實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Freaks and Animals 不同類型的人(1)

Todd: So, Julia, let's talk about types of people.

托德：朱莉婭，我們來談談不同類型的人。

Julia: OK.

朱莉婭：好。

Todd: Right, first one, are you a fitness freak?

托德：首先，你是健身狂嗎?

Julia: A fitness freak? I'm fairly fit but I'm not a freak. No, I'm not a fitness freak, no.

朱莉婭：健身狂?我很健康，但是我并不是健身狂。我不是健身狂。

Todd: So you exercise but it's not like you do it all the time?

托德：你有在鍛煉，但你不是一直在健身?

Julia: No, and I do some unhealthy stuff as well. I like to drink and I'm a former smoker and yes, no I'm not a fitness freak.

朱莉婭：對，我也會做一些不太健康的事情。我喜歡喝酒，我以前還抽煙，所以我不是健身狂。

Todd: Right. I think a fitness freak is like somebody who does it, who exercises compulsively.

托德：好。我認為健身狂是那種強制性健身的人。

Julia: I indulge in bad stuff too so no I'm not a fitness freak.

朱莉婭：我也會沉迷于不健康的事物，所以我并不是健身狂。

Todd: OK, so that leads us to the next question. Are you a party animal?

托德：好，這樣就引出了我們的第二個問題。你是聚會迷嗎?

Julia: Not any more. I'm too old now.

朱莉婭：現(xiàn)在不是了。我現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)不再年輕了。

Todd: When you were younger, you were a party animal?

托德：你年輕的時候是聚會迷?

Julia: I think, yeah, that was probably the type that I most fitted into.

朱莉婭：我想是的，我可能屬于那種類型。

Todd: Nice. I was never a party animal.

托德：好。我從來就不是聚會迷。

Julia: No?

朱莉婭：不是嗎?

Todd: No, I've always been pretty tame. I've always been pretty tame.

托德：不是，我一直是很無聊的人。我一直屬于枯燥乏味的人。

Julia: Yes, I was pretty wild when I was younger.

朱莉婭：好，我年輕的時候非?？駸?。

Todd: Really?

托德：真的嗎?

Julia: Yeah.

朱莉婭：對。

Todd: So you used to drink, smoke, stay up late?

托德：那你以前喝酒、抽煙、熬夜?

Julia: Yeah. All that and more, yeah.

朱莉婭：對，這些我都做過，而且更甚之。

Todd: Come home in the wee hours of the morning?

托德：凌晨才回家?

Julia: Oh, yeah.

朱莉婭：哦對。

Todd: Oh, nice, that's cool. OK, next one would be do you know anybody in your family who's a couch potato?

托德：好，這很酷。下一個問題是，你家里有人是電視迷嗎?

Julia: Couch potato?

朱莉婭：電視迷?

Todd: Because I know that you're not a couch potato.

托德：因為我知道你不是電視迷。

Julia: I'm not a couch potato, no. My brother sometimes demonstrates couch potato traits.

朱莉婭：我的確不是電視迷。我哥哥有時會呈現(xiàn)出電視迷的特征。

Todd: Yeah.

托德：好。

Julia: He likes to play video games and stuff like that and he'll spend a lot of time watching movies and so he does spend a lot of time sedentary compared to me. He makes me look like a fitness freak, I guess, because he doesn't do so much exercise.

朱莉婭：他喜歡玩電子游戲，他會花很多時間看電影，和我比起來，他坐著的時間的確很多。我想他使我看起來像健身狂，因為他不會做太多的運動。

Todd: Right. And so for people listening a couch potato is somebody who watches a lot of TV and sits on the couch.

托德：好。我們要向聽眾解釋一下，電視迷是指那些花很多時間坐在沙發(fā)上看電視的人。

Julia: Spends a lot of time on the couch, yeah.

朱莉婭：對，花很多時間在沙發(fā)上。

Todd: Well, how about the similar personality trait of the bookworm? Are you a bookworm?

托德：那有相似特征的書迷呢?你是書迷嗎?

Julia: A bookworm? No, but I think my husband's probably a bookworm.

朱莉婭：書迷?不是，不過我想我丈夫可能是個書迷。

Todd: Yeah?

托德：是嗎?

Julia: He spends a lot of time reading books. He reads very fast so he gets through a lot of books.

朱莉婭：他會花大量的時間看書。他閱讀的速度非?？欤运x過很多書。

Todd: He's a speed reader?

托德：他是速讀者?

Julia: Yeah, he's a very fast reader and he has to read. He has to have a book with him all the time. He cannot, a waiting room or on a train or any situation where you've just got to sit around, he cannot do it if he doesn't have a book.

朱莉婭：對，他看書的速度非?？?，而且他必須要看書。他一定要隨身帶著書。如果沒有書，他就不能在等候室、火車或任何閑坐著的地方呆著。

Todd: Yeah. You know I live alone and that's a terrible trait that I have. I cannot sit and eat and just eat without something to occupy my attention. I have to read or I have to be like watching something on the computer and if I go to a waiting room or anything like that or I'm on a plane I'm the same. I have to have something to read. It drives me nuts.

托德：好。我一個人住，我有一個糟糕的特征。我不能只是坐著或吃東西，我吃飯的時候不能沒有占據(jù)我注意力的事情。如果我在等候室或是在飛機上，我一定要看書或是在電腦上看東西。我一定要看點什么。這快把我逼瘋了。

Julia: You see I can't read on transport because I get sick. It makes me sick, it makes me nauseous.

朱莉婭：你看，我不能在交通工具上看書，因為我會不舒服。在交通工具上閱讀會讓我感覺很暈，讓我會惡心想吐。

Todd: Like motion sickness?

托德：像暈車那樣?

Julia: Yeah. So I don't have a habit of reading on a train. A bus or a car, oh my God no, I can't read. No way but my husband reads everywhere all the time.

朱莉婭：對。所以我沒有在火車上閱讀的習慣。在坐公交車和乘車時，天哪，我完全不能看書。我做不到，不過我丈夫不管在哪里，一直都在看書。

Todd: Oh, that's cool.

托德：哦，那很酷。