身临其境练一练

Friends,《老友记》

A:Oh,my God! I'm going out with Eric! Ooh,this day is really gonna be so much better than I thought it was gonna be. Oh Ross,I can't make lunch.

甲:哦，天哪，我要和艾瑞克约会了！啊，今天真比我想象的要好得多。哦，罗斯， 我不能和你一起吃午饭了。

B:So apparently I'm available for lunch.

乙:很显然，没人陪我吃午饭了。

A:I can't. I'm busy. I'm apartment hunting.

甲:我不能陪你。我很忙。我在找房子。

B:You're moving?

乙:你要搬家？

A:Yeah,I can't live with Joey once the baby comes. I don't want my child's first words to be,“How are you doing?”

甲:是啊，孩子出世后我不能住在乔伊家。我不想孩子学的第一句话是“你好吗？ ”

B:So does-does Joey know you're moving?

乙:那么乔伊知道你要搬家吗？

A:Well,I haven't discussed it with him yet,but I know he's gonna be relieved. Last week,he brought this girl over and I started talking to her about morning sickness and then I showed her pictures from my pregnancy book.

甲:我还没和他商量呢，但是我觉得他会感到如释重负吧。上周，他带一个女孩回 来，我开始跟她聊起我怀孕的晨吐状况，还把我怀孕书籍里的照片拿给她看。

B:That's not really porn.

乙:那不是色情书。

A:Not so much.

甲:不是。

B:Hey,y'know what and if you're looking for a place,I just heard in the elevator this morning that a woman in my building died.

乙:嘿，如果你想找地方的话，今天早上我在电梯里听说我住的公寓里有个女住户过世了。

生活口语

Hi,Ryan,what's new?

嘛，瑞恩，最近怎么样?

My landlord kicked me out saying he wants to raise the rent. I m apartment hunting now.

我被房东赶出来了，他想涨租金。我最近在忙着找新公寓。

重点讲解:

I'm looking for a new apartment.

I'm apartment hunting now.

“我最近在忙着找新公寓。”英文中可以用I'm looking for a new apartment. 短语look for有“寻找，搜寻”的意思，但是老外在日常生活中更常说：I'm apartment hunting now.或I'm hunting for a new apartment.短语hunt for也有寻找”的意思。