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@ 30230 A Fated Meeting
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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