美語情景對話 第537期:Mornings with the Dog 和狗狗一起度過的清晨時光

Todd: Michael, what time did you get up this morning?

託德：邁克爾，你今天早上幾點起的牀？

Mike: About 7, no 6.

邁克：大概七點吧，不對，是六點。

Todd: Really, is that like your normal schedule?

託德：是嗎？這是你的正常作息時間嗎？

Mike: I usually get up around 6. (Yeah) Yeah. Go to bed around 11. Get up at 6. On a good day, sometimes go to bed later.

邁克：我一般6點起牀。（好）對。我晚上11點上牀睡覺，早上6點起牀。有時候會晚睡一會兒。

Todd: Yeah, do you have to have an alarm clock when you get up?

託德：你早上需要鬧鐘叫早嗎？

Mike: I sometimes set an alarm if it's a really important day, but I almost never need it, you know what I mean. It's like a back up.

邁克：如果是非常重要的日子那我會定鬧鐘，不過我幾乎不需要鬧鐘，你知道我的意思。鬧鐘是備用的。

Todd: Right. Right. Yeah, I always wake up at first sunlight, like I can't sleep once it's light outside.

託德：好。我明白。我會在第一束陽光照射進來的時候醒來，天亮了以後我就睡不着了。

Mike: You're like a natural animal.

邁克：你就像大自然中的動物一樣。

Todd: Yeah, exactly, actually I never use an alarm clock. Now you have a beautiful dog. I saw your dog.

託德：對，沒錯，實際上我從來不用鬧鐘。現在你養了只非常漂亮的狗。我看見過你的狗。

Mike: She will sometimes wake us up.

邁克：她有時會叫我起牀。

Todd: Yeah, that is what I was wondering.

託德：嗯，這就是我想知道的事情。

Mike: Because, like, she has a natural cycle so at six in the morning, bam, you start to hear her wagging her tail or scratching, or trying to get attention. Time to get up.

邁克：她有自己的自然週期，所以早上六點你會聽到砰的一聲，然後你會聽到她搖尾巴或抓東西來吸引注意力。那就是該起牀的時間了。

Todd: That's so cool. I want a dog. Yeah, so do you walk your dog in the morning?

託德：這太酷了。我也想養只狗。你早上遛狗嗎？

Mike: Yeah, and that's another ritual I have is she needs a walk in the morning, so I've got this route. It's about a two mile walk that we go on. Almost the exact same route every morning. It takes about 30 minutes or so to do, yeah.

邁克：遛，這是每天必做的另一件事，因爲她早上要散步，我選擇的散步路線大約有兩英里。基本每天早上都是同樣的路線，大約需要30分鐘。

Todd: And so, in some countries or places you need a leash for your dog, so your dog can't get away from you. Do you have a leash for your dog?

託德：有些國家或地區規定遛狗時要拴狗繩，這樣你的狗就不會離開你的身邊了。你有給狗準備狗繩嗎？

Mike: Yeah. I keep her on a leash when we're walking were there are other people because you know, a lot of people are not comfortable with big dogs (right) but she'll stay close to me, even without a leash (right) but I do it for their comfort, but if we're in an open area, I'll let her off the leash and she loves that.

邁克：有。我們散步時我一直用狗繩拴着她，因爲周圍有其他人，有很多人會有點害怕大型犬（對），不過即使不拴狗繩，她也一直在我身邊，爲了讓其他人感到舒服，我會拴狗繩，不過在開放區域時我會把狗繩解掉，她喜歡那樣。

Todd: That's so good, because you know I'm a runner and it always freaks me out when I see people with their dogs and their big and the dogs aren't on a leash.

託德：這很好，因爲你知道我有跑步的習慣，有時我看到人們遛狗沒有拴狗繩時會嚇到。

Mike: You kind of wonder, is this dog safe to go past?

邁克：你是不是在想經過這隻狗的身邊是安全的嗎？

Todd: Well, yeah, and plus, I'm running behind the owner of the dogs and so I might startle the owner, and startle the dogs, and the dogs might be protective and attack me, so sometimes I'll holler in advance, "Hey, I'm coming. I'm coming."

託德：對，而且因爲我是從狗主人和狗的身後跑過去，所以我可能會讓狗主人和狗嚇一跳，這時狗狗可能會爲了保護主人而攻擊我，所以有時我會提前喊一聲：“嘿，我要過去了，我要過去了。”

Mike: Right, right.

邁克：對，沒錯。

Todd: So. Yeah, cool. Thanks Mike.

託德：好，酷。謝謝你，邁克。

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重點講解：
1. get up
起牀；
eg. Clock-radios blast away until you get up.
收音機鬧鐘會一直響到你起牀爲止。
eg. It is his wont to get up early.
早起是他的習慣。
2. freak out
（使）吃驚；（使）不安；（使）惱怒；（使）困惑；
eg. He is freaked out just like he has seen a ghost.
他嚇得直哆嗦，就好像看見了鬼一樣。
eg. Don't freak out if cops pull you over.
如果警察讓你靠邊，你不要害怕。
3. in advance
提前；事先；
eg. I ought to have told you in advance.
我應該事先告訴你。
eg. The rent must be paid in advance.
租金須預付。