(单词翻译:单击)
情景对话
Todd: Michael, what time did you get up this morning?
托德：迈克尔，你今天早上几点起的床？
Mike: About 7, no 6.
迈克：大概七点吧，不对，是六点。
Todd: Really, is that like your normal schedule?
托德：是吗？这是你的正常作息时间吗？
Mike: I usually get up around 6. (Yeah) Yeah. Go to bed around 11. Get up at 6. On a good day, sometimes go to bed later.
迈克：我一般6点起床。（好）对。我晚上11点上床睡觉，早上6点起床。有时候会晚睡一会儿。
Todd: Yeah, do you have to have an alarm clock when you get up?
托德：你早上需要闹钟叫早吗？
Mike: I sometimes set an alarm if it's a really important day, but I almost never need it, you know what I mean. It's like a back up.
迈克：如果是非常重要的日子那我会定闹钟，不过我几乎不需要闹钟，你知道我的意思。闹钟是备用的。
Todd: Right. Right. Yeah, I always wake up at first sunlight, like I can't sleep once it's light outside.
托德：好。我明白。我会在第一束阳光照射进来的时候醒来，天亮了以后我就睡不着了。
Mike: You're like a natural animal.
迈克：你就像大自然中的动物一样。
Todd: Yeah, exactly, actually I never use an alarm clock. Now you have a beautiful dog. I saw your dog.
托德：对，没错，实际上我从来不用闹钟。现在你养了只非常漂亮的狗。我看见过你的狗。
Mike: She will sometimes wake us up.
迈克：她有时会叫我起床。
Todd: Yeah, that is what I was wondering.
托德：嗯，这就是我想知道的事情。
Mike: Because, like, she has a natural cycle so at six in the morning, bam, you start to hear her wagging her tail or scratching, or trying to get attention. Time to get up.
迈克：她有自己的自然周期，所以早上六点你会听到砰的一声，然后你会听到她摇尾巴或抓东西来吸引注意力。那就是该起床的时间了。
Todd: That's so cool. I want a dog. Yeah, so do you walk your dog in the morning?
托德：这太酷了。我也想养只狗。你早上遛狗吗？
Mike: Yeah, and that's another ritual I have is she needs a walk in the morning, so I've got this route. It's about a two mile walk that we go on. Almost the exact same route every morning. It takes about 30 minutes or so to do, yeah.
迈克：遛，这是每天必做的另一件事，因为她早上要散步，我选择的散步路线大约有两英里。基本每天早上都是同样的路线，大约需要30分钟。
Todd: And so, in some countries or places you need a leash for your dog, so your dog can't get away from you. Do you have a leash for your dog?
托德：有些国家或地区规定遛狗时要拴狗绳，这样你的狗就不会离开你的身边了。你有给狗准备狗绳吗？
Mike: Yeah. I keep her on a leash when we're walking were there are other people because you know, a lot of people are not comfortable with big dogs (right) but she'll stay close to me, even without a leash (right) but I do it for their comfort, but if we're in an open area, I'll let her off the leash and she loves that.
迈克：有。我们散步时我一直用狗绳拴着她，因为周围有其他人，有很多人会有点害怕大型犬（对），不过即使不拴狗绳，她也一直在我身边，为了让其他人感到舒服，我会拴狗绳，不过在开放区域时我会把狗绳解掉，她喜欢那样。
Todd: That's so good, because you know I'm a runner and it always freaks me out when I see people with their dogs and their big and the dogs aren't on a leash.
托德：这很好，因为你知道我有跑步的习惯，有时我看到人们遛狗没有拴狗绳时会吓到。
Mike: You kind of wonder, is this dog safe to go past?
迈克：你是不是在想经过这只狗的身边是安全的吗？
Todd: Well, yeah, and plus, I'm running behind the owner of the dogs and so I might startle the owner, and startle the dogs, and the dogs might be protective and attack me, so sometimes I'll holler in advance, "Hey, I'm coming. I'm coming."
托德：对，而且因为我是从狗主人和狗的身后跑过去，所以我可能会让狗主人和狗吓一跳，这时狗狗可能会为了保护主人而攻击我，所以有时我会提前喊一声：“嘿，我要过去了，我要过去了。”
Mike: Right, right.
迈克：对，没错。
Todd: So. Yeah, cool. Thanks Mike.
托德：好，酷。谢谢你，迈克。
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重点讲解
重点讲解：
1. get up
起床；
eg. Clock-radios blast away until you get up.
收音机闹钟会一直响到你起床为止。
eg. It is his wont to get up early.
早起是他的习惯。
2. freak out
（使）吃惊；（使）不安；（使）恼怒；（使）困惑；
eg. He is freaked out just like he has seen a ghost.
他吓得直哆嗦，就好像看见了鬼一样。
eg. Don't freak out if cops pull you over.
如果警察让你靠边，你不要害怕。
3. in advance
提前；事先；
eg. I ought to have told you in advance.
我应该事先告诉你。
eg. The rent must be paid in advance.
租金须预付。
