新概念英语口语宝典第一册 第157课:日有所思夜有所梦

 　　Lesson 137 Dreams

　　第137课 梦想

　　A:Do you know a saying "What you dream at night is what you were thinking in daytime"?

　　A：你听过“日有所思，夜有所梦”这句话吗？

　　B:Come on, that's superstition¹, do you believe that?

　　B：行了，那是迷信，你相信吗？

　　A:Yeah, one day I was sitting in my office, listening to a group of colleagues whispering and talking about me. I couldn't hear what they were saying but it worried me.

　　A：是的。一天我坐在办公室里，听见一群同事在那儿嘀嘀咕咕谈论我。我听不清他们在说什么，这让我很不安。

　　B:Then what happened?

　　B：那后来呢？

　　A:That night I dreamt exactly the same sequence² again, except that in my dream I saw something I've missed during the day. While they were whispering they were all looking down at something.

　　A：那天晚上我居然又梦到了同样的场景，只不过在梦里我看见了白天错过的东西。当他们嘀嘀咕咕的同时。还在低头看着什么东西。

　　B:What were they looking at?

　　B：在看什么呢？

　　A:I didn't see it in my dream, but the next morning when I woke up I realized exactly why they'd been whispering and talking about me. That day was my birthday.

　　A：在梦里没看见是什么东西，但第二天早上当我醒来我清楚地知道他们在嘀咕、谈论我什么。那天是我的生日。

　　B:Wasn't it possible that they'd been looking down at a birthday card?

　　B：他们低头看的不会是生日卡片吧？

　　A:Yeah, my dream was right. I did get a card from my colleagues, whom I'd suspected of talking about me.

　　A：是的，我的梦是对的。我确实从我的同事，就是我怀疑谈论我的那些同事那里收到了一张卡片。

1 superstition   

n.迷信，迷信行为

参考例句：

• It's a common superstition that black cats are unlucky.认为黑猫不吉祥是一种很普遍的迷信。
• Superstition results from ignorance.迷信产生于无知。

2 sequence   

n.连续，接续，一连串；次序，顺序

参考例句：

• He had to attend a sequence of meetings.他得参加一系列会议。
• The book is more satisfying if you read each chapter in sequence.这本书依次读各章会更好。