白领口语应急80主题 工作之余79 聊聊天气

79.聊聊天气

常用应急场景

范例一：Cool summer evening

W: Which season do you like best?

M: I like spring best. It is neither too cold nor too hot. Freezing days make me lazy and stuffy¹ days make me lazier. How about you?

W: I prefer summer, especially the summer evenings. When the sun comes down, it is so nice to take a walk and breathe. After a rain shower, the smell of the air is refreshing². It is also a best reason for ice-cream.

M: How do you get through the stuffy daytime?

W: Well, I have to hide in the air-conditioned rooms. Anyway, it is all worth, just think about the cool evening time.

范例二：Bad weather

M: So, Monica, what do you feel like doing this afternoon?

W: Actually, I had a perfect plan for this afternoon, but it is totally ruined by the sand storm. I woke up this morning and found it was sunny. So I called Lucy and asked her to go shopping with me. We were going to look for a new purse. Now it turned out to be like this. Neither of us wants to go to outside anymore.

M: That’s too bad. I hate sand storms too. It can be worse than any kind of bad weather.

W: What’s wrong with climate? Anyway, I think the sand storm happens more frequently³ these days than the years before. Can’t people do something to stop it?

M: It is not an easy job. The government is working on it. Lots of trees have been planted in the north of the capital. Also, methods of generating⁴ rain are being used by the government to fight against the drought⁵. But of course, it will not work overnight⁶. So, have you come out with a new plan for today?

W: My new plan is to wait for the end of the sand storm and clean my apartment.

1 stuffy   

adj.不透气的，闷热的

参考例句：

• It's really hot and stuffy in here.这里实在太热太闷了。
• It was so stuffy in the tent that we could sense the air was heavy with moisture.帐篷里很闷热，我们感到空气都是潮的。

2 refreshing   

adj.使精神振作的，使人清爽的，使人喜欢的

参考例句：

• I find it'so refreshing to work with young people in this department.我发现和这一部门的青年一起工作令人精神振奋。
• The water was cold and wonderfully refreshing.水很涼，特别解乏提神。

3 frequently   

adv.常常，屡次，经常地，频繁地

参考例句：

• Please write to me frequently.请经常给我来信。
• I like that you should call on me frequently.我喜欢你经常来拜访我。

4 generating   

n.发生，产生v.生（儿、女）( generate的现在分词 )；（通过物理或化学过程）发生；生成；引起

参考例句：

• There are many ways of generating a two-dimensional representation of an object. 有很多制作物体二维图的方法。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Generating functions are an ideal tool for studying sequences defined by recurrence. 母函数是研究用递推关系来确定的函数的最理想工具。 来自辞典例句

5 drought   

n.旱灾，干旱，久旱

参考例句：

• The plants are growing in again,despite the drought.尽管干旱，植物又长出来了。
• The ground is as hard as stone after the drought.长期干旱后土地硬得就像石头一样。

6 overnight   

ad.前一天晚上，一夜间 a.前一天晚上的

参考例句：

• She stayed overnight in the hotel. 她在旅馆过了一夜。
• Our success is not won overnight. 我们的成功不是一夜之间得来的。