Nikky: yes i would love to learn and am willing for u to teach me.
Brian: i would like to be your teacher!
Nikky: aww and if ever you want to come here u may stay with me but am trying to get my own apt.(嗯,如果你想来美国的话,你可以住我这,我现在正要买自己的房子)
Brian: is it cold in winter? Not like too cold days.(那边冬天冷么,我不太喜欢寒冷的天气)
Nikky: yes I don't like winter too much, not big on cold but it is beautiful when it is snowy during holidays, what is weather like there? (是的,我也不太喜欢冬天,这里的冬天不是太冷,但是下雪的时候很美,上海那边怎么样)
Brian: I told u before, here in summer, hot weather, hot shanghai(我告诉过你的,这里夏天很热,热的天气,热的上海)
Nikky: yes it was very hot here too, many days with 100 degree but it is better now i am hoping weather will stay good for my birthday.(是的,这里夏天也很热,很多时候都是100度,但现在天气好多了,希望到我生日的时候天气会照常【注】他们的温度标准不一样)
Brian: your birthday? i will cross my fingers off and hope you have a good time on that day by then!(你的生日?那我一定会在那天遥祝你生日快乐的,【注】cross my fingers off and wish u the best!经典又地道的祝福语!)
Nikky: my birthday is this month.
Brian: it's coming now(马上不就到了么)
Nikky: yeah
Brian: unfortunately, there is not too much snow here in shanghai , last winter i have never seen a single piece of snow come down, but it's very dreary.(但不幸的是上海的雪并不多,去年冬天的时候我没有见到一片雪,但天气很阴郁,【注】跟别人谈天气是一种废话,但有些废话又不得不谈)
Nikky: wow, we get snow out sometimes it is not alot and sometimes we get bad storms。(嗯,纽约这里有时候会有雪,但不多,有时候会有大的风暴)
B:it 's not a good thing to get the storms, what 's your total name?(全名是什么)
Nikky: it is Monique.(莫尼卡)
Brian: Monique Liwensik?(莫尼卡.莱温斯基么?)
Nikky: no Kelly.(不是,凯丽)
Brian: so nikky is not your real name? (那Nikky不是你真名了?)
Nikky: it is my nick name my friends and family call me that.(是我的呢称,朋友和家人都这么叫我)
Brian: so i can still call you nikky.(那我还是可以叫你Nikky了?)
Nikky: yes u may,all my friends do, J. (当然,我的朋友都这么叫我)
Brian: tell me how did you spend your last birthday? with whom, must be with film developer, right?(告诉我上次生日是怎么过的,跟谁过的,一定是和那个胶卷师吧)
Nikky: no, he was on vacation with his mom i spent it alone as i will this yr, L. (没有,他当时和他妈妈度假去了,我一个人过的,今年可能又是我一个人过L)
Brian: did he send something for that day?(他有没有送你什么东西?)
Nikky: he sent me some stuff and i sent him some stuff(他送我一些东西,我也送他一些东西)
Brian: will this remind you something,you send him what? Yourself?(这会不会钩起你对往日的记忆?你送给他什么了,你自己么?)
Nikky: no clothes cologne.(不,科龙香水,【注】只要在街上碰见外国人,十有八九很远就能够闻到他们身上的香水味道,也许是要掩盖住他们的体味吧)
Brian: no wonder the western men like the cologne so much , just cause their girl send it to him.(难怪西方男人都那么喜欢用香水,原来是有女孩子送给他们呀)
Nikky: lol i guess so it helps when a man smells good.(嗯,我想这可以使一个男人的气味变的很好闻)
Brian: i agree with you there,so how many days you can be off for a whole week's work in the school?(我同意你说的话,那你在学校一个星期休息几天呀)
Nikky: i wont be off for whole week .(我天天都得工作)
Brian: you work everyday? Jesus, that's incredible.(你每天都工作么,天啦,真是不可思议,【注】Jesus!很多人的口头禅,老天,老天爷的意思)
Nikky: except weekends.(除了周末)
【Brain小结】:世界上最难做的不是教中国学生学英文,而是教外国学生学中文,记得上次女足世界杯决赛前的时候,花了整整一个晚上告诉他“中国队大胜美国队”和“中国队大败美国队”实际上表示的是一个意思。 |