Intermediate Listening Lesson 32

你和那次见的那个女孩怎么样了？分手了。她太情绪化了。真的吗？嗯，对

 

A: "What happened to that girl you were seeing?"

B: "Oh Jackie? We broke up last week."

A: "That was a short relationship¹. You only started dating 2 months ago."

B: "It was actually a long two months. She was a psycho."

A: "What do you mean?"

B: "She would be laughing one moment, and if I said something insensitive, she would start crying. I didn't want to deal with that."

A: "She sounds very emotional²."

B: "She was a psycho man. One time we were suppose to get together. I was waiting for her call, and when she finally called, she was screaming³ why I wasn't at her place."

A: "Were you suppose to be there?"

B: "I thought she was going to call when she was done shopping. It was a misunderstanding⁴. She was literally⁵ screaming on the phone over this."

A: "Ok. You're right. She's a psycho."

B: "I'm just glad it's over."

1 relationship   

n.关系，联系；家属关系，亲属关系

参考例句：

• Is there any relationship between them?它们之间有联系吗?
• Robert has a friendly relationship with his customers.罗伯特和他的客户之间关系处得很好。

2 emotional   

adj.令人动情的；易动感情的；感情(上)的

参考例句：

• Emotional people don't stop to calculate.感情容易冲动的人做事往往不加考虑。
• This is an emotional scene in the play.这是剧中动人的一幕。

3 screaming   

adj.尖叫的，令人惊愕的，引人捧腹大笑的v.（因伤痛、害怕、激动等）尖叫 ~发出尖叫声( scream的现在分词 )；（向某人或为某事）高声喊；发出大而尖的声音；呼啸而过

参考例句：

• He covered her mouth to stop her from screaming. 他捂上她的嘴，不让她叫出声来。
• People were floundering about in the water, shouting and screaming. 人们呼喊尖叫着在水里挣扎。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 misunderstanding   

n.误会；误解

参考例句：

• Don't misunderstand what I'm trying to say.别误解我要说的话。
• His remarks show that he misunderstand my position on the question.他的话说明他误解了我在这一问题上的立场。

5 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。