美語情景對話 第641期:Neighbors 鄰居

Todd: Hello.

託德：你好。

Phil: Hello. Good morning.

菲爾：你好，早上好。

Todd: Hi. I don't think we've met. My name's Todd.

託德：嗨。我想我們不認識。我是託德。

Phil: Oh, nice to meet you. My name's Phil. I'm from England.

菲爾：很高興認識你。我是菲爾，我來自英國。

Todd: Oh, hey Phil, I'm from the states. I've noticed you in the building. How long have you lived here?

託德：嗨，菲爾，我來自美國。我之前在大樓裏看到過你。你在這裏住了多久了？

Phil: I've lived here for six months actually.

菲爾：我在這裏住了六個月了。

Todd: Oh, really.

託德：哦，真的嗎？

Phil: Yeah.

菲爾：對。

Todd: Well, I've been here for two months and I don't think , you know, we've haven't met yet, so.

託德：嗯，我已經在這裏生活兩個月了，我想我們還不認識。

Phil: I guess we're always busy at work. I never see you.

菲爾：因爲我們一直都很忙。我從來沒見過你。

Todd: Right. Right. Now, do you live on the fourth floor?

託德：對，是的。你是住在四層嗎？

Phil: Yeah, yeah. I live actually quite near to your room, just right around the corner.

菲爾：對。其實我的房間離你的很近，就在拐角那裏。

Todd: Oh, really. What room number are you?

託德：哦，真的嗎？你的房間號是多少？

Phil: I'm 443.

菲爾：我在443號住。

Todd: Ah, OK. Actually, I'm 430, so.

託德：好。我住在430號。

Phil: I'm lucky my room's at the end of the corridor so it's really quiet.

菲爾：我的房間在走廊的盡頭，真的很幸運，因爲那裏非常安靜。

Todd: Yeah, you know, I was wondering though, at night I do my laundry sometimes and the laundry room is near your room and it makes a lot of noise. Does it keep you up at night?

託德：你知道，有時我會在晚上去洗衣房，洗衣房離你的房間很近，洗衣服的時候會有很大的噪音，這會不會使你晚上無法入睡？

Phil: I've never heard it to be honest. Maybe I'm a really good sleeper or something.

菲爾：說實話，我從來沒有聽見過洗衣服的聲音。也許是因爲我睡得很深吧。

Todd: Oh, good.

託德：哦，好。

Phil: I never hear it.

菲爾：我從來沒聽見過。

Todd: So, what do you do?

託德：你做什麼工作？

Phil: I'm an English teacher near here.

菲爾：我在這附近教英語。

Todd: Oh, really, actually so am I.

託德：哦，真的嗎，我也是英語老師。

Phil: Oh, really. I only teach junior high school, so quite young children.

菲爾：是嗎？我只在初中教英語，所以我教的都是年紀小的孩子。

Todd: Ah, that's cool. I'm the opposite. I teach mainly university students.

託德：這很酷。我和你正相反。我主要教大學生。

Phil: Oh, OK, yeah. Junior high school students are really good but, quite often they like to sleep in the lesson. Maybe, I'm just a boring teacher. I don't know.

菲爾：哦，好。初中生很好，不過他們經常在課堂上睡覺。可能是因爲我的課很無聊吧。我也不知道原因。

Todd: Nah, nah. I think it's just cause when they're young kids. Yeah, the university kids are nice, but I think you have a lot more holidays though.

託德：我覺得不是。我認爲是因爲他們還是孩子。大學生很不錯，你的假期應該更多吧。

Phil: Yeah, that's true. Recently, I had five weeks summer vacation. I was really lucky.

菲爾：對，沒錯。最近我剛休了五週的暑假。我非常幸運。

Todd: I'm jealous. That's nice. Hey, so what do you think of the building that we live in?

託德：我太羨慕你了。這太好了。你覺得我們住的這座大樓怎麼樣？

Phil: Actually, I really like it. The rooms are quite small. The atmosphere, everyone is so friendly, and I get to meet people from all over the world and talk to them in different languages if I can and it's really interesting.

菲爾：我非常喜歡。雖然房間非常小，但是氣氛很好，而且這裏的所有人都很友好，在這裏我能認識世界各地的人，而且如果可以的話，我會用不同的語言和他們聊天，這非常有趣。

Todd: Yeah, I agree. I really like living here. I mean, you know sometimes, I like to be by myself, you know, but I have to admit, I really like having so many people that you can talk to in the building.

託德：對，我同意。我也很喜歡住在這裏。有時我喜歡一個人待着，不過我得承認，我非常喜歡能和樓裏的很多人聊天的感覺。

Phil: Yeah, it's really nice and there's really good places to prepare food and everything is really clean and nice so it's a really nice place to live.

菲爾：對，這非常好，而且還有可以準備食物的地方，所有東西都很整潔，這裏真的是一個適合居住的好地方。

Todd: How much longer do you think you're going to stay?

託德：你打算在這裏住多長時間？

Phil: My contract is for another six months here, so I will stay that long and then maybe longer, I'm not sure.

菲爾：我的合同還有六個月，所以我至少會再住六個月的時間，之後我可能會繼續住在這裏，我也不確定。

Todd: OK, well, anyway it was nice to meet you.

託德：哦，總之很高興認識你。

Phil: Oh, yeah, nice to meet you, too.

菲爾：嗯，認識你我也很高興。

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重點講解：
1. keep up 睡不着；
例句：I'm sorry to keep you up.
對不起讓你睡不着了。
2. to be honest 老實說；說實在的；
例句：To be honest, I'm not satisfied with it.
說實話，我不太滿意。
3. get to do sth. 得以做；有機會做；
例句：After a time you get to realize that these things don't matter.
你過些時候就知道這些事無關緊要。
4. all over 到處；遍及；
例句：His fame resounded all over the world.
他名揚全球。