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2024.12.09 22:33
第十一部 第四課: copycat , wacky
- Larry 和李華剛剛看完電影．李華在問 Larry 她沒看懂的地方．今天李華會學到兩個常用語： copycat 和 wacky。
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- Larry，我特別喜歡看這種偵探片，最後把壞人抓住，特痛快．對了，剛才那個電影裡的偵探說，那殺人兇手是個 copycat．那是什麼意思啊？
- A copycat is someone who imitates someone else. The murderer in the movie imitated other famous murderers, so he was copycat killer.
- 嗯～，copycat 就是指模仿別人的人．哦～，現在我懂了．那個偵探是說那個殺人犯是模仿其他殺人犯的作案方法．哎呀，怪不得我看電影的時候啊有些地方都弄不懂．對了， Larry，這個 copycat 還可以用在其他的地方嗎？
- Sure. For instance, my younger sister used to imitate me a lot when she was a kid. She would repeat whatever I said, so I caller her my little copycat.
- 你叫你的小妹妹 little copycat．那你妹妹一定很可愛喔．她啊一定很崇拜你，所以才會模仿你的一舉一動，重複你說的話啊！
- Yeah, it was kind of cute, but it got annoying after a while.
- 哎～，小妹妹學你的樣有什麼好討厭的啊？
- Kids are great copycats and they always manage to copy things that they shouldn't. If I said a bad word, my sister always repeated. My mother thought I was teaching her bad words on purpose.
- 所以說大人要給小孩樹立好的榜樣嘛！你不要你妹妹說粗話，那你就不該說粗話啊．哎，不過，你媽媽以為你是故意教壞妹妹，那肯定讓你很不好受喔．對不對？
- That's right. It got me into a lot of trouble. Hey, I also remember that when I was a kid, it was common for kids to accuse each other of being a "copycat."
- 嗯，沒錯，小孩子啊最喜歡說別人學自己，好像自己很聰明，別人啊就只會模仿。
- You're right. To call someone a copycat means that the other person isn't original and was just imitating what someone else was doing.
- Larry，你說的這句話不是跟我剛才說的意思一樣嗎？ You're a copycat!
- Not entirely the same!
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- Hey, Li Hua, did you ever do any wacky things when you were a kid?
- 對不起喔， Larry，你剛才說什麼啊．我沒聽懂，你問我小時候做過什麼 wacky 的事，那是什麼意思啊？
- Wacky means crazy or silly. Kids tend to do wacky things. For instance, when I was a kid, I tried to play Tarzan with our living room curtains.
- Wacky就是指瘋瘋顛顛或犯傻．對哎，小孩子啊往往會做一些傻事．不過，像你小的時候想要學泰山而把窗簾當樹枝一樣爬上去，這也太危險了吧。
- Yeah, I had just seen the movie, Tarzan, and I decided to climb the curtains and swing from them the way Tarzan swung from the vines. Pretty wacky, huh?
- 我想也是，你啊肯定是看了泰山這部電影以後啊才會那麼 wacky 的．不過啊說到 wacky，我小時候也不見得比你差喔，我也做了不少 wacky 的事情呢！
- Such as?
- 嗯，比方說，我 8 歲那年啊，我爬上鄰居家的一棵樹，上去了，我卻不知道怎麼下來呢。
- That's wacky! So what did you do?
- 我啊，掛在樹上，還能怎麼辦啊？只好大叫，請人來救我囉！後來啊有人拿了張梯子，把我給救下來了。
- That's funny. Hey, how's your cat doing? Has she done anything wacky lately?
- 嗨！說到我那隻貓啊，小雪球，它做的 wacky 事啊那才多呢！昨天我在看電視上有一個介紹大自然的節目啊，小雪球看到銀幕裡的小鳥，它就一直想撲上去和它玩．那個模樣啊，真逗！
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- 今天李華學到了兩個常用語．第一個是： copycat，是指「模仿別人的人」．另一個常用語是： wacky，意思就是「瘋瘋顛顛、犯傻的」。
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