情景口語：giving and receiving給予與接受

A: I heard you received a prize for you book.

B:Yes, I did. I won a prize for “best local history book” at the annual book award.

A: Congratulations! You must be very proud of your achievement.

B: Actually, I was happy just to get the book published. Winning the prize was an added bonus.

A: What was the prize?

B: I won $200 to spend on any books of my choice.

A: That’s a great prize for a person who writes books! Have you ever won a prize before?

B: I shared a prize with some friends last week. We won a bottle of whisky at a pub quiz.

A; I won $10 in the lottery last month. Perhaps next time, I’ll be luckier and win the jackpot!

A: 我聽說你出版的書得獎了。

B: 是的。我贏得一個"最佳的本地歷史書獎"作為年度圖書獎。

A: 恭喜你! 你一定為你的成就感到非常驕傲。

B: 其實我只是為這本書的出版而高興。得獎是一個額外的收獲。

A: 是什么獎?

B: 我贏得200美元的購書券。

A: 那是給寫書的個人的一項大獎!以前你獲過獎嗎?

B: 我上周與朋友們分享獎勵。我們在一次酒店游戲贏得一瓶威士忌酒。

A: 我上個月買彩票中了10美元。也許下一次吧，我會幸運贏得頭獎。

Intermediate

A: Have you bought a present for Jim’s birthday yet?

B: No, I haven’t. I can’t think of anything to get him.

A: I’m having the same problem. I want to get something really special. Jim always seems to knowexactly what to get people as gifts.

B: I know. He bought me that beautiful sweater for my birthday. It was exactly what I wanted.And it fit me perfectly!

A: He bought me an iron.

B: That doesn’t sound like a great present.

A: Maybe not, but my iron was getting old. In fact, it stopped working the week after jim boughtme the new one. It’s as if he knew that my old iron would soon stop working!

B: Let’s think. He loves football, doesn’t he? I saw signed photographs of famous footballers in ashop near here. Let’s go and have a look. You know which team he supports, don’t you?

A: Yes, I do. Let’s go. We should be able to find something suitable. We should get him somethingold…something historic.

B: It’ll be an expensive present, but we can share the cost.

A: I’ll be happy to get him something special, even if it costs a little extra.

B: Yes. He always get us special gift. We should repay his kindness.

A: 你為吉姆的生日買一份禮物了嗎?

B: 還沒有。我想不出該給他什么。

A: 我有同樣的問題。我想買真正特別的東西。吉姆似乎總是確切地知道該買什么給人作為禮品。

B: 我知道。他為我的生日買了那件美麗的毛線衫。這正是我想要的。我穿著它很合身!

A: 他為我買一個熨斗。

B: 那聽起來不象是份好禮物。

A: 或許不是，但是我的熨斗舊了。實際上，在吉姆為我買新熨斗的這一周，我的舊熨斗壞了。這好象他知道我的舊熨斗不久會壞似的。

B: 我們覺得他喜歡足球，是不是?我在附近一家商店看到著名的足球運動員簽名的照片。我們去看一看。你知道他支持哪個隊，是嗎?

A: 是的。走吧。我們能發(fā)現某些事情合適。我們應該為他買古典的…有歷史意義的東西。

B: 那將是一份昂貴的禮物，但是我們可以分擔費用。

A: 我將很高興買到特別的東西，即使它要額外多花點錢。

B: 是的，他總是給我們買特別的禮物。我們應該報答他的好意。