实战口语情景对话 第77期:寻找真爱 True Love

 Todd: OK, Tara, why don't you tell us about your first boyfriend? 塔拉，为什么不跟我们讲讲你的首任男友呢？

Tara: OK, my first boyfriend, I met in my hometown. He's called Barry. He's my first real boyfriend. Yeah, I met him at a bar. Yeah, I had a bit of a crush¹ on him when I was younger and then, yeah, we met a club one night and it carried on from there. 我第一个男友，我是在我的家乡认识他的。他叫巴里。他是我第一个真正意义上的男友。我是在酒吧遇到他的。我那时候年纪不大，在酒吧中轻撞到他，从酒吧的那一晚开始我们就开始恋爱了。

Todd: Oh, that's nice. So what was it about Barry that attracted him to you? 很棒。那么巴里吸引你的地方是什么呢？

Tara: He's very good looking. He's tall and he had a beard. I like beard. 他长相很帅，很高，还有点儿胡须。我喜欢胡须。

Todd: Beards, really! 胡须，真的吗！

Tara: I like beards. I don't know why. 我喜欢胡须。我也不知道为什么。

Todd: Short beard or long beard? 你喜欢短胡须还是长胡须？

Tara: No, no short. I just like stubble. 我不喜欢短胡须，我只喜欢男性留胡茬。

Todd: OK. Are you still in contact with him? 好的。你还和他有联系吗？

Tara: Yeah, yeah, yeah. At the moment he's traveling. He's in India but, we're so young, so we often like, separate² to go traveling, and then get back together again, because I'm only 24 and he's twenty five, and we have a serious relationship but, we don't wanna, you know, stop doing our own things in life. 是的。那时候他正在旅行。他住在印度，我们都很年轻，我们经常各自旅行然后再聚在一起，因为我那时才24岁，他才25岁，我们都很认真对待那段感情，但我们不想改变我们各自的生活，于是以分手告终。

1 crush   

v.压垮，压倒，压服，镇压；压碎，碾碎

参考例句：

• This machine is made to crush the rock into powder.这台机器是用来把石头压成碎末的。
• You can't crush so many people into the classroom.不能让这么多人挤进教室。

2 separate   

n.分开，抽印本；adj.分开的，各自的，单独的；v.分开，隔开，分居

参考例句：

• Are they joined together or separate?它们是合在一起还是分开的？
• Separate the white clothes from the dark clothes before laundering.洗衣前应当把浅色衣服和深色衣服分开。