enjoy buying.

夏娜：說實話，我不是很喜歡。我並不是每個週末或是每個工作日都去購物，不過說實話，如果我逛街時看到我很喜歡的東西，因爲我的意志力不太強，所以我看上就一定會買下來，這樣其實不太好，過去幾年我買的東西越來越多，尤其是衣服，我特別喜歡買衣服。

Todd: So you like shopping for clothes?

託德：你喜歡買衣服？

Shona: I like shopping for clothes but I don't really like shopping for anything else.

夏娜：我喜歡買衣服，不過我不喜歡買別的東西。

Todd: Now when you buy your clothes, are you saying you usually buy clothes on impulse. You see them and you like them?

託德：你剛纔說你買衣服的時候通常是一時衝動。那你是一看到就很喜歡嗎？

Shona: Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I probably would say that. I'm not like staying at home and looking at catalogues, and I think, "Oh, I want a black t-shirt" and I go out and buy that. I will just be wandering about. Something will catch my eye, and I'll think it looks nice so I might end up buying it.

夏娜：對，沒錯。我想我得承認。我並不喜歡在家裏看商品圖冊，想到我要買件黑色T恤，然後再出去買。我通常會四處逛。如果有衣服吸引了我的注意力，我覺得那還不錯，我就會買下來。

Todd: You know, these days, you mentioned a catalogue. These days you can buys stuff on the internet quite easily. Have you ever bought clothes over the internet?

託德：你剛提到了圖冊。現在可以在網上買東西，很方便。你有在網上買過衣服嗎？

Shona: Yes, I have actually. Yeah, I've bought a couple of items over the internet which is like lots of fun, because 'Is it going to fit?, Is it going to look nice?' You don't know, so once you get it it's like always a bit exciting, like to see how it actually looks in real life.

夏娜：買過。我在網上買過幾件衣服，我覺得這很有趣，因爲你會想“會不會合身？”“會好看嗎？”而你並不知道答案，所以你收到衣服時通常會很興奮，想看看實物究竟怎麼樣。

Todd: Did it fit?

託德：那合身嗎？

Shona: Yeah. Yeah. Actually there we like two really, like, items that I wear quite a lot, so.

夏娜：嗯，合身。因爲我買的是我經常穿的那種衣服。

Todd: What did you buy?

託德：你買了什麼？

Shona: I bought like a pinstriped jacket, like this little jacket thing with all these like different badge things on it, and I also bought like, this nice like blue and red and white stripy dress, which is really nice.

夏娜：我買了一件細條紋夾克，就是在這種夾克上有一些徽章類的裝飾，我還買了這種藍紅白相間的裙子，非常不錯。

Todd: Oh, cool. Now when you shop, do you always pay cash or do you pay by credit card, or?

託德：哦，真酷。你在購物時是付現金還是刷信用卡？

Shona: I'm more like prefer to pay by cash because then I know how much I'm spending, like if you pay with credit card, or whatever, you don't really, you're not aware of how much money you're actually spending, so I prefer to take cash out and pay with that, so then I have more of a budget.

夏娜：我更喜歡付現金，因爲這樣我馬上就能知道我花了多少錢，可是要是用信用卡的話，當時並不清楚花了多少錢，所以我更喜歡用現金付款，這樣我能更清楚預算。

Todd: Wow, that's pretty good because you say you're an impulse shopper, so I think credit cards usually people like to use them. They see something, they got to have it.

託德：哇，這樣做很好，因爲你剛說你是衝動購物者，我認爲一般人們更喜歡用信用卡。看上什麼就可以買下來。

Shona: Exactly, which is probably going to lead them into a lot of debt eventually, which I would try to avoid.

夏娜：沒錯，這樣最後可能會讓他們陷入債務中，這是我要儘量避免的事。

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重點講解：
1. to be honest 老實說；說實在的；
例句：To be honest, I have stopped reading papers for years now.
實話說，我已經好幾年不看報紙了。
2. on impulse 憑衝動；一時興起；
例句：Quite often we do thingson impulse.
我們做事往往很衝動。
3. catch one's eye 吸引…的注意；
例句：Her flared her scarf tocatch my eye.
她炫示她的圍巾以引我注目。
4. be aware of 知道的；明白的；
例句：Wewere aware ofthe problem beforehand.
我們事先就知道有這個問題。