美语情景对话 第1207期:Have you changed a lot? 你变了很多吗?

Elena: Hello, this is Elena from Bulgaria.

埃琳娜：你好，我是埃琳娜，来自保加利亚。

Diego: I'm Diego from Mexico.

迭戈：我是迭戈，来自墨西哥。

Elena: Today's question is are you an early bird or a night owl?

埃琳娜：今天要讨论的话题是，你是早起者还是夜猫子？

Diego: I guess that's a really easy question to answer for me. I am definitely, definitely not an early bird. I can't function in the morning. I always wake up and I'm always like where's the coffee? Yeah, I don't know why. There's a lot of people who are really active and you know awake in the morning, but for me it always takes ten, twenty minutes to wake up and hours to finally function. But then at night, you know I can just do my homework, study so much, do all the work that I need to get done and I get so concentrated and so active and I feel so energized at night. So to answer your question I would say I'm definitely a night owl.

迭戈：我认为对我来说这是一个非常好回答的问题。我绝对绝对不是早起者。我早上不能工作。我早上醒了以后，就会想“咖啡在哪里？”我也不知道原因。有很多人早上非常活跃，可以很快醒来，可是我通常要花10分钟甚至20分钟的时间才能起床，而要我正常工作需要一个小时的时间。而在晚上，我可以写作业、努力学习、完全所有要做的工作，我可以高度集中，充满活力，我感觉我晚上充满能量。所以，对于你这个问题，我会回答我肯定是夜猫子。

Elena: OK. Well I don't know, for me I've found that I'm pretty productive in the morning so if I want to get any work done I have to get up and do it in the morning because by the afternoon, I just want to slack off and go meet my friends and have fun and I get sleepy really early.

埃琳娜：好。怎么说呢，我发现我早上效率更高，如果我想完成工作，我会早起在上午完成，因为下午我想放松一下，和朋友见面，享受快乐时光，而且我很早就开始犯困。

Diego: OK. So you're an early bird and I'm a late night owl.

迭戈：好。所以，你是早起者，而我是夜猫子。

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重点讲解：
1. early bird 早行动的人；(尤指)早起的人；
例句：We've always been early birds, getting up at 5.30 or 6am.
我们一直都起得很早，早晨5点半或6点就起床了。
2. night owl 晚睡的人；夜里工作的人；夜猫子；
例句：The late-night parties make the hotel a haven for night owls and a hell for anyone with children.
那些深夜派对把酒店变成了夜猫子的乐园，对于带着孩子的人们则成了地狱。
3. at night 在晚间；在夜里；
例句：He entered the church alone at night.
他孑然一人在夜晚走进了那所教堂。
4. slack off 疏忽；懈怠；松劲；
例句：If someone slacks off, Bill comes down hard.
如果有人怠工，比尔就会严厉地加以斥责。