荧屏情景

第10周 公共汽车

荧屏情景：

星期一 乘坐公交 片段选自《云中漫步》 A Walk In The Cloud 11:36--12:36

Paul: Thanks.
保罗：谢谢！
Driver: Speed you were going, you could have made Sacramento before me. You smell anything?
司机：年轻人，按你的速度跑下去，你恐怕比我还先到萨克拉门托。你身上的味道？
Paul: No. Hi.
保罗：没事。嗨……
Victoria: Oh, my God. I'm so embarrassed. I wanted to apologize, but you looked so peaceful.
维多利亚：哦，我的天啊！我真的很不好意思。本想向你道歉，可你看上去却若无其事。
Paul: Apology accepted. Good book? Quite a mouthful.
保罗：道歉已接受。什么好书？很高深啊。
Victoria: It's required reading.
维多利亚：课外必读书。
Paul: College?
保罗：读大学？
Victoria: My master's degree.
维多利亚：硕士。
Paul: Playing hooky?
保罗：你逃学了？
Victoria: No. I'm going home. My family has a vineyard in Napa.
维多利亚：不是，我回家。我家在纳帕有个葡萄园。

重点讲解

重点讲解：
1. required reading
必读书；指定读物；
eg. This book is required reading for our course.
这本书是我们课程的必读物。
eg. After he finished the required reading, he found something else to read.
他在完成了指定的阅读之后，找了一些另外的东西来读。
2. play hooky
逃学；旷课；旷工；
eg. oungsters who play hooky are usually bored with some courses.
逃学的青少年通常是对某些课程感到厌烦。
eg. On the first warm spring day the boys played hooky to go swimming.
在第一个暖和的春日，男孩们逃了学游泳去了。
eg. I had no choice. I have an important presentation this afternoon and I can’t play hooky.
我没得选。今天下午我有个重要的报告，不能走。