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Well, "I head down to the break room" — I go to the break room — "and get some hot water" from "the water cooler."
嗯,“我前往休息室,并从饮水机里接了一些热水 。”
The water cooler, "cooler," is a little machine that has water and you can get hot water or you can get cold water.
饮水机(cooler),是装有水的小型机器,你既可以从中接到热水,也可以接到冷水 。
That expression, the water cooler, is very common.
“饮水机”这个词组很常见 。
When people say, "I heard it at the water cooler," or "around the water cooler," that usually refers to people who are gossiping — who are talking about things they probably shouldn't.
当有人说,“我是在饮水机旁边听到的”,那通常是指有人在聊八卦——有人正在说他们可能不应该说的事 。
Well, I went to the water cooler and I made myself some tea, because I love drinking tea.
那个,我走到饮水机旁边并泡了一些茶,因为我特别喜欢喝茶 。
There are "a couple of other people on break," notice that we use that expression "on break" — people who have stopped working — "having snacks out of the vending machine."
休息室里有“几个人在休息”,注意到我们使用的这个词组“on break”,人们停止工作,“吃从自动贩卖机里买来的零食” 。
A snack, "snack," is a piece of food that you eat between breakfast and lunch, or between lunch and dinner, or between dinner and going to bed.
零食(snack),是你在早餐与午餐之间,或午餐与晚餐之间,或晚餐与上床睡觉之间吃的一种食物 。
A vending machine, "vending," is a big machine where you can buy, usually, food. The verb, to vend, "vend," means to sell.
自动贩卖机(vending),通常是你能购买东西的大型机器 。动词“vend”是“卖”的意思 。
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