美語會話 152 We could get a dog! 我們可以養(yǎng)只狗！

Gill: But this place doesn't feel like a forty-ping apartment.

LL: Well, it's forty pings including the balcony. See. It's huge.

Gill: Oh! The view is great! Mountains, fresh air! Stars?

LL: This balcony is perfect for barbecuing.

Gill: And we could get a dog!

LL: I'm sorry. No pets are allowed in this apartment building, except fish.

Gill: Well, fish it will be then.

barbecue (v.)

= BBQ 烤肉，也拼做barbeque或Bar-B-Q。而此處的barbecuing是動名詞用法

Is it true that Koreans barbecue dogs?

韓國人會烤狗肉吃是真的嗎?

balcony (n.)

陽臺

Our upstairs neighbors keep tossing cigarettes off the balcony.

我們樓上的鄰居老是把香煙丟到陽臺來。

A Neighborly Movie!

吉爾：不過這間公寓不像有四十坪大。

房東：嗯，四十坪還包括陽臺在內(nèi)?？础：艽蟀?。

吉爾：噢!視野真好!有山，有新鮮空氣!還看 得到星星?

房東：這個陽臺最適合烤肉了。

吉爾：我們可以養(yǎng)只狗!

房東：對不起。這棟公寓大樓不準(zhǔn)養(yǎng)寵物，魚除 外。

吉爾：嗯，那就養(yǎng)魚吧。