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Todd: Hey, Edwin, how you doing?
Edwin: I'm good thank. How are you?
Todd: Oh, I'm doing pretty good. So, did you do anything this weekend?
Edwin: Yes, I went down to the city.
Todd: Oh, you went to the city? Who did you go with?
Edwin: I went with a couple of friends.
Todd: Oh, yeah. Were you guys going clubbing and going out?
Edwin: No, we just went shopping.
Todd: Shopping, really.
Edwin: Oh, yeah.
Todd: You don't strike me as the shopping type.
Edwin: No, but it's getting cold now, and I need some winter clothes.
Todd: That is true. That is true. So, what did you buy?
Edwin: I bought a jacket and a pair of warm trousers.
Todd: How much did you spend?
Edwin: I spent about a couple of hundred dollars.
Todd: Really?
Edwin: Yes.
Todd: Wow! That's a lot.
Edwin: Yes, but I don't want to freeze, so ...
Todd: Right. So did you go on Saturday or Sunday?
Edwin: I went on Saturday.
Edwin: No, I didn't stay overnight. It was going to be too expensive if we stayed overnight.
Todd: Right, yeah. How did you get there by the way? Do you drive?
Edwin: No, we took the bus.
Todd: Oh, you took the bus.
Edwin: Yeah.
Todd: I hate the bus.
Todd: Right, actually, I'm in the same boat, you know, I don't have a license either, but when I go to the city I always take the train. Have you ever taken the train?
Edwin: Ah, no, I have taken the train yet.
Todd: Oh, man you gotta take the train.
Edwin: How does it compare to the bus?
Todd: It's so much better ... well, it takes about the same amount of time
Edwin: Oh, really.
Todd: It takes about two hours, but you can kind of walk around a bit, you know, it's not as cramped4. I kind of get motion5 sickness on the bus.
Edwin: But isn't it more expensive on the train?
Todd: Well, actually, you can get four tickets for a hundred dollars, so it's about twenty-five dollars one way, and I think the bus is ... you can get four tickets for eighty dollars, so it's only a little more expensive.
Edwin: I see, I see.
Todd: It does take a little bit longer though.
Edwin: Okay.
Todd: So anyway, what about Sunday? What did you do yesterday?
Edwin: Yesterday? Just walked around campus6, and not much to do on Sunday. Sunday is usually my easy-going7 day.
Todd: Yeah, did you study?
Edwin: Yeah, later in the night. Daytime it's usually ... yeah, usually no studies during the day.
Todd: Yeah, did you wait until the last minute?
Edwin: Yeah, I'm that kind of person, so yes.
Todd: Yeah, me too, me too.
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you don't strike me
You don't strike me as the shopping type.
The expression "you don't strike me" as something means8 that you do not seem that type of person or that you would do that type of thing. You have surprised my expectation of you in some way.
I thought you liked book shops and libraries, you don't strike me as the sporting type.
a couple of hundred
I spent a couple of hundred dollars.
"A couple of " something usually means 2 or 3 of something. A small number of things.
The weather forecast shows rain for the next couple of days.
Come to our barbecue on Saturday and bring a couple of bottles of beer and we'll cook the steaks.
freeze
I don't want to freeze.
"Freeze" literally10 means to change from a liquid to a solid11 state. It is often used to mean something is very, very cold.
I went skating without my gloves and my hands are freezing.
Building a snowman is fun if my hands don't freeze off first.
in the same boat
I'm in the same boat. I don't drive.
This expression means to share something with another person; an experience or quality.
Traveling in Thailand communication was difficult. We were all in the same boat because nobody spoke12 the local language.
Climate change has put many different countries in the same boat as they try to manage serious natural disasters.
You gotta ....
You gotta take the train.
"Gotta" is a contraction13 of "you have got to" meaning that you must do something.
My mum says you gotta eat your carrots to keep your eyes healthy.
until the last minute
Did you wait until the last minute.
This expression means to not do something until the very latest moment possible.
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1 jack | |
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克 | |
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2 overnight | |
ad.前一天晚上,一夜间 a.前一天晚上的 | |
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n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许 | |
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a.狭窄的 | |
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n.打手势,示意,移动,动作,提议,大便;v.运动,向...打手势,示意 | |
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6 campus | |
n.大学校园,学校校园;大学 | |
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n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富 | |
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10 literally | |
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实 | |
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11 solid | |
adj.固体的,结实的,可靠的,实心的;n.固体,实心;adv. 一致地 | |
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12 spoke | |
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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n.缩略词,缩写式,害病 | |
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adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的 | |
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