專四聽力第18課：Lucky Break；Mellow
L：今天教授把考卷發(fā)回給我們了，Michael，你考得好嗎?
M: I did much better than I expected. It was a lucky break that I knew most of the answers.
L：你考得比你預期的好，那太好了。不過，你說什么又是lucky，又是break的?Lucky不是好運氣嗎?Break是休息，對不對?
M: Lucky break together means something good that happens that you were not expecting.
L：噢，lucky和break這兩個詞放在一起，它的意思就是沒有預料到的好運氣。Michael，你剛才那句話是怎么說來著?
M: I said: it was a lucky break that I knew most of the answers.
L：我懂了。你是說，你沒有想到運氣會那么好，大多數(shù)考題的答案你剛好都知道。
M: Yeah, that's right. If you understand, give me an example.
L：哼，我當然懂了，你還要考考我吶?那天我開車開的飛快，警察讓我把車停下來。可是他只給了我一個警告，而沒有給我罰單，我可沒想到會有這種好運氣。這可以說是一個lucky break吧?
M: That was a lucky break. I think it was because the police officer found you attractive.
L：警察因為看我漂亮才不給我開票?你別開玩笑了!不過，那次可運氣，否則至少要罰我五十美元。讓我想想還有什么例子可以用lucky break這個說法的。
M: Well, the paper that's due in two days, I...
L：對了，教授要我們在兩天后交報告，Michael，你還沒有開始動手吧!幸好教授推遲了限期，讓我們下星期一交。這對你來說真是個lucky break吧?
M: Let's go to lunch to celebrate our good luck.
L：好呀，去吃午飯，慶祝我們的好運氣。
(Michael和李華到了吃飯的地方)
L：啊呀，這個地方太鬧了!
M: Yeah, you're right. It'll be hard for us to have a conversation here. Let's go to a place that's more mellow.
L：對，在這里講話都聽不到。到別的地方去吧。Michael，你剛才講什么more mellow?
M: I said that let's go to a place that's more mellow, meaning someplace more calm and relaxing.
L：噢，more mellow的意思是比較平靜，比較放松。那也就是說到一個不太鬧的地方去，對不對?
M: Yeah, you can use the word mellow to describe a person too.
L：Mellow也可以用來形容一個人，那今天我們的教授很平靜，我可不可以說：She was mellow today!
M: Yeah, let's go the cafe near the library.
L：太好了，這個地方很安靜。我們來看看菜單。喲，你看，再過五分鐘就開始減價了，三明治今天半價。我們運氣可真好呀!
M: Well, we found the mellow place and we pay half price. Really a lucky break. Worth celebrating too.
L：對，找到安靜的地方，還只付半價。真值得慶祝。你多吃點吧，晚飯就別吃了。
M: Ok. Good idea!
這倆個小年輕還在狼吞虎咽地吃三明治。今天他們在講話中用了lucky break和mellow這兩個常用語，這是美國人在日常生活中經(jīng)常用的，大家不妨也在口語中試著用用。
