美語情景對話 第1272期:How often do you check your e mail? 你多久查看一次郵箱?

George: Hi, I'm George from Hawaii.

喬治：嗨，我是喬治，來自夏威夷。

Crystal: And I'm Crystal from America.

克里斯托爾：我是克里斯托爾，來自美國。

George: And today's question is how often do you check your e-mail? So, Crystal, how often do you check your e-mail?

喬治：今天要討論的問題是，你多久檢查一次郵箱？克里斯托爾，你多久查看一次郵箱呢？

Crystal: Well, before I used to never check my e-mail. But, oh my god, if you do not check your e-mail, you get in big big troubles.

克里斯托爾：以前我從來不查收電子郵件。不過，天哪，如果不查看郵箱，那會遇到很大問題。

George: Why? What happened? What happened to you?

喬治：爲什麼？發生了什麼？你遇到什麼事了？

Crystal: I almost got kicked out of my own house before.

克里斯托爾：我以前差點被從自己的房子裏趕出去。

George: It sounds awesome. So, you ... what happened?

喬治：聽上去太可怕了。到底發生了什麼？

Crystal: I haven't check my e-mail for months and they've been sending me e e-mails saying oh you're gonna get kicked out, and please remove your stuff from your house.

克里斯托爾：當時我有好幾個月的時間沒有查收郵件，而他們一直在給我發郵件，郵件上說：哦，你會被趕出去，請收拾東西離開房子。

George: Hah!

喬治：哈！

Crystal: And I never got it till the last day when I was leaving the country.

克里斯托爾：在我要出國前的最後一天我才收到。

George: Interesting.

喬治：有意思。

Crystal: A big lesson learned, you must check your e-mail. How often do you check your e-mail? George.

克里斯托爾：我學到了一個大教訓：必須查收電子郵件。喬治，你多長時間查收一次電子郵件？

George: Oh..I checked it pretty often, but I just never really replied to anybody. You know I probably replied maybe once every three months.

喬治：哦，我經常查看郵箱，不過我從來不會回覆。你知道，我可能每三個月回覆一次。

Crystal: Yeah, you never reply to me.

克里斯托爾：對，你從來不回覆我。

George: Yeah, my bad, my bad, I'm sorry. Alright.

喬治：哦，這是我的錯，我的錯，我很抱歉。好了。

Crystal: OK!

克里斯托爾：好吧！

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重點講解：
1. used to do sth. 過去常常；過去曾；
例句：She used to enjoy a healthy and active life as other happy children but a disease has snatched away all that she used to have.
她曾和其他快樂的孩子一樣健康活潑，但是一場病奪去了一切。
2. sth. happen to sb. （尤指不愉快的事）發生（在…身上）；(某人)遭到；遇到；
例句：This sort of thing should not happen to us.
這樣的事情不應該發生在我們的身上。
3. kick out of 強使離開；趕走；
例句：The country's leaders kicked five foreign journalists out of the country.
該國領導將5名外國記者驅逐出境。
4. reply to 回覆；回答；
例句：He did not even have the courtesy to reply to my fax.
他連回復我傳真的這點兒禮貌都沒有。