VOA流行美語 Unit 235:Seeing Someone和Breaking up

Larry和李華在公園裏散步，Larry告訴李華他的朋友Rick最近交了一個女朋友。 李華今天要學會兩個常用語Seeing Someone和Breaking up。

LL: Hey, Li Hua, have you heard the news? Rick is seeing someone.

LH: Rick is seeing someone? Rick在看人。這有什麼奇怪的，我也在看一個人呀。I am seeing someone, too.

LL: Really? You are seeing someone, Li Hua? Who is it?

LH: 就是你呀。 Larry. 我不是在看着你嗎？

LL: (Laughs) That's pretty funny, Li Hua. But, by "seeing someone" I don't mean Rick is looking at someone with his eyes.

LH: 你不是說"Rick is seeing someone"嗎？ 他不是在看人， 那是什麼意思呀？

LL: When I said Rick is "seeing someone," I meant he was dating a girl.

LH: OH! 你是在說Rick有了一個女朋友。Although I'm seeing you，但是我們不是男女朋友的關係。

LL: Right, we are just friends, Li Hua. We go out and do things together, but we aren't boyfriend and girlfriend. We aren't seeing each other.

LH: 事實上， 我現在根本就沒有男朋友，I am not seeing anyone.

LL: It's OK, Li Hua. I'm not seeing anyone either. But Rick is pretty serious about the girl he is seeing.

LH: Rick已經換了好幾個女朋友了，你說他這次真的會很認真嗎？那女孩是誰呀？

LL: Her name is Jennifer. Rick has been seeing her for about a month or so.

LH: 嗯，Jennifer。交往了才一個月，你怎麼知道Rick對這個女孩很認真呀！

LL: You're right, Li Hua. It hasn't been very long - but ever since they started to see each other, they've been doing everything together - going out to eat, seeing movies, and taking walks in the park.

LH: 熱戀的時候當然是形影不離了；一起吃飯， 看電影，一起去公園散步，多浪漫。Larry, 那邊走的不是Rick嗎？跟他牽着手的女孩子就是Jennifer吧？

LL: That is Rick across the park. But that is not the girl he has been seeing.

LH: 那個女孩子不是Jennifer? 難道Rick另有所愛了？

LL: I don't know. I'll ask him.

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LL: Well, Li Hua, you were right. Rick is seeing someone else. He and Jennifer broke up.

LH: 果然Rick又有了別的女朋友。 哎，你說他和Jennifer broke up，那是什麼意思呀？

LL: To break up means to end the relationship. Apparently, Rick broke up with Jennifer last night.

LH: 昨天晚上才分開，Rick就已經和別的女孩手牽手了， 真是不可思議。

LL: From what Rick says, he decided to break up with Jennifer, because he met someone new that he liked even better.

LH: Rick遇到了他更喜歡的人，所以和Jennifer分手了。 真是喜新厭舊的人呢，Jennifer一定傷心死了。 Rick是怎麼跟她說的呢？

LL: Rick said he called Jennifer last night on the phone and told her he wanted to break up.

LH: 什麼？他只是打了個電話，這太不禮貌了，他至少應該當面道歉。

LL: Well, I guess since they hadn't been seeing each other very long, he didn't think it a problem to break up over the phone.

LH: 他們交朋友的時間雖然是不長，可是畢竟是談過戀愛的。如果我的男朋友突然打來電話要分手，我會很難過的。

LL: Well, at least Rick didn't send Jennifer a text message telling her he wanted to break up.

LH: 電子郵件？Larry，你跟女朋友分手不會只發個電子郵件吧？

LL: Well, me personally, no. But I've known guys who have broken up with girls by sending them a text message.

LH: Larry, 你可不能像他們那樣。

LL: I promise, Li Hua. And right now it is an easy promise to keep, considering I'm not seeing anyone!

今天李華學到了兩個常用語。一個是seeing someone, 意思是跟某人談戀愛。還有一個是break up， 意思是分手。