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2024.05.19 02:54
第十四部 第一课: kiss something goodbye , Lose one's cool
- Larry 和李华刚刚考试完毕。李华告诉 Larry，她考试考得很不好。今天李华会学到两个常用语：kiss something goodbye 和 lose one's cool。
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- 喔！Larry! 今天的考试好难喔，我连叁分之一都没做完呢。
- What? That's not good. I guess you have to kiss your “A” in that class goodbye.
- 你在瞎说八道什麼啊？ 我现在很不高兴，你还要我和谁亲嘴？
- No, no, Li Hua, that's not what I said! I said “You have to kiss your ‘A’ goodbye". Kiss something goodbye indicates one accepts he or she won't or can't have something.
- 哦～，我明白了，kiss something goodbye 在这裡啊不是指和谁接吻告别，而是指一个人知道不会得到他想要得东西了。所以你是说，我这门课考试没考好，所以就得不到 A 囉。
- That's right! Li Hua, did you ever have to kiss something goodbye before?
- 嗯～，我有没有遇到过这种情况啊？让我想想...对了。上一次啊，我把手套忘在出租车里了。所以，这手套就再也没有啦。I have to kiss my gloves goodbye! 这个意思对不对呢？
- That's right. But when your bike was stolen last week, I bet you thought you would have to kiss that goodbye.
- 没错，我当时啊真以為那自行车被偷了，从此就没了。耶，没想到啊，警察帮我给它找回来了，我就不必跟自行车 “kiss goodbye” 了。
- And when you left China, you had to kiss your mother's good Chinese cooking goodbye.
- 是啊，我啊好久都没吃到我妈烧的菜了，有的时候啊真想家。Larry，我毕业以后可能会离开纽约到一个小城市去工作，那我啊就吃不到纽约许多不同风味的小吃了。
- I'm staying here in New York. So if that's your plan, you'll also have to kiss interesting conversations with me goodbye.
- 是耶，我要是真的离开纽约，那我就不能跟你经常聊天了。不过，我们可以打电话啊。
- That's right. Well, anyway, it's too bad about that test. I guess you will have to kiss your “A” goodbye.
- Kiss my “A” goodbye，我可真不甘心。我要找教授谈一谈。
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- 这就是教授的办公室。
- Sure is. OK, Li Hua, when you go into the professor's office to talk about that test, remember, don't lose your cool!
- Don't lose your cool! 这是什麼意思啊？难道你怕我会丢失什麼啊？
- I said “don't lose your cool”. Don't lose your cool means stay calm, don't get angry.
- 喔～，don't lose your cool，就是要我冷静，不要生气发火。Larry，前天我们开车明明没有超速，可是警察拦住我们， 我啊当时差一点要发火，可是没有 "lost my cool"?
- No, you didn't lose your cool, you were calm. One time I lost my cool with a bus driver because he didn't stop the bus at my stop.
- 你啊跟司机发脾气，当然不会有好结果囉。
- Yep. I had to wait for the next stop and walk back. If I hadn't lost my cool and had nicely asked him to stop, I wouldn't have had to walk so far.
- 你看，你和司机发脾气啊没好处。你得等下一站才能下车，再往回走。看来啊你必须冷静地和他商量，keep your cool，他没準就停下来囉。
- That's true. I heard more people lose their cool in the evening than in the morning, when they are fresh.
- 那是可以想像的。人啊，工作了一天，累了就容易发火嘛。早上的时候人很清醒，情绪也就比较平静囉。好了，閒话少说，我得进去找教授了。
- Remember, when you go in there you don't want to lose your cool, or you can say, you want to KEEP YOUR COOL. Lose your cool and keep your cool are opposites.
- 知道了，lose your cool 就是失去冷静；那 keep your cool 就是保持冷静。耶，总之啊，遇到事情一定要冷静就是了。
- That's for sure. I'll wait out here. See you in a few minutes.
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- 今天李华学到了两个常用语。一个是 kiss something goodbye, 意思是失去、损失。李华学到的另一个常用语是 lose one's cool 意思是变得不冷静， 或者说 keep one's cool 这是保持冷静的意思。
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