A:Hello.

　　你好

　　B:Hey,Marco.It's Drew.Are you watching TV now?

　　嘿，是我Drew.你看电视呢吗？

　　A:No why?

　　没有，怎么了？

　　B:Just turn it on and switch to CCTV channel 9.There's a striking news

　　赶快打开电视，拨到中央九台，出大事儿了。

　　A:What is it?

　　什么事儿啊？

　　B:Earthquake

　　地震

　　A:In china?

　　在中国吗？

　　B:No ,in Africa,It's such a serious quake,measured 8.2 on the richter scale.Lots of people died and that includs 8 Chinese

　　不，在非洲。非常严重的地震。里士8.2级。死了很多人。还包括8个中国人

　　A:I already knew it.And there're still lots of aftershocks

　　我已经知道这事儿了。还有很多余震呢

　　B:Yes,that's horrible,You know you may survive the quake.But die in the aftershocks

　　是的，真可怕。你知道你可能躲过地震，但可能死于余震。

　　A:No worries.Drew.That's in Africa,which is really far from China.

　　别担心，Drew.那是非洲。离中国很远呢。

　　B:Are you sure there're no earthquakes in Beijing?

　　你肯定北京没有地震吗？

　　A:So far as I know,there're no so-called earthquakes in the foreseeable future in Beijing

　　就我目前所知。北京在可预见未来没有地震。

　　B:Are you sure?

　　你肯定？

　　A:Absolutely.In my 29 years of living in China.I have only experienced one earthquake and that's like 28 years ago,when I was only 1 year old.

　　完全肯定。我在中国29年来只经过一次地震。还是28年以前的事儿。我当时才一岁大。

　　B:Did anyone die?

　　死人了吗？

　　A:I don't know.I was like a 1-year-old baby,Drew..don't try to make a mountain out of a molehill.

　　不知道。我才一岁而已。Drew.别大惊小怪的。

　　B:I do?

　　我是吗？

　　A:You do.China ,esp Beijing is the safest place.There's no such thing as terrorism or earthquakes in here.

　　是啊。中国是最安全的地方。这儿没有恐怖主义或是地震之类的事儿。

　　B:I guess I'm overworried

　　我可能是有点儿杞人忧天了。

　　Attention Please…特别提醒

　　[你可以请外教反复帮你模仿/训练下面句子/词组的正宗美式发音

　　[1] It's such a serious quake,measured 8.2 on the richter scale地震总是难以避免。发生地震时，只有寄希望于自己不是在震中了[epicenter]

　　[2] Don't try to make a mountain out of a molehill.别小题大做。Molehill在这里是小土敦儿的意思。

　　Related Words…相关词汇

　　以下这些词汇并未给出汉语意思，你可以用我们学到的英语问问外教它们的意思

　　[ie:What does "***" mean? "***"是什么意思？]

　　originate victim flatten crash withstand open-ended

　　注：书中对话仅作参考，重要的是拿起电话，就自己喜欢的内容与老外反复练习。轻易不出口，出口必砸人