(单词翻译:单击)
情景对话
Todd: So, Alex, you're still at university.
托德：亚历克斯，你还在上大学吧。
Alex: Yes, sir
亚历克斯：是的，先生。
Todd: So, what's a typical day at university like?
托德：那大学里每天基本的生活是什么样的？
Alex: A typical day at my school, let's see, well I would usually get up, well last semester, I would get up around 8 or so. My first class would be at 9:10. It'd be an hour so around 10:10 I'd get out of class, you know, have lunch, and I was actually a part of the college radio station.
亚历克斯：我在学样每天基本的生活，我想一下，像上个学期，我通常会在八点左右起床。我第一节课是9点10分开始。时间大概是1小时，所以在10点10分左右我就下课了，你知道，我会去吃午饭，实际上我是学校广播电台的成员。
Todd: Oh, really.
托德：哦，真的吗。
Alex: So yeah, I'd hang out there, play some music, you know, joke around, play some pool, go to class. It wasn't too bad.
亚历克斯：对，我会去广播电台放些音乐，你知道，开玩笑，打台球，去上课。还不算太坏。
Todd: Yeah, where do you play pool?
托德：嗯，你在哪儿打台球？
Alex: Oh, well, any place that I can really. There's a pool table right next to my radio station at school so I usually play a lot there - a place called Mr. Pockets, too, where I live. They're pretty inexpensive so, I play there too, but I'm not very good. Like the pool table at my college was, it was a bar pool table so you have to pay money for it, 50 cents a game, and I must have put at least a hundred dollars in there and I'm not any better than when I started out, so I don't know.
亚历克斯：哦，其实我在哪儿都可以打。我们学校广播电台旁边就有张台球桌，所以我在那里打的次数比较多——我还会去一个叫Mr. Pockets的地方打球，我住在那里。那里非常贵，我也会在那里打台球，不过我打得不好。我们学校的那张台球桌，以前曾经是酒吧的台球桌，所以打球也要花钱，一局50美分，我每次都至少会花100美元，我现在的水平跟刚开始打球的时候差不多，我也不太清楚。
Todd: That's OK you have other talents.
托德：那还好。你有其他的天赋。
Alex: I guess.
亚历克斯：我想也是。
Todd: What's the allure of pool? Why do college kids like to play pool?
托德：台球的魅力是什么？为什么大学生都喜欢打台球？
Alex: Oh, I have, it's really a mystery, it's very ambiguous. I don't know. It's just the pool tables there and something with hitting balls with a stick into little holes, maybe, but it's a lot of fun. I don't know why I like it as much as I do but even though I'm not so good I like to play some pool.
亚历克斯：哦，我想台球非常神秘，让人捉摸不透。我也不知道。其实就是一张台球桌，用一根球杆将球打进洞里而已，不过那真的很有趣。我也不知道我为什么那么喜欢台球，即使我打得不怎么好，可是我还是喜欢打台球。
重点讲解
重点讲解：
1. hang out
闲逛，逗留；
eg. I often used to hang out in supermarkets.
我过去经常在超市里逛个没完。
We can just hang out and have a good time.
我们可以只是闲逛一下，开开心。
2. joke around
开玩笑；闹着玩；
eg. John wanted to talk turkey, but Jane just wanted to joke around.
约翰想谈正派事，可是简只想闹着玩。
eg. If one of us can laugh and joke around, the angry mood lifts instantly.
如果有一个人能发出笑声，开一开玩笑，愤怒的情绪便会立刻消散。
3. play pool
打台球；打桌球；
eg. Jay likes to play pool at the bar.
杰伊喜欢在那家酒吧打美式台球。
eg. Whether you can play pool well depends on your mentality and experience, so is giving a speech.
你是否能打好台球取决于你的心态和经验，演讲也是一样。
4. start out
起初；开始；
eg. What started out as fun quickly became hard work.
起初好玩的事很快就变成了艰苦的工作。
eg. The child'll start out by making relatively few distinctions in the language.
孩子开始时不太能辨别语言中的差别。
