美語情景對話第176期:禮物 The Gift

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Todd: OK, Now, Anna, you were telling a cute story about a special gift you gave your husband.

託德：好的，那現在安娜，你講講有關你送你丈夫特別禮物的有趣故事吧。

Anna: Yes. Well, our first Valentine's day, I wanted to give John a very unique gift, so I remembered that he used to have an iguana, so I thought he liked reptiles, and I found a cute Pac Man Frog at the pet store, and actually one of my students told me about Pac Man Frogs and I thought, "Oh, that's so cute!" and so I bought the frog for John and I surprised him with it, and I made him close his eyes and I brought the frog out and the look on John's face was so funny. He was so terrified because he didn't like reptiles. I was wrong.

安娜：好的。嗯，那是我們過的第一個情人節，我想送約翰一件非常特別的禮物，我記得他曾經養過一隻鬣鱗蜥，所以我認爲他喜歡爬行動物，我在寵物店看到一隻吃豆蛙，實際上我的一個學生告訴過我有關吃豆蛙的事情，我想，“哦，它真可愛！”於是我爲約翰買了這隻吃豆蛙，想給他個驚喜，我讓他閉上眼睛，然後我把吃豆蛙拿出來，當時約翰臉上的表情非常有意思。他非常害怕，因爲他根本就不喜歡爬行動物。是我想錯了。

Todd: Oh, no!

託德：哦，不！

Anna: Yeah, so he had to keep the frog for maybe one year. And he didn't like it. He thought it smelled bad, and the worst thing was the frog had to eat baby mice, so once a week John had to go to the pet store and buy a baby mouse and feed it to the frog, so!

安娜：是的，他不得不養那隻吃豆蛙，大概養了一年吧。他根本不喜歡它。他認爲它有難聞的味道，最糟糕的事情是這隻青蛙要吃小老鼠，所以約翰不得不每週去一次寵物店買小老鼠，然後喂這隻青蛙，就是這樣！

Todd: Wow! The frog ate mice?

託德：哇！那隻青蛙吃老鼠？

Anna: Yeah, once a week, it ate a mouse.

安娜：對，一週一次，它吃老鼠。

Todd: How much did it weigh?

託德：它有多重？

Anna: Maybe 8 ounces. I don't know. It was big. It could sit in your hand. It was the same size as your hand. Yeah, it was really big.

安娜：大概8盎司吧。我不清楚。它很大。它可以坐在你的手上。和你手的大小一樣。嗯，它真的很大。

Todd: Wow, that's a cool story. A Pac Man frog.

託德：哇，這是一個很棒的故事。一隻吃豆蛙。

Anna: Yeah, Pac Man, cause it looks like the Pac Man character.

安娜：對，吃豆蛙，因爲它長的像吃豆人那個形象。

重點講解：
1. used to do
過去常常；過去曾做某事；
eg. People used to come and visit him every day.
人們過去每天都來拜訪他。
He used to be one of the professors at the School of Education.
他曾是教育學院的一名教授。
2. look like
看起來與（某人或某物）相像（相似）；
eg. It is smoothly contoured to look like a racing car.
這輛車外形設計流暢，看起來像賽車。
eg. Her new glasses make her look like an owl.
她的新眼鏡讓她看上去像只貓頭鷹。