美語情景對話 第436期:Clean Freak 潔癖
Todd: So, Akane, what did you do today?
託德：茜，你今天做什麼了？Akane: Ah, today I cleaned my apartment.
茜：我今天打掃了公寓。Todd: Sounds fun!
託德：聽起來很有樂趣！
Akane: It was actually. I really like cleaning cause I only get one day a week to do it, and my apartment gets clean.
茜：是很有趣。我很喜歡打掃，我每週只有一天能做打掃工作，打掃後我的公寓變得很乾淨。Todd: So when you clean your apartment how long does it take you to clean everything?
託德：那你一般打掃一遍公寓要用多長時間呢？Akane: Well, let's see, I started around 7:30 in the morning and then I probably finished around 10:30.
茜：嗯，我想想，我是早上7點半開始打掃的，大概是10點半完成的。Todd: 3 hours!
託德：3個小時！Akane: Yeah!
茜：對！Todd: That's a long time.
託德：時間好長。Akane: Well, I do a lot of cleaning.
茜：我做了很多清潔工作。Todd: Man!
託德：天哪！Akane: And that includes laundry, actually.
茜：實際上還包括洗衣服。Todd: So for your laundry, do you use the laundromat down the street?
託德：你洗衣服會用街上的自助洗衣店嗎？Akane: No, I use my own laundry machine, and I hang it up to dry.
茜：不會，我用自己的洗衣機洗，我會把衣服掛起來晾乾。Todd: Wow! But when you do that you can't get that nice soft feel from the clothes.
託德：哇！可是那樣衣服沒有柔軟感。Akane: Well, no but I save money!
茜：嗯，可是這樣省錢！Todd: That's true! I feel bad about using the laundromat cause I guess it wastes energy, but I just love how the dryers make your clothes really soft and warm and there's no wrinkles and it's done.
託德：那倒是。我不喜歡用自助洗衣店，因爲我認爲那很浪費能源，可是我喜歡烘乾機使衣服變得又軟又溫暖，而且洗完以後也沒有褶皺。Akane: I agree. Mm, for sure. I wish I had a dryer.
茜：我同意。的確是這樣。我希望我也有個烘乾機。Todd: So do you iron your clothes for work?
託德：那你會熨上班穿的衣服嗎？Akane: I do, yeah, I always iron my clothes. I do my washing on Saturdays and I do my ironing on Sundays.
茜：我會，我一直都有熨衣服。我在週六洗衣服，週日熨衣服。Todd: Oh, man, you're regimented.
託德：哦，天哪，你真有組織性。Akane: Yeah, I am.
茜：是啊，我是。Todd: You got it down. You know I never iron my shirts.
託德：跟你比我差遠了，你知道我從來不熨我的襯衫。Akane: You never iron!
茜：你從來不熨衣服！Todd: No, I just take them out of the dryer, and that's close enough, and then usually when I put them on, they kind of stretch.
託德：對，我只是把衣服從烘乾機裏拿出來，基本就是這樣，我穿上的時候它們會伸展一些。Akane: Well, I guess so and if you're wearing a jacket over it, then you can't really see.
茜：我想也是，如果你外面再穿一件夾克，那完全看不出來。Todd: Yeah, plus I'm a teacher and teachers don't have to look sharp.
託德：對，而且我是一名老師，老師是不用看上去很帥氣。Akane: I guess so. Yeah!
茜：我想也是。Todd: Hey, so, what are your plans for tomorrow?
託德：那你明天有什麼計劃？Akane: Tomorrow? Well, my ironing of course, and I'm a teacher and I have markings so, I'll do some markings, cause I have to mark some essays.
茜：明天？當然我要熨衣服，我是老師，所以我有卷子要批改，所以明天我會批改試卷還有作文。Todd: Oh, that sounds awful!
託德：哦，聽起來真糟糕！Akane: Yeah, but it has to be done.
茜：是啊，可是我必須完成這些工作。Todd: Yeah, but on the weekend! I try not to bring work home. I just don't like to do it. On the weekend, I feel you should energize yourself and just rest and relax.
託德：可是明天是週末啊！我努力不把工作帶回家裏，我就是不喜歡這樣。我覺得週末你應該讓自己充滿能量，儘量休息、放鬆。Akane: I agree, but this week I couldn't help it cause we were so busy.
茜：我同意，可是這周我辦不到了，因爲我太忙了。Todd: So, why were you busy this week?
託德：那你周都忙什麼了？Akane: Well, we had so much work to do, and I gave them out an essay, and I got those essays back, so I have to mark those.
茜：我有很多工作要做，我讓學生們寫了篇作文，他們把作文交上來後我要進行批改。Todd: Hey, have you been giving your students tests?
託德：你有給學生們安排過考試嗎？Akane: Uh, just little quizzes once in a while.
茜：只是偶爾安排一些小測驗。Todd: Yeah, I have to give my students a test but I don't know what to test them on.
託德：嗯，我必須要給學生們安排考試，可是我不知道如何測試。Akane: Yeah, that is always a hard part.
茜：嗯，那一直是個難點。Todd: Do you give easy tests or hard tests?
託德：你是進行簡單的考試還是難的考試？Akane: Well, the quizzes are quite easy, but I think they find it to be quite hard.
茜：小測驗很簡單，可是我想他們認爲那很難。Todd: Yeah, students always say, "It's difficult!"
託德：是啊，學生們總是說“太難了！”Akane: Yeah!
茜：沒錯！Todd: "It's difficult!" Well, enjoy your marking tomorrow!
託德：“太難了！”希望你明天批改試卷時過得愉快！Akane: Thanks.
茜：謝謝你。
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重點講解：
1. hang up
懸掛；吊；
eg. I found his jacket, which was hanging up in the hallway.
我找到了他那件夾克衫，就在門廳裏掛着。
eg. Some prisoners climbed onto the roof and hung up a banner.
幾個囚犯爬上房頂，掛起了一面旗子。
2. for sure
無疑；肯定；
eg. It's impossible to know for sure how much you're consuming.
要想知道確切的食鹽攝取量幾乎是不可能的事情。
eg. No one knows for sure how people first learned to preserve food.
沒有人確切地知道當初人們是如何學會保存食物的。
3. put on
穿；戴；塗；抹；
eg. The man put on his smock and went out.
那人穿上罩衫，然後走了出去。
eg. I put on the pearl earrings Daddy had bought me.
我戴上了爸爸給我買的珍珠耳環。
4. give out
分發；散發；
eg. The teacher gave out the examination papers.
教師發了考卷。
eg. The American seem to give out their invitations so far in advance.
美國人似乎提前許多天就發出請。
5. once in a while
偶爾；間或；
eg. Once in a while we had a major blowout.
我們偶爾會吃頓大餐。
eg. I watched things change and made observations every once in a while.
我觀察着事物的變化，時不時地提出我的意見。
