实战口语情景对话 第965期:Freaks and Animals 不同类型的人(1)

Todd: So, Julia, let's talk about types of people.
托德：朱莉娅，我们来谈谈不同类型的人。

Julia: OK.
朱莉娅：好。

Todd: Right, first one, are you a fitness freak?
托德：首先，你是健身狂吗？

Julia: A fitness freak? I'm fairly fit but I'm not a freak. No, I'm not a fitness freak, no.
朱莉娅：健身狂？我很健康，但是我并不是健身狂。我不是健身狂。

Todd: So you exercise but it's not like you do it all the time?
托德：你有在锻炼，但你不是一直在健身？

Julia: No, and I do some unhealthy stuff as well. I like to drink and I'm a former smoker and yes, no I'm not a fitness freak.
朱莉娅：对，我也会做一些不太健康的事情。我喜欢喝酒，我以前还抽烟，所以我不是健身狂。

Todd: Right. I think a fitness freak is like somebody who does it, who exercises compulsively.
托德：好。我认为健身狂是那种强制性健身的人。

Julia: I indulge in bad stuff too so no I'm not a fitness freak.
朱莉娅：我也会沉迷于不健康的事物，所以我并不是健身狂。

Todd: OK, so that leads us to the next question. Are you a party animal?
托德：好，这样就引出了我们的第二个问题。你是聚会迷吗？

Julia: Not any more. I'm too old now.
朱莉娅：现在不是了。我现在已经不再年轻了。

Todd: When you were younger, you were a party animal?
托德：你年轻的时候是聚会迷？

Julia: I think, yeah, that was probably the type that I most fitted into.
朱莉娅：我想是的，我可能属于那种类型。

Todd: Nice. I was never a party animal.
托德：好。我从来就不是聚会迷。

Julia: No?
朱莉娅：不是吗？

Todd: No, I've always been pretty tame. I've always been pretty tame.
托德：不是，我一直是很无聊的人。我一直属于枯燥乏味的人。

Julia: Yes, I was pretty wild when I was younger.
朱莉娅：好，我年轻的时候非常狂热。

Todd: Really?
托德：真的吗？

Julia: Yeah.
朱莉娅：对。

Todd: So you used to drink, smoke, stay up late?
托德：那你以前喝酒、抽烟、熬夜？

Julia: Yeah. All that and more, yeah.
朱莉娅：对，这些我都做过，而且更甚之。

Todd: Come home in the wee hours of the morning?
托德：凌晨才回家？

Julia: Oh, yeah.
朱莉娅：哦对。

Todd: Oh, nice, that's cool. OK, next one would be do you know anybody in your family who's a couch potato?
托德：好，这很酷。下一个问题是，你家里有人是电视迷吗？

Julia: Couch potato?
朱莉娅：电视迷？

Todd: Because I know that you're not a couch potato.
托德：因为我知道你不是电视迷。

Julia: I'm not a couch potato, no. My brother sometimes demonstrates couch potato traits.
朱莉娅：我的确不是电视迷。我哥哥有时会呈现出电视迷的特征。

Todd: Yeah.
托德：好。

Julia: He likes to play video games and stuff like that and he'll spend a lot of time watching movies and so he does spend a lot of time sedentary compared to me. He makes me look like a fitness freak, I guess, because he doesn't do so much exercise.
朱莉娅：他喜欢玩电子游戏，他会花很多时间看电影，和我比起来，他坐着的时间的确很多。我想他使我看起来像健身狂，因为他不会做太多的运动。

Todd: Right. And so for people listening a couch potato is somebody who watches a lot of TV and sits on the couch.
托德：好。我们要向听众解释一下，电视迷是指那些花很多时间坐在沙发上看电视的人。

Julia: Spends a lot of time on the couch, yeah.
朱莉娅：对，花很多时间在沙发上。

Todd: Well, how about the similar personality trait of the bookworm? Are you a bookworm?
托德：那有相似特征的书迷呢？你是书迷吗？

Julia: A bookworm? No, but I think my husband's probably a bookworm.
朱莉娅：书迷？不是，不过我想我丈夫可能是个书迷。

Todd: Yeah?
托德：是吗？

Julia: He spends a lot of time reading books. He reads very fast so he gets through a lot of books.
朱莉娅：他会花大量的时间看书。他阅读的速度非常快，所以他读过很多书。

Todd: He's a speed reader?
托德：他是速读者？

Julia: Yeah, he's a very fast reader and he has to read. He has to have a book with him all the time. He cannot, a waiting room or on a train or any situation where you've just got to sit around, he cannot do it if he doesn't have a book.
朱莉娅：对，他看书的速度非常快，而且他必须要看书。他一定要随身带著书。如果没有书，他就不能在等候室、火车或任何闲坐着的地方呆着。

Todd: Yeah. You know I live alone and that's a terrible trait that I have. I cannot sit and eat and just eat without something to occupy my attention. I have to read or I have to be like watching something on the computer and if I go to a waiting room or anything like that or I'm on a plane I'm the same. I have to have something to read. It drives me nuts.
托德：好。我一个人住，我有一个糟糕的特征。我不能只是坐着或吃东西，我吃饭的时候不能没有占据我注意力的事情。如果我在等候室或是在飞机上，我一定要看书或是在电脑上看东西。我一定要看点什么。这快把我逼疯了。

Julia: You see I can't read on transport because I get sick. It makes me sick, it makes me nauseous.
朱莉娅：你看，我不能在交通工具上看书，因为我会不舒服。在交通工具上阅读会让我感觉很晕，让我会恶心想吐。

Todd: Like motion sickness?
托德：像晕车那样？

Julia: Yeah. So I don't have a habit of reading on a train. A bus or a car, oh my God no, I can't read. No way but my husband reads everywhere all the time.
朱莉娅：对。所以我没有在火车上阅读的习惯。在坐公交车和乘车时，天哪，我完全不能看书。我做不到，不过我丈夫不管在哪里，一直都在看书。

Todd: Oh, that's cool.
托德：哦，那很酷。