英文原版对话1000个:840 Christmas Tree

Fred: Anja, so what's it like to decorate your Christmas tree in Switzerland?

Anja: Ah, Christmas tree! Oh, that's so nice, right? Like, I remember in my family, you know, we have the special, like space in our house just for the Christmas tree, just for Christmas time.

Fred: A special space for the Christmas tree!

Anja: Yes, indeed¹! And I remember I always went with my parents to buy the Christmas tree, maybe, three days before Christmas.

Fred: OK, three days before.

Anja: Yes, and we wouldn't put it actually until Christmas day, like I remember how me and my mother and the rest of my family, we went to church and then we would come back. My father wouldn't go to church and the door would be closed and then we open the door and suddenly there would be the Christmas tree. So actually, you know, like, I never knew that my father actually put the Christmas tree. Of course, it was like some angel² or something like that, but actually I never decorated the Christmas tree because an angel was doing that for us... as in my father.

Fred: So when you were a young child, you always thought that some kind of angel would come down to your house and decorate your Christmas tree.

Anja: That's right. During the time I was in church, and did it for us. And it's really pretty, and it has a lot of lights and it's really colorful. You know some people like it one specific³ color: in red or blue, but our Christmas tree always had a lot of different colors. It's really nice. What about you? How is your Christmas tree like in your family?

Fred: Ah, it's just great. It's a bit different because the whole family would gather⁴ and then put up the Christmas tree together.

Anja: Oh, really?

Fred: We would decorate the Christmas tree together.

Anja: Yes.

Fred: Maybe too or three days before Christmas, we would all go to the store or just use what we already had and then we would all gather together and put up the Christmas tree together listening to Frank⁵ Sinatra's best Christmas songs, and actually, the size of the Christmas tree was the most interesting part.

Anja: Oh, is it? Is it really big or...

Fred: It was a really, really big Christmas tree, and my father used⁶ to love those big Christmas trees and then it would take so much time to decorate it. Think about a fifteen foot Christmas tree, how much time you have to spend to decorate it.

Anja: Oh, wow that's a tall tree.

Fred: Yeah, but it's a lot of fun.
 

1 indeed   

adv.真正地，实际上；确实，实在；当然，固然；甚至；真的

参考例句：

• I thank you very much indeed for this interview.我十分感谢您这次接见。
• I didn't mind.Indeed,I was pleased.我不在意，甚至还很高兴。

2 angel   

n.天使，守护神，可爱的人

参考例句：

• The angel of death's in the house!死神在屋里呢！
• I can say without exaggeration that she is an angel.我可以毫不夸张地说她是个天使。

3 specific   

adj.明确的；具体的；特定的

参考例句：

• The money is to be used for specific purposes.这笔钱有专门用途。
• We haven't fixed a specific date for our meeting.我们会议的具体日期还没有定下来。

4 gather   

vt.使聚集，使聚拢；采集，搜集，收；渐增，积聚，恢复；推测；vi.聚集，聚拢；增加

参考例句：

• He likes to gather stamps in his spare time.他业余时间喜欢收集邮票。
• I gather information from the internet.我从互联网搜集资料。

5 frank   

adj.坦白的，直率的，真诚的

参考例句：

• A frank discussion can help to clear the air.坦率的谈论有助于消除隔阂。
• She is frank and outgoing.她很爽朗。

6 used   

adj.用旧了的，旧的；习惯于…；过去惯/经常

参考例句：

• I used to work until nearly 6:00 o'clock each day.我过去常常工作到6:00左右。
• He used to walk anywhere from two to five miles an hour.他过去经常一小时走二至五英里。