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A: 你是陳麗嗎?我是張亮。

nˇı sh`ı Che´n L`ı ma? woˇ sh`ı Zha¯ ng Lia`ng.

Are you Chen Li? I’m Zhang Liang.

B: 你好。你來了很久嗎?真不好意思讓你久等了。

路上太堵了。

nˇıhaˇo. nˇı la´i le heˇn jiuˇ

ma? zhe¯ n bu`haˇoy`ısi ra`ng nˇı jiuˇ

deˇng

le. lu`shang ta`i duˇ le.

Hi. Have you been here for a long time? I am really sorry to keep you waiting. The traffic was really bad.

A: 沒事兒。我剛來了一會兒。我們去旁邊的咖啡館

坐坐吧。

me´ish`ır. woˇ

ga¯ ng la´i le y¯ıhu`ır. woˇmen qu`

pa´ngbia¯ n de ka¯ -

fe¯ iguaˇn zuo`zuo ba.

It doesn’t matter, I’ve only been here for a short while. Let’s go sit down in the coffee shop next door.

B: 好。你本人和網上的感覺挺像的。

haˇo. nˇı beˇnre´n he´

waˇngsha`ng de gaˇnjue´

tˇıng xia`ng de.

Ok. In person you seem very similar to how you seem on- line.

A: 是嗎?別人都說我本人比照片帥。開玩笑。

sh`ı ma? bie´re´n do¯ u shuo¯ wa´nxia`o.

woˇ

beˇnre´n bˇı zha`opia`n shua`i. ka¯ i-

Do I? People all say I’m better looking in person. Only jok- ing.

B: 哈,還可以。

ha¯ , ha´ikeˇyˇı.

Ha, not bad.

A: 你想喝什麼?熱的還是冰的?

nˇı xiaˇng he¯

she´nme? re`

de ha´i sh`ı b¯ıng de?

What would you like to drink? Hot or cold?

B: 熱摩卡。你呢?

re` mo´kaˇ. nˇı ne?

A hot mocha. What about you?

A: 我也喝摩卡。唉,你平時工作忙嗎?

woˇ

yeˇ

he¯

mo´kaˇ. a¯ i, nˇı p´ıngsh´ı go¯ ngzuo`

ma´ng ma?

I’ll have a hot mocha as well. Is work busy?

B: 還好。基本上不用加班。你呢?

ha´i haˇo. j¯ıbeˇnshang bu`yo`ng jia¯ ba¯ n. nˇı ne?

It’s all right. I normally don’t have to work overtime. How about you?

A: 哎,你真幸福。我差不多天天加班。你平時都在

家裡上網嗎?

a¯ i, nˇı zhe¯ n x`ıngfu´. woˇ

cha`buduo¯

tia¯ ntia¯ n jia¯ ba¯ n. nˇı p´ıngsh´ı

do¯ u za`i jia¯ lˇı sha`ngwaˇng ma?

Wow, you’re lucky. I work late pretty much all the time. So you usually go online at home?

B: 是啊。下班以後沒事兒千,所以上上網。不過我們的論壇還真有意思,大家都挺有想法的。唉, 你平時上班這麼忙, 怎麼還有這麼多時間上網呢?

sh`ıa¯ . xia`ba¯ n yˇıho`u me´ish`ır ga`n, suoˇyˇı sha`ngshangwaˇng.

bu`guo`

woˇmen de lu`nta´n ha´i zhe¯ n yoˇuy`ısi, da`jia¯

do¯ u tˇıng

yoˇu xiaˇngfaˇ

de.

a¯ i, nˇı p´ıngsh´ı sha`ngba¯ n zhe`me ma´ng, zeˇn-

me ha´i yoˇu zhe`me duo¯ sh´ıjia¯ n sha`ngwaˇng ne?

Yes. When there’s nothing to do after work, I go online. But our BBS is a lot of fun. Everyone seems to have interesting ideas. How do you find so much time to stay online with such a busy work schedule?

A: 經常是加班的時候偷偷上。我也很喜歡這個論壇

裡的人,特別是......

j¯ıngcha´ng sh`ı jia¯ ba¯ n de sh´ıhou to¯ uto¯ u sha`ng. woˇ xˇıhuan zhe`ge lu`nta´n lˇı de re´n, te`bie´sh`ı......

yeˇ

heˇn

I often do it secretly while working overtime. I also like the people on the BBS very much, especially...

B: 我們摩卡好了。

woˇmen mo´kaˇ haˇo le.

Our mochas are ready.

---Key Vocabulary---

久等 jiuˇdeˇng wait for a long time

基本上 j¯ıbeˇnshang basically

幸福 x`ıngfu´ fortunate

論壇 lu`nta´n forum

想法 xiaˇngfaˇ idea

偷偷 to¯ uto¯ u secretly

特別 te`bie´ especially

---Supplementary Vocabulary---

嚴肅 ya´nsu`

serious

浪漫 la`ngma`n romantic

緊張 jˇınzha¯ ng nervous

藉口 jie`koˇu excuse

尷尬 ga¯ nga` embarrassed, awk-

ward

頻率 p´ınlu`¨

frequency

額外 e´wa`i additional

收入 sho¯ uru` income

功課 go¯ ngke` homework

補習 buˇx´ı tutoring

假裝 jiaˇzhua¯ ng to pretend

懂事 doˇngsh`ı sensible

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