31. Shopping in the Dime Store 在低价商店购物

A: Do you carry black ink?
B: The ink should be next to the paper clips and thumb tacks in the stationary section, sir.
A: I've looked, but I didn't see any black ink.
B: Then I'm afraid there's none in stock.
A: Well, I'll settle for blue-black. I'll also take a dozen airmail envelopes.
B: They come in packages of ten or twenty.
A: Give me a package of twenty, then. And where do I find shoelaces?
B: On counter three.
A: Thank you. I never can find my way around this store.
B: I know. It took me three weeks, and I work here.

Notes
Dime store 一角商店(美国出售低价小商品的百货店)
Carry 有…出售
In stock 有货
Settle for-be satisfied with
Take 买
Find my way around 找得到应去的地方

A：你们有黑墨水卖吗？
B：墨水应该在文具部的回形针和图钉旁边，先生。
A：我看过了，但没找到黑墨水。
B：那我想是缺货了。
A：嗯，那要蓝黑的也可以。我还要一打航空信封。
B：信封分成十只一扎或二十只一扎出售。
A：那就给我二十只一扎的。还有我去哪儿可以找到鞋带。
B：在第三号柜台。
A：谢谢，我在这家商店里总是搞不清商品的部位。
B：我知道。我在这儿工作，花了三个星期才熟悉。

32. Trading Stamps 用赠券换东西

A: Every time I go to the grocery, the clerk asks me if I save stamps. I always say no, but sometimes I get them anyway.
B: Oh, never turn them down. You can always find someone who'll take them. People spend hours pasting them in little books, and when a book is full, they drive miles to a redemption center where the stamps can be traded for things like pillow cases, or playing cards, or garden tools. But you have to save millions of them to get anything worth having.

Notes
Stamp 美国一些商店或超级市场送给顾客的(如邮票大小的)赠券。积到一定数量后可以换取实物礼品
Clerk 售货员
Turn them down-refuse them
Redemption center 用赠券换取礼品的商店
Trade-exchange

A：每次我去杂货店，店员都问我是否收集赠券，我总是说“不”，不过有的时候我还是积下些赠券。
B：啊，别丢掉它。你总会找到回收赠券的人。有些人花时间把赠券粘贴在小本子上，当一本贴满后，开几英里的车到回收中心去，在那儿可以用赠券交换像枕头套、扑克牌或修整花园的工具等东西。不过你得收集相当多张才能换回一些有重要价值的东西。

33. Best Seller 畅销书

A: What's that book you have under your arm?
B: It's the best seller everone's been talking about for the last six months.
A: How in the world did you get a copy? I've had a hold in at the public library for weeks, and I'm still waiting my turn.
B: I checked it out of the rental library. It only costs five cents a day.
A: Is it really worth paying for?
B: I can't tell yet. I haven't got beyond the first chapter.
A: If it's any good, I'll buy a copy when it comes out in the pocket edition.

Notes
Best seller 畅销书(或物品，但常指书)
Had a hold in 预订(借阅)
Rental library 出租书籍的图书馆
Can't tell-cannot be certain
Pocket edition 价格较低的平装书

A：你手上挟着的那本是什么书？
B：这是最近六个月来人人都在谈论的最畅销的书。
A：你怎么会搞到的？我在公共图书馆已经预约几个星期了，现在还在等着轮到我。
B：我是在出租图书馆借到的，每天只要五分钱。
A：它真是值得花钱去租来看吗？
B：我还吃不准。我还没有看完第一章。
A：如果这本书还不错，等下次出袖珍本时我就买一本。

34. Planning a Picnic 准备一次野餐

A: You know, let's do something we haven't done for a long time. I'd like to go on a picnic. Where could we go? Over to the park?
B: No. I want to drive out into the country, find a little creek someplace away from the highway, and have a real old-fashioned picnic lunch with fried chicken, and potato salad, and dill pickles, and lemonade.
A: Sounds like a good idea. Why don't we go this Sunday?
B: I can't make it. I'm busy all weekend, but next Sunday I'm free.
A: It's a date. You furnish the lunch and I'll provide the transportation.

Notes
Real old-fashioned-typical
Sound like 像是

A：喂，让我们搞一点长时间没搞过的活动。我想去野餐。我们去哪儿？到公园那边？
B：不，我想开车到乡下去，在离开公路的地方找一条小溪，搞一次真正的老式野餐，有炸鸡、土豆色拉、泡菜和柠檬水。
A：听起来是个好主意。我们在这个星期日去好吗？
B：我没法去，整个周末我都有事，但下个星期日我有空。
A：就定这天。你负责野餐的食物，我提供交通工具。

35. Getting a Tan 晒晒黑

A: What have you got there?
B: It's my sun lamp. I'm taking it down to the electric shop to be fixed. There's something wrong with the wiring, It blows fuses whenever I plug it in.
A: What in the world do you need a sun lamp for?
B: Well, I want to get a tan and I haven't time to lie in the sun, so I lie under the sun lamp every night for five minutes.
A: That's finr, as long as you don't fall asleep. An hour under one of those things and you'd be just a cinder.

Notes
Sun lamp 紫外线
Fix 修理
In the world 到底(加强语气)
Get a tan 晒黑(通常指去野外或海滩)
Cinder-ash

A：你那是什么东西？
B：我的紫外线灯。拿它到电器店去修理。电线上有些毛病，我一插上插座就把保险丝烧断了。
A：你要紫外线灯到底有什么用？
B：嗯，我想晒晒黑，但又没有时间躺在阳光下，只能每天晚上在紫外线灯下躺五分钟。
A：那不错，只要你不睡着。在这种东西下照一个小时，你就变成灰了。

36. Intermission 剧间休息

A: You were certainly lucky to get tickets for this play. We had to have our reservations in weeks ago.
B: Tom picked them up this afternoon. Someone had just phoned in a last minute cancellation.
A: Where are you sitting?
B: Way up in the first balcony. We can see and hear fine, though. Isn't it a wonderful performance?
A: Oh, yes, the acting's good, but don't you think that the star's a little old for her part? From where we are in the orchestra, you can see every wrinkle on her face.
B: That's why I like balcony seats. You don't lose the illusion.
A: Oh, there's the buzzer. I'll see you after the show.

Notes
Phone in a cancellation 打电话取消预订座位
Orchestra 正厅
Buzzer 预备铃(剧场准备开演前)

A：你能弄到这场演出的票子真是幸运。我们不得不在几星期前预订座位。
B：今天下午汤姆弄到的票。在最后一分钟刚好有人打电话来退票。
A：你们坐在哪儿？
B：在第一楼厅的上面一点。但我们看和听都很清楚。这真是一场精彩的演出，对吗？
A：哦，对，演技很好，但你不觉得演员本人比她所扮演的角色略老了些吗？从我们所在的正厅位子上，你能看到她脸上的每根皱纹。
B：这就是为什么我喜欢楼厅的位子。你不会失去幻想。
A：啊，铃响了。演出结束后再见。

37. Planning a Vacation 准备度假

A: I weet to the travel agency today and picked up these folders on Japan, Normandy, and Quebec.
B: For this summer? Have we saved that much money?
A: Not this summer. In two or three years, maybe. I have it almost all worded out. Here. Normandy, and then the Chateau country. Somewhere in these we'll have to work in Nice for the carnival. Then we take the Orient Express to Istanbul from there.
B: But what do we do this year?
A: Oh, I thought we'd go to one of the national parks-Yosemite, or Yellowstone, or maybe the Grand Canyon-that is, if it's all right with you.

Notes
All worked out 全部安排好了
Chateau country 法国的古城堡游览胜地
Work in 插进(或列入)计划
That is 假如，以…为条件

A：今天我到旅行社去取来了有关到日本、诺曼底和魁北克旅游的简介。
B：是今年夏天去吗？你已积蓄了足够的钱了？
A：不是今年夏天。可能再过二年或三年。我差不多完全计划好了。看，先是诺曼底，然后去法国的古堡地区。去那里我们还要参加尼斯的狂欢节也考虑到计划里。然后我们从那里乘东方快车去伊斯坦布尔。
B：那么今年我们干什么呢？
A：啊，我想我们可以去一处国家公园——尤塞米提，或黄石公园，也许可去大峡谷——假如你都不反对的话。

38. What are You Doing This Summer? 今年夏天你准备干什么

A: What's you going to do this summer?
B: I thought for a while I'd go to one of the summer schools, but I've decided I'm tired of classes and books and working all the time. I'm going to relax. I'm not going to do a thing for three months.
A: Three months is a long time. When September comes you'll have got out of the habit of working. Why not just wait for two weeks and then see how you feel.
B: I might, but I don't think I'll ever change my mind.

Notes
Summer school 暑期补习班
Get out of-forget

A：今年夏天你打算干什么？
B：我曾一度想去某一个暑期班，但是我又打消了这个主意，因为我对上课和书本已厌倦了，而且所有时间我一直在工作。我打算休息、放松一下。在三个月内我不准备做什么事。
A：三个月的时间很长。当九月到来时，你会忘记工作的习惯。你可以等两个星期，然后看看你的感觉如何。
B：也许可以。不过我不认为我会改变主意。

39. Deciding to Go to the Movies 决定去看电影

A: Let's go to a show tonight.
B: All right. Look in the movie section of the paper and see what's playing.
A: Well, there's a western at the neighborhood theater and an epic at the United. Or, we can go to the drive-in movie to see two science fiction films if you like double features.
B: Is that all there is to see?
A: No. The Cinema is showing a Japanese movie, and there's a new French film at the Vogue.
B: What's at the Broadway?
A: Let's go there. That picture got good reviews.
B: Okay, call and check what time the next show goes on. I hate to come in in the middle.

Notes
Show 电影
Epic-a spectacular picture
Drive-in movie 露天电影放映场(人们可驾车进入并坐在汽车内观看，收费低廉)
Go on-start, begin

A：今晚我们去看电影吧。
B：好的。看一下报纸上的电影栏目，正在放映哪些片子。
A：哦，在我们附近的电影院里放一部西部片，联合电影院上映一部历史题材片。或者，我们可以去露天影院看两部科学幻想片，如果你想看双片连映的话。
B：上映的就是这些东西吗？
A：不。影剧院在放一部日本电影，还有一部法国电影在时兴影院上映。
B：百老汇在放什么？
A：我们到那儿去吧。那里放的一部片子得到好评。
B：好，打电话去问清楚下一场几点钟开始。我讨厌电影放到一半时走进去。

40. Going Walking 去散步

A: Yesterday my landlady seemed surprised when I told her I went for a walk every day. I think she didn't believe me.
B: Oh, she probably believed you, but people don't do much walking anymore for pleasure, or even for exercise. Almost everyone has a car nowadays.
A: I've noticed that no one I meet ever appears to be walking just for walking's sake. Perhaps I'd better stop doing it.
B: No, I wouldn't stop. It's supposed to be good exercise, and there are a few walkers left. Probably more people would take walks if we valued exercise more and time less.

Notes
Landlady 女房东
Value 认为…是重要的

A：昨天我对我的女房东说，每天我都出外散步。看来她感到很惊奇。大概她不相信我的话。
B：哦，她也许相信你的话，不过人们很少为了消遣或锻炼身体而再去散步了。现在差不多每个人都有汽车。
A：我发现我所遇到的人中好像没有人是纯粹出来散步的。或许我也最好停止散步。
B：不，我不会停止。这应该是一种很好的锻炼，而且仍然有一些人在散步。如果我们更加重视锻炼而不吝惜时间，可能有更多的人去散步。