英语小达人 320 Perfect Man, Perfect Woman

 　　Perfect Man, Perfect Woman

　　完美的男人，完美的女人

　　There was a perfect man and a perfect woman. They met each other at a perfect party. They dated for two perfect years. They had the perfect wedding and the perfect honeymoon¹. They had two perfect children.

　　有一个完美的男人和一个完美的女人。他们在一个完美的晚会上相识了。他们完美地约会了两年。他们举行了完美的婚礼，度了完美的蜜月。他们有了两个完美的孩子。

　　One day the perfect man and the perfect woman were driving in their perfect car, they saw Santa Claus at the side of the road, being the perfect people they picked him up, because they didn't want to make their perfect children (who were at home with their perfect babysitter) mad because it was close to Christmas.

　　一天，完美的男人和完美的女人正开着他们那辆完美的汽车在路上，他们看见圣诞老人站在路边。他们是完美的人，于是他们停下来带上圣诞老人。他们不想让待在家中由完美的保姆带着的完美的孩子们失望，因为圣诞节快到了。

　　Well as the perfect man and the perfect woman were driving with Santa Claus, somehow they got into an accident. Two people died and one lived.

　　可是，完美的男人和完美的女人载上圣诞老人后出了车祸。两个人死了，一个人活了下来。

　　Who died and who lived?

　　谁死了？谁活了？

　　The perfect woman because the perfect man and Santa Claus aren't real.

　　完美的女人活了，因为完美的男人和圣诞老人都是不存在的。

　　重点讲解：

　　1. each other

　　彼此；互相；

　　eg. We looked at each other in silence.

　　我们相顾无言。

　　eg. Uncle Paul and I hardly know each other.

　　我和保罗叔叔几乎互不相识。

　　2. pick up

　　（通常指开车）接载，取走；

　　eg. The taxi driver stopped to pick up a fare.

　　出租车司机停车让一个乘客上车。

　　eg. The next morning, my mum came to pick me up.

　　第二天早上，我的妈妈来接我。

　　3. close to

　　近的；接近的；临近的；

　　eg. He's close to signing a contract².

　　他即将签下一份合同。

　　eg. He never actually tells lies, but he often sails pretty close to the wind.

　　他实际上从不撒谎，但说的话常迹近撒谎。

1 honeymoon   

n.蜜月（假期）；vi.度蜜月

参考例句：

• While on honeymoon in Bali,she learned to scuba dive.她在巴厘岛度蜜月时学会了带水肺潜水。
• The happy pair are leaving for their honeymoon.这幸福的一对就要去度蜜月了。

2 contract   

n.合同，契约，婚约；v.使缩短，感染，订约

参考例句：

• The terms of the contract are acceptable to us.我们认为这个合同的条件可以接受。
• I'm under contract to teach here for one year.我按照聘约要在这里教一年书。