VOA流行美語 Unit 99: sleep in / slacker

VOA流行美語 Unit 99: sleep in / slacker

這是星期六，Li Hua一大早就到Larry 的宿舍叫他一塊兒去跑步。 在今天的談話中，Li Hua會學到兩個常用語：sleep in和slacker。

LL: come in!

LH: 哎呀，Larry, 你怎麼還沒起牀啊，都八點半啦！

LL: Li Hua, it's Saturday, I want to sleep in for once. What's so important that you have to wake me up?

LH: 哎喲，你不是說今天早上一起去跑步嗎？還問我什麼事情那麼重要，把你叫醒了，你真健忘。嗨，你說你想 "sleep in" 那是什麼意思呀？

LL: Ok, now pay attention. "Sleep in" is a very, very important term to me. "Sleep in" means to sleep later than usual.

LH: 噢，sleep in 意思就是“比平時起得晚”，那不就是“睡懶覺”嗎？你真懶，怪不得sleep in這個短語對你來說 "very, very important".

LL: Hey, sleeping in once in a while does not make a person lazy.

LH: 這話也有道理，偶爾睡個懶覺也不見得就是懶惰，其實我有的時候也喜歡早上多睡會兒。

LL：Li Hua, why didn't you sleep in this morning? It's Saturday!

LH：這個星期每天我都忙得要命，根本沒時間鍛鍊，所以纔想早上起來跑步啊！

LL: Sleep is important, too, Li Hua. You should have slept in and run later.

LH: 要早知道你想睡懶覺，我也不用起那麼早了。 今天中午我睡個午覺。這樣就可以補過來早上沒有sleep in 的損失嘍！

LL ：That sounds like a good idea. Now, can I go back to sleep?

LH：跟你說了那麼多話，你還想睡覺啊！起來，起來，跟我一起去跑步。

LL: All right. I guess I'm awake now anyway. Wait for me, I'll be ready to go in a minute.

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LL：Li Hua, why don't we stop at Starbucks and have a coffee!

LH: Larry, 跑了那麼幾分鐘，你就想到星巴克喝咖啡！你可真懶。

LL: Come on! I'm not a slacker. I'm just a little tired because somebody didn't let me sleep in this morning.

LH: 對，是我把你叫醒的。可是你沒睡懶覺也不至於就累成這樣啊！你不是個"slacker"， 我連 "slacker" 是什麼都還不知道呢！

LL: A slacker is someone who "slacks off" or very lazy.

LH: 噢，我想起來了，Michael以前就給我解釋過slack off這個短語，意思是“鬆懈、懶散”，那 slacker就是“喜歡偷懶、特別懶散的人”嘍！

LL: You got it. For example: a student who doesn't do his homework and is always late for class is a slacker.

LH: 一個上課老遲到、老不做作業的學生就是個slacker。 哎，Larry, 我們認識的人裏，誰是slacker 啊？

LL: You know that guy in our history class who always sleeps through class and never reads his textbook? He is a slacker.

LH: 對對對，歷史課上那個傢伙一上課就睡覺，課本也從來不看，絕對是個slacker。 哎，Larry, 昨天飯館裏那個女服務員也是個slacker吧？

LL: Ah, she was such a slacker! She was so slow that it took nearly an hour to get our food. I thought I was going to starve to death.

LH: 別說你了，讓我們等了快一個小時，我都要餓死了。嘿，Larry, 你看，我們還有不到2百米就要到頭了，快跑啊！

LL: Can't we walk the rest of the way?

LH: 你想走？ 不行不行，我們要堅持跑到終點 - Don't be a slacker, Larry!

LL: Stop calling me that! Next weekend, I'm going to wake you up at 6 a.m. to go running and then we'll see who is the slacker!

LH: 什麼？你下星期六早上6點鐘叫我起來跑步啊？我可不幹，下星期六我要睡懶覺- I'm going to sleep in！

今天李華從Larry那兒學到兩個常用語。一個是sleep in, 意思是“睡懶覺”。李華學到的另一個常用語是slacker, 是指“喜歡偷懶的人”。