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购物 shoppingAt a grocery在杂货店范例A: Excuse me, do you sell apples?B: Yes. They are over there.A: Do you sell them [1]individually or by weight?B: By weight. 60 cents per pound.A: Could you weigh this portionn.一部分, please?B: Two dollars, please. Anything else?A: A sack of potatoes, please.B: Here you are.A: Thanks. Any strawberriesn.草莓?B: Sorry. They’re [2]out of season now.翻译A：请问，你这有苹果卖吗？B：苹果在那边。A：是按个卖还是按重量卖？A：按重量卖。每镑六十美分。B：请秤一下这些好吗？B：两美元。还要什么吗？A：再给我一袋马铃薯。B：这是你要的马铃薯。A：谢谢，有草莓吗？B：对不起，草莓现在已经过了产季了。Notes:1.买东西，尤其是买水果的时候，经常会问到东西是怎么计算价钱的，这时候这个句型就派上用场了。individually是“个别地”的意思，在这里表示“按个计价”的意思。2.有些水果、蔬菜并不是一年四季都有的，要表达“过了产季”，就可以用“out of season”这个短语。At a shop在商店里范例Clerk: Hi. May I help you?Justin: Oh no, I am just looking, thanks.Clerk: What about this grayadj.灰色的 one? It’s on sale特价出售的. It’s half price.Justin: I don’t know. It seems too small.Clerk: How about this one?Justin: Maybe. How much?Clerk: It’s the same as the other. Eighteen [1]dollars. Half price.Justin: How do I look?Clerk: You look great. Really, really cool!Justin: Cool, huh? OK. I’ll take it. And I’ll take that brown one, and that black one, that blue one, and of course, this red one.Clerk: Will that be cash or check?Bonnie: Neither. [2]Come on, Justin. You don’t need a new snowboardingadj.滑雪板的 cap.Justin: Aw, Ma!翻译售货员：嗨！需要什么吗？贾斯丁：不用了，我只是看看，谢谢。售货员：这顶灰色的怎么样？这顶正降价销售，只卖半价。贾斯丁：我不知道。好像太小了。售货员：那这顶呢？贾斯丁：可能吧。多少钱？售货员：这顶和那顶一样。十八美元，半价。贾斯丁：我看起来怎么样？售货员：你戴起来好看极了。真的非常酷。贾斯丁：很酷吗？好，我买了。我要棕色的那顶、黑色的那顶、蓝色的那顶，当然，还有红色的这顶。售货员：付现金还是刷卡？邦妮：都不是。少来了，贾斯丁。你不需要新的滑雪板帽。贾斯丁：喔，妈！偶遇 Encounter Encounter偶 遇范例Laura: Hey! Are you Josh Epstein?Josh: Yes? Who are you?Laura: It’s me, Laura Larsen.Josh: Gosh! You look…. different!Laura: Well…. maybe I’m [1]a little larger….Josh: Nonsensen. 胡说，废话! You look fine. How are you?Laura: Fine, thanks.Josh: Are you still in sales?Laura: Yeah, I’m selling computers…. I’m sorry, I forgot. What do you do?Josh: I own a health food store in San Francisco. I sell a lot of diet foods and vitaminsn. 维生素，维他命.Laura: Oh…. diet foods, huh?Josh: [2]It’s a living. What are your children doing? How old are they now?Laura: Ah, wow. My son Roger is 26. He’s an engineer. My daughter Rose is 29. She’s a nurse. Is your wife still in television?Josh: Yeah. She’s the host of the localadj. 本地的 talk show, the Liz Moody-Burns Show.Laura: Like Oprah?Josh: Ha! [3]I wish she were as popularadj. 受欢迎的! I could retire!翻译萝拉：嗨！你是乔西•艾普斯坦吗？乔西：是的。你是哪位？萝拉：是我啊，萝拉•拉尔森。乔西：天哪！你看起来……变.了好多！萝拉：喔……可能我有点发福了……乔西：胡说！你看起来很好。你好吗？萝拉：很好。谢谢！乔西：你还在做推销员吗？萝拉：是的，我在卖电脑……很抱歉，我忘记了,你现在在做什么？乔西：我在旧金山经营一家健康食品店,卖很多种减肥食品和维他命。萝拉：喔……减肥食品吗？乔西：图个温饱而已。你的孩子们在做什么？他们现在多大了？萝拉：呃，哇。我的儿子罗杰26岁。他是一名工程师。我女儿罗斯29岁，是一名护士。你太太还在电视台工作吗？乔西：是啊。她主持本地脱口秀节目，丽莎•慕迪波恩脱口秀。萝拉：像欧普拉脱口秀一样吗？乔西：哈！我倒希望她有那么受欢迎！那样我就可以退休了！A vacation in the sun阳光下的假期范例Cindy: Where did you go on your vacationn. 假期, Gerry?Gerry: I took Bonnie and the kids to the beach in Monterrey.Cindy: How long did you stay?Gerry: Three days. I forgot my sunblockn. 防晒霜.Cindy: Well, that sunburnn. 晒斑 looks pretty bad. What happened? Did you fall asleep and bakev. 烘焙 晒in your beach chair?Gerry: No! I went windsurfingv. 风帆冲浪!Cindy: How did you like it?Gerry: It was [1]a piece of cake!Cindy: Oh yeah? And you got this burned from windsurfing?Gerry: Well, it took some time to learn.Cindy: And…Gerry: And I [2]kind of got stuck on the water... I needed a lesson first.Cindy: What about Bonnie?Gerry: She had a great time. She just joggedv. 慢跑 and went swimming. And… stayed out of the sun.翻译辛迪：你去哪里度假了，盖瑞？盖瑞：我带邦妮和孩子们到蒙德勒的海滩去了。辛迪：你们在那里呆了多久？盖瑞：三天。我忘了带防晒油。辛迪：你看来晒得蛮严重的。怎么会这样？你是不是在沙滩椅上睡着了，然后被烤焦了？盖瑞：才不是！我去玩风帆冲浪了。辛迪：你觉得怎么样？盖瑞：易如反掌！辛迪：是吗？你是因为玩风帆冲浪才晒成这样的？盖瑞：哎呀！学习总是需要一点时间的。辛迪：而且……盖瑞：而且我在水里好像有点团团转…… 或许我应该先学学。辛迪：邦妮怎么样？盖瑞： 她玩得很愉快。她只是去慢跑、游泳…… 还有，就是呆在晒不着的地方。