实战口语情景对话 第345期: Cards 贺卡

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

　　埃德里安娜：玛丽，那边的篮子里有什么？

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

　　玛丽：哦，那些都是我今年收到的圣诞贺卡。

　　Adrienne: Oh, that's a lot.

　　埃德里安娜：哦，好多啊。

　　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 crashed² and I lost my Christmas card list, so I had a hard time trying to figure³ 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 rebuild⁴ that list at some point.

　　玛丽：对，非常多。我要寄去卡片的人我都列在了一份长名单上，可是十月份的时候我的硬盘坏了，我的圣诞卡名单丢了，所以今年我在找到把卡片寄给每个人的方法上费了一番功夫，而我用的办法就是把我收到的贺卡的寄件人地址都剪下来，然后再把那个地址粘在那些卡片的后面，这样我就能重建我的贺卡名单了。

　　Adrienne: Wow, that sounds like a big project.

　　埃德里安娜：哇，听起来是项大工程。

　　Mary: You know it's really so bad cause I enjoy taking a look at the cards anyhow⁵ so it's something do while I'm looking at the cards.

　　玛丽：你知道，这真的很糟糕，因为我很喜欢随意地翻看卡片，可是这却是我在看卡片的同时要进行的事情。

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

　　埃德里安娜：那你一般什么时候会寄出圣诞卡片呢？

　　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 sort⁶ of way too close to the send.

　　玛丽：嗯，我试图在12月中旬寄出贺卡，不过今年我在21号的时候才寄出卡片，所以今年快到圣诞节了我才寄卡片。

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

　　埃德里安娜：好。那明年呢？你还会在12月中旬的时候寄出卡片吗？

　　Mary: I'm definitely⁷ going to try cause now that I have everyone's address I'll be able to rebuild that list hopefully before December.

　　玛丽：我绝对会努力在中旬寄出卡片，因为现在我已经有所有人的地址了，我能在12月前完成重建贺卡名单的工作。

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

　　埃德里安娜：嗯，听起来是个好计划。祝你好运。

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 crashed   

v.（使）猛撞， （使）撞毁( crash的过去式和过去分词 )；撞坏；猛冲直撞；发出巨响

参考例句：

• The truck crashed into the tree and concertinaed. 货车撞在树上撞扁了。
• The plane flipped and crashed. 飞机猛地翻转，撞毁了。

3 figure   

n.数字，算术，图解；轮廓；vi.计算，出现，扮演角色；vt.计算在内，估计，推测，认为

参考例句：

• I will check up the figure.我来核对一下这个数字。
• I'm watching my figure.我一直注意保持身材。

4 rebuild   

vt.（rebuilt,rebuilt）重建；复原；改造

参考例句：

• The company is making every effort to rebuild its business.这家公司正在尽一切努力来重建自己的企业。
• They went ahead to rebuild their school after the earthquake.地震以后他们开始重建学校。

5 anyhow   

adv.不管怎样，无论如何；不论用何种方法

参考例句：

• Anyhow,I'd like to change our room.不管怎样，我要换房间。
• Anyhow I listened to her request.无论如何，我还是听从了她的要求。

6 sort   

v.排序，挑选，分拣；n.种类，类别，性质，程度

参考例句：

• She was a strange sort of person.她这个人有些古怪。
• I don't much care for that sort of man.我不太喜欢那种人。

7 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。