TED演讲:取消订阅邮件的苦恼(4)

 I'll be honest, then my relationship with Dan deteriorated¹ somewhat, because the next email I got was this:  实话实说，那之后我跟Dan的关系在某种程度上就恶化了，因为我发现下一封邮件是这样写的：

"Thanks for your email - your Case Number is ..."  “感谢您的邮件--您的处理编号是……” 

That's outrageous². I said, "Dan?" 这真是让我哭笑不得。我说：“Dan，在吗？”

And I got -- and I was just like, this is ... -- and I, I .... And I said, "Danny?" 然后我收到的还是……这……让我……我说：“Danny，你在吗？！”

And I thought, this is terrible. All I'm doing is collecting case numbers. I said, "D-Dog?" 我觉得，这太糟糕了。我一直在收到这些处理编号。我说：“是电子狗吗？”

"The store is now open." “超市现在开张了。” 

I said, "But Dan, they must have wondered why there was no bouncy castle." 我说：“但是Dan，大家都会想为什么没有充气城堡吧。”

And then we were back to this. 然后又变成了处理邮件。

And that might have been the end of the story, but I remembered that anything -- everything 故事应该在此就结束了。但是我突然发觉，任何事--每件事

even something as mundane³ as getting out of a car, can be fun if you find the right game. 甚至于一些日常小事儿，如下车，只要掌握了正确的玩法，都能变得有趣。

So, this is what I replied: And we just, uh .. 所以，我就回复到：然后我们就…… 

It was like we were dancing. It was just a beautiful relationship. We just kept going. It was lovely. 这就像我们在翩翩起舞。就像我们是完美的关系。我们就这样进行下去。太和谐了。

But to be honest, guys, it was quite labor-intensive, and I had other stuff to do, believe it or not. 但是老实说，伙计们，这挺费功夫的，我还有别的事情要忙，不论你信不信。

1 deteriorated   

恶化，变坏( deteriorate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Her health deteriorated rapidly, and she died shortly afterwards. 她的健康状况急剧恶化，不久便去世了。
• His condition steadily deteriorated. 他的病情恶化，日甚一日。

2 outrageous   

adj.无理的，令人不能容忍的

参考例句：

• Her outrageous behaviour at the party offended everyone.她在聚会上的无礼行为触怒了每一个人。
• Charges for local telephone calls are particularly outrageous.本地电话资费贵得出奇。

3 mundane   

adj.平凡的；尘世的；宇宙的

参考例句：

• I hope I can get an interesting job and not something mundane.我希望我可以得到的是一份有趣的工作，而不是一份平凡无奇的。
• I find it humorous sometimes that even the most mundane occurrences can have an impact on our awareness.我发现生活有时挺诙谐的，即使是最平凡的事情也能影响我们的感知。