购物

A:Marco,I got a new fur coat for only 400 kuai.

　　Marco,我花四百块就买了个大衣

　　B:What's it like.

　　什么样的？

　　A:It has a hood¹.You know,with lots of fur.In Canada,this is like 4 or 5 hundred bucks².It's really nice and warm,good quality too.

　　你知道，后面带个帽子的那种。有很多毛。在加拿大，这种衣服要四五百块呢。非常暖和。质量也很好。

　　B:But Drew.This is summer,There's no need to buy that.

　　可是，Drew。现在是夏天，没必要买啊

　　A:I know.I was shopping with my girlfriend.Then I saw this on clearance³ sale. You know Marco,This is a real buy.

　　我知道，我和女朋友正购物呢，然后我看到了这个换季销售。你要知道，这可真便宜。

　　B:What else did you buy?

　　你还买什么了？

　　A:Nothing.You know,Marco,I was thinking of buying lots of these coats and shippin them back to Canada .Canadians will love them.I'm sure I can make bling-bling money.

　　没什么了。你知道，我想多买些这种东西然后把它们运回加拿大，加拿大人肯定会喜欢的，我也能赚很多钱。

　　B:Come down to earth,Drew.You're not going to do that,are you?

　　现实点儿吧。你不会那么做，对吧。

　　A:I may give it a try.

　　我也许会试一试

　　B:Did you buy something for your girlfriend?

　　给你女朋友买什么东西了吗？

　　A:No,I didn't

　　没有

　　B:Why not?She's your girlfriend

　　为什么？她是你的女朋友

　　A:Why yes?I mean I made the money all by myself.I didn't know her for a long time. I can take her to dinner.That's fine with me.But I can't buy her everything,Know what I mean?

　　为什么一定要买？我是说钱都是我自己赚的，我们才认识不久。我可以带她吃饭，那对我没什么，可我不能什么都给她买，懂我的意思吗？

　　B:I know what you mean.But don't you know that when in Rome,do as Romans do?

　　我知道，可你也要懂得入乡随俗啊。

　　A:Do I really have to do that?

　　我非得那么做吗？

　　B:Well,Drew.You don't have to.But you should learn that.Especially when you have a Chinese girlfriend.

　　那到不用，不过你得学着点儿。尤其是你有一个中国女朋友。

　　A:Speak up,Marco.I can't hear you.

　　Marco.声音大点儿，我听不清

　　B:Poor Drew. I'm sure you're in trouble.

　　可怜的Drew.我肯定你有麻烦了。

　　Attention Please…特别提醒

　　[你可以请外教反复帮你模仿/训练下面句子/词组的正宗美式发音

　　[1]bling-bling很多钱。这实际上是收银机打开时发出的声音。老外们用这种声音表示"很多钱"。它还有另外一种说法，叫ching-ching。不过这是上了年纪的人使用的。

　　[2]Come down to earth.现实点儿吧。现实生活中总有人爱作白日梦{daydreaming}，就象我们的。别客气，用这句话耗损他们理智点儿吧。

　　Related⁴ Words…相关词汇

　　以下这些词汇并未给出汉语意思，你可以用我们学到的英语问问外教它们的意思

　　[ie:What does "***" mean? "***"是什么意思？]

　　rop-off It costs an arm and a leg. Highway robbery

1 hood   

n.头巾，兜帽，覆盖；v.罩上，以头巾覆盖

参考例句：

• She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
• The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。

2 bucks   

n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 )；钱；（英国十九世纪初的）花花公子；（用于某些表达方式）责任v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃

参考例句：

• They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
• They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 clearance   

n.净空；许可(证)；清算；清除，清理

参考例句：

• There was a clearance of only ten centimetres between the two walls.两堵墙之间只有十厘米的空隙。
• The ship sailed as soon as it got clearance. 那艘船一办好离港手续立刻启航了。

4 related   

adj.有关系的，有关联的，叙述的，讲述的

参考例句：

• I am not related to him in any way.我和他无任何关系。
• We spent days going through all related reference material.我们花了好多天功夫查阅所有有关的参考资料。