英语访谈对话 79 The Boyfriend

 　　Todd: OK, Tara, why don't you tell us about your first boyfriend?

　　Tara: OK, my first boyfriend, I met in my hometown. He's called Barry. He's my first real boyfriend. Yeah, I met him at a bar. Yeah, I had a bit of a crush¹ on him when I was younger and then, yeah, we met a club one night and it carried on from there.

　　Todd: Oh, that's nice. So what was it about Barry that attracted him to you?

　　Tara: He's very good looking. He's tall and he had a beard. I like beard.

　　Todd: Beards, really!

　　Tara: I like beards. I don't know why.

　　Todd: Short beard or long beard?

　　Tara: No, no short. I just like stubble.

　　Todd: OK. Are you still in contact with him?

　　Tara: Yeah, yeah, yeah. At the moment he's traveling. He's in India but, we're so young, so we often like, separate² to go traveling , and then get back together again, because I'm only 24 and he's twenty five, and we have a serious relationship but, we don't wanna, you know, stop doing our own things in life.

1 crush   

v.压垮，压倒，压服，镇压；压碎，碾碎

参考例句：

• This machine is made to crush the rock into powder.这台机器是用来把石头压成碎末的。
• You can't crush so many people into the classroom.不能让这么多人挤进教室。

2 separate   

n.分开，抽印本；adj.分开的，各自的，单独的；v.分开，隔开，分居

参考例句：

• Are they joined together or separate?它们是合在一起还是分开的？
• Separate the white clothes from the dark clothes before laundering.洗衣前应当把浅色衣服和深色衣服分开。