美語情景對話 第167期:鬼魂 Ghosts

One of my favorite things to do when I was a little girl was to stay with my granddad, so I'd go to stay with him on the holidays, and he would often tell me stories, or sing songs for me, so I learned a lot from him, but one of my favorite things, like I said was to listen to his stories and around Halloween sometimes, or if we asked him at other times when it was getting dark or a bit scary we'd ask him to tell us a ghost story, so one of, yeah, one of the first ghost stories I remember was him telling us about a time when he was quite young, I think he was in his early twenties maybe, and he was already married but he went back to his parents house one night to just, to meet his family and friends, have a game of cards maybe with friends who were gathered there, so it got pretty late because they had been playing cards for a long time having some fun so he didn't want to leave and then eventually, he and his friends decided, OK, we'd better leave and better go back home, so the two of them were walking together towards their house but in between his parents house and his new home they had to pass a graveyard, so these two guys, young men, I suppose, they weren't very happy with the idea of going past a graveyard very late at night, because you know, they're lots of stories about ghosts and spirits hanging around at that time of night, so they were approaching the graveyard and they were a bit scared and they were wondering whether they should turn back or keep going. Be strong and brave about it. So they were approaching the graveyard and suddenly my granddad saw what he thought was a priest sitting on the wall. So he say a man dressed in black, with a white collar, and he was so frightened, I mean, I can't imagine what he must have said at the time, but he and his friend were really, really scared, and they were talking between themselves, "Oh, my God! What should we do? What should we do?" but they were so frightened they couldn't move. So eventually, my granddad decided, OK, I'm just going to run for it. I'm going to make a run for it. So all of a sudden, he decided and he just ran straight past the graveyard, and then suddenly, this big dog came jumping down from the wall of the graveyard, and my granddad was so scared, he was like screaming, and everything, but as it turned out it was just a sheep dog that he'd seen so in the dark of night, in those days of no road lights and street lights or anything what he'd actually seen with his friend was a black sheep dog with a white collar, so not a ghost after all.

我還是小女孩的時候，有一件最喜歡做的事情，那就是和我爺爺待在一起，所以一到假期我就去陪爺爺，他經常會給我講故事，或者給我唱歌，因此我從他那裏學到了很多，而就像我說的，我最喜歡做的一件事情就是在萬聖節的時候聽他講故事，如果在天黑的時候或者有一些害怕的時候讓他講故事，我們會讓他給講鬼故事，對，其中我記得爺爺講的第一個鬼故事，是在他非常年輕的時候，我認爲大概是他二十歲出頭的時候，他馬上就要結婚了，有一天晚上他回到他父母家去見親人和朋友，他們和聚在那裏的朋友一起玩了紙牌遊戲，他們玩了很長時間，玩得很高興，所以時間有些晚，他不想離開了，但是最終他和他的朋友們決定，他們最好趕緊回家，所以他們兩個人一起往家的方向走去，但是就在位於他父母家和他新家中間的地方，他們要經過一個墓地，我猜，這兩個年輕人對深夜路過墓地都有不好的想法，因爲你知道，那時候有許多關於晚上出來遊蕩的鬼魂的故事，所以他們在接近墓地的時候覺得有點害怕，他們在想他們是應該往回走還是應該繼續向前走。他們堅強又勇敢。所以他們繼續靠近墓地，突然我爺爺認爲他看見了一個牧師坐在牆上。他說他看見一個男人，穿着黑色的衣服，衣服領子是白色的，他當時害怕極了，我的意思是，我都不能想象他當時說了什麼，不過他和他的朋友真的真的非常害怕，他們之間的談話是，“哦，我的天哪！我們要怎麼辦？我們要怎麼辦？”他們太害怕了，動都不能動。最終，我爺爺決定，好吧，我要逃走。我要逃走。很突然地，他做出了決定然後直着跑過了墓地，之後突然這個人從墓地的牆上跳了下來，我爺爺非常的害怕，他能做的事情只有尖叫，但是最終他發現他在黑夜中看到的只是一隻牧羊犬，在那些沒有路燈的日子裏，他和他朋友實際看到的只是一條戴着白色項圈的黑色牧羊犬，所以根本就不是鬼。

重點講解：
1. run for it/make a run for it
快跑，逃命
eg. 'If she wanted to run for it I would not be able to stop her,' he says.
“她要是想跑,我可攔不住她。”他說。
eg. Now was the time to make a run for it, for better for worse!
逃吧！不管是吉是兇，逃！
2. turn out
（以某種方式）發生；最後是；結果是
eg. I was positive things were going to turn out fine.
我確信事情最終會好起來的。
eg. Sometimes things don't turn out the way we think they're going to.
有時事情並不像我們認爲的那樣發展。
3. after all
畢竟；到底；終究
eg. You should be charitable with him; he is a child after all.
你應該對他寬容些，畢竟他還是個孩子。
eg. The play came to an end after all.
這場戲總算結束了。