實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Mornings with the Dog 和狗狗一起度過的清晨時光

Todd: Michael, what time did you get up this morning?

托德：邁克爾，你今天早上幾點起的床?

Mike: About 7, no 6.

邁克：大概七點吧，不對，是六點。

Todd: Really, is that like your normal schedule?

托德：是嗎?這是你的正常作息時間嗎?

Mike: I usually get up around 6. (Yeah) Yeah. Go to bed around 11. Get up at 6. On a good day, sometimes go to bed later.

邁克：我一般6點起床。(好)對。我晚上11點上床睡覺，早上6點起床。有時候會晚睡一會兒。

Todd: Yeah, do you have to have an alarm clock when you get up?

托德：你早上需要鬧鐘叫早嗎?

Mike: I sometimes set an alarm if it's a really important day, but I almost never need it, you know what I mean. It's like a back up.

邁克：如果是非常重要的日子那我會定鬧鐘，不過我?guī)缀醪恍枰[鐘，你知道我的意思。鬧鐘是備用的。

Todd: Right. Right. Yeah, I always wake up at first sunlight, like I can't sleep once it's light outside.

托德：好。我明白。我會在第一束陽光照射進來的時候醒來，天亮了以后我就睡不著了。

Mike: You're like a natural animal.

邁克：你就像大自然中的動物一樣。

Todd: Yeah, exactly, actually I never use an alarm clock. Now you have a beautiful dog. I saw your dog.

托德：對，沒錯，實際上我從來不用鬧鐘?，F(xiàn)在你養(yǎng)了只非常漂亮的狗。我看見過你的狗。

Mike: She will sometimes wake us up.

邁克：她有時會叫我起床。

Todd: Yeah, that is what I was wondering.

托德：嗯，這就是我想知道的事情。

Mike: Because, like, she has a natural cycle so at six in the morning, bam, you start to hear her wagging her tail or scratching, or trying to get attention. Time to get up.

邁克：她有自己的自然周期，所以早上六點你會聽到砰的一聲，然后你會聽到她搖尾巴或抓東西來吸引注意力。那就是該起床的時間了。

Todd: That's so cool. I want a dog. Yeah, so do you walk your dog in the morning?

托德：這太酷了。我也想養(yǎng)只狗。你早上遛狗嗎?

Mike: Yeah, and that's another ritual I have is she needs a walk in the morning, so I've got this route. It's about a two mile walk that we go on. Almost the exact same route every morning. It takes about 30 minutes or so to do, yeah.

邁克：遛，這是每天必做的另一件事，因為她早上要散步，我選擇的散步路線大約有兩英里。基本每天早上都是同樣的路線，大約需要30分鐘。

Todd: And so, in some countries or places you need a leash for your dog, so your dog can't get away from you. Do you have a leash for your dog?

托德：有些國家或地區(qū)規(guī)定遛狗時要拴狗繩，這樣你的狗就不會離開你的身邊了。你有給狗準備狗繩嗎?

Mike: Yeah. I keep her on a leash when we're walking were there are other people because you know, a lot of people are not comfortable with big dogs (right) but she'll stay close to me, even without a leash (right) but I do it for their comfort, but if we're in an open area, I'll let her off the leash and she loves that.

邁克：有。我們散步時我一直用狗繩拴著她，因為周圍有其他人，有很多人會有點害怕大型犬(對)，不過即使不拴狗繩，她也一直在我身邊，為了讓其他人感到舒服，我會拴狗繩，不過在開放區(qū)域時我會把狗繩解掉，她喜歡那樣。

Todd: That's so good, because you know I'm a runner and it always freaks me out when I see people with their dogs and their big and the dogs aren't on a leash.

托德：這很好，因為你知道我有跑步的習慣，有時我看到人們遛狗沒有拴狗繩時會嚇到。

Mike: You kind of wonder, is this dog safe to go past?

邁克：你是不是在想經(jīng)過這只狗的身邊是安全的嗎?

Todd: Well, yeah, and plus, I'm running behind the owner of the dogs and so I might startle the owner, and startle the dogs, and the dogs might be protective and attack me, so sometimes I'll holler in advance, "Hey, I'm coming. I'm coming."

托德：對，而且因為我是從狗主人和狗的身后跑過去，所以我可能會讓狗主人和狗嚇一跳，這時狗狗可能會為了保護主人而攻擊我，所以有時我會提前喊一聲：“嘿，我要過去了，我要過去了。”

Mike: Right, right.

邁克：對，沒錯。

Todd: So. Yeah, cool. Thanks Mike.

托德：好，酷。謝謝你，邁克。