ESL杰夫的一天 第14期:清洁讲解(3)

 　　The toilet, "toilet," is what you use to go to the bathroom—what you use to get rid of things from your body, we might say. 马桶（toilet），就是你去卫生间会用到的东西——也就是你用来排泄的。

　　When you are done using the toilet, you then flush¹ the toilet. 你用完马桶后就需要冲马桶。

　　The verb, to flush, "flush," is when you get rid of what's inside the toilet after you're done using it, usually with water. 动词“冲”（flush），就是当你用完马桶后，去除马桶内物的动作，一般是用水冲。

　　There is a tub in my bathroom.  我的卫生间里有个浴缸。

　　A tub, “tub,” sometimes called a bathtub, is where you can take a bath. 浴缸（tub），有时候称为“bathtub”，是你洗澡的地方。

　　You can fill the tub up with water and you can get into the water. 你可以在浴缸里装满水并进入水中。

　　"Anyway," I say in the story, "I turn on the lights." “不管怎样”，我在这个故事里说到，“我打开灯。”

　　Notice the use of the word "anyway." 注意到用的这个词“不管怎样。”

　　It's very common in English to use that word when you want to get back to something you were talking about before. 当你想回到你之前讲过的事情时，英语中最常用到那个词。

　　We can also say, “as I was saying,” it means something similar here. 我们还可以说，“正如我刚才所说的，”它在这里的意思与之相似。

　　"Anyway, I turn on the lights, and try to find the mouthwash in the medicine cabinet." “不管怎样，我打开灯，在药柜里翻寻漱口水。”

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vi.奔流；vt.冲洗；adj.齐平的；n.脸色，脸红

参考例句：

• Father asked me to flush off the garage floor.父亲叫我冲洗车库的地板。
• There was a flush in her cheeks.她满脸通红。