美语情景对话第752期:Bad Day 糟糕的一天

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Joel: Hey, Michele.

乔尔：嗨，米歇尔。

Michele: Hi.

米歇尔：嗨。

Joel: You don't look very happy. What happened?

乔尔：你看起来不太高兴。发生什么事了？

Michele: Oh, well, I'm a little bit frustrated.

米歇尔：哦，我有些沮丧？

Joel: Why?

乔尔：为什么？

Michele: Well, I went to the bank today and I couldn't communicate well because my Japanese wasn't good enough and the bank teller didn't speak English.

米歇尔：我今天去银行了，可是我的日语不太好，银行职员又不会说英语，所以我们的沟通不好。

Joel: What were you trying to do?

乔尔：你去银行做什么？

Michele: Well, I've ordered a ticket to go to Australia and I have to send the money to the travel agency and they only accept one form of payment. They want me to send a bank transfer.

米歇尔：我订了张飞澳大利亚的机票，我要把钱汇给旅行社，那家旅行社只接受一种付款方式。他们让我通过银行转账。

Joel: OK.

乔尔：好。

Michele: So, I have a post office account and I can't do it through the post office, so I went to the bank and I started to explain that I want to send.... do a bank transfer.

米歇尔：我有邮局账户，可是不能通过邮局汇款，所以我去了银行，试图和银行职员说明我要转账。

Joel: Right.

乔尔：嗯。

Michele: And because I'm a foreigner, I think she thought I wanted to send money abroad and she was saying, "Oh, I'm sorry, you can't do that here" but I had to explain, "No, no. I just want to send it within Japan," but I don't know, because I don't have an account at that bank there was some sort of problem and she wanted me to fill out a form and I didn't really understand it.

米歇尔：因为我是外国人，我想她可能认为我要往外国汇款，所以她说：“抱歉，在这里你不能这么做”，然后我解释说，“不是，我只是想在日本境内转账”，可能因为我没有在那家银行开设账户，所以有一些问题，她想让我先填表，可是我看不懂那张表。

Joel: Right, and then the form is in Japanese.

乔尔：好，那张表上是日语。

Michele: Yes, so now I have the form. I guess I'll have to go find a friend to help me with...

米歇尔：对，我把那张表拿回来了。我想我要去找个朋友帮我……

Joel: You never solved the problem.

乔尔：你没有解决问题。

Michele: No, no. I just took the form and said, "OK, I'll take it and come back."

米歇尔：不是。我拿了表以后，跟她说：“表我拿走了，我很快回来。”

Joel: How long were you there?

乔尔：你在银行待了多长时间？

Michele: Not too long, maybe five or ten minutes. There weren't many people in the bank but I still felt like, oh I'm taking up too much time here or something.

米歇尔：时间并不长，可能也就五到十分钟。当时银行里人不多，不过我还是觉得我占用了太多时间。

Joel: So, you just gave up and...

乔尔：所以你就放弃了……

Michele: Yes.

米歇尔：对。

Joel: Well, I'll have to take you over to my landlord here. This Japanese woman is really nice and she'll... I'm sure she'll help you fill out the form.

乔尔：我带你去找我的房东吧。我的房东是名日本女性，她人非常好，我确定她会帮你填表。

Michele: Oh, really.

米歇尔：哦，真的吗？

Joel: And take care of you. Yeah.

乔尔：她会帮你处理。对。

Michele: Oh, that's great.

米歇尔：哦，那真是太好了。

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重点讲解：
1. fill out 填，填写（表格等）；
例句：To apply for a job, you mustfill outa form.
申请工作要填表。
2. take up 占用，花费（时间、空间或精力）；
例句：know how busy you must be and naturally I wouldn't want totake uptoo much of your time.
我知道您肯定特别忙，我当然不想占用您太多的时间。
3. or something （表示对说的话不能肯定）或别的什么，或诸如此类；
例句：Mr. Green is a shopkeeperor something.
格林先生大概是店主之类的人。
4. give up 放弃；戒除；
例句：It is a pity togive upthe job.
要放弃这份工作，真是遗憾。
5. take care of 处理；应对；
例句：There are still many things totake care of.
还有许多要处理的事。