英语口语900句 12.05.对话.3.安慰别人

Why you look so gloomy¹? What are you looking for?

My dissertation². I put it somewhere last night, and I can't find it now.

Did you finish typing it yesterday?

Yes, I kept on typing until midnight³, but it's lost.

Don't worry about it. It must be somewhere in your room. Let's see where you put it. Have you searched your drawers and the desk?

Yes, but there's nothing inside the drawers or on the desk.

How about the shelf?

I've searched everywhere. Where on Earth did I put it?

Don't get upset over it. At least you have another week to go.

I've been working on it for a whole month and it's too late for write another. Just think of all my hard work that goes for nothing. How could I do such a thing?

Cheer up. What I meant was that you can find it sometime⁴ during the week. There's no need to write a new one. Oh, what's this? Is this you dissertation?

Let me see. Yes, that's it. Where did you find it?

You put it among these journals⁵.

My poor memory. Thank you very much!

1 gloomy   

adj.阴暗的，阴沉的，令人沮丧的，阴郁的

参考例句：

• A few faint gleams of sunshine lit up the gloomy afternoon.几束隐约的阳光使阴暗的下午有些明亮。
• When I saw their gloomy faces,I knew something was wrong.当我看到他们沮丧的脸时，我知道出事了。

2 dissertation   

n.（博士学位）论文，学术演讲，专题论文

参考例句：

• He is currently writing a dissertation on the Somali civil war.他目前正在写一篇关于索马里内战的论文。
• He was involved in writing his doctoral dissertation.他在聚精会神地写他的博士论文。

3 midnight   

n.午夜

参考例句：

• The ship pulled in to the shore at midnight.那船半夜时靠岸。
• He looked at the moon and made the time to be midnight.他看了看月亮，估计时间是半夜了。

4 sometime   

adv.将来某一时候；改天

参考例句：

• He came sometime last month.上个月某个时候他曾经来过。
• It will happen sometime and somewhere.有朝一日这总会在什么地方发生的。

5 journals   

n.（某学科或专业的）杂志( journal的名词复数 )；期刊；日志；（用于报纸名）…报

参考例句：

• Which journals does the library subscribe to? 图书馆订有哪些报刊？
• This short story was published by two journals of repute. 这篇短篇小说由两种著名的杂志刊出。 来自《简明英汉词典》