Effortless English—A Kiss

作者：Alice的学习笔记

原文来自《Effortless English》——New Method Learning English

Mini Story

Carlos buys a new car. It's a very expensive car. It's a huge, blue, fast car. While driving down the street, Carlos sees a girl on a bicycle. She has long blond hair and is beautiful.

He yells to her, "What's up?"

She ignores him.

He yells, "How is it going?"

She keeps going and ignores him.

He yells, "Hey, why don't you talk to me? I want to go to dinner with you, I'll take you to an expensive restaurant."

The girl turns, gets off the bike, and looks at him. She says, "I don't want to go to dinner. But if you give me your car, I will give you a surprise."

Carlos says, "OK!". He jumps out of the car. He gives her the keys and says, "Here are the keys."

The beautiful blond takes the keys and then kisses Carlos on the cheek. Then she jumps into the car and drives away.

Carlos stands on the sidewalk. Now he has no car and no girl. He says, "That's it, just a kiss on the cheek?"

He gets on her bike and rides home.

单词、短语、句子

• What's up?
  熟人之间打招呼的一种方式，意思是“最近在干啥呢？”。
  回答方式可以是“Nothing/Not much（没什么）”，“The usual（老样子）”。
     ' What's up?', I said to him. — 'Nothing much,' he answered...
     “出什么事啦？”我对他说。——“没什么事，”他答道。

• How is it going?
  打招呼的一种方式，回答方式视熟悉程度而定。
  如果双方不太熟悉，那么可以回答"Good, thanks."，或者“I am doing well, thanks.”类似的比较客套的方式。
  如果双方比较熟悉，那么回答方式就比较多种多样，如“Not bad”，"Pretty good."，“Couldn't be better.”等等。

• blond
  金色的，浅色的。也可以作为名词，表示金发女郎，英文解释为：A blonde is a woman who has blonde hair.

• That's it.
  在口语中用法比较多样。要视具体情况而定。
  1）够了，好了（表示愤怒）
     That's it. I'm leaving.
     够了，我要走了。
  2）就是这样（对某人说他们做的没错）
     Slowly … slowly. Yeah, that's it.
     慢点…慢点。对了，就是这样。
  3）完了，没有了（表示某事已结束或情况不可改变）
     That's it then. There's nothing more we can do.
     那就这样了。我们再也做不了什么了。
  以上的几种是口语中比较常见的，其他的用法这里就不一一赘述啦，大家感兴趣的话，可以进一步了解。

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