VOA流行美語 Unit 155:butterfingers和klutz

Larry和李華正在學校體育館裏打籃球。今天李華會學到兩個常用語：butterfingers和klutz。

LL: Here, Li Hua, catch!

LH: 嘿！Larry，你不要那麼用力嘛！你這麼用力我接不住啊！

LL: Don't blame the fact that you're a butterfingers on me. I don't think it's my fault that you keep dropping the ball.

LH: 對，我老是接不住球，可我沒有怪你呀！我只是讓你別使那麼大勁兒。你說我是什麼來着 ? Butterfingers? 你肯定又在損我，是不是？

LL: A butterfingers is someone who is clumsy and tends to drop things.

LH: 噢，我知道了，butter是黃油，fingers是手指，butterfingers就好像手上抹黃油，油膩膩的抓不住東西。也就是指那些笨手笨腳，經常會把東西掉在地上的人。Larry，我纔不是呢，都是你扔球太用力，所以我才接不住！

LL: Okay, butterfingers, you can keep trying to blame this on me, but I know the truth.

LH: 別再叫我butterfingers了。來吧，再丟一次，只是別那麼用力了！

LL: All right, but I don't think it's going to help.

LH: 你看。我這不是接住了嗎？I'm not a butterfingers！

LL: That was just luck. Don't feel too bad, though, my sister's much more of a butterfingers than you are.

LH: 你妹妹比我還糟糕？怎麼說啊？

LL: She used to try out for the softball team every year in high school, but she never made the team because she couldn't catch the ball.

LH: 啊，她念中學的時候每年都參加壘球隊選拔，從來沒有被接納呀！就是因爲她老接不到球！看來她真的是個butterfingers。

LL: My sister's tough, though, she never let the fact that she's a genuine butterfingers stop her from trying.

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LH: Larry，你怎麼摔倒了，沒事吧？

LL: Yeah, I'm all right. I just tripped over that rock. I'm such a klutz!

LH: 噢，一塊石頭把你絆倒了？嗨，你說你是什麼來啦？Klutz？那是什麼意思？

LL: A klutz is someone who is very clumsy and falls, trips, and bumps into things very easily.

LH: Klutz就是指那種經常會撞上什麼東西，經常會跌倒的人。Larry，我可從來沒有見你摔倒過。這還是第一次，所以你還算不上是個klutz。

LL: Thank you, Li Hua. I appreciate it. However, I assure you that I can be a real klutz sometimes. Fortunately, I usually do klutzy things when no one else is looking.

LH: Larry，你真有意思。你怎麼知道你笨手笨腳的時候沒有人看見？不久前你好象告訴我你撞到什麼東西。我聽了也忘了。

LL: Oh, that's a few months ago. One day, I wasn't paying attention and I walked into a street sign. Some girls saw me and they started laughing. I felt ridiculous!

LH: 光聽你這麼說，我就覺得好笑，沒聽說有人走在路上會撞上路標的。我可以想像，你當時一定顯得很傻，a real klutz!

LL: Well, that's the only time people saw me being a klutz. I don't plan on doing a repeat performance.

LH: 就這一次給人看見？ 以後不再會這樣傻了？別太自信了！

LL：You mean once a klutz, always a klutz?

LH：我不是說你做了一次傻事，以後永遠做傻事。我是說你還有可能做傻事。

LL：Well, let's see!

今天李華學到兩個常用語。第一個是butterfingers，是指抓不穩東西，手裏拿的東西經常會掉到地上去。另一個常用語是klutz，是形容一個人經常跌倒，或撞到東西，笨手笨腳的。