美語情景對話 第182期:雙胞胎 Twins

OK, my twin brother. Well, my twin brother is called Daniel, and he is four minutes younger than me. We were both born on the 5th of January, and I think that we kind of look a like except that he's a lot taller than me and he has very dark hair but we have the same eyes and nose and smile, at least that's what people say. Um, I wouldn't say we are especially close, mm, not really, maybe when we were younger but we weren't always in the same classes at school because my parents wanted us to be a bit more different. Um, we used to be dressed when we were babies the same, me in pink and him in blue, and we used to have a birthday cake that was always, half was pink and half was blue, and mine had ballet slippers on it and his a football or a rugby ball, but I guess we are quite different personalities. He's really, really outgoing, and just very different from me. At school I was always in the top classes getting A's and he was always failing in the bottom classes, but he was really sporty and I wasn't so people said we were very different.

嗯，我的雙胞胎弟弟。嗯，我的雙胞胎弟弟叫丹尼爾，他比我晚出生4分鐘。我們是在1月5日出生的，我想我們長得很像，除了他比我高一些，還有他頭髮的顏色非常深，我們的眼睛、鼻子還有笑容都完全一樣，至少別人都是這麼說的。嗯，我不會說我們非常親近，嗯，其實不是，也許我們小的時候是這樣，但是我們上學的時候不是一直都在一個班裏，因爲我父母希望我們能有所不同。嗯，我們還是嬰兒的時候會穿一樣的衣服，我穿粉顏色的，而他穿藍色的，我們曾經吃過一個生日蛋糕，也是一半粉色一半藍色，我的那部分上面裝飾着芭蕾舞鞋，他的則是美式足球或者叫橄欖球，我猜我們的個性大不相同。他非常開朗外向，跟我非常不同。上學的時候，我總是在最好的班級裏，成績一直是A，而他總是在最差的班裏，他很喜歡運動，而我則不喜歡，所以人們會說我們非常不同。

重點講解：
1. used to do
過去常常；過去曾；曾經；
eg. I feel more compassion and less anger than I used to.
我覺得自己比過去多了些同情，少了些怒氣。
eg. People used to come and visit him every day.
人們過去每天都來拜訪他。
He used to be one of the professors at the School of Education.
他曾是教育學院的一名教授。
2. different from
和……不同；異於；
eg. She believes that she has a fight to be herself and to be different from what others might expect of her.
她相信她有權走自已的路，而不是別人指望她怎麼樣，她就怎麼樣。
eg. American English is significantly different from British English.
美國英語與英國英語有很大差異。
eg. While choosing partners, people seem to be attracted easily by the person whose genes are too different from themselves.
人們在選擇伴侶時，更容易被與自己基因差異大的人吸引。