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@ 41038 Argument over Garbage (2)
Argument over Garbage (2) HTML
A 今天早點兒睡吧！那麼早就被那兩個老阿姨吵醒了！
jīntiān zǎo diǎnr shuì ba! nàme zǎo jiù bèi nà liǎng ge lǎoāyí chǎo xǐng le!
Go to bed early tonight! We got woken up so early by those two old women!
B 哎！真沒辦法！
āi! zhēn méi bànfǎ!
Ah, there's nothing we can do about that.
A 老阿姨嘛，懶得跟她們多說。
lǎoāyí ma, lǎn de gēn tāmen duō shuō.
I couldn't be bothered to keep talking with those old women.
B 多說也沒用。就那德行。
duō shuō yě méiyòng. jiù nà déxing.
There's no point in talking to them. They're just that way.
A 你說不是她們是誰？老愛在樓道上放垃圾，我們貼那句話也是不好意思跟她們直說！怕她們臉上掛不住。
nǐ shuō bù shì tāmen shì shéi? lǎo ài zài lóudào shang fàng lājī, wǒmen tiē nà jù huà yě shì bùhǎoyìsi gēn tāmen zhíshuō! pà tāmen liǎn shàng guàbuzhù.
Tell me, if they weren't the ones who did it, who did? Always leaving trash in the corridor-- we stuck up that note because we were embarrassed to say anything to them directly. We didn't want to humiliate them.
B 哎，也許我們這種新的溝通方式她們接受不了！她們本來以為亂扔垃圾神不知鬼不覺，這樣一貼大家都知道了，她們覺得老臉都丟盡了！
āi, yěxǔ wǒmen zhèzhǒng xīn de gōutōng fāngshì tāmen jiēshòubuliǎo! tāmen běnlái yǐwéi luàn rēng lājī shénbùzhīguǐbùjué, zhèyàng yī tiē dàjiā dōu zhīdao le, tāmen juéde lǎoliǎn dōu diū jìn le!
Ah, maybe they can't accept this new style of communication. They thought no one would ever know that they leave trash all over the place. When someone puts up something like this, everyone knows what they've been up to. They feel like it's a big loss of face.
A 可是我們也沒說是她們扔的呀！自己心裡有鬼，還想狡辯。
kěshì wǒmen yě méi shuō shì tāmen rēng de yā! zìjǐ xīnliyǒuguǐ, hái xiǎng jiǎobiàn.
But we didn't say it was them that threw it! They have guilty consciences, and they still want to quibble.
B 想維護自己的面子吧。她們以為不聲明一下的話，大家都覺得就是她們做的。
xiǎng wéihù zìjǐ de miànzi ba. tāmen yǐwéi bù shēngmíng yīxià dehuà, dàjiā dōu juéde jiùshì tāmen zuò de.
They wanted to protect their own reputations. They figured that if they didn't say something unequivocal, everyone would think it was them who did it.
A 跟人吵架就有面子了？我看這樣撕破臉，大家都沒面子。而且那麼早就把別人鬧醒，一點兒素質都沒有！
gēn rén chǎojià jiù yǒu miànzi le? wǒ kàn zhèyàng sīpòliǎn, dàjiā dōu méi miànzi. érqiě nàme zǎo jiù bǎ biérén nào xǐng, yīdiǎnr sùzhì dōu méiyǒu!
How dignified is it to argue with people? The way I see it, they showed no consideration for anyone's feelings. Everyone loses face. And waking other people up so early-- it's uncivilized.
B 跟她們哪能說得清？不過物業也應該管管，垃圾要及時帶下去，扔在樓道多不衛生！
gēn tāmen nǎnéng shuōdeqīng? bùguò wùyè yě yīnggāi guǎn guan, lājī yào jíshí dài xiàqu, rēng zài lóudào duō bù wèishēng!
How can you explain that to them? Still, the building management should take better care of this. They should immediately take the garbage away. Throwing it in the hallway is so unsanitary!
A 就是。垃圾不分類不說，還亂扔，也沒人管。大家都缺少這種意識。
jiùshì. lājī bù fēnlèi bù shuō, hái luàn rēng, yě méi rén guǎn. dàjiā dōu quēshǎo zhèzhǒng yìshi.
That's for sure. They don't even sort it by type, and then on top of that, they throw it around, and no one takes care of it. Everybody lacks this kind of awareness.
B 快收拾收拾睡覺吧，這情況一下子也改變不了。以後我們少跟她們說話就行。
kuài shōushi shōushi shuìjiào ba, zhè qíngkuàng yīxiàzi yě gǎibiànbuliǎo. yǐhòu wǒmen shǎo gēn tāmen shuōhuà jiù xíng.
Just tidy up and go to bed now. It's impossible to change this kind of situation all at once. In the future, we'll try to avoid speaking to them, that's all.
A 哎，別明天一開門，又是一堆垃圾！
āi, bié míngtiān yī kāimén, yòu shì yī duī lājī!
Agh, let's hope when we open the door tomorrow there isn't another pile of garbage!
Key Vocabulary
德行 déxing
樓道 lóudào
掛不住 guàbuzhù
溝通 gōutōng
方式 fāngshì
接受不了 jiēshòubuliǎo
神不知鬼不覺 shénbùzhīguǐbùjué
心裡有鬼 xīnliyǒuguǐ
狡辯 jiǎobiàn
維護 wéihù
聲明 shēngmíng
面子 miànzi
撕破臉 sīpòliǎn
素質 sùzhì
哪能 nǎnéng
物業 wùyè
及時 jíshí
分類 fēnlèi
缺少 quēshǎo
意識 yìshi
收拾 shōushi
改變不了 gǎibiànbuliǎo
Supplementary Vocabulary
引起 yǐnqǐ
生活化 shēnghuóhuà
刮鬍子 guā húzi
道德 dàodé
不講道理 bù jiǎng dàolǐ
偷偷摸摸 tōutōumōmō
自嘲 zìcháo
狡猾 jiǎohuá
改編 gǎibiān
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