流行美语 (Popular American) 263

李华在学校租了一块花圃，让Larry来帮忙。李华今天要学两个常用语，get into和grubby.

LL: I think it is great that you have rented a garden plot, Li Hua, but I don't think I can really get into gardening.

LH: You don't think you can "get into" gardening, Larry? 相信我，一点都不难，你只要跟我一起去，进了花圃就行了。Then you will be in the garden.

LL: Well, I may be in the garden, but that doesn't mean I'll get into gardening. To "get into" something means to really like something or to enjoy doing something.

LH: 噢，原来你说的get into是喜欢的意思。那你说you don't think you can get into gardening。意思就是说你不u会喜欢上园艺了？

LL: Right. I am sorry, Li Hua, because I know how much you get into gardening.

LH: 不过，你起码应该试试看啊！

LL: Okay, Li Hua. I'll try it. Maybe I'll learn why you have gotten into gardening.

LH: 我喜欢园艺完全是因为我妈。我们小时候，她总是在家里的院子里种很多菜。

LL: That sounds nice. Fresh grown vegetables are so much better than the ones in the grocery store.

LH: 那你呢，Larry? What do you get into?

LL: Oh, you know me, Li Hua. I love computers. You know I really get into video games. I could play video games all day long.

LH: 我永远搞不懂你为什么那么喜欢打电玩，我觉得打电玩很吵，而且打久了会很累。

LL: Well, every body gets into different things. You get into gardening, and I get into video games.

LH: 那也是。还有，我喜欢布鲁斯，你喜欢摇滚乐。

LL: Yes, and while you can't understand how I can get into video games, Li Hua, I have never understood why you get into blues¹ music. How can you listen to blues music? It just makes me sad.

LH: 我喜欢布鲁斯的节奏和歌手的嗓音。但是我从来无法欣赏摇滚乐。简直吵死了。

LL: I wonder if there is something we can both get into.

LH: 我有个主意。We can both "get into" the car, 到花圃去。

LL: "Get into" the car. Very funny, Li Hua!

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(Outdoor sounds, Larry and Li Hua are at the garden)

LL: I should have brought some garden gloves. My hands are getting all grubby from digging in the dirt.

LH: Grubby? 我猜grubby肯定是脏的意思。你的手还真是够脏的。

LL: Grubby does mean dirty. Li Hua, my hands are so grubby, I've got dirt under my fingernails. Yuck!

LH: 真没想到你还挺爱干净。别忘了，园艺一半的乐趣就在于浑身上下沾满泥土。

LL: Well, maybe you think so, Li Hua. I'm just glad I wore some grubby, old clothes. Look how grubby the knees of my pants are!

LH: 别抱怨了！在园圃里干活难免是要弄脏的。

LL: Okay, then I'll stop complaining about being grubby. But, doesn't it bother you, Li Hua?

LH: 不会啊，我喜欢这样。Why don't you like getting grubby, Larry?

LL: I don't think it is that unusual that I don't like getting grubby, Li Hua. But I haven't always been this way.

LH: 你以前不是这样？那你是什么样子呢？

LL: Oh, when I was a kid, I used to play outside all the time. I would come home grubby from head to toe!

LH: 从头到脚都是土? 那你妈妈肯定不高兴。

LL: No, after I came home from a day of playing outside, she would take me by my grubby little hand and take me straight to the bath tub².

LH: 好了，Larry. 今天就干到这吧，你看见那个工具房了吗？

LL: Grubby old tool shed³? Oh, yes, I see it.

LH: 你能帮我把这些工具和这个桶放到那里收好吗？

LL: Sure, not a problem, Li Hua!

LH: 谢谢你，Larry. I hope you didn't mind getting grubby too much.

今天李华学到了两个常用语。一个是get into, 是喜欢的意思。另一个是grubby, 是脏的意思。
 

1 blues   

n.抑郁，沮丧；布鲁斯音乐

参考例句：

• She was in the back of a smoky bar singing the blues.她在烟雾弥漫的酒吧深处唱着布鲁斯歌曲。
• He was in the blues on account of his failure in business.他因事业失败而意志消沉。

2 tub   

n.桶，塑料杯，纸杯；盆，洗澡盆，浴缸

参考例句：

• The girl washed clothes in a tub.那女孩把衣服放在木盆里洗。
• The tub needs fixing too.It leaks.浴盆也得修了。它漏。

3 shed   

n.车棚，小屋，脱落之物，分水岭；vt.使流出，放射，脱落，散发，摆脱；vi. 流出

参考例句：

• There are a lot of straws in the shed.棚子里有许多稻草。
• His nose told him that he was getting near the cow shed.他的嗅觉告诉他，他正走近牛棚。