美語情景對話 第318期:Pets 寵物

Yeah, so I think from growing up with dogs, like we always had dogs at home or my granddads house, so we were always playing with dogs, so I've never really had a fear of dogs like some people have, and I always considered myself a dog person, you know the way some, well most people consider themselves either a cat person or a dog person so that they either prefer cats or dogs, so I always thought of myself as a dog person, although recently in the last year or two, I'm kind of wondering about that because I've met some really nice cats, though before I always thought of cats as being too, too independent really and almost haughty or snobby towards people cause they didn't really, they don't really seem to need people or need affection as much as dogs do and that's a really nice part about dogs I think is that you really feel an attachment to them and they're so happy when they see you and you can really tell as long as you treat them well obviously that they really love you and they'll look after you.

我和小狗一起長大，我家裏或者是我爺爺家裏一直養小狗，我們經常和小狗一起玩耍，所以我認爲，我從來沒有像一些人那樣害怕小狗，我一直認爲我自己是一個喜歡狗的人，你知道，大多數人認爲他們自己不是喜歡貓的人，就是喜歡狗的人，所以他們不是喜歡貓就是喜歡狗，而我就一直認爲我自己是一個喜歡狗的人，儘管過去這一兩年，我一直對此感到懷疑，因爲我遇到了幾隻非常棒的貓咪，之前我一直認爲貓咪太過於獨立，而且在人類面前表現得傲慢又勢利，因爲它們好像並不需要人類或是不像小狗那樣希望得到關愛，而這點正是小狗一個很棒的地方，我想，你一直能感覺到你和小狗有情感聯繫，它們看見你會非常高興，你完全可以明白只要你對它們好，它們就一定會喜愛你，而且它們會照顧你。

重點講解：
1. an attachment to
喜歡；愛慕；忠誠；
eg. As a teenager she formed a strong attachment to one of her teachers.
少女時代的她曾迷上了自己的一個老師。
eg. He has a sentimental attachment to his birthplace.
他對他的出生地有眷戀之情。
2. as long as
只要；
eg. As long as you can keep away from them, you're safe.
只要你離他們遠一點，你就會安全。
eg. I don't mind as long as it doesn't rain.
只要不下雨就行了。
3. look after
照料；照顧；照管；
eg. He conjured us with his dying breath to look after his son.
他臨終時乞求我們我們照顧他的兒子。
eg. You needn't bother about coming up, I'll look after him.
你不用來了，我會照料他。