唐山地震了【职场口语】Best and Worst Gifts 最好的礼物和最差的礼物

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Best and Worst Gifts
最好的礼物和最差的礼物
Todd: Jen, we're talking about gifts. We were talking ab
out giving gifts before. Now let's talkabout receiving gi
fts. What is the best and worst gift you have received?
托德：珍，我们来谈谈礼物。我们之前谈论过送礼物。现在我们来谈谈收
礼物。你收到的最好和 最差的礼物分别是什么？
Jen: Why don't you go first.
珍：为什么你不先说说呢。
Todd: Sure. Mine is easy. My step-
father made a basketball hoop for me in our driveway. H
emade it for my birthday. It was pretty cool because, h
e put it up in one day. I had a car at thattime, so
I would have seen him making it, but I just came hom
e one day, and there was a bigbasketball hoop with a b
ig bow around it. It was on my birthday, and it was g
reat. I used itevery day and I had nieces and nephews.
They used it. I had all my friends in the neighborhoo
dcome over. We had basketball tournaments. It was a real
ly good gift.
托德：好。我的回答很简单。我继父在我家的车道上为我做了一个篮球
架。那是他 送我的生日礼物。那非常酷，有一天他把篮球架立在了车道
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上。当时我有辆车，我本来可以看到他为我 支起篮球架，可是我没有看到
过程，我回家时看到了一个很大的篮球架，旁边还有一个大的蝴蝶结。那< br>是我的生日礼物，简直太棒了。我每天都会用那个篮球架打篮球，我有侄
子和侄女，他们也会在那 里打篮球。我会邀请附近所有的朋友过来玩。我
们会进行篮球比赛，那真是非常好的礼物。
Jen: That's really cool. It's so nice of him that he w
ould go through all that, and give you sucha special gi
ft.
珍：那太酷了。他送你篮球架而且还装好了，他人真是太好了，送了一件
非常特别的礼物。
Todd: Yeah. The funny thing about it is, I think he re
ally regretted it because, he wasn'tthinking how loud a
basketball would be when you bounce it. So when you wou
ld bounce thebasketball, it made this really loud noise,
echoing sound down the street. My dad was great. Hewas
really cool.
托德：对。有趣的是，我想他感到很后悔，因为他不 知道篮球弹跳的声音
有多大。在地上拍篮球时，会发出非常大的声音，那个声音会在整条街回
响 。我爸爸人很好，他非常酷。
Jen: That's really nice.
珍：那真不错。
Todd: Yeah. It was nice. So how about you? Do you have
a really special gift?
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托德：对，很不错。你呢？你有收到过特别的礼物吗？
Jen: For me, my special gift would be, my mom once mad
e a suit. A pair of socks for me. Theywere really cute
with little flowers on the right side of the socks. I
would wear them every daywhen I was a kid. I thought
that was really special. I still have them in my bag.
珍：对我来说，特别的礼物是，我妈妈 曾做过一个套装……她给我做过一
双袜子。那双袜子非常可爱，右侧有小小的花朵。我小时候每天都穿那 双
袜子，我认为那非常特别。现在我仍把袜子装在包里。
Todd: Oh really? Wow.
托德：哦，真的吗？哇哦。
Jen: Yeah. Winter is coming. I'm going to use it again.
珍：对。冬天就要来了，我马上要就要穿那双袜子了。
Todd: Socks wear out pretty easily. You've really kept t
hem in good condition.
托德：袜子很容易穿坏。看起来你保存的很好。
Jen: Yeah. She probably used really good wool because, i
t's still there, and I still wear it a lot.
珍：对。可能她用的是很好的羊毛，我还留着那双袜子，我也经常穿。


重点讲解：
1. come over 顺便来访；
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例句：You really must come over sometime and have dinner with
us.
你确实应该找个时间来串个门，跟我们一起吃顿饭。
2. wear out (使)磨损；(使)用坏；
例句：He wore out his shoes wandering around Mexico City.
他在墨西哥城到处游荡，磨坏了鞋子。
3. be crazy out 热衷的；狂热的；
例句：He's crazy about novels.
他看小说看上瘾了。
4. take out 取出；拿出；
例句：Take out a pen and paper right now and start writing your
letter to your future self.
现在就拿出笔和纸，开始给未来的自己写封信吧。

Todd: That's great. What about a bad gift? Or a gift that you
were not so crazy about.
托德：那很不错。那不好的礼物呢？或者说你不太喜欢的礼物。
Jen: I don't know if it's okay to say I have a bad gift or
something. But, yeah, once I did get a very big teddy bear from a
friend who loved toys, by the way. She thought that I would love
it as much as she did. She gave me this big toy, and I didn't
know what to do with it. I was so embarrassed by it that I would
actually hide it in my closet so that other friends cannot see it.
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Yeah. Every time she came to my house I would take it out and put
it on my bed, but I hated that teddy.
珍：我收 到的不好的礼物，不知道这样说合不合适。有一次我一个朋友送
了我一只特别大的泰迪熊，顺便说一下， 那个朋友很喜欢玩具。她认为我
会和她一样喜欢玩具。所以她送了我一个特别大的玩具泰迪熊，我不知道
要拿这个礼物怎么办。那令我非常尴尬，我会把它藏在衣柜里，这样其他
朋友就看不到了。每次 她来我家玩的时候，我会把那个泰迪熊拿出来，放
在床上，可是其实我不喜欢那只泰迪熊。
Todd: Oh no. Wow.
托德：哦不。哇哦。
Jen: What about your worst gift?
珍：你收到过的最差的礼物是什么？
Todd: Yeah. For me, a very close person to me, a good friend,
bought me a shirt. It was lime green. It was so ugly. The texture
also was really kind of rough. It had this ribbed texture. I knew
the minute I saw it I would never wear it, ever. I felt bad
because, this person would come over to my house, and you could
see where I kept my clothes in my closet. It was a very small
room. That lime green shirt was just always there.
托德：嗯，一个和我关系非常亲密的人，我的一个好朋友送了 我件衬衫。
那件衣服是橙绿色。真是太丑了。而且质地也很粗糙。摸上去有棱纹。我
看到那件衣 服的那瞬间我就知道我绝对不会穿。我感觉很糟糕，因为那个
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朋友会来我家玩，能看到我把衣服放在衣柜 的哪里。我的房间很小，那件
橙绿色的衬衫一直放在那里。
Jen: That's so funny. What did you do with it? Did you wear it?
珍：真有趣。你怎么处理的那件衣服？你穿过吗？
Todd: I was thinking of a million ways to get rid of it. I
would wear it occasionally, if I knew my friend was going
to come around and I wasn't going outside. I knew I had to wear
it one or two times. Then, I used it to mop up some coffee once,
and then I threw it out.
托德：我想了100万种 解决那件衣服的方法。我偶尔会穿，如果我知道我
朋友会过来玩，或者我不外出的话我可能会穿。我知道 我必须穿一两次。
后来，有一次我用那件衣服擦洒出来的咖啡，然后就把它扔了。
Jen: What?
珍：什么？
Todd: I know.
托德：我知道你在想什么。
Jen: That's so crazy.
珍：那太疯狂了。
Todd: I know. But, it wasn't quite so bad because, there was
actually two shirts. My friend bought the shirts, two for one, I
guess. I still have the white shirt. But the lime green one,
I got rid of. Yeah.
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托德：我知道。可是没那么严重，实际上有 两件衬衫。我猜我朋友买的时
候应该是买二送一。我还留着那件白色衬衫。可是橙绿色那件被我扔了。< br>就是这样。
Jen: You know what? You could have actually worn it during
winter and put on a sweater on top of it, and then a coat or
something. You didn't really have to do that. That's kind of mean.
珍：你知道吗？你可以在冬天穿，套一件毛衣，然后外面 穿大衣之类的外
衣。你不必那样做。那有点刻薄。
Todd: It is actually. It is mean. I don't know why, but for some
reason, I really did not like the color. I just don't like lime
green. I don't like neon colors, and I would see that bright,
neon color all the time.
托德：的确是。是有些刻薄。我不知道为什么，不过因为某 些原因，我不
喜欢那个颜色。我只是不喜欢橙绿色。我不喜欢霓虹色系，因为我一直能
看到那种 亮亮的霓虹色系。
Jen: I understand what you feel, but I do feel bad for your
friend, though.
珍：我理解你的感觉，不过我还是为你的朋友感到难过。
Todd: I know. So am I a bad person?
托德：我知道。这样看来，我是个坏人吗？
Jen: I don't know.
珍：我也不知道。
Todd: No comment?
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托德：你不作出评论吗？
Jen: No, you're not a bad person. Everyone has some problem with
colors and stuff. I guess it's fine.
珍：不是，你不是坏人。所有人都有不喜欢的颜色和东西。我认为那没什
么。
Todd: Have you ever had something that just rubbed you the wrong
way? For some reason, you look at it and it was an eyesore. You
just hated looking at it. Like a piece of clothing, or maybe
something in your house.
托德：有没有什么东西令 你感到生气？因为某种原因，你认为某个东西很
碍眼。就是讨厌看到那个东西。比如某件衣服或是你房子 里的某样东西。
Jen: Besides that toy I got, which I actually kind of like
nowadays just because, it's with me and when I own something,
after some time, I end up liking them because, they're mine, you
know?
珍：除了我收到的那个玩具，实际上我现在已经有点儿喜欢 它了，因为那
是我的，当我拥有某样东西后，经过一段时间，我最终会喜欢那些东西，
因为它们 是我的，你能理解吗？
Todd: Yeah. It grows on you.
托德：能。你越来越喜欢它们。
Jen: Exactly.
珍：没错。
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Todd: Actually, just thinking about that lime shirt, it is
growing on me now, and now I really regret it. I wish I had kept
it.
托德：实际上，想想那件橙绿色衬衫，现在我 也能接受了，我非常后悔。
真希望我能留着那件衣服。
Jen: Too bad. You already spilled some coffee on it.
珍：太糟糕了。你已经在上面洒上咖啡了。


重点讲解：
1. get rid of 扔掉；丢弃；
例句：
When we decided to downsize our home wetook the opportun
ity to get rid of somewe no longer needed.
当我们决定搬进小点的房子时，就需要扔掉一些用不上的“宝贝”。
2. come around 拜访；探访；
例句：
I'll come around tomorrow, when everyone is a bit calmed.
我明天再过来，等大家都冷静些。
3. mop up 揩干；抹干；
例句：A waiter mopped up the mess as best he could.
一名侍者尽力抹掉溅出的食物。
4. throw out 扔掉，丢掉(废弃物)；
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例句：
I asked him not to throw out that old table, but he d
id it anyway.
我告诉他不要扔了那个旧桌子，但他到底还是扔了。


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