【大紀元8月13日訊】今天Michael和李華去一個夜總會聽音樂，因為他們的朋友Jack要帶他的樂隊來演出。李華會學到 “to stick around” 和 “guilt trip” 。
(noisy rock music playing, people talking, etc.)
L: (Talking loudly over crowd) Michael! (coughs) 這個地方真讓人難受，聲音這麼大，還有那麼多人抽煙。這些樂隊也真是夠嗆的！
M: I know Li Hua, the show isn’t very good. But Jack’s band is going to be playing soon. Let’s stick around until their performance is over, OK?
L: Jack的樂隊什麼時候來啊？哎，你說什麼”stick around”? 你的意思就是先不要走，是不是？
M: That’s right. I said “let’s stick around.” That means to stay or remain in a place.
L: 噢，to stick around就是在一個地方再呆一會兒。懂了，你的意思就是要我們等Jack的樂隊來了，表演完了以後再走。Michael, 那乘我們等他的時候，你再給我舉幾個例子，好不好？
M: Hmmm… Well, you remember Angie Summers, right? She finished her Ph.D. last spring, but has decided to stick around and do some post-doctoral work before she starts looking for a job.
L: 我當然記得Angie Summers啦。她今年春天拿到了博士學位，可是決定在開始找工作前先不離開學校，做一些博士後的工作。所以，在這裡，to stick around就是她繼續呆下去，不離開學校。噢，Michael，我們還要等Jack等多久嘛？
M: I don’t know. Let’s just stick around for another half hour or so. If Jack doesn’t show up, we can leave.
L: 好，那再等他半小時，否則我可真要受不了了！
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L: (sighs) 噢，謝天謝地，總算完了，我要再在裡面呆下去，就要聾了。
M: Yeah, I’m sorry about that, Li Hua. But if we hadn’t waited for Jack to perform, he would have given us a huge guilt trip about it on Monday.
L: 要是我們不等Jack的話，他會給我們什麼？A guilt trip? Guilt不是感到有罪，感到內疚嗎？那Trip是旅行。你是說Jack會覺得非常抱歉啊？
M: No, I meant he’d make us feel guilty.
L: 噢，他讓我們感到內疚?
M: That’s right. A “guilt trip” means guilty feelings one has about doing something wrong. To “give someone a guilt trip” means to try and make him feel guilty.
L: 等等等等，這我得弄清楚了。A guilt trip就是一個人做錯了什麼事而覺得內疚，好像他犯了錯誤。To give someone a guilt trip就是讓別人感到內疚。嘿，Jack的樂隊水平那麼差，讓我們來聽這種音樂，他應該覺得內疚才對呀！
M: I agree! So when was the last time you had a guilt trip about something?
L: 我最後一次覺得內疚是什麼時候啊？那就是我要跟我男朋友分手的時候啊，是我要跟他分手的，我到現在心裡還感到有點抱歉。
M: Don’t let him put a guilt trip on you! So why did you break up with him anyway?
L: 因為我和你老在一塊兒學習，他老是讓我覺得好像我做錯了什麼是的。He tried to put a guilt trip on me.
M: What? That’s insane. I’m glad you broke up with him. Anyway, you’d better not try to make me feel guilty about him.
L: 對，他呀，是有毛病，所以我才和他分手的嘛。我告訴你可是沒有要讓你感到內疚的意思啊！
M: That’s better!
今天李華學到了to stick around，意思是「在一個地方呆下去，先別走」.李華還學到了a guilt trip，這是指「感到內疚」。
轉載自美國之音中文網
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