美語情景對話 第922期:His Bad Habits 他的壞習慣

Maria: Any habits you'd like to change?

瑪麗亞：你有沒有想改變的習慣？

Alex: I would like to change my habits of buying bad food and drinks.

亞歷克斯：我想改掉買垃圾食品和飲料的習慣。

Maria: Oh, yes.

瑪麗亞：哦，好。

Alex: It's so easy.

亞歷克斯：很方便。

Maria: So dangerous.

瑪麗亞：也很危險。

Alex: And especially when you're at university and they only sell the bad stuff because it's just so much easier to do than to cook a good meal. I'm a pretty good cook.

亞歷克斯：尤其是大學裏只賣這種垃圾食品，因爲這種食品比做飯簡單多了。我是一個不錯的廚師。

Maria: I noticed.

瑪麗亞：我注意到了。

Alex: Thank you. My mother taught me to cook well but I don't, I don't know, sometimes I just cannot be bothered so I wish I had the habit of just always being much better with my food. That would help with the weight as well. What else? Habits, habits? I have some bad habits that I would like to change. I have the bad habit of having to sleep with a duna, a duvet cover on. I have to have something like heavy otherwise I can't sleep.

亞歷克斯：謝謝你。我媽媽讓我好好做飯，不過我沒有做到，有時我懶得做飯，所以我希望我能養成好好做飯的習慣。這樣也有助於保持體重。還有什麼習慣？我有很多想改掉的壞習慣。我睡覺時要蓋羽絨被。我睡覺時必須蓋厚的被子，不然我就睡不着。

Maria: Why do you see that as a bad habit?

瑪麗亞：你爲什麼認爲這是個壞習慣？

Alex: Because in summer, I have to crank the air conditioning up to really, really high so as a result you know I end up wasting electricity so easy. I wish I had the habit of turning my computer off as well. I leave it on all the time.

亞歷克斯：因爲夏天的時候我要把空調的溫度調的很低，結果就是我浪費了很多電。我希望我能養成關掉電腦的習慣。我經常讓電腦一直開着。

Maria: So you're an electricity waster?

瑪麗亞：所以你很費電了？

Alex: Yeah, sorry, sorry world. Where is it the islands are flooding in the South Pacific?

亞歷克斯：對，我要對這個世界說抱歉。南太平洋哪個島發洪水了？

Maria: Everywhere.

瑪麗亞：各地。

Alex: It's all my fault. So yeah, turning lights off, remembering my key would be good. I always forget my key. I actually thought I lost my key the other day and nearly had a conniption fit so yeah.

亞歷克斯：這都是我的錯。我希望能記得關燈，記得拿鑰匙。我經常忘了拿鑰匙。有一天我認爲我的鑰匙丟了，我差點就要大發脾氣了。

Maria: Drinking habits, any good, any bad?

瑪麗亞：在飲酒方面你是有好習慣還是壞習慣？

Alex: Drinking? Alcohol?

亞歷克斯：喝酒？酒精？

Maria: That was the point.

瑪麗亞：對。

Alex: I get too excited too quickly and just want to go dancing but the good thing about the dancing is that then you don't drink alcohol because at a certain point you have to drink water.

亞歷克斯：我喝酒後很快就會變得過於興奮，一直想跳舞，不過好的方面是，跳舞就不會喝酒了，因爲在某個時候要喝水。

Maria: That's true.

瑪麗亞：沒錯。

Alex: Do you know what I mean? So like I don't go too far off the deep end.

亞歷克斯：你知道我什麼意思嗎？我不會喝得太醉，不會太瘋狂。

Maria: You can't really drink anything when you're dancing then you spill it all over the floor.

瑪麗亞：你在跳舞的時候什麼都不能喝，不然你就會灑得到處都是了。

Alex: Yeah, so that helps I guess.

亞歷克斯：對，我想這也有幫助。

Maria: That does help.

瑪麗亞：的確有幫助。

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重點講解：
1. crank up 使(機器或設備)提高效率；
例句：Just crank up your hearing aid a peg or two.
把助聽器調高一兩個刻度就可以。
2. end up 最終；結果；到頭來；
例句：Many end up living in the seedy city for good.
許多人最後永遠地生活在了這座破舊城市。
3. turn off 關上；關掉；截斷，切斷（…的供應）；
例句：He turned off the light before going out.
他出門前把燈關掉。
4. go off the deep end 變得神志不清；變得不正常；
例句：I'm not sure she believes me. She probably just thinks I've gone off the deep end.
我不確定她是不是相信我。她可能只是覺得我神志不清了。