英语口语大赢家Topic39:领养动物Pet Adoption

爸爸被猴子吓着了，和妈妈坐在旁边休息。坐着没事，他们会聊些什么呢，一起来看看吧！

 

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Mom: That's OK, Ben, just let it go. I thought you were just a little too much into it.

Dad: I wasn't kidding before, OK, I'm fine now.

Mom: Honey, have you ever heard that there are a lot of stray¹ cats now.

Dad: Yes.

Mom: Now they are collected by some volunteers, and people can adopt them or make a donation for the shelters.

Dad: What are you saying? You are acting² weird³ today.

Mom: I want to adopt a cat, and it can be Barbie's boyfriend too.

Dad: Haha, very funny, but it doesn't make any sense to me.

Mom: That's all right. At least I got myself left.

Dad: Seriously, if we will adopt any animals, we'd gotta to talk to Daniel.

Mom: I hope that he would grant me with that.

Dad: Hope so.

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妈妈：好了，本，都过去了。我还以为你只是有点奇怪。

爸爸：我刚才可没有开玩笑，不过我现在已经好了。

妈妈：亲爱的，你听说了现在有很多流浪猫吗？

爸爸：嗯。

妈妈：现在有一些志愿者们将猫们聚集起来，然后人们可以收养，或者是给他们捐款建住所。

爸爸：你想说什么？你今天有点奇怪。

妈妈：我想领养一只小猫，然后他也可以成为芭比的男朋友。

爸爸：哈哈，太有趣了。但是对于我来说却没有任何意义。

妈妈：好的，至少我坚持我自己的意见。

爸爸：说真的，如果我们要领养任何动物的话，我们得先和丹尼尔谈谈。

妈妈：我希望他会答应。

爸爸：希望吧。

经典背诵 Recitation
Dad: Shirley says that there are a lot of stray cats in the street, and she wants to adopt one, thinking it may be our dog Barbie's boyfriend. It's kind of her to think of that, but it's surely weird to make a cat be a dog's boyfriend. Honestly speaking, our son Daniel would just get mad if he hears about his mother's idea.

生词小结
stray adj. 迷途的，丢失的

collect vt. 收集

donation n. 捐赠

shelter n. 庇护所

adopt n. 收养

funny adj. 有趣的

grant vt. 同意

注释
let it go. 顺其自然

It doesn't make any sense to me. 对于我来说却没有任何意义。

Get myself left. 坚持自己的意见。

情景练习 Scene practice
拒绝句型练习

仔细阅读下面五个场景，两人一组，使用拒绝句型，用一用，练一练。

1.Someone offers Benjamin a cigarette. If he wants refuse politely, what would he say?

2.If you were Shirley, you have just bought a set of furniture. Someone offers to help you. You refuse politely. What do you say?

3.A friend offers to buy May some CDs, she refuses, what would she say?

4.If you were Daniel, a stranger offers you a drink. You refuse directly. What do you say?

5.A friend of Benjamin offers him a ticket for circus show, if you were Benjamin, you want to refuse it politely. What do you say?

 

1 stray   

n.走失的家畜，浪子；adj.迷途的，偶然的；vi.迷路，彷徨

参考例句：

• We couldn't identify the stray child.我们不能辨认出这个迷途孩子的身份。
• Please don't stray from the subject.请不要离开本题。

2 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

3 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。