聽力每日練習(xí) listen 1090 Its Been Ages

 
2--What does this mean? To find out, Let's listen to an actual conversation.
 
1--How are you, I haven't seen you for a few years!
 
2--I'm doing great! It's been ages since we've talked, hasn't it?
 
1--It's been a long time, that's for sure.
 
2--In American English, "It's been ages" is another way of saying, "it's been a long time" or "a long time has passed" since you've seen each other.
 
1--You may remember the words "ages" being used to talk about different periods of history, like the ice age, stone age, or bronze age.
 
2--Saying "it's been ages" uses exaggeration by saying that it's been many of those long stretches of time since something has happened.
 
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注解：
 
1.colleague同事
2.conversation對(duì)話 
3.exaggeration夸張

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譯文：

1--如果你看見一位很久不見的朋友或者同事，你可以用美語說：“我們好多年沒有一起聊聊了”。
2--這是什么意思呢？從下面這段真實(shí)的對(duì)話中，找找看吧。
1--你怎么樣啊，好多年沒有看見你了！
2--我挺不錯(cuò)的！我們好多年沒有一起聊聊了（It's been ages since we've talked），是么?
1--我知道是很長時(shí)間啦。
2--在美語中，“It's been ages”（很多年）是“it's been a long time”（很長時(shí)間）和“a long time has passed”(過了很長時(shí)間)的另外一種表達(dá)方式。
1--大家應(yīng)該都知道“ages”可以用來表示各個(gè)不同的歷史時(shí)代，比如冰川時(shí)代（the ice age），石器時(shí)代（stone age），銅器時(shí)代（bronze age）。
2--“it's been ages”意識(shí)是自從某事以后過去很長時(shí)間，這是一種夸張的表達(dá)方式。