美國(guó)之音之流行美語(yǔ)lesson316 brutal/rager

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Larry下班后，跟李華一起去喝咖啡。今天我們要學(xué)兩個(gè)常用語(yǔ)：brutal和rager.

LH: Larry, 怎么樣，今天上班忙不忙？

LL: Oh it was way brutal.

LH: Brutal? Brutal 不是粗暴、殘忍的意思嗎？

LL: Here it means harsh. You know, like a hassle. It was way brutal.

LH: 噢，你說(shuō)今天上班was way brutal 就是特別麻煩，不順的意思。你說(shuō)具體點(diǎn)兒，In what way was it brutal?

LL: Well for one thing, the coffee machine in my office was broken, so that was lame.

LH: 咖啡壺壞了頂多也就是不方便，也談不上brutal啊。

LL: Well on top of that they were doing some sort of maintenance in the hall, so all day there was this high pitched drilling noise. I have a pounding headache.

LH: 一整天都有人在樓道里修房子，那可是夠吵的。It IS brutal!

LL: Yeah it was totally brutal.

LH: 我這兩天正在申請(qǐng)一家大公司的實(shí)習(xí)機(jī)會(huì)。Let me tell you, it's so brutal.

LL: How is it brutal, Li Hua?

LH: 這家公司要我證明身份，結(jié)果害得我跑了四趟大使館，腿都跑細(xì)了。

LL: Woah, brutal. Are you at least done with the application process now?

LH: I wish! 我現(xiàn)在還要到學(xué)校的工作許可辦公室去開(kāi)證明，最后還不知道到底是不是能拿到這個(gè)實(shí)習(xí)的位置。

LL: Is it paid?

LH: 沒(méi)有，是沒(méi)有報(bào)酬的那種實(shí)習(xí)。

LL: Brutal. I did an unpaid internship once. It was alright though.

LH: 申請(qǐng)實(shí)習(xí)的手續(xù)麻煩點(diǎn)兒也就算了，我現(xiàn)在唯一的希望是，真開(kāi)始實(shí)習(xí)了，工作上不要更加brutal。

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李華第二天中午興高彩烈地打電話(huà)給Larry。

LL: Hello? This is Larry London speaking.

LH: Larry?

LL: Hi Li Hua, how's it going?

LH: 告訴你一個(gè)好消息，我拿到那個(gè)實(shí)習(xí)的機(jī)會(huì)了。

LL: That's great Li Hua!

LH: 公司人事部門(mén)打電話(huà)通知我，我簡(jiǎn)直高興死了。

LL: We have to celebrate, we should throw a rager.

LH: Rager，那是什么？聽(tīng)起來(lái)好象挺可怕的。

LL: No, a rager means a huge party. A raging party.

LH: 哦，我知道了，a rager就是一個(gè)特別瘋狂的派對(duì)。好啊，我同意，咱們把朋友都叫來(lái)，開(kāi)個(gè)rager.

LL: My friend Jack the DJ has been looking to find some more work. I'm sure he'd be willing to set up his turntables at our rager.

LH: 你是說(shuō)你那個(gè)做職業(yè)DJ的朋友Jack嗎？太棒了，要真能把他找來(lái)，It is bound to be a killer rager.

LL: I think it should be pretty good. We can have it at my place.

LH: 在你那兒開(kāi)？你可想好了，那些人一定會(huì)把你家搞得一團(tuán)糟。

LL: Eh, it's fine. I don't have anything nice that can be damaged anyhow.

LH: 你在家大吵大鬧地開(kāi)派對(duì)，鄰居會(huì)不會(huì)有意見(jiàn)？

LL: Probably not, there are a lot of young people around here anyhow. I feel like somebody is always throwing a rager on this street.

LH: 太好了，那你說(shuō)，咱們都請(qǐng)誰(shuí)？

LL: Well you should tell friends in your classes, and I'll send out a Facebook invitation. Oh, When will we hold our rager?

LH: 這個(gè)星期五晚上怎么樣？

LL: Mmm, this Friday isn't good. I told my friend Kevin I'd help him fix the bike. How about Saturday?

LH: 星期六好。星期六大家精神頭更足。

LL: Exactly, you want people to be high energy if you are going to throw a rager. Do you think a lot of people will come?

LH: 那還用說(shuō)，I think it will be a huge rager. 你說(shuō)咱們的派對(duì)應(yīng)該幾點(diǎn)開(kāi)始？

LL: We can say nine o'clock and no one will likely show up until 10:30 at the earliest.

LH: 十點(diǎn)半？那么晚?。?/font>