禮節(jié)美語(yǔ):184 Big City Comaparison 1

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美國(guó)總公司代表Pete來(lái)北京視察，由中國(guó)雇員Jack接待。

Jack: Good evening, Pete. I trust you had a nice siesta.

Pete: Yes. It was just what the doctor ordered.

J: I'd like you to meet Henry Johnson. Mr. Johnson has been working at our Beijing office for over a year now. I think you two are from the same city.

P: Hey there, Henry. Call me Pete. A New Yorker, eh?

Henry: Born and raised in Brooklyn. Good to meet you, Pete.

Jack問(wèn)Pete休息得怎么樣，siesta is spelled s-i-e-s-t-a, siesta指午飯后的短暫休息。Pete的回答，it was just what the doctor ordered. 說(shuō)一件事情is just what the doctor ordered，意思是這正是最需要的。Jack給Pete引見(jiàn)Henry, Henry在北京辦事處工作。Pete和Henry都是紐約人，New Yorker. Henry說(shuō)自己是born and raised in Brooklyn，土生土長(zhǎng)的紐約布魯克林區(qū)的人。

P: Brooklyn...that's a great neighborhood. I'm originally from Queens but moved down to Manhattan a while back. So...you're an expat in China...how's life over here working out for you?

H: You know - I really love it. There are frustrations of course, such as traffic, pollution and the language barrier, but all in all, I give China a big thumbs up.

J: Before you two get carried away in conversation, let's finalize our plans for the evening. I was thinking of dining at a well-known dumpling restaurant and then hitting a Karaoke bar for some fun!

Henry說(shuō)，在中國(guó)生活，all in all, 總的說(shuō)來(lái)非常棒，I give China a big thumbs up. give something a thumbs up，意思是高度評(píng)價(jià)。Jack建議晚上先吃餃子，然后去K歌。

P: Everything sounded good until I heard the word "Karaoke." If there's one thing you don't want to hear, it's me singing.

H: (Chuckle) I sound like a frog that's suffering from a bad cold! But Karaoke is so popular in Asia that I've been dragged to at least two dozen of them so far. I've even learned a Chinese song or two.

Pete和Henry都不是K歌高手，不過(guò)，Henry入鄉(xiāng)隨俗，已經(jīng)被拽著去唱過(guò)很多次歌了，甚至學(xué)會(huì)了幾首中文歌曲。

J: Hey...no Karaoke...no problem! We're here to have fun and if singing isn't fun...then forget it! I assume you like beer.

P: Beer is quite possibly my very favorite liquid.

H: Chinese beer is actually pretty good. I've sampled all of them so I should know!

J: Great! So we'll have dinner and then we'll go down to the bar district. In Beijing there are literally thousands of bars.

P: Sounds like a plan.

Jack說(shuō)，不去K歌沒(méi)關(guān)系，可以去酒吧。Henry則說(shuō)，中國(guó)啤酒味道不錯(cuò)，因?yàn)镮've sampled all of them，他嘗過(guò)所有牌子的。最后大家一致決定，晚上去酒吧喝酒。