Gucci: It's too expensive. Ten cookies cost a bundle.

May: I noticed that they have Italian buffet upstairs. Maybe we should have chosen that?

Gucci: Let's do it, now.

May: What is the charge of buffet for each person?

Waitress: It depends on your weight. Come on to the scale, please!

Gucci: Interesting! Look, I'm 45kg.

May: Me, 46kg.

Waitress: 50 yuan for each.

Gucci: I love it. Look, they've got everything.

May: Wow, coffee and cheese puddings. Love it.

Gucci: It's the only neat decision we made today!

May: It is. And it's not all bad now.

Gucci: No more for me. I'll all set.

May: Me either. That's the problem about buffet. Always over eating.

Gucci: You can't get everything.

古奇：这也太贵了。10块小甜饼就 要那么多钱。

阿美：我发现楼上有意大利自助餐。 也许我们本该去那里的。

古奇：那我们现在去吧。

阿美：自助餐每个人的收费是多 少？

服务生：收费是按体重来算的。上 这个称看看吧！

古奇：真有趣。看，我是45公斤。

阿美：我是46公斤。

服务生：每人50元。

古奇：我很喜欢这个地方，这里什 么都有。

阿美：哇噻，咖啡、奶酪布丁，我 最喜欢了。

古奇：这是我们今天做的唯一正确 的决定。

阿美：是啊，看来今天也不是什么 都差劲。

古奇：吃不下了，我搞定了。

阿美：我也吃不下了。这就是自助 餐的问题啊，总是吃太多。

古奇：总是不能十全十美嘛！

MayI love buffet. Better yet if it's an Italian buffet. There is one such place, downtown. It's interesting that the customers there would be charged by their weight.The only problem about it is overeating. People just don't know when to s. Anyway you can't have everything.

bundle n. 堆，捆

notice vt. 注意

buffet n. 自助餐

cheese n. 奶酪

pudding n. 布丁

1.Ten cookies cost a bundle.

Bundle本意为“一大堆”，这里指的是“一大堆钱”，中文口语中也有相似的表达方法，例：“好贵啊，花了我一大堆钱。”

2.You can't get everything.

get在这里的意思是“得到”，直译为你不能得到每一件东西。（可见总有遗憾。）所以也较容易想到意译应为：做不到十全十美。

抱怨句型练习

仔细阅读下面五个场景，两人一组，使用抱怨句型，用一用，练一练。

1.May bought a CD in a shop, but it was not the right CD inside, if you were May, what would you complain to the manager?

2.May and Gucci are having lunch in a restaurant, but the soup tastes horrible. If you were Gucci, what would you complain to the waitress?

3.Benjamin's neighbor has two young children, they were very noisy. They scream and shout event at midnight. His neighbor doesn't seem to care about their screaming. Benjamin has just had a sleepless night as a result, if you were Benjamin, what would you complain to the neighbor?

4.Shirley bought some shoes to wear in the rain but they leak. She takes them back to change them. If you were Shirley, what would you say to the shop assistant?

5.If you were Daniel, your mother complains about your laziness, what would you say to your mother?