英文原版对话1000个:785 Things Bought

Todd: OK, so Shona, what did you do this morning?

Shona: This morning? So far today, I went to the supermarket and bought some muesli. Had my breakfast, which was the first muesli I've had in a few weeks, so I was quite enjoying that, and then I went to Ikea of all places and done a spot of shopping and bought like really cool cushion with embroidered¹ birds on it, and then I went for a jog like just recently, and I've been cleaning my room also.

Todd: OK, pretty busy day. So let's go back to the muesli. Now for people that don't know muesli, what is muesli?

Shona: Muesli consists of pieces of oat and dried fruits and also like flakes² of corn and it's just a bit of mixture of these things.

Todd: Now, you eat it with milk?

Shona: Yeah, you have it with milk, or some people who are a bit crazy have it with orange juice.

Todd: Get out of here. Seriously?

Shona: No, they do, yeah, orange juice. Orange juice in their muesli.

Todd: Is that like for vegetarians³ and vegans?

Shona: No, I think it's just people enjoy the taste of orange juice and muesli. Or maybe they're allergic⁴ to milk.

Todd: Oh, could be. Could be. Actually, you said you went to a furniture store.

Shona: Yeah, there is like a big one.

Todd: Ah, so what did you buy?

Shona: I bought a massive cushion, pillow thing, which is all embroidered. It's very cute and I also bought, like a bed cover for my bed. It's orange, and I was looking for some ferry lights actually, but they didn't seem to have any so I was a bit disappointed by that.

Todd: I'm sorry. What?

Shona: Ferry lights.

Todd: I don't know what that is.

Shona: It's like a really long strand⁵ of wire and it's just got lots of tiny lights of it, like randomly⁶, so you've have saw them like Christmas tree lights.

Todd: Ah, right.

Shona: You have them on your Christmas tree. I kind of like them. I just like them in my room.

Todd: Well, that's pretty cool.

Shona: Yeah. And also some, cause they have like Swedish food there, so I bought some crisp bread as well.

Todd: Oh, cool. This is Ikea.

Shona: Mm-hm. Ikea.
 

1 embroidered   

adj．绣花的

参考例句：

• She embroidered flowers on the cushion covers. 她在这些靠垫套上绣了花。
• She embroidered flowers on the front of the dress. 她在连衣裙的正面绣花。

2 flakes   

小薄片( flake的名词复数 )； （尤指）碎片； 雪花； 古怪的人

参考例句：

• It's snowing in great flakes. 天下着鹅毛大雪。
• It is snowing in great flakes. 正值大雪纷飞。

3 vegetarians   

n.吃素的人( vegetarian的名词复数 )；素食者；素食主义者；食草动物

参考例句：

• Vegetarians are no longer dismissed as cranks. 素食者不再被视为有怪癖的人。
• Vegetarians believe that eating meat is bad karma. 素食者认为吃肉食是造恶业。

4 allergic   

adj.过敏的，变态的

参考例句：

• Alice is allergic to the fur of cats.艾丽斯对猫的皮毛过敏。
• Many people are allergic to airborne pollutants such as pollen.许多人对空气传播的污染物过敏，比如花粉。

5 strand   

vt.使（船）搁浅，使（某人）困于（某地）

参考例句：

• She tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ears.她把一缕散发夹到了耳后。
• The climbers had been stranded by a storm.登山者被暴风雨困住了。

6 randomly   

adv.随便地，未加计划地

参考例句：

• Within the hot gas chamber, molecules are moving randomly in all directions. 在灼热的气体燃烧室内，分子在各个方向上作无规运动。 来自辞典例句
• Transformed cells are loosely attached, rounded and randomly oriented. 转化细胞则不大贴壁、圆缩并呈杂乱分布。 来自辞典例句