ESL杰夫的一天 第6期:起床讲解(5)

 　　Now, "My old roommate"--the person I used to share an apartment with--"used to like the terrible buzzer¹ you find on most alarm clocks." 现在，“我以前的室友”——曾跟我住一间屋子的人——“喜欢那种很吵的闹铃”。

　　This, again, is true. I had a roommate that had a very loud and bad sounding buzzer; it was a terrible buzzer. 这也是真的。我曾经有一个室友，他有一个很吵很烦人的蜂鸣器；真的很讨厌。

　　The buzzer, "buzzer," is when the alarm clock doesn't play music, but it just plays a sound. 蜂鸣器，“buzzer”是指闹钟不播放音乐而只是发出噪音。

　　Sometimes it is like a bell ringing; that's the buzzer. Well, this buzzer "always used to drive me nuts" 有时候它像摇铃的声音；那就是蜂鸣器。这个蜂鸣器“经常会把我逼疯”。

　　To drive someone nuts, "nuts,"  means to drive them crazy--to make them crazy--to make them go crazy. 把某人逼疯，“nuts”是指让某人发狂——让他们疯狂——让他们失控。

　　I continue the story by saying, "As I was saying" 接下来我在故事中说道“正如我所说的”。

　　We use that expression, as I was saying, when we are talking about one thing then we start talking about a second thing, 当我们说了一件事之后又说另一件事，

　　and now we want to go back and talk about the first thing again. 但现在又回去说第一件事时，我们会用“as I was saying”这个表达。

　　So, when you interrupt² yourself when you are talking, and then you change the topic-- 所以，如果你在说话的时候中断了，你改变了话题——

　　change what you are talking about--and then want to go back to your original topic, you say, "As I was saying" 改变你所说的内容——然后你又要回去说你之前在说的事情，你就可以说“as I was saying”。

　　"As I was saying, I sometimes wake up before the alarm, usually because of some noise outside the house." “我说过，有时候我会在闹铃响之前醒来，一般是因为屋外的一些噪音”。

1 buzzer   

n.蜂鸣器；汽笛

参考例句：

• The buzzer went off at eight o'clock.蜂鸣器在8点钟时响了。
• Press the buzzer when you want to talk.你想讲话的时候就按蜂鸣器。

2 interrupt   

vt./vi.打断；中断；插嘴

参考例句：

• It is not polite to interrupt when someone is talking.在别人讲话时插嘴是不礼貌的。
• You'd better not interrupt him.He is sleeping.你最好别打扰他，他在睡觉。