美語情景對話 第335期:Knitting 編織

Adrienne: So we just had Christmas and I see your knitting bag is out, did you knit anything for anyone for Christmas?

埃德里安娜：我們剛剛過了聖誕節，我看到你的編織袋了，你在聖誕節的時候給誰織東西了嗎？

Vivian: I started to knit for my granddaughters, but time caught up with me and I was making for them a poncho which consisted of two pieces, two oblong pieces which I will put together and make a poncho.

薇薇安：我開始給我的孫女們織東西，但是時間太趕了，我正在給她們織斗篷，斗篷包含兩片，兩個矩形，我會把它們組合在一起做成個斗篷。

Adrienne: That sounds pretty I think, but what will it look like when it's finished? Can you describe it?

埃德里安娜：那聽起來真不錯，可是那個斗篷完成的時候是什麼樣子的？你能形容一下嗎？

Vivian: A poncho is sort of like a shawl, only it is closed. You can wear it like a sweater. You pull it over your head but you don't have any arms. You just have the shawl affect.

薇薇安：斗篷有點像披肩，只不過斗篷是閉合的。你穿上的時候就像個毛衣一樣。你把斗篷從頭部套入，不過斗篷沒有袖子。就和披肩的效果是一樣的。

Adrienne: Oh, I've seen those. Those are actually quite popular now. So what colors did you make?

埃德里安娜：哦，我看到過那種斗篷。現在斗篷非常流行。那你織的斗篷是什麼顏色的？

Vivian: I made a mixture of sand colors that's tan and browns and darker browns, sort of a mixture. It's a nice pretty soft yarn in the same colors. It just blends in.

薇薇安：我用了多種顏色，有棕褐色、棕色和深棕色，多種顏色的混合。還有相同顏色的柔軟的紗線。它們很好的融合在一起。

Adrienne: Oh, sounds great. I'm sure your granddaughter will love that. What else did you start to make?

埃德里安娜：聽起來真棒。我確定你的孫女們會喜歡的。你還有織別的東西嗎？

Vivian: Well, I wanted to make also, I bought some ponchos and I started to put an edging around them but with crocheting, but it didn't look right.

薇薇安：嗯，我想，我買了一些斗篷，然後用鉤針給斗篷做邊飾，不過看起來不太好。

Adrienne: What's crocheting?

埃德里安娜：鉤針是什麼？

Vivian: Crocheting is another needle, single needle, that you stick into the wool, and use a thread and you pull it through and you can make decoration on anything that you have knitted, only you use a different needle, and a different method of decoration, but it didn't look right so I pulled it all out and it was fun trying out those things.

薇薇安：鉤針是另一種編織針，是單針，可以穿過羊毛，你用線穿過羊毛，就可以爲你編織的東西進行裝飾，這只是用另一種編織針，採取另一種裝飾方法，不過我做的看起來不太好，所以我把它們都拆了，不過嘗試這些事情很有樂趣。

Adrienne: So when will you finish the, all of these projects do you think? Do you have a deadline?

埃德里安娜：那你認爲你什麼時候可以完成所有的這些編織呢？你有截止時間嗎？

Vivian: Yes, I do, very shortly, I'm almost through.

薇薇安：有啊，很快，我已經快完成了。

重點講解：
1. catch up with
趕上；追上；跟上；
eg. We must exert ourselves to catch up with them, or it would be too late.
我們要急起直追，否則就太晚了。
eg. Old age and infirmity had begun to catch up with him.
他開始顯出年老體衰的樣子了。
2. consist of
由…組成；由…構成；
eg. Its culture is consist of very diverse communities and in most recent history British has been a major influence.
其文化是由非常多樣化的社會團體組成，在近代的歷史中英國起着主要影響。
eg. Substances consist of small particles called molecules.
物質是由叫做分子的微粒組成的。
3. put together
裝配；組裝；拼合；組合；
eg. This toy can be taken apart and put together with ease.
這個玩具可容易地拆開再裝起來。
eg. Probably this literature was first put together in Babylon.
很可能這部文獻最早是在巴比倫彙總起來的。
4. blend in
融入；與…融爲一體；與…協調；
eg. The toad had changed its colour to blend in with its new environment.
蟾蜍已經變色，和新的環境融爲一體。
eg. You can blend in so that the voice becomes just another instrument in the band.
你可以把聲音協調一下，讓它成爲樂隊的另一種樂器。
5. try out
試驗；測驗；
eg. She knew I wanted to try the boat out at the weekend.
她知道我週末想開船出去試一下。
eg. London Transport hopes to try out the system in September.
倫敦交通系統有望在 9 月份對該系統進行試運營。