美語情景對話 第720期:Dislikes Shopping 不喜歡購物
Todd: OK, Shona, let's talk about shopping. What are things you don't like to go shopping for?
託德:夏娜,我們來談談購物吧。你在購物時不喜歡買什麼?Shona: The two things I don't like shopping for are food and shoes. And food because I just find it incredibly boring and I just like to get in and out of the supermarket as quickly as possible and just get what I need because I find it really like scary and weird to like how there are just so many items, like, that I don't have a clue what they are and they're all like there on the shelf. They're so many of the same thing. I just find it really weird. And the lighting in supermarkets. It is just too bright for me, and I just — everyone's walking around like zombies with their trolleys and I just find it very weird.
夏娜:有兩樣東西是我在購物時不喜歡買的,一個是食物,另一個是鞋。我覺得買食物很無聊,我一般進超市以後迅速買完我需要的東西然後就出去,因爲超市裏賣的東西太多,我覺得那又可怕又奇怪,我都不知道貨架上的是什麼。而且有太多同樣的東西。 我覺得這很奇怪。還有超市裏的燈,對我來說那個燈太亮了,我感覺推着車在超市裏走的人都像殭屍一樣,我覺得這很怪異。Todd: Actually, it's funny you say that because I love shopping for food. In America, I love shopping for food because I can read the labels. In Japan, where we live now, it's not so fun because I can't read and it really drives me nuts, when I can't...
託德:你這麼說感覺很有趣,因爲我喜歡購買食物。在美國的時候我很喜歡去買食物,因爲我可以看懂食品標籤。可是現在我們在日本生活,現在對我來說買食物就不那麼有趣了,因爲我看不懂標籤,這都快把我逼瘋了……
Shona: Exactly. Exactly.
夏娜:沒錯,沒錯。Todd: OK.
託德:對。Shona: Shoes.
夏娜:鞋。Todd: Shoes.
託德:鞋。Shona: Shoes I cannot shop for because I have like quite big feet. I've got like a size eight, which is like a forty. I think it is a forty-one. I think it's quite big for a girl, and I always see like really pretty shoes I really want, but they just don't fit my big feet, so it's like a big disappointment.
夏娜:我不喜歡買鞋的原因是,我的腳非常大。我穿8號鞋,這邊的鞋號是40。我想可能是41。我覺得對女孩來說,我的腳太大了,我經常看到漂亮的鞋子可是我穿不了,這真的讓我非常失望。Todd: Actually, you know it's funny you mentioned about the shoe size because, you know, if the United Nations does anything, they should make a universal shoe size.
託德:其實,你提到鞋號這很有趣,因爲如果聯合國要做些事的話,那他們就應該統一鞋碼。Shona: Yeah, and like dress sizes as well. It's like really confusing.
夏娜:對,還有衣服尺碼。這真的讓人很困惑。Todd: Like, everytime you buy shoes, it will say, " UK 12, USA 10, International 6" or whatever and it's always really confusing.
託德:每次買鞋的時候都要說,英國12碼,美國10碼,國際鞋碼是6號之類的,這真的讓人很混亂。Shona: I know exactly.
夏娜:我完全清楚這種感覺。Todd: OK, so you don't like food. You don't like shoes. Anything else you don't like to shop for?
託德:好,你不喜歡買食物。你不喜歡買鞋。你還有不喜歡買的東西嗎?Shona: I don't like to shop for technical things.
夏娜:我不喜歡買技術類產品。Todd: Oh, that's the best.
託德:哦,那些產品很好。Shona: No. It's good for like some people.
夏娜:不,可能有些人喜歡。Todd: Oh, I love that.
託德:哦,我很喜歡。Shona: Especially male. I'm not being like sexist, but for me shopping for technical stuff is just so boring and it confuses me on end.
夏娜:一般男性都會喜歡。我並不是性別歧視,不過對我來說,買技術類產品非常無聊,而且最後我會很混亂。Todd: Actually, that's probably what I like to shop for the most. I think it's fun.
託德:這可能是我最喜歡買的東西。我覺得有很多樂趣。Shona: I can tell, actually. No, I just, I hardly ever need to get anything that's like too technical. If I do, like, I'll just ask someone else's advice because I just don't have a clue.
夏娜:我能看出來。我幾乎不需要太先進的產品。如果我需要,我會詢問別人的意見,因爲我完全不懂。Todd: Right, but you have a computer right?
託德:好,你有電腦,對吧?Shona: I have one, yeah. I have a laptop.
夏娜:我有。我有檯筆記本電腦。Todd: And you have an MP3 player?
託德:你有MP3嗎?Shona: Yeah, but these things have both been bought for me. I didn't buy them myself.
夏娜:有,不過這些東西都是別人給我買的。不是我自己買的。Todd: Ah.
託德:啊。Shona: Yeah, so that's why. A hair dryer, like I don't mind buying something like that but anything technical and it's just I'm not going to enjoy shopping for it.
夏娜:所以這就是原因。我可以買像吹風機這樣的東西,但是我不喜歡買任何技術類產品。
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重點講解:
1. drive sb. nuts 把某人逼瘋;
例句:Lady, people like you used todrive me nuts.
女士,我以前遇到你這種人很抓狂。
2. as well 也;還;
例句:I write my own songs and I play the guitaras well.
我唱自己譜曲的歌,也彈吉他。
3. mind doing sth. 介意;
例句:Would youmindturning the clock back?
請把鍾撥慢好嗎?
4. enjoy doing sth. 享受;喜愛;
例句:Childrenenjoydrinking juice through a straw.
孩子喜歡用吸管喝果汁。