Michael: The boss has an errand for you.
Billy: What is my task, sir?
Michael: Scope out the city's shopping malls and find out the best deals.
Billy: The best deals on what sort of items?
Michael: Office supplies, of course.
Billy: I'm leaving now.
Michael: Hold your horses. Don't leave without finishing your report first.
Billy: Fine, I'll finish, then go shopping!
邁克爾：老板給你安排了個活兒。
比利：什么活兒啊？
邁克爾：找出城里的大型購物商場，看看在哪家買最劃算。
比利：買什么東西呀？
邁克爾：當(dāng)然是辦公用品了。
比利：那我走了。
邁克爾：慢著，別忘了先把你的報告寫完再走。
比利：沒問題。寫完了我就去逛商場！
NEW WORDS 新單詞
1) Hold your horses（等一會兒, 別著急）: relax, wait a moment
Hold you horses, miss, you can't go into the shopping center until 9AM.
小姐，請等一會兒，上午九點商場才開門。
2) Mall（購物中心）: an indoor multi-level shopping center
Kid who goes to the mall too much are called mall rats.
老去購物中心里瞎逛的小孩叫做“商場老鼠”。
3）Office supplies（辦公用品）: items used in the workplace, pens, paper...
I am off to the mall to buy some office supplies, do you want to come?
我要去購物中心里買點兒辦公用品，你跟不跟我去？
4）Run errands （跑腿，辦點兒事）: do tasks, finish a small project, go out and do something
I have to run a few errands at the post office, do you want to come along?
我必須得去趟郵局辦點兒事，你想不想一起去？
5）Quite a deal（一大把，很劃算）: a bargain, inexpensive
1) You will usually only get 1/2 an hour.
一般你只有半個小時。
2) Ask others if they want to share before you order a pizza.
在訂比薩餅之前，問問其他人是不是也想要。
3) Try buying a fun and colorful lunchbox, one that others will admire. I have a Star Wars lunchbox, and my coworkers are all jealous!
買一個有趣的顏色鮮艷的別人都喜歡的午餐飯盒。我有一個星球大戰(zhàn)的飯盒，我的同事都羨慕極了！
4) If you eat at your desk, clean up the food very carefully. No one like bugs at their station.
如果你在桌子上吃午飯，吃完后要打掃干凈。沒有人喜歡他們的工作座位有小蟲子。
5) If you are going out to pick up fast food, ask if you can get any for your friends.
如果你出去吃快餐，問問你的朋友，你能不能給他們帶一點什么。
Dialogue 對話
Gordon: Molly, I am going to KFC for lunch, would you like me to bring your back anything?
Molly : No thanks, that won't be necessary, I brought a lunch.
Gordon: You always bring a lunchbox, why?
Molly : Don't tell anyone, but I am on a diet. Fast food will make you fat.
Gordon: We could get someone to deliver pizza?
Molly : Pizza is still fatty fast food.
Gordon: But during the coffee break I saw you eating the cake that the boss gave you.
Molly : If the boss brings a cake, you eat it!
Gordon: I guess that is why the boss likes you more.
Molly : You had better hurry to your fast food joint, you only have a half-hour.
Gordon: See you soon.
戈登：莫莉，我要到肯德基吃午飯，你要我給你帶回點什么嗎？
莫莉：不用了，謝謝。我?guī)顼埩恕?/SPAN>
戈登：你為什么總是自己帶午飯呢？
莫莉：別告訴別人，我正在減肥。快餐會使人發(fā)胖。
戈登：我們可以叫人送點比薩餅來。
莫莉：比薩餅也是容易使人發(fā)胖的快餐。
戈登：但是，在工間休息的時候，我看見你吃了一塊老板給你的蛋糕。
莫莉：如果是老板給的蛋糕，你就得吃。
戈登：我想這就是老板為什么更喜歡你的原因。
莫莉：你最好快點到你的快餐店去，你只有半個小時。
戈登：一會兒見。 |
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