美语情景对话第322期:Abilities 能力

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Todd: OK. Cat, we're back. We're gonna talk about things you can do.

托德：好。凯特，我们回来了。我们要谈谈你可以做到的事情。

Cat: OK.

凯特：好的。

Todd: Can you cook?

托德：你会做饭吗？

Cat: Not really!

凯特：不会！

Todd: No!

托德：不是吧！

Cat: Well, I can, but not very well.

凯特：其实我会做饭，不过做得不太好。

Todd: OK. What do you do for dinner?

托德：好。那一般你晚饭都吃什么？

Cat: Buy take-away food.

凯特：买一些外卖食品。

Todd: OK. When you buy take-away food what do you buy?

托德：好。那你一般买什么外卖食品？

Cat: Normally, normally stuff from the supermarket you can just throw in the microwave, ready meals, not from take-away from a pizza place or a restaurant but just stuff that I can cook at home.

凯特：通常来说，我会从超市买那种可以直接扔进微波炉的食物，那种即食食品，不是从速食店或批萨店或餐厅买的食物，就是那种我可以在家烹饪的食物。

Todd: OK. And can you sing?

托德：好。那你会唱歌吗？

Cat: Not at all.

凯特：完全不会。

Todd: No.

托德：不会吗。

Cat: No.

凯特：不会。

Todd: OK! Now, we're in Japan, have you ever been to Karaoke here in Japan?

托德：好！现在我们在日本生活，你去过日本的卡拉OK吗？

Cat: No.

凯特：没有。

Todd: No.

托德：没有啊。

Cat: And I really don't want to go either.

凯特：而且其实我也不想去。

Todd: OK. Um, can you play any musical instruments?

托德：好吧。嗯，你会演奏乐器吗？

Cat: I used to be able to play the piano and the guitar. But I haven't played them for a long time. I can remember a bit much.

凯特：我以前可以弹钢琴和吉他。但是我已经很长时间没有练习过了。我还能记得一点，不过，记得的不太多。

Todd: Which one did you prefer the Most?

托德：那你最喜欢哪个乐器？

Cat: Guitar. The piano was too difficult.

凯特：吉他。钢琴太难了。

Todd: Oh, really! Did you take lessons?

托德：哦，真的吗！你有去上课吗？

Cat: Yes, And I had to play scales all the time and it was really boring. I hardly ever got to play any tunes.

凯特：有。我要一直练习演奏音阶，那真的特别枯燥。我几乎没有演奏过曲子。

Todd: OK. Alright. Thanks a lot Cat.

托德：哦，好的。非常谢谢你，凯特。

重点讲解：
1. take-away
<主英>（饭食）外带的，（餐厅）供应外带食物的；
eg. Take-away food is extremely cheap.
外卖食品十分便宜。
eg. More than half of the japanese people surveyed, whose small flats make it difficult to cook, are buying fewer take-away meals.
超过一半的日本受访者减少了外卖的购买，尽管日本公寓狭小，不适合烹饪。
2. ready meals
现成食品；方便食品；
eg. Families graze on cholesterol-sodden take-aways and microwaved ready-meals.
家家户户都在吃富含胆固醇的外卖和微波热化的现成食品。
eg. Binge drinking, ready meals and a lack of exercise all take their toll.
酗酒、吃方便食品、缺乏锻炼均对年轻人的健康造成了不良影响。
3. hardly ever
几乎不；几乎没有；
eg. I had hardly ever spoken to him.
我很少和他讲话。
eg. He hardly ever to class or to group activities.
他几乎从不去上课，也不参加集体活动。