中英文本

68.Dorm Food
68.食堂的伙食
Nothing brings a student down-to-earth like dorm food!
没有什么能像食堂伙食那样让学生从幻想中清醒过来！
I remember eating some slop one time that was dotted with purple polka dots!
我记得有一次吃过一些半流汁食物，上面点缀着紫色的斑斑点点！
Really! I should have known that I would come down with a bug from it afterwards.
是真的！我早该知道吃完之后会生病的。
I threw up all over my down jacket and spent the next few days laid up in my dorm room!
结果吐得羽绒服上到处都是，接下来的几天只能在宿舍的房间里躺着！
My dorm supervisor thought I was faking.
宿舍管理员还以为我是在装病。
He thought I stayed in bed because I was down on my luck with women.
他认为我躺在床上是因为被女人甩了而感到沮丧。

That helped a lot when he said that... it sent me even further down in the dumps.
他那样说还真管用……他的话使我更加闷闷不乐起来。
As I lay in bed those days, down in the mouth, however, I came up with a draft plan for keeping my emotions from going further down the drain!
可是，就在那些天我躺在床上、垂头丧气的时候，我制订出了一个草案，不让自己浪费更多的感情！
I would start a petition to improve dorm food!
我要开始正式请求改善食堂伙食！
There was nothing else to waste time on!
我没有别的事情可浪费时间！
No girlfriend! Studies were light this semester!
没有女朋友！这个学期的学习也很轻松！
I dozed off each night dreaming of my revenge!
每天晚上我都会打盹儿，梦见我在复仇！
When I recovered from being so down and out I put my plan into action.
等到我从衰弱无力中恢复过来，我便开始实施我的计划。
It was fun. I put up signs, talked to new people, and made a lot of chaos.
这样做很有意思。我贴标语，找人谈话、制造了许多混乱。
I attracted all the down-to-earth people also interested in having better food in the dorms.
我吸引了所有那些很现实的人, 他们也对改进食堂伙食感兴趣。
One hippy girl made me double back after I passed her.
从一个丰满女孩身边走过之后，我又循原路折回。
How could hippy girls look so good?
臀部丰满的女孩怎么会看上去那么有魅力？
We started dating several days later.
几天之后我们开始约会了。
Needless to say, that was also the end of my fix-dorm-food campaign.
不用说，我的改善食堂伙食运动也就此结束了。
Dorm food still sucks! I think it always will.
食堂伙食还是那么让人恶心，我想它会永远让人恶心。

重点讲解

1.dorm food 食堂的饭菜
例句：The dorm food is delicious.
食堂的饭菜很好吃。
2.dorm room 宿舍的房间
例句：When he went away to college at Cornell, Adam took the business with him, operating out of his small dorm room.
在康奈尔上大学期间他继续在他的小寝室里做生意。
3.dorm supervisor 宿舍管理员
例句：The dorm supervisor is very kind.
宿舍管理员很和善。
4.dotted with (sth.) 星罗棋布于,点缀
例句：It's quite easy to find poppy fields as almost all the slopes in the vicinity of Faizabad are dotted with them.
法札巴德附近的山坡上星罗棋布的罂粟田。
5.double back 把…对折，折叠，循原路折回
例句：As it grows outward, it runs out of room and is forced to double back into a horseshoe shape.
随着它向外生长，空间扩大，增大为以前的两倍，成了马鞋的形状。
6.down in the mouth 神色沮丧,垂头丧气
例句：If this should happen, the speaker might feel down in the mouth.
如果发生这种情况，这个发言者可能会感到沮丧。