第10課:無趣的?- 7

迷你小對話1

A: This is where you live? In this dark, old apartment, with old furniture and no pictures on the walls?
B: I know. It is a little drab. But it’s cheap, and I can fix it up a little bit each week.

A: 這就是你住的地方?房子又黑又舊,家具也很陳舊,墻上連幅畫也沒有。
B: 這我知道。是單調了點,不過很便宜,而且可以每周修整一點。

迷你小對話2

A: A friend in need is a friend indeed.
B: Can’t you think of something new to say? That hackneyed old expression doesn’t even mean anything anymore!

A: 患難見真情。
B: 能說點新鮮的嗎?那種被用濫的落俗套的話現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)沒有任何意義了。

語言點精講

apartment: 公寓。
drab: 單調乏味的;無生氣的;死氣沉沉的。
fix up: 修繕。
hackneyed: 指語言陳腐的;老一套的。
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