地道口語你曾在老外面前“杯具了”嗎

1、地道口語：你曾在老外面前“杯具了”嗎?Larry打算請很多人來家里做客，李華在幫他策劃這個大party。他們會用到兩個說法：stoked和bummer。Larry: OK, so we'll need about two dozen hamburgers, 20 pounds of ribs, a cheese platter, four bags of potato chips, potato salad, and.what am I missing?LH: 還能缺什么?。磕阏f的這些東西，足夠我吃一個禮拜了！我說Larry，你到底要請多少客人??？Larry: There s

2、hould be around 40 people here. It's going to be great. I'm so stoked!LH: Stoked？什么意思？Larry: Yeah, stoked, s-t-o-k-e-d, stoked. It means to be really excited about something.LH: Oh，stoked就是特別興奮，特別激動的意思。Larry: That's right. I'm really looking forward to this party. In other words, you

3、 could say I'm super stoked! It's going to be so much fun. Aren't you stoked, Lihua?LH: 怎么說呢？I'm kind of stoked，我也挺興奮的，不過Larry，你請那么多人，等派對結束后，這里肯定亂糟糟的。Larry: Oh, don't worry about that. You'll help me clean after the party, right?LH: 啊？！還要我?guī)兔κ帐埃縇arry: Oh, and I forgot to tell

4、you. I'm stoked about the DJ I hired for the party.LH: 你還請了個DJ混音師？Larry: Yea, he's an old friend from high school. He told me he's got quite a lot of fans around town these days.LH: 我看出來了，這場party人又多，音樂又是吵哄哄的搖滾樂，而我還得負責事后清理戰(zhàn)場的工作?，F在想起來我都頭疼。I can't say that I'm stoked quite yet。Larry

5、: Still not stoked? OK, what if I told you that my friend Brian will be there? You know, the guy who is in charge of interns at the company you want to work for?LH: ?。緽rian要來？我特想去他們公司實習，你一定幫我介紹！Larry: No problem. I'll ask him to help you get the internship at his company.LH: Awesome! Now I'm

6、 stoked! Larry, 讓我們投入戰(zhàn)斗吧！Larry和李華精心準備的派對開始了，可是卻出了點小狀況LH: Larry，牛肉餅烤得怎么樣啦？我等著做漢堡包呢！Larry: Not too bad. They're just cooking a little slower than I thought. I guess my grill is too small. It's OK, though! I'm still stoked for the party!LH: Larry！你看看，燒烤架下面根本就沒有火！你是不是沒有瓦斯啦？Larry: Oh, no! You

7、're right! What a bummer!LH: Bummer? 你是說bum，懶鬼嗎？Larry: No. Not bum, bummer! A bummer is bad news, or something that makes you upset - like running out of gas when you need to cook for 40 people!LH: 哦！A bummer就是壞消息。瓦斯用完，你沒法烤肉， 真是個好大的bummer啊。不過你也不用著急，現在只有一個客人，就是你那個高中同學，現在很紅的那個DJ。Larry: Wait a minu

8、te. This music is from our DJ? This music is for little kids - I thought the neighbors must be having a birthday party for their five-year-old daughter.LH: 不是，你聽到的就是DJ放的音樂，他說他的專長就是給學?；顒釉鞖夥眨杂玫亩际莾和魳稬arry: What a bummer! Ugh, this party is turning into a disaster! No one's here, I can't cook

9、 the food, and the DJ sounds like he's from Sesame Street!LH: 沒關系，只要你朋友Brian能來，我就知足啦！我可得好好表現，爭取讓他給我實習的機會！I'm really stoked to meet him!Larry: I don't know, Lihua. No one has showed up! I was so stoked about this party. now the whole thing is just a big bummer. (Sigh) Maybe I wrote the wr

10、ong date on the invitation.(doorbell rings)Larry: Brian is here.LH: Oh thank god.Larry: Hey Brian, how are you?Brian: Hey, Larry, good to see you again! This must be Lihua. I've heard so much about you!LH: Oh, really.All good things, I hope.Larry: Actually, Lihua is looking for an internship this summer. Do you think your company would have an o