【英语趣味课堂】挑选约会地点-Pick Up Places

Jeff: So, Jonathan, I'd like to meet a nice girl. I'm looking to meet a nice girl but I'm not quite sure where we should go to meet women. What do you think? Where's a good place to meet some women?

Jonathan: You know, that's hard to say, I mean, there are all kinds of things that work for other people that they haven't necessarily worked for me. I mean, I talk to people who say that met girls in libraries, but I don't really want to go to a library. Usually they've got a silence rule. I don't want to go up and try to talk to a girl and have the librarian say, SHHH!

 

Jeff: Actually, one of my friends told me that he met a girl in the grocery store once in one of the aisles¹. He was looking at milk and she came up beside him, so maybe we should go get some groceries.

 

Jonathan: That seems to be a really unnatural² kind of way to meet women in a grocery store. Maybe is a woman sees that you're buying individual portions of something and you're buying like little TV dinners that are only put in the microwave oven, she knows that you don't have someone at home cooking for you, but if I go out and I see a woman filling a basket with lots of tomatoes and cucumbers and so on, then I imagine she's probably cooking for a family.

 

Jeff: Well, why don't we go do something like bowling³. Bowling! Women love to bowl. I'm sure we can meet some nice ladies at the bowling alley⁴.

 

Jonathan: Oh, but women don't like putting on those ugly shoes.

 

Jeff: Well, then...

 

Jonathan: It's unfashionable when they go to the bowling alleys⁵.

 

Jeff: Well, then, shopping! Let's go shopping. Girls love shopping. We can meet them at a store.

 

Jonathan: Girls love shopping but then they're gonna make you hold their bags for two hours while they go and try on different things. That's no fun.

 

Jeff: OK.

 

Jonathan: How about a concert?

 

Jeff: Ah, no, Too noisy.

 

Jonathan: Yeah, I guess you can't talk to women there.

 

Jeff: Well, I think actually, another one of my friends once met a lady at a bank - the bank teller⁶.

 

Jonathan: Bank teller.

 

Jeff: Yeah.

 

Jonathan: That would seem like a little bit of a strange thing, and there I think the woman would be judging you by how much money you have in your account. She'd be able to see all of your information.

 

Jeff: Well, actually, I think let's just go to the pub.

 

Jonathan: OK.

1 aisles   

n. (席位间的)通道, 侧廊

参考例句：

• Aisles were added to the original Saxon building in the Norman period. 在诺曼时期，原来的萨克森风格的建筑物都增添了走廊。
• They walked about the Abbey aisles, and presently sat down. 他们走到大教堂的走廊附近，并且很快就坐了下来。

2 unnatural   

adj.不自然的；反常的

参考例句：

• Did her behaviour seem unnatural in any way?她有任何反常表现吗？
• She has an unnatural smile on her face.她脸上挂着做作的微笑。

3 bowling   

n.保龄球运动

参考例句：

• Bowling is a popular sport with young and old.保龄球是老少都爱的运动。
• Which sport do you 1ike most,golf or bowling?你最喜欢什么运动，高尔夫还是保龄球？

4 alley   

n.小巷，胡同；小径，小路

参考例句：

• We live in the same alley.我们住在同一条小巷里。
• The blind alley ended in a brick wall.这条死胡同的尽头是砖墙。

5 alleys   

胡同，小巷( alley的名词复数 )； 小径

参考例句：

• I followed him through a maze of narrow alleys. 我紧随他穿过一条条迂迴曲折的窄巷。
• The children lead me through the maze of alleys to the edge of the city. 孩子们领我穿过迷宫一般的街巷，来到城边。

6 teller   

n.银行出纳员；(选举)计票员

参考例句：

• The bank started her as a teller.银行起用她当出纳员。
• The teller tried to remain aloof and calm.出纳员力图保持冷漠和镇静。