美語情景對話 第514期:Drinking 戒酒

Todd: So, Al, you mentioned that you quit smoking.

託德：艾爾，你說過你戒菸了。

Al: Yes, I did.

艾爾：對，我戒菸了。

Todd: Now, I also heard that you quit drinking.

託德：我聽說你也戒酒了。

Al: I did. Almost, about one week after I quit smoking, I quit drinking.

艾爾：對。在我戒菸後一週期我也戒酒了。

Todd: Wow! No more? No beer? No wine with dinner?

託德：哇！你不再喝酒了？也不喝啤酒？晚餐也不搭配葡萄酒了？

Al: No.

艾爾：對。

Todd: Nothing?

託德：什麼酒都不喝了？

Al: No.

艾爾：對。

Todd: Never?

託德：不喝了？

Al: Nothing, never.

艾爾：對，什麼酒都不喝了。

Todd: Have you even had a little bit since you quit?

託德：你戒酒後有沒有喝過一點酒？

Al: No, I can't have a little bit. It's all or nothing for me so.

艾爾：沒有，我一點兒也不能喝。對我來說，我要麼徹底戒酒，要麼就不戒。

Todd: Wow!

託德：哇！

Al: Yeah, nothing at all.

艾爾：對，所以我一點兒酒都不喝了。

Todd: That's pretty tough to do. Well, I mean, you seem pretty happy, I mean.

託德：做到這點很難。不過你看上去很快樂。

Al: I'm very happy.

艾爾：我非常快樂。

Todd: OK. So what, why did you stop drinking? Why do you think it's better not to drink any alcohol?

託德：好，那你爲什麼戒酒？你爲什麼覺得最好戒酒或者說戒掉酒精？

Al: I don't, I mean, I'm not against drinking the way I am against smoking. I knew that for me it was the best thing to do because drinking is getting in the way of other things I wanted to do with my life.

艾爾：我戒酒的理由與戒菸不一樣。我知道對我來說最好的辦法就是戒酒，因爲喝酒阻礙了我想奉獻一生去做的事情。

Todd: Right.

託德：好。

Al: So, and I didn't really, I drank a lot and I didn't enjoy it anymore.

艾爾：我沒有……我以前喝很多酒，我不再享受了。

Todd: Yeah.

託德：好。

Al: That was the thing.

艾爾：事情就是這樣。

Todd: Actually, I have to feel a little bit the same way. I'm a social drinker. I only drink when I'm with friends and I really don't like drinking because I don't like how it makes me feel afterwards, like if I have a glass of wine or beer, I can't work afterwards and that bothers me but its nice to have a glass of wine with a good meal.

託德：其實我也有差不多的想法。我會在社交場合喝酒。我只在和朋友在一起的時候喝酒，我真的不喜歡喝酒，因爲我不喜歡酒精給我帶來的感覺，如果我喝一杯葡萄酒或啤酒，我之後就不能工作了，這令我很困擾，不過享用美食時搭配一杯葡萄酒還是不錯的。

Al: It is. Yes. There are things I miss about it but there are so many other good things that I've got from not drinking so I look at the balance and the sacrifice and for me it's worth it, not to drink. I can give up a glass of wine with dinner if get the other things I've got from it, so.

艾爾：沒錯。這是我會懷念的事情，不過不喝酒我能享受到更多好事，所以我平衡了一下，我覺得戒酒這種犧牲很值得。如果我戒酒能有所收穫那我願意放棄晚餐享用葡萄酒。

Todd: Well, do you feel healthier? Does you body feel better?

託德：你覺得這樣更健康嗎？你的身體感覺更好了嗎？

Al: I feel much healthier. I feel much more focused. My thinking is much clearer, and I like, I still go to bars and hang out with people and they drink and I don't and I go home, I love leaving a bar when I'm still sober. I love that feeling. I don't know why it's a fantastic feeling.

艾爾：我覺得這樣健康多了。而且讓我更專注。我的思維更清晰，我依然會和朋友們一起去酒吧，他們喝酒而我不喝，我喜歡在離開酒吧回家的時候依然清醒的那種感覺。我喜歡這種感覺。不過我不知道爲什麼這種感覺這麼棒。

Todd: Well, sounds like something maybe I should consider. Thanks Al.

託德：聽起來我也應該考慮一下戒酒。謝謝你，艾爾。

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重點講解：
1. quit doing sth.
停止；退出；放棄；
eg. You must quit smoking. Most important of all, you should start taking exercise.
你必須戒菸，更重要的是，你該開始運動。
eg. If you quit dawdling and just turn to, the cleaning will be done in a day.
如果你停止閒逛，馬上開始工作，清潔工作一天就能做完。
2. all or nothing
要麼徹底幹完，要麼根本不幹；
eg. Either he went through with this thing or he did not; it was all or nothing.
他要麼把這件事做完，要麼就不做，只有這兩種選擇。
eg. Mike would not accept just part of the money. It was all or nothing.
邁克不會那這筆錢的一部分的，要不全拿，要不不拿。
3. get in the way of
妨礙；礙事；
eg. She had a job which never got in the way of her leisure interests.
她有一份從來不會影響她的業餘愛好的工作。
eg. Her social life get in the way of her study.
她的社交生活妨礙了學業。
4. hang out
閒逛，逗留；
eg. We usually hang out in the common after class.
我們放學後通常會在廣場上消磨時間。
eg. The local kids hang out at the mall.
當地的孩子常在商業街閒蕩。