美語情景對話 第291期:Cleaning 清潔工作

Todd: Adrienne, we're going to talk about cleaning! So, first of all, how often do you.clean, like your apartment?

託德：埃德里安娜，我們要談談清潔工作！首先，你的公寓多久做一次打掃工作？

Adrienne: Thoroughly, I would say I clean once a week.

埃德里安娜：徹底打掃大概一週一次。

Todd: So, do you consider yourself a clean person?

託德：你認爲自己是個愛乾淨的人嗎？

Adrienne: I consider myself an organized person.

埃德里安娜：我認爲我是個有條理的人。

Todd: OK. So, in your house what is the one room you hate cleaning?

託德：好。那你家裏最討厭收拾的房間是哪一間？

Adrienne: Probably the bathroom, which includes the shower, the sink, toilet. (Yeah) All together.

埃德里安娜：可能是浴室，那裏有淋浴器、水槽、馬桶。（對）都在那裏。

Todd: Yeah, so, why?

託德：好，那爲什麼呢？

Adrienne: I just think it's the grossest part of the house. It always seems to accumulate the most dirt and grime (Yeah) pretty disgusting.

埃德里安娜：我只是認爲那是房子裏最令人噁心的地方。那裏總是堆積着最多的灰塵和塵垢（對），特別噁心。

Todd: Yeah, it's hard to get the stuff off the tiles. (Right) You got to scrub and scrub and it's still brown or green or whatever color it is.

託德：沒錯，那些東西很難從地磚上清理掉。（是的。）你要不停地擦洗，而地磚還是棕色的，或者是綠色的，反正上面會留有痕跡。

Adrienne: Exactly. It's just a difficult place to get into to clean, and there's lots of small spaces to get into and.

埃德里安娜：的確是這樣。那是非常難清潔的地方，有許多小的地方要清潔。

Todd: Yeah! In Japan it's weird because they have these little portable bathrooms, you know, they're all plastic so,

託德：對！在日本這很奇怪，因爲他們有這種便攜式浴室，你知道的，全是用塑料做的。

Adrienne: It's easy. You just take the sprayer and spray the whole room.

埃德里安娜：很容易清洗。你只要用噴霧劑噴灑整間房間就可以了。

Todd: Yeah! I'm convinced that they drop those bathrooms in a, with a helicopter. They just drop them right in there. You got everything, you know.

託德：對！我確信它們可以把這個帶上直升飛機。他們只要把它們放在那裏。非常方便，你知道的。

Adrienne: Easy! Convenient! Efficient!

埃德里安娜：很簡便！方便！有效！

Todd: What about laundry?

託德：洗衣服呢？

Adrienne: I don't like really doing any type of manual labor, but I don't mind doing laundry from time to time.

埃德里安娜：我不喜歡任何形式的體力勞動，不過我不介意偶爾做洗衣工作。

Todd: Yeah, I like laundry actually. I like the smell of the clothes when you finish.

託德：嗯，實際上我也喜歡洗衣服。我喜歡衣服洗完後的香味。

Adrienne: Yeah, that's a good part of it, but I don't like to actually to do the work, washing!

埃德里安娜：對，那是好的一方面，不過實際上我並不喜歡洗衣的工作！

Todd: Yeah, actually, I like to clean. That's why I have this question. (Mm) I'm a clean freak. Like, I like washing dishes. I like doing laundry. Yeah!

託德：嗯，實際上，我喜歡清潔工作。這就是我問這個問題的原因。（嗯）我有潔癖。比如，我喜歡洗碗。我喜歡洗衣服。就是這樣！

Adrienne: Yeah, that's not fun for me. (No!) I'd rather sleep given the choice.

埃德里安娜：嗯，那並不是我的樂趣。（不！）如果可以選擇我寧願睡覺。

Todd: Like you can pay me and I'll clean your apartment.

託德：也許你可以付錢給我，我會負責打掃你的公寓的。

Adrienne: Oh, sounds good. Perfect!

埃德里安娜：哦，聽起來不錯。很完美！

Todd: How much? How much would you pay me?

託德：多少錢？你會付我多少錢？

Adrienne: Um, see, going rate for a maid these day, Todd?

埃德里安娜：嗯，託德，你看按現在保姆的行情怎麼樣？

Todd: Maid! That's a sexist comment!

託德：保姆！這是個有性別歧視的評論！

Adrienne: It is a sexist comment! But it is, the going rate for a maid,

埃德里安娜：這是個有性別歧視的評論！但是我只是說，按現在保姆的行情……

Todd: Male cleaning attendant!

託德：男性清潔助理！

Adrienne: I don't think that's what they're called. They'd still call them a maid service. Um, I don't know.I think it's about 15 dollars an hour.

埃德里安娜：我想這並不是他們的稱呼吧。他們還是會稱爲保姆服務。嗯，我也不知道。我想大概是15美元一小時。

Todd: Ooh! You'd pay me 15 dollars an hour?

託德：哦！你一個小時要付我15美元？

Adrienne: No, that's the going rate. That's not what I'll pay you.

埃德里安娜：不，那只是現在的行情。並不是我要付你的錢。

Todd: I thought I was going to make some money!

託德：我想我要掙錢了！

Adrienne: Well, I thought I was going to get a discount.

埃德里安娜：嗯，我想要個折扣。

Todd: This web site's expensive.

託德：這個網站好貴。

Adrienne: Oh, right, right, right!

埃德里安娜：嗯，對，沒錯，沒錯！

Todd: So I need the money.

託德：所以我需要那筆錢。

Adrienne: Oh! OK, 15 it is!

埃德里安娜：哦！好的，15美元！

Todd: OK, but how dirty is your place?

託德：好，不過你的房子有多贓？

Adrienne: Pretty, pretty dirty!

埃德里安娜：非常非常贓！

Todd: Ah, well, I'll take a look at it.

託德：啊，嗯，我需要看一下。

Adrienne: You'll me working for the money, for sure!

埃德里安娜：你肯定會爲錢工作的！

重點講解：
1. first of all
首先；最初；
eg. First of all, you should know what profession suits you.
首先，你該知道什麼職業適合你。
eg. First of all she just smiled, then she started to laugh.
最初她只是微笑，後來才放聲大笑。
2. from time to time
不時地；間或；偶爾；
eg. Her daughters visited him from time to time when he was ill.
他生病的時候她的女兒們時常去探望他。
eg. From time to time,she gave him an encouraging nod.
她不時對他點頭鼓勵。
3. for sure
無疑；肯定；
eg. Even to this day we don't know what happened for sure.
即使到現在我們也不確定究竟發生了什麼。
eg. Well, we can't cut the research budget, that's for sure.
嗯，我們不能削減研究的預算，這是肯定的。