【话匣子英语】回校聚会

苏珊家乡有个习俗，同学们高中毕业后回母校的过程中，会举办一个回校聚会，像是老朋友聚会抑或是同学聚会.....

Suzanne:        And I love being back home. And one of my favourite things when I go back home in the fall is to go back to my high school for the homecoming game. And I get a hot chocolate or a spiced¹ apple cider and stand in the bleachers and watch the football game.

 

Andrew:           Ooo.

 

Suzanne:        It’s a lot of fun.

 

Andrew:           OK, Suzanne, wait just one second. The homecoming game, what is the homecoming game?

 

Suzanne:        Well, Andrew, I’m glad you asked. The homecoming game is in the fall when the alumni or the graduates of the high school, the hometown high school, come back and visit for a weekend. And you get to see all the old friends and the old school, and watch the football game. It’s kind of like a little reunion in the fall.  And there’s a special game, and there’s also a dance on Saturday night. On Friday night, there is the football game. And then on Saturday night, there is a dance, and they even crown² a king and queen of homecoming.

 

Andrew:           The homecoming king and the homecoming queen.

 

Suzanne:        Yes.

 

Andrew:           I’ve definitely³ seen that in the movies before.

 

Suzanne:        Yes, it’s very much like the movies. It’s totally like the movies.

 

Andrew:           Well, this is so interesting to me as a Canadian speaking to you, an American. Because at least in my high school in Canada, we didn’t have homecoming. This is something …

 

Suzanne:        OK.

 

Andrew:           That I’ve only experienced⁴ through the movies. So it’s really cool to hear about it from you, firsthand.

 

Suzanne:        Yeah. Well, high school dances in the US are pretty interesting.

 

Andrew:           Yeah, so let’s talk about it a bit today. Actually, our topic for this Chatterbox episode⁵ is high school dances. And so we’re just gonna have a natural conversation, chew⁶ the fat a little bit about this topic, high school dances. And, OK, let’s spend just a little bit more time on homecoming. Because I have a couple more questions for you, if you don’t mind.

 

Suzanne:        Sure.

 

Andrew:           So you mentioned that the school alumni come back and visit the school. They come home during the homecoming game.

 

Suzanne:        Mmhmm.

 

Andrew:           Now is this just recent graduates, or is this all the graduates that are still in the area? How far back does the alumni go?

 

Suzanne:        A lot of the times, there are mostly recent graduates because those are usually the people that are still around in the neighbourhood or in the area.

 

Andrew:           Sure.

 

Suzanne:        But if you are a graduate and you live there, or if you’re coming home just for the holidays, it can be 20 years, 30 years. I mean, it doesn’t matter. If you’ve graduated from there, and you’re around, come on by.

1 spiced   

adj. 经过调味的

参考例句：

• Have you spiced this cake? 这蛋糕中加香料了吗？
• His stories are spiced with humour. 他的小说里有很多幽默风趣的片段。

2 crown   

n.王冠，王权，顶点；v.使...成王，加冕，居...之顶

参考例句：

• He won the crown in 1973.他荣获1973年冠军称号。
• They wanted to crown Caesar king.他们想立凯撒为王。

3 definitely   

adv.一定地，肯定地；明确地，确切地

参考例句：

• The team will definitely lose if he doesn't play.如果他不参加比赛，这个队肯定会输。
• I shall definitely be home before six o'clock.6点以前，我一定回家。

4 experienced   

adj.有经验的；经验丰富的，熟练的

参考例句：

• Experienced seamen will advise you about sailing in this weather.有经验的海员会告诉你在这种天气下的航行情况。
• Perhaps you and I had better change over;you are more experienced.也许我们的工作还是对换一下好，你比我更有经验。

5 episode   

n.（作品的一段）情节，插曲，系列事件中之一

参考例句：

• The episode was a huge embarrassment for all concerned.这段小插曲令所有有关人员都感到非常尴尬。
• This episode remains sharply engraved on my mind.这段经历至今仍深深地铭刻在我的心中。

6 chew   

vt.咀嚼，嚼碎；vi.咀嚼，细想；n.咀嚼，咀嚼物

参考例句：

• This candy is so hard that no one can chew it.这种糖太硬，没人嚼得动。
• You should chew over this thing.你应当好好思量这件事。