实战口语情景对话 第182期:双胞胎 Twins

 OK, my twin brother. Well, my twin brother is called Daniel, and he is four minutes younger than me. We were both born on the 5th of January, and I think that we kind of look a like except that he's a lot taller than me and he has very dark hair but we have the same eyes and nose and smile, at least that's what people say. Um, I wouldn't say we are especially close, mm, not really, maybe when we were younger but we weren't always in the same classes at school because my parents wanted us to be a bit more different. Um, we used to be dressed when we were babies the same, me in pink and him in blue, and we used to have a birthday cake that was always, half was pink and half was blue, and mine had ballet¹ slippers² on it and his a football or a rugby ball, but I guess we are quite different personalities³. He's really, really outgoing, and just very different from me. At school I was always in the top classes getting A's and he was always failing in the bottom classes, but he was really sporty and I wasn't so people said we were very different. 嗯，我的双胞胎弟弟。嗯，我的双胞胎弟弟叫丹尼尔，他比我晚出生4分钟。我们是在1月5日出生的，我想我们长得很像，除了他比我高一些，还有他头发的颜色非常深，我们的眼睛、鼻子还有笑容都完全一样，至少别人都是这么说的。嗯，我不会说我们非常亲近，嗯，其实不是，也许我们小的时候是这样，但是我们上学的时候不是一直都在一个班里，因为我父母希望我们能有所不同。嗯，我们还是婴儿的时候会穿一样的衣服，我穿粉颜色的，而他穿蓝色的，我们曾经吃过一个生日蛋糕，也是一半粉色一半蓝色，我的那部分上面装饰着芭蕾舞鞋，他的则是美式足球或者叫橄榄球，我猜我们的个性大不相同。他非常开朗外向，跟我非常不同。上学的时候，我总是在最好的班级里，成绩一直是A，而他总是在最差的班里，他很喜欢运动，而我则不喜欢，所以人们会说我们非常不同。 

重点讲解：

1. used to do

过去常常；过去曾；曾经；

eg. I feel more compassion⁴ and less anger than I used to.

我觉得自己比过去多了些同情，少了些怒气。

eg. People used to come and visit him every day.

人们过去每天都来拜访他。

He used to be one of the professors at the School of Education.

他曾是教育学院的一名教授。

2. different from

和……不同；异于；

eg. She believes that she has a fight to be herself and to be different from what others might expect of her.

她相信她有权走自已的路，而不是别人指望她怎么样，她就怎么样。

eg. American English is significantly⁵ different from British English. 

美国英语与英国英语有很大差异。

eg. While choosing partners, people seem to be attracted easily by the person whose genes⁶ are too different from themselves.

人们在选择伴侣时，更容易被与自己基因差异大的人吸引。

1 ballet   

n.芭蕾舞

参考例句：

• Angela studied ballet for six years.安吉拉学了六年芭蕾舞。
• She is a celebrated star of ballet.她是一个芭蕾舞明星。

2 slippers   

n. 拖鞋

参考例句：

• a pair of slippers 一双拖鞋
• He kicked his slippers off and dropped on to the bed. 他踢掉了拖鞋，倒在床上。

3 personalities   

n. 诽谤，（对某人容貌、性格等所进行的）人身攻击； 人身攻击；人格, 个性, 名人( personality的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There seemed to be a degree of personalities in her remarks.她话里有些人身攻击的成分。
• Personalities are not in good taste in general conversation.在一般的谈话中诽谤他人是不高尚的。

4 compassion   

n.同情，怜悯

参考例句：

• He could not help having compassion for the poor creature.他情不自禁地怜悯起那个可怜的人来。
• Her heart was filled with compassion for the motherless children.她对于没有母亲的孩子们充满了怜悯心。

5 significantly   

adv.意味深长地；值得注目地

参考例句：

• Prices did not alter significantly during 2004. 2004年期间，价格没有大的变化。
• American English is significantly different from British English. 美国英语与英国英语有很大差异。

6 genes   

n.基因( gene的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• You have good genes from your parents, so you should live a long time. 你从父母那儿获得优良的基因，所以能够活得很长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Differences will help to reveal the functions of the genes. 它们间的差异将会帮助我们揭开基因多种功能。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 生物技术的世纪