华尔街高级英语学习教程第1课：会面与交谈Act3 (MP3和文本下载)

KATE: I'll get it!

KATE: Hello! 218-5434.

KRISTI: Hello. Is that Annie Peters?

KATE: Er, no. I'm, like, one of her room-mates. She's out, you know, shopping.

KRISTI: When will she be back, do you think?

KATE: Oh, I don't know. Hey, hang on a moment. I mean, who wants her?

KRISTI: I'm a... a friend of hers. Look, would you be so kind as to give her a message?

KATE: Hang on while I get a pen.

KATE: Oh, heck! There must be one somewhere! Bloody thing doesn't write! OK, what's the message?

KRISTI: My name is Kristi Schmidt. I have an urgent message for Annie from a German friend. Could you please tell her to contact me - that's Kristi Schmidt, Room 688, the Terminal Hotel, Washdon. I'll be here for the next week.

KATE: Does she know your phone number?

KRISTI: It's 222 493-4900. You won't forget to tell her it's urgent, will you?

KATE: Don't worry, I'll tell her.

KRISTI: Thanks. Bye-bye.

JEAN: Hey, Kate, who's that?

KATE: I don't know. Strange. Oh, I know, it must have been something to do with that German airport demonstration.

JEAN: I thought that had finished a month ago.

KATE: So did I. God, it's cold in here, Jean! Is the central heating still not working?

JEAN: You mean, haven't I repaired it yet? No, I haven't, as a matter of fact.

ANNIE: Hi.

ANNIE: Hell, it's freezing in here!

JEAN: Well don't look at me.

ANNIE: Repairing things is your responsibility, Jean. It's part of our agreement, right?

JEAN: Look, I've done my best; I just can't work out what's wrong with it. We'll have to get someone in to fix it, that's all.

ANNIE: We're not paying some rip-off company.

JEAN: Great! So we're going to freeze to death, are we? Until we can find someone who’ll do it for free?

ANNIE: Look Jean, we’re supposed to be autonomous and self-sufficient. So we should be able to deal with a little mechanical problem like this.

JEAN: Oh bravo! Hear, hear! That's all very well in theory, Annie, but I don’t know how to mend the central heating. If I'd known how to fix it I would have fixed it. Got that?

KATE: Hey, take it easy, you two!

KATE: Anyway, before you get any more involved in this, there's just been this really weird phone call for you, Annie. A lady called… oh hell, uh… Kristi, something or other.

ANNIE: Never heard of her. What was it about?

KATE: She said - what was it now? Let me see if I can remember…. er… yeah! There are these Germans, right, and they’re in... oh, I don't know, maybe some kind of trouble with the police, and... yeah, well, anyway, she's got a message for you.

ANNIE: What Germans? What kind of trouble?

KATE: Don't you know?

ANNIE: No, I’ve got no idea. Are you sure she wasn't a cop?

KATE: Well she didn't sound like a cop. But I must say, she was German, and I don't know what German cops sound like. No, hang on, if she'd been a cop, she'd just have rung off. She’d have called back later; she wouldn't have left her address and phone number. Don’t you think?

ANNIE: Oh, she left her address and phone number?

KATE: Yeah. Umm...it must be here somewhere. Oh, here! Here you are.

ANNIE: Thanks.

JEAN: While we're on the subject of cops, what about that guy that came to the door this morning?

ANNIE: Oh, don't worry about him. He's just some hopeless idiot my father used to know.

JEAN: Well I do worry, Annie. We've got mysterious Germans ringing us up. We've got the police watching us. How did this guy get hold of your address anyway? What's going on, eh?

ANNIE: Calm down, Jean! It was completely by chance that he came here. He was selling electrical goods or something. As for this Kristi lady, look, if it had been anything really serious the Germans would have contacted me directly. Right?

JEAN: Not the ones who are in prison.

ANNIE: Anyway, I'll ring her later, OK? Look, I haven't even unpacked the shopping yet.

ANNIE: I hope the fridge is working, at least.

ANNIE: Well done, Jean.

JEAN: My pleasure. And I mended the freezer, too.

ANNIE: Listen, I’m exhausted. I'm going to my room to lie down for a bit. Will you both still be in later?

JEAN/KATE: Yeah.

ANNIE: OK. Oh, by the way, was there any mail for me?

JEAN: Yeah, a couple of letters. I put them on your desk in your room.

ANNIE: Thanks, Jean.