正宗美语情景交际：电话诉衷肠
我近来在学英语，你想用英语交谈吗?只是随便聊聊。B:Yes,okay,that's a good idea.
好吧，这个主意不错，
I don't think I'm going to be able to make it for lunch today.
我想我今天中午不能赶回家吃午餐了，
I'm sorry,I met a guy on the train,I got off with him in Vienna and we're
still there.
很抱歉。我在火车上遇到了一个人，我和他在维也纳下了车，现在我们还在这儿呢。
A:Are you crazy?
你疯了吗?
B:Probably.
或许吧。
A:What?Is he Australian?Is he friendly?
什么?他是澳洲人吗?他友善吗?
B:No,no,no,he's passing through here too,
不，不。他也是从这里经过的;
he's an American;he's going back home tomorrow morning.
他是美国人，他明天早上回美国。
A:Why do you get off the train with him?
你为什么和他一道下车?
B:Well,he convinced me and actually I was ready to get off the train with
him after talking to him a short while.
他说服了我，事实上我在和他聊了一会儿以后就决定和他一块下车了，
He was so sweet I couldn't help it.
他很可爱以致于我情不自禁。
We were in the lunch car and he began to talk about him as a little
boy,seeing his great grandmothers ghost.
我们在餐车上，他像一个见到了他祖母的魂的孩子似的和我聊天。
I think that's when I fell for him.
我想我就是那时候迷上了他。
Just the idea of this little boy with all these beautiful dreams,he trapped
me.
就是这个怀着美丽梦想的小男孩的主意，让我陷了进去。
A:Hmm.
噢。
B:And he's so cute.He has beautiful blue eyes,nice big lips,and greasy
hair.
他很可爱，有蓝色的眼睛，宽大好看的嘴唇和油亮的头发。
I love it.He's kind of tall and he's a little clumsy.
我喜欢，他有点高，也有点呆。
I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away.He kind of kisses like a
doll,it's so cute.
我喜欢感受当我看其它地方时他看我的眼神。他的吻有点像洋娃娃，可爱极了。
A:What?
什么?
B:Yes,we kissed,it was so adorable.
我们吻过了，太可爱了。
That was the night when I begin to like him more and more.
就在我越来越喜欢他的那个晚上。
But I'm afraid he's scared of me.
但我害怕他会被我吓住。
You know I told him the story about the woman that kills her ex-boyfriends
and stuff.
你知道，我讲过一个女人杀死他前男友之类的故事。
He must be scared to death;he must be thinking I'm this manipulative mean
woman.
他一定害怕死亡，他一定会觉得我就是那个自私失控的女人。
I just hope he doesn't feel that way about me because I'm the most harmless
person,
我只希望他不会那样认为，因为我是最没有伤害力的人，
the only person I could really hurt is myself.
我唯一能伤害的人就是我自己。
A:I don't think he's scared of you.
我想他不会对你感到害怕。
I think he's crazy about you.
我想他为你着迷。
B:Really?
真的吗?
A:I mean I've known you a long time and I know you've got a good
feeling.
我的意思是我认识你很久了，我知道你感觉不错，
Are you going to see him again?
你会再见他吗?
B:I haven't talked about that yet.
我还没有谈到那方面。
Okay,it's your turn;you call your friend.
好吧，轮到你了。你打电话给你的朋友。
A:Alright.
好的。
B:Okay!
好!
A:Alright,alright,ring ring ring.I usually get this guy's answer
machine,brrring.
好，叮铃铃。我常常接通的是这个家伙的电话留言，叮当。
B:Hi dude,what's up?
哥们，你好吗?
A:Errr,hey.Frank,how have you been?Glad you're home.
嗨，你好。富兰克，近来好吗?很高兴你在家了。
B:Cool yea,so how was Madrid?
不错啊，马德里怎么样?
A:Madrid?Sucked!You know Lisa and I had our long overdue meltdown.
马德里?糟透了!你知道，丽莎和我分道扬镳了。
B:Oh,too bad.I told you no.
噢，那就太糟了。我告诉你不要去的嘛。
A:Yea,yea,yea,the long distance thing just never works.
是啊，是啊。长途旅行的事总是不起作用的。
I was only in Madrid for a couple of days.
我只在马德里呆了几天。
I got a cheaper flight out of Vienna but it really wasn't that much
cheaper.
我买了前往维也纳的便宜机票，但也不是特别便宜。
I just,I couldn't go home right away.
我现在不能马上回去，
I didn't want to see anybody I knew.
我不想见任何熟人。
I just wanted to be a ghost,completely anonymous.
我只想像一个孤魂一样，完完全全地隐姓埋名。
B:So are you okay now?
那么，你现在怎么样?
A:Yea,yea,no,no,yea.I'm great,that's the thing.
我很好，不，不，不错，我现在欣喜若狂，
I'm rapturous and I'll tell you why;I meet somebody on my last night in
Europe.
我告诉你为什么，我在欧洲的最后一个晚上碰到了意中人，
Can you believe that?
你相信吗?
B:Oh,it's incredible.
噢，令人难以置信。
A:I know,I know I know and you know how they say that we're all each
other's demons and angels.
我知道这确实有点令人难以相信，你知道，人们常说我们有自己的天使和魔鬼;
Well she was literally a Bart chilly angel,telling me everything was going
to be okay.
她有点像文学作品里的冷艳天使，对我说一切都会好起来的。
B:How did you meet?
你们怎么认识的?
A:On the train.Yea,she was sitting next to this very weird couple that
started fighting,so she had to move.
在火车上，她坐在一对开始吵架的古怪夫妇旁边，最后她只好换了位子;
She sat right across the aisle from me,so we started to talk and she didn't
like me much at first,you know.
她坐在我坐的走道的右边，然后我们开始交谈，她开始的时候并不喜欢我，你知道，
She's super smart,very passionate and beautiful;I was so unsure of
myself.
她特别聪明，美丽和热情，而我对自己缺乏信心。
I thought everything I said sounded so stupid.
我觉得我所说的话听起来都愚蠢极了。
B:Ah man,I wouldn't worry about that.
伙计，你不应该担心的，
I'm sure she was not judging you,no,and by the way she sat next to you
now?
我肯定她不是在考验你，顺便问一下，她还坐在你旁边吗?
I'm sure she did it on purpose.
我想她是故意坐在那儿的。
A:Oh yea?
是吗?
B:Yea.US men are so stupid.
是啊，美国男人就是笨。
We don't understand anything about women.
我们不太了解女人，
They are kind of strange.The little I know about them,don't they?
她们有些奇怪，我就不太了解她们，不是吗?
A:Yea.
是的。
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