实战口语情景对话 第202期:大学娱乐活动 College Pasttimes

 Todd: So, Alex, you're still at university. 

托德：亚历克斯，你还在上大学吧。

Alex: Yes, sir 

亚历克斯：是的，先生。

Todd: So, what's a typical¹ day at university like? 

托德：那大学里每天基本的生活是什么样的？

Alex: A typical day at my school, let's see, well I would usually get up, well last semester², I would get up around 8 or so. My first class would be at 9:10. It'd be an hour so around 10:10 I'd get out of class, you know, have lunch, and I was actually a part of the college radio station. 

亚历克斯：我在学样每天基本的生活，我想一下，像上个学期，我通常会在八点左右起床。我第一节课是9点10分开始。时间大概是1小时，所以在10点10分左右我就下课了，你知道，我会去吃午饭，实际上我是学校广播电台的成员。

Todd: Oh, really. 

托德：哦，真的吗。

Alex: So yeah, I'd hang out there, play some music, you know, joke around, play some pool, go to class. It wasn't too bad. 

亚历克斯：对，我会去广播电台放些音乐，你知道，开玩笑，打台球，去上课。还不算太坏。

Todd: Yeah, where do you play pool? 

托德：嗯，你在哪儿打台球？

Alex: Oh, well, any place that I can really. There's a pool table right next to my radio station at school so I usually play a lot there - a place called Mr. Pockets, too, where I live. They're pretty inexpensive³ so, I play there too, but I'm not very good. Like the pool table at my college was, it was a bar⁴ pool table so you have to pay money for it, 50 cents a game, and I must have put at least a hundred dollars in there and I'm not any better than when I started out, so I don't know. 

亚历克斯：哦，其实我在哪儿都可以打。我们学校广播电台旁边就有张台球桌，所以我在那里打的次数比较多——我还会去一个叫Mr. Pockets的地方打球，我住在那里。那里非常贵，我也会在那里打台球，不过我打得不好。我们学校的那张台球桌，以前曾经是酒吧的台球桌，所以打球也要花钱，一局50美分，我每次都至少会花100美元，我现在的水平跟刚开始打球的时候差不多，我也不太清楚。

Todd: That's OK you have other talents. 

托德：那还好。你有其他的天赋。

Alex: I guess. 

亚历克斯：我想也是。

Todd: What's the allure⁵ of pool? Why do college kids like to play pool? 

托德：台球的魅力是什么？为什么大学生都喜欢打台球？

Alex: Oh, I have, it's really a mystery⁶, it's very ambiguous⁷. I don't know. It's just the pool tables there and something with hitting balls with a stick into little holes, maybe, but it's a lot of fun. I don't know why I like it as much as I do but even though I'm not so good I like to play some pool. 

亚历克斯：哦，我想台球非常神秘，让人捉摸不透。我也不知道。其实就是一张台球桌，用一根球杆将球打进洞里而已，不过那真的很有趣。我也不知道我为什么那么喜欢台球，即使我打得不怎么好，可是我还是喜欢打台球。

1 typical   

adj.典型的，象征的，有代表性的

参考例句：

• This is typical Chinese English.这是典型的中式英语。
• It is a typical Persian garden.这是个典型的波斯式花园。

2 semester   

n.一学期，半学年，六个月的时间

参考例句：

• A student will probably attend four or five courses during each semester.每个学生一学期可能要修四五门课程。
• I had an especially rough time during my first semester.我第一个学期的日子难受极了。

3 inexpensive   

adj.花费不多的，费用不昂贵的

参考例句：

• Those shoes are very inexpensive.那些鞋子很便宜。
• This kind of car is inexpensive.这种汽车便宜。

4 bar   

n.条，棒，条状物；酒吧，（卖东西的）柜台

参考例句：

• I went to the bar yesterday.我昨天去酒吧了。
• They walked into the bar.他们走进了酒吧。

5 allure   

n.诱惑力，魅力；vt.诱惑，引诱，吸引

参考例句：

• The window displays allure customers to buy goods.橱窗陈列品吸引顾客购买货物。
• The book has a certain allure for which it is hard to find a reason.这本书有一种难以解释的魅力。

6 mystery   

n.神秘，奥秘，秘密，玄妙，不可思议的事

参考例句：

• He often tells stories full of mystery.他常讲些充满神秘色彩的故事。
• The mystery was never solved.这个奥秘始终未得到解释。

7 ambiguous   

adj.引起歧义的，模棱两可的，含糊不清的

参考例句：

• This sentence is ambiguous in sense.这个句子意思不清楚。
• The title of this chapter is ambiguous.这一章的标题含义模糊。