华尔街中级英语学习教程第5课：沟通与交流Act2 (MP3和文本下载)

HUGO: Annie, please! Are you there?

CHRIS: Here we go. Hey, are you Annie's dad?

HUGO: Yes, and I want to -

CHRIS: Get lost!

HUGO: What? Look here, young man, I want to see my daughter. What have you done with her?

ANNIE: I'm alright, Dad!

HUGO: Look, what's going on, Annie?

ANNIE: They've - I mean, we've - decided not to let you in.

HUGO: What? Have they kidnapped you, or something? Do you want me to call the police? Please, Annie, tell me what’s going on!

ANNIE: Look, I’ll have to speak with him. It won’t take long, OK? It's alright, Dad, I'll come out. I'll just go out with him for a quarter of an hour or so.

MARK: Oh yeah?

ANNIE: I'll come back, don't worry!

HUGO: Now what is all this about, Annie?

ANNIE: We can't talk here. There's a diner just around the block; we’ll go there.

HUGO: Would you mind giving me some sort of explanation?

ANNIE: I'll tell you everything when we get to the diner, OK? It's only a short way away.

ANNIE: This is it.

HUGO: What, this place? It's totally disgusting!

ANNIE: Is anybody sitting here?

TEAMSTER: No, lady, go for it.

WAITRESS: What are you having?

HUGO: Oh! Er… anything you haven't made yourselves - a bottle of orange juice.

WAITRESS: We don't have bottles. We only have cans.

HUGO: A can, then.

ANNIE: And I'll have a fried egg sandwich, and a coffee.

WAITRESS: One fried egg sandwich, one orange juice, one coffee.

ANNIE: That’s it.

HUGO: Now, then. I'm waiting to hear your explanation, Annie.

ANNIE: First of all, Dad, please don't talk to me as if I was a child. I'm grown up now; I'm almost twenty years old!

HUGO: Yes, of course, Annie. I’m sorry.

ANNIE: I don’t know how to say this, but… you know, when I was younger, I used to think you were wonderful, really! I used to think: “I've got such a clever Daddy; he makes so much money, and we live in a such a lovely apartment, and we go on all these expensive vacations.” But you see, I'm an adult now, not a child, and I can see things that I just couldn't see then.

HUGO: What sort of things?

ANNIE: I've seen what it's done to you, Dad. I've seen the kind of person you've become. Look, I’m sorry, but I don't want to become like you. Do you understand?

HUGO: Become like what?

ANNIE: There are so many things that matter to me more than money, Dad! And I'm not going to go and marry some horrible, rich, fat businessman or some successful robot that I don't care a damn about - like David and his darling Juanita!

HUGO: But I haven't asked you to! Look here Annie, with this disgusting money of mine I've sent you to school in Switzerland. I've paid for you to go on vacation in the Seychelles, in Bali, and in Bermuda. You did that very expensive secretarial course, and I paid for it. I've bought you designer clothes from the best stores in Washdon, and if you wanted a car you know I'd be happy to buy you one. Are you trying to tell me that all this has been total hell?

ANNIE: You just don't want to understand, do you?

WAITRESS: Here's your fried egg sandwich. And your orange juice.

HUGO: It's alright, I'll open it! And would you mind bringing me a clean glass, please?

WAITRESS: Very well!

HUGO: Obviously nobody does any washing-up in this place!

ANNIE: You're such a snob, Dad!

HUGO: Oh, I see! So it's snobbish to want to be clean now. I thought you wanted to live in a clean environment, not a disgustingly filthy one. I suppose your boyfriend has taught you all this nonsense, has he? Is he the one who shouted at me?

ANNIE: We don't have “boyfriends and girlfriends”, Dad - that’s so old-fashioned. We don't believe in being someone else’s property.

HUGO: I see. You mean everybody sleeps with everyone else?

ANNIE: No, I don't mean that! If you really want to know, I don't sleep with any of them!

HUGO: No, I don't want to know. I really think I've heard enough of this nonsense! I'm going!

ANNIE: Please yourself! You'll be alright, Dad; you've still got your money, haven't you?

HUGO: I can't just leave things like that!

HUGO: Listen Annie, I'm sorry about some of the things I said.

ANNIE: That's alright; it’s what I expected. Can you pass the pepper and salt, please?

TEAMSTER: Here you are, lady.

HUGO: Look Annie, if you want to get in touch with me, I'll be at the Marlborough Hotel for the next few weeks, OK?

ANNIE: What's the matter with the apartment?

HUGO: Oh, nothing; there are some men painting it, that's all. So, if you want to get in touch, you know where to find me.

ANNIE: OK, Dad. Got it.

HUGO: Well, bye-bye Annie. See you soon.

ANNIE: Maybe. So long.