实战口语情景对话 第180期:失而复得 Lost and Found

 I'm going to talk a little bit about an embarrassing¹ situation. In Japan, I've lost my wallet four times. The first time I lost my wallet I was in a taxi cab² going home late at night and my wallet slipped out of my pocket and I didn't notice. The second time I lost my wallet I went to a night club with my friends and I drank too much and I wasn't paying attention and I left my wallet on the counter of the bar. The third time I lost my wallet I was hiking in a mountain region³ in Japan and I went into a small convenience store on the way home and I bought an ice-cream and I left my wallet on the counter and forgot about it. The fourth time I lost my wallet I was in Ueno station, a really, really busy station in Tokyo and I left my wallet on the counter at a supermarket, and the most amzing thing is that I still have the same wallet. In each of these instances⁵ I got my wallet back. In two of the cases the person at the store called me and I just had to go back to the store and get it. In one instance⁴, the person that ran the convenient store in the mountains mailed me my wallet, and another time I had to go to the police station and pick it up, but I think that says a lot about Japanese people. They're very, very honest and sometimes I think maybe Japan is the only country in the world where you could lose your wallet four times and still get it back. 我要说一件有些尴尬的事情。在日本的时候，我的钱包丢了四次。我第一次弄丢钱包是在出租车上，当时时间非常晚了我坐出租车回家，我的钱包从口袋里滑了出去，我并没有注意到。第二次丢钱包是在我和朋友去夜店的时候，我喝了太多酒，没有意识到我把钱包落在了吧台上。我第三次丢钱包是在日本山区徒步旅行的时候，我在回家的路上走进一家小便利店买了冰激凌，我把钱包落在柜台并完全忘了这件事。第四次是在上野车站，那是东京一个非常非常繁忙的车站，我把钱包落在了超市的柜台，最神奇的事情是现在我仍然在用这个钱包。每次这些情况发生后，我都把钱包找了回来。其中有两次是店员叫住了我，我回到商店找回了钱包。还有一次是经营山区便利店的人把我的钱包寄还给我，另一次是我去警察局找回了钱包，不过我认为这很能说明日本人的特质。他们非常非常诚实，有时我认为日本可能是世界上唯一一个即使你的钱包丢了四次也总能找回来的国家。 

重点讲解：

1. pay attention to

关心；注意；

eg. More than ever before, the food industry is paying attention to young consumers.

食品工业比以往任何时候都更加关注年轻消费者。

eg. Other people walk along the beach at night, so I didn't pay any attention at first.

入夜后还有人在沙滩上散步，起先我并没注意到。

2. pick up

接载，取走；拿起；

eg. Ridley picked up a pencil and fiddled⁶ with it.

里德利拿起一支铅笔，不停地在手里摆弄着。

eg. She went over to her parents' house to pick up some clean clothes.

她去了趟父母家取些干净衣服。

eg. We drove to the airport the next morning to pick up Susan.

我们第二天早晨开车去机场接苏姗。

1 embarrassing   

adj.使人尴尬的，令人为难的v.（使）窘迫，（使）局促不安( embarrass的现在分词)

参考例句：

• His jokes didn't even raise a smile, which was embarrassing. 听了他讲的笑话，都没人笑一下，真是太尴尬了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I was in the embarrassing position of having completely forgotten her name. 当时我完全忘记了她的名字，很是尴尬。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 cab   

n.计程车，出租车，出租单马车；vi.乘出租马车

参考例句：

• The cab drove over his legs.马车从他腿上碾过。
• Shall we walk or take a cab?我们步行还是坐出租车？

3 region   

n.地区，地带，区域；范围，幅度

参考例句：

• The students went to study the geology of that region.学生们去研究那个地区的地质情况。
• It is unusual to see snow in this region.这个地区难得见到雪。

4 instance   

n.例，例证，实例

参考例句：

• Can you quote me a recent instance?你能给我举一个最近的例子吗？
• He's a greedy boy,yesterday,for instance,he ate all our biscuits!他是个贪吃的孩子――比如，他昨天把我们的饼干都吃了！

5 instances   

n.例子，实例( instance的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The report highlights a number of instances of injustice. 这篇报道重点列举了一些不公正的实例。
• I can cite quite a few instances to illustrate. 我可以举出好几件事来说明。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

6 fiddled   

v.伪造( fiddle的过去式和过去分词 )；篡改；骗取；修理或稍作改动

参考例句：

• He fiddled the company's accounts. 他篡改了公司的账目。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He began with Palestrina, and fiddled all the way through Bartok. 他从帕勒斯春纳的作品一直演奏到巴塔克的作品。 来自辞典例句