實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：His Bad Habits 他的壞習慣

Maria: Any habits you'd like to change?

瑪麗亞：你有沒有想改變的習慣?

Alex: I would like to change my habits of buying bad food and drinks.

亞歷克斯：我想改掉買垃圾食品和飲料的習慣。

Maria: Oh, yes.

瑪麗亞：哦，好。

Alex: It's so easy.

亞歷克斯：很方便。

Maria: So dangerous.

瑪麗亞：也很危險。

Alex: And especially when you're at university and they only sell the bad stuff because it's just so much easier to do than to cook a good meal. I'm a pretty good cook.

亞歷克斯：尤其是大學里只賣這種垃圾食品，因為這種食品比做飯簡單多了。我是一個不錯的廚師。

Maria: I noticed.

瑪麗亞：我注意到了。

Alex: Thank you. My mother taught me to cook well but I don't, I don't know, sometimes I just cannot be bothered so I wish I had the habit of just always being much better with my food. That would help with the weight as well. What else? Habits, habits? I have some bad habits that I would like to change. I have the bad habit of having to sleep with a duna, a duvet cover on. I have to have something like heavy otherwise I can't sleep.

亞歷克斯：謝謝你。我媽媽讓我好好做飯，不過我沒有做到，有時我懶得做飯，所以我希望我能養(yǎng)成好好做飯的習慣。這樣也有助于保持體重。還有什么習慣?我有很多想改掉的壞習慣。我睡覺時要蓋羽絨被。我睡覺時必須蓋厚的被子，不然我就睡不著。

Maria: Why do you see that as a bad habit?

瑪麗亞：你為什么認為這是個壞習慣?

Alex: Because in summer, I have to crank the air conditioning up to really, really high so as a result you know I end up wasting electricity so easy. I wish I had the habit of turning my computer off as well. I leave it on all the time.

亞歷克斯：因為夏天的時候我要把空調(diào)的溫度調(diào)的很低，結果就是我浪費了很多電。我希望我能養(yǎng)成關掉電腦的習慣。我經(jīng)常讓電腦一直開著。

Maria: So you're an electricity waster?

瑪麗亞：所以你很費電了?

Alex: Yeah, sorry, sorry world. Where is it the islands are flooding in the South Pacific?

亞歷克斯：對，我要對這個世界說抱歉。南太平洋哪個島發(fā)洪水了?

Maria: Everywhere.

瑪麗亞：各地。

Alex: It's all my fault. So yeah, turning lights off, remembering my key would be good. I always forget my key. I actually thought I lost my key the other day and nearly had a conniption fit so yeah.

亞歷克斯：這都是我的錯。我希望能記得關燈，記得拿鑰匙。我經(jīng)常忘了拿鑰匙。有一天我認為我的鑰匙丟了，我差點就要大發(fā)脾氣了。

Maria: Drinking habits, any good, any bad?

瑪麗亞：在飲酒方面你是有好習慣還是壞習慣?

Alex: Drinking? Alcohol?

亞歷克斯：喝酒?酒精?

Maria: That was the point.

瑪麗亞：對。

Alex: I get too excited too quickly and just want to go dancing but the good thing about the dancing is that then you don't drink alcohol because at a certain point you have to drink water.

亞歷克斯：我喝酒后很快就會變得過于興奮，一直想跳舞，不過好的方面是，跳舞就不會喝酒了，因為在某個時候要喝水。

Maria: That's true.

瑪麗亞：沒錯。

Alex: Do you know what I mean? So like I don't go too far off the deep end.

亞歷克斯：你知道我什么意思嗎?我不會喝得太醉，不會太瘋狂。

Maria: You can't really drink anything when you're dancing then you spill it all over the floor.

瑪麗亞：你在跳舞的時候什么都不能喝，不然你就會灑得到處都是了。

Alex: Yeah, so that helps I guess.

亞歷克斯：對，我想這也有幫助。

Maria: That does help.

瑪麗亞：的確有幫助。