实战口语情景对话 第343期:The Table 桌子

 　　Adrienne: Wow, Mary, that's a great dining room table. Where did you get it?

　　埃德里安娜：哇，玛丽，那张餐桌太棒了。你从哪里买的？

　　Mary: Oh, thanks. That is something, a project that Dave and I worked on over a couple of weekends. We really enjoy doing woodworking and he actually has a very elaborate¹ woodshop at his house and it's something I really enjoy working on too, so we thought of a project, which was the table and kind of designed what it would look like and bought some lumber² and used his tools to figure out exactly how to put it all together and the process was a lot of fun, um, making the plan and actually using four or five different kinds of tools to assemble³ it and get it all put together. I have to say that I wasn't quite sure what it was going to end up looking like cause in the rough form it wasn't impressing me too much but once everything was sanded and stained⁴ and done it really impressed me so it's a lot of fun to do.

　　玛丽：哦，谢谢。那其实是戴夫和我花了几个周末的时间做出来的。我们非常喜欢做木工活，实际上他在家里有个非常精致的木工车间，当然这也是我很喜欢做的事情，所以我们想一起做个东西，而我们做出来的就是那张桌子，之前我们有稍微设计了一下，我们买了一些木材，然后用他的工具把这些木材组合在一起，制作过程非常有意思，先是制订出计划，然后用四到五种不同的工具把这些木材整合在一起。我得说，我不太确定最后做出来的桌子什么样，因为原始形状我并没有什么感觉，可是一旦所有东西经过处理再上色之后，那真是令我印象深刻，所以做木工活有很多乐趣。

　　Adrienne: So you made the table from scratch?

　　埃德里安娜：所以，你是从零开始做的这张桌子？

　　Mary: Yep, Yep we did. Just bought some lumber, certain sizes of lumber and ended up cutting it to the different kind of things we needed so it was like making a pattern and then using all these raw materials to put together to create the final product.

　　玛丽：没错。我们买了些木材，特定大小的木材，然后把它们切成我们需要的各种形状，就像设计图案一样，然后把这些原始材料组合在一起制作出了最终的成品。

　　Adrienne: Wow, that's really impressive⁵ cause it's a nice table.

　　埃德里安娜：哇，那太令人印象深刻了，那是一张非常不错的桌子。

　　Mary: I really like it. It was a lot of fun to do.

　　玛丽：我非常喜欢它。而且制作的过程也很有意思。

　　Adrienne: Um, any other projects you've done that you have in the house?

　　埃德里安娜：那你家里还有你亲自动手做的东西吗？

　　Mary: Um, well, not quite like the table, but just some general finishing things, for instance⁶ if something is broken, like I'm not sure if you noticed, but my front door has no doorknob at the moment so I do have a doorknob and I will be fixing that at some point, so

　　玛丽：嗯，还有就不是像做桌子这类了，只是一些修理工作，比如要是有东西坏了，我不确定你是否注意到了，不过我们家前门现在没有把手，所以我要做个把手，然后我在某个时候会把它修好，所以……

　　Adrienne: That falls, I'm sorry, does that fall into the category of woodworking?

　　埃德里安娜：抱歉，那个也算是木工类吗？

　　Mary: It can cause it's gonna involve some tools.

　　玛丽：可以算，因为也要用工具完成。

　　Adrienne: I see. Very cool. Thanks.

　　埃德里安娜：我明白了。真酷。谢谢

1 elaborate   

adj.详尽的；复杂的；vi./vt.详述；详细制订

参考例句：

• You understand the situation;I needn't elaborate any further.你对情况是了解的，我不必再进一步详谈了。
• He made an elaborate hairstyle.他做了一个复杂的发型。

2 lumber   

n.木材，木料；v.以破旧东西堆满；伐木；笨重移动

参考例句：

• The truck was sent to carry lumber.卡车被派出去运木材。
• They slapped together a cabin out of old lumber.他们利用旧木料草草地盖起了一间小屋。

3 assemble   

vt.集合，召集；装配；收集；vi.集合，聚集

参考例句：

• Assemble your papers and put them in the file.把你的文件归拢放在这个文件夹内。
• The students assemble for class at 8 o'clock in the morning.学生早上八时聚集在一起上课。

4 stained   

adj.污染的，玷污的

参考例句：

• My dress was stained. 我的连衣裙弄上了污渍。
• The doors are then stained and varnished. 这些门还要染色涂清漆。

5 impressive   

adj.给人深刻印象的，感人的

参考例句：

• This cinema is so impressive that we can't help crying.这影片如此感人以至我们禁不住流下泪来。
• The suit made him look especially impressive.他穿上这套衣服真精神。

6 instance   

n.例，例证，实例

参考例句：

• Can you quote me a recent instance?你能给我举一个最近的例子吗？
• He's a greedy boy,yesterday,for instance,he ate all our biscuits!他是个贪吃的孩子――比如，他昨天把我们的饼干都吃了！