英语访谈对话 384 Cards

 　　Adrienne: So, Mary, what’s in the basket there?

　　Mary: Oh, those are all the Christmas cards I received this year.

　　Adrienne: Oh, that’s a lot.

　　Mary: Yeah, it’s quite a few. I had kind of an extensive¹ list for people I would send cards to but in October my hard drive crashed and I lost my Christmas card list, so I had a hard time trying to figure out how to get cards to everybody this year, so what I’ve been doing is when I receive a card I’m cutting out everyone’s return address and actually taping it to the back of their card so that way I’ll have an ability to rebuild that list at some point.

　　Adrienne: Wow, that sounds like a big project.

　　Mary: You know it’s really so bad cause I enjoy taking a look at the cards anyhow so it’s something do while I’m looking at the cards.

　　Adrienne: So when do you usually send your Christmas cards out?

　　Mary: Well, I try to send them out in the middle of December but this year they left my house on the 21st, so it was sort of way to close to the end.

　　Adrienne: Right. Right. Um, what about next year? Will you try to get them out in the middle of December?

　　Mary: I’m definitely² going to try cause now that I have everyone’s address I’ll be able to rebuild that list hopefully before December.

　　Adrienne: Well, sounds like a good plan. Good luck.

1 extensive   

adj.广泛的，广阔的，广大的

参考例句：

• The story had an extensive popularity among American readers.这本小说在美国读者中赢得广泛的声望。
• The museum offers extensive facilities for study.这个博物馆提供了许多供研究的设备。

2 definitely   

adv.一定地，肯定地；明确地，确切地

参考例句：

• The team will definitely lose if he doesn't play.如果他不参加比赛，这个队肯定会输。
• I shall definitely be home before six o'clock.6点以前，我一定回家。