美语情景对话 第943期:A Few Bad Habits 坏习惯(1)

Erina: So Mike, do you have any bad habits?

惠里奈：迈克，你有坏习惯吗？

Mike: Of course not. I'm perfect, I've no habits that are bad. Yes, I do have some bad habits. One of my bad habits is fidgeting and I think I'm a very high energy person so, especially when I'm on the phone, mixed with my slightly obsessive compulsive tendencies, I tend to arrange all the things on a desk so if there are pens and books and different things on the desk, I would be turning them and arranging them in order and pretty much always using my hands and keeping them busy and although this might not be such a bad habit, perhaps for people who are with me or next to me they might be a little bit uncomfortable because it seems like, you know, I'm a bit nervous or, you know, have something on my mind so...

迈克：当然没有。我非常完美，我没有坏习惯。好吧，其实我有一些坏习惯。其中一个坏习惯是小动作太多，我认为我是一个精力充沛的人，尤其是打电话的时候我会有轻微的强迫症，我要把桌子上的东西整理得井井有条，如果桌子上有铅笔、书或其他东西，我会把它们整齐摆好，而且我一直在使用双手，我的手闲不下来，不过这可能并不是坏习惯，也许我旁边的人会感觉有些不舒服，因为看上去像我很紧张或是我一直在想事情……

Erina: Not in confidence for your speech, yeah.

惠里奈：对你说的话感到不自信。

Mike: Right, in fact that's not the case but what happens is I start playing with things.

迈克：对，可是实际情况并不是那样，可是我就是会摆弄东西。

Erina: I've seen you do that before.

惠里奈：我以前看到你那样过。

Mike: Oh have you?

迈克：哦，你看到过？

Erina: Yeah.

惠里奈：对。

Mike: Well then I guess that really shows it is one of my bad habits. You know, I think that I do that to focus because, you know, while I'm speaking to somebody or while I'm on the phone, I arrange things on the desk and that is kind of metaphorically me arranging my thoughts in my head which is probably where this habit has come from.

迈克：嗯，我想这可以说明这的确是我的一个坏习惯。其实我这么做是为了集中注意力，因为我在和别人说话或是打电话时，我也会整理桌上的东西，我想这可能表明我的头脑正在整理思绪，可能这个习惯就是这么来的。

Erina: I see. Yeah, do you have any other bad habits other than fidgeting?

惠里奈：我明白了。除了小动作以外你还有其他坏习惯吗？

Mike: Well maybe a bad habit is driving quickly and I'm not sure if that's considered a bad habit but I guess when I get behind the wheel of a car I sometimes get impatient and that impatience drives me to put more weight on the gas pedal and in turn I go faster and of course speeding is not a good thing especially when you get pulled over by the police. So that's a bad habit that I might have to work on.

迈克：另外一个坏习惯是开车太快，我不确定这会不会被看作是坏习惯，不过我在开车时有时会变得不耐烦，这种不耐烦就会让我去猛踩油门，所以我越开越快，不过在你被警察截停的时候，速度就不是什么好事了。我想这是我要改掉的一个坏习惯。

Erina: Yeah, definitely. You don't want to lose your licence.

惠里奈：没错。你也不想被吊销驾照。

Mike: No.

迈克：对。

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重点讲解：
1. on the phone 在通话；
例句：She has been on the phone all morning.
她整个上午都在打电话。
2. in order 整齐；井然有序；
例句：Everything in the house is in order.
这座房子里一切都井然有序。
3. on one's mind 担心；惦记；挂念；
例句：The spectre of unemployment was always on his mind.
他心头一直萦绕著可能失业的恐惧感。
4. other than （用于否定陈述后）除了…以外；
例句：I can't think of two people more suited to each other than you and David.
没有人比你和大卫俩人更般配的佳偶了。
5. in turn 继而；转而；反过来；
例句：This, in turn, has generated current account surpluses.
这继而导致了经常账户盈余。
6. pull over （通常因司机危险驾驶，警察）令（驾车者或车辆）停靠路边；
例句：The patrolman signaled for the speeding driver to pull over.
巡警发出信号警告那名超速驾驶的司机靠边停下。