美语情景对话 第965期:Freaks and Animals 不同类型的人(1)

Todd: So, Julia, let's talk about types of people.

托德：朱莉娅，我们来谈谈不同类型的人。

Julia: OK.

朱莉娅：好。

Todd: Right, first one, are you a fitness freak?

托德：首先，你是健身狂吗？

Julia: A fitness freak? I'm fairly fit but I'm not a freak. No, I'm not a fitness freak, no.

朱莉娅：健身狂？我很健康，但是我并不是健身狂。我不是健身狂。

Todd: So you exercise but it's not like you do it all the time?

托德：你有在锻炼，但你不是一直在健身？

Julia: No, and I do some unhealthy stuff as well. I like to drink and I'm a former smoker and yes, no I'm not a fitness freak.

朱莉娅：对，我也会做一些不太健康的事情。我喜欢喝酒，我以前还抽烟，所以我不是健身狂。

Todd: Right. I think a fitness freak is like somebody who does it, who exercises compulsively.

托德：好。我认为健身狂是那种强制性健身的人。

Julia: I indulge in bad stuff too so no I'm not a fitness freak.

朱莉娅：我也会沉迷于不健康的事物，所以我并不是健身狂。

Todd: OK, so that leads us to the next question. Are you a party animal?

托德：好，这样就引出了我们的第二个问题。你是聚会迷吗？

Julia: Not any more. I'm too old now.

朱莉娅：现在不是了。我现在已经不再年轻了。

Todd: When you were younger, you were a party animal?

托德：你年轻的时候是聚会迷？

Julia: I think, yeah, that was probably the type that I most fitted into.

朱莉娅：我想是的，我可能属于那种类型。

Todd: Nice. I was never a party animal.

托德：好。我从来就不是聚会迷。

Julia: No?

朱莉娅：不是吗？

Todd: No, I've always been pretty tame. I've always been pretty tame.

托德：不是，我一直是很无聊的人。我一直属于枯燥乏味的人。

Julia: Yes, I was pretty wild when I was younger.

朱莉娅：好，我年轻的时候非常狂热。

Todd: Really?

托德：真的吗？

Julia: Yeah.

朱莉娅：对。

Todd: So you used to drink, smoke, stay up late?

托德：那你以前喝酒、抽烟、熬夜？

Julia: Yeah. All that and more, yeah.

朱莉娅：对，这些我都做过，而且更甚之。

Todd: Come home in the wee hours of the morning?

托德：凌晨才回家？

Julia: Oh, yeah.

朱莉娅：哦对。

Todd: Oh, nice, that's cool. OK, next one would be do you know anybody in your family who's a couch potato?

托德：好，这很酷。下一个问题是，你家里有人是电视迷吗？

Julia: Couch potato?

朱莉娅：电视迷？

Todd: Because I know that you're not a couch potato.

托德：因为我知道你不是电视迷。

Julia: I'm not a couch potato, no. My brother sometimes demonstrates couch potato traits.

朱莉娅：我的确不是电视迷。我哥哥有时会呈现出电视迷的特征。

Todd: Yeah.

托德：好。

Julia: He likes to play video games and stuff like that and he'll spend a lot of time watching movies and so he does spend a lot of time sedentary compared to me. He makes me look like a fitness freak, I guess, because he doesn't do so much exercise.

朱莉娅：他喜欢玩电子游戏，他会花很多时间看电影，和我比起来，他坐着的时间的确很多。我想他使我看起来像健身狂，因为他不会做太多的运动。

Todd: Right. And so for people listening a couch potato is somebody who watches a lot of TV and sits on the couch.

托德：好。我们要向听众解释一下，电视迷是指那些花很多时间坐在沙发上看电视的人。

Julia: Spends a lot of time on the couch, yeah.

朱莉娅：对，花很多时间在沙发上。

Todd: Well, how about the similar personality trait of the bookworm? Are you a bookworm?

托德：那有相似特征的书迷呢？你是书迷吗？

Julia: A bookworm? No, but I think my husband's probably a bookworm.

朱莉娅：书迷？不是，不过我想我丈夫可能是个书迷。

Todd: Yeah?

托德：是吗？

Julia: He spends a lot of time reading books. He reads very fast so he gets through a lot of books.

朱莉娅：他会花大量的时间看书。他阅读的速度非常快，所以他读过很多书。

Todd: He's a speed reader?

托德：他是速读者？

Julia: Yeah, he's a very fast reader and he has to read. He has to have a book with him all the time. He cannot, a waiting room or on a train or any situation where you've just got to sit around, he cannot do it if he doesn't have a book.

朱莉娅：对，他看书的速度非常快，而且他必须要看书。他一定要随身带着书。如果没有书，他就不能在等候室、火车或任何闲坐着的地方呆着。

Todd: Yeah. You know I live alone and that's a terrible trait that I have. I cannot sit and eat and just eat without something to occupy my attention. I have to read or I have to be like watching something on the computer and if I go to a waiting room or anything like that or I'm on a plane I'm the same. I have to have something to read. It drives me nuts.

托德：好。我一个人住，我有一个糟糕的特征。我不能只是坐着或吃东西，我吃饭的时候不能没有占据我注意力的事情。如果我在等候室或是在飞机上，我一定要看书或是在电脑上看东西。我一定要看点什么。这快把我逼疯了。

Julia: You see I can't read on transport because I get sick. It makes me sick, it makes me nauseous.

朱莉娅：你看，我不能在交通工具上看书，因为我会不舒服。在交通工具上阅读会让我感觉很晕，让我会恶心想吐。

Todd: Like motion sickness?

托德：像晕车那样？

Julia: Yeah. So I don't have a habit of reading on a train. A bus or a car, oh my God no, I can't read. No way but my husband reads everywhere all the time.

朱莉娅：对。所以我没有在火车上阅读的习惯。在坐公交车和乘车时，天哪，我完全不能看书。我做不到，不过我丈夫不管在哪里，一直都在看书。

Todd: Oh, that's cool.

托德：哦，那很酷。

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重点讲解：
1. indulge in (使自己)沉迷；放纵(自己)；
例句：He used to indulge in fantasies about being a famous actor.
他过去沉迷于当名演员的幻想中。
2. fit into 归属，适于(某种情形或体系)；
例句：People don't often fit into neat categories.
人常常不能简单归类。
3. stay up 深夜不睡；熬夜；
例句：I am going to stay up late to finish my paper.
为了完成报告我打算熬夜不睡。
4. sit around 闲坐着；无所事事；
例句：Eve isn't the type to sit around doing nothing.
伊芙不是那种喜欢坐在那里无所事事的人。