Eztalk美语【152】We could get a dog! 我们可以养只狗！

Gill: But this place doesn't feel like a forty-ping apartment.
LL: Well, it's forty pings including the balcony¹. See. It's huge.
Gill: Oh! The view is great! Mountains, fresh air! Stars?
LL: This balcony is perfect for barbecuing.
Gill: And we could get a dog!
LL: I'm sorry. No pets are allowed in this apartment building, except fish.
Gill: Well, fish it will be then.

barbecue (v.)
= BBQ 烤肉，也拼做barbeque或Bar-B-Q。而此处的barbecuing是动名词用法
Is it true that Koreans barbecue dogs?
韩国人会烤狗肉吃是真的吗？

balcony (n.)
阳台
Our upstairs neighbors keep tossing² cigarettes off the balcony.
我们楼上的邻居老是把香烟丢到阳台来。

A Neighborly Movie!

吉尔：不过这间公寓不像有四十坪大。
房东：嗯，四十坪还包括阳台在内。看。很大吧。
吉尔：噢！视野真好！有山，有新鲜空气！还看 得到星星？
房东：这个阳台最适合烤肉了。
吉尔：我们可以养只狗！
房东：对不起。这栋公寓大楼不准养宠物，鱼除 外。
吉尔：嗯，那就养鱼吧。

1 balcony   

n.阳台

参考例句：

• You can see the sea from our balcony.你从我们的阳台上就能看见大海。
• The balcony was closed with bars.阳台用铁条封上了。

2 tossing   

v.（轻轻或漫不经心地）扔( toss的现在分词 )；（使）摇荡；摇匀；（为…）掷硬币决定

参考例句：

• Poor Joan has been tossing around all night with that fever. 可怜的琼因发烧而一整夜辗转不能入睡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The two boys agreed to decide the matter by tossing a coin. 这两个孩子同意用掷硬币的方法来决定这件事。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》