美語情景對話 第1207期:Have you changed a lot? 你變了很多嗎?

Elena: Hello, this is Elena from Bulgaria.

埃琳娜：你好，我是埃琳娜，來自保加利亞。

Diego: I'm Diego from Mexico.

迭戈：我是迭戈，來自墨西哥。

Elena: Today's question is are you an early bird or a night owl?

埃琳娜：今天要討論的話題是，你是早起者還是夜貓子？

Diego: I guess that's a really easy question to answer for me. I am definitely, definitely not an early bird. I can't function in the morning. I always wake up and I'm always like where's the coffee? Yeah, I don't know why. There's a lot of people who are really active and you know awake in the morning, but for me it always takes ten, twenty minutes to wake up and hours to finally function. But then at night, you know I can just do my homework, study so much, do all the work that I need to get done and I get so concentrated and so active and I feel so energized at night. So to answer your question I would say I'm definitely a night owl.

迭戈：我認爲對我來說這是一個非常好回答的問題。我絕對絕對不是早起者。我早上不能工作。我早上醒了以後，就會想“咖啡在哪裏？”我也不知道原因。有很多人早上非常活躍，可以很快醒來，可是我通常要花10分鐘甚至20分鐘的時間才能起牀，而要我正常工作需要一個小時的時間。而在晚上，我可以寫作業、努力學習、完全所有要做的工作，我可以高度集中，充滿活力，我感覺我晚上充滿能量。所以，對於你這個問題，我會回答我肯定是夜貓子。

Elena: OK. Well I don't know, for me I've found that I'm pretty productive in the morning so if I want to get any work done I have to get up and do it in the morning because by the afternoon, I just want to slack off and go meet my friends and have fun and I get sleepy really early.

埃琳娜：好。怎麼說呢，我發現我早上效率更高，如果我想完成工作，我會早起在上午完成，因爲下午我想放鬆一下，和朋友見面，享受快樂時光，而且我很早就開始犯困。

Diego: OK. So you're an early bird and I'm a late night owl.

迭戈：好。所以，你是早起者，而我是夜貓子。

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重點講解：
1. early bird 早行動的人；(尤指)早起的人；
例句：We've always been early birds, getting up at 5.30 or 6am.
我們一直都起得很早，早晨5點半或6點就起牀了。
2. night owl 晚睡的人；夜裏工作的人；夜貓子；
例句：The late-night parties make the hotel a haven for night owls and a hell for anyone with children.
那些深夜派對把酒店變成了夜貓子的樂園，對於帶着孩子的人們則成了地獄。
3. at night 在晚間；在夜裏；
例句：He entered the church alone at night.
他孑然一人在夜晚走進了那所教堂。
4. slack off 疏忽；懈怠；鬆勁；
例句：If someone slacks off, Bill comes down hard.
如果有人怠工，比爾就會嚴厲地加以斥責。