美語情景對話 第965期:Freaks and Animals 不同類型的人(1)

Todd: So, Julia, let's talk about types of people.

託德：朱莉婭，我們來談談不同類型的人。

Julia: OK.

朱莉婭：好。

Todd: Right, first one, are you a fitness freak?

託德：首先，你是健身狂嗎？

Julia: A fitness freak? I'm fairly fit but I'm not a freak. No, I'm not a fitness freak, no.

朱莉婭：健身狂？我很健康，但是我並不是健身狂。我不是健身狂。

Todd: So you exercise but it's not like you do it all the time?

託德：你有在鍛鍊，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.

朱莉婭：對，我也會做一些不太健康的事情。我喜歡喝酒，我以前還抽菸，所以我不是健身狂。

Todd: Right. I think a fitness freak is like somebody who does it, who exercises compulsively.

託德：好。我認爲健身狂是那種強制性健身的人。

Julia: I indulge in bad stuff too so no I'm not a fitness freak.

朱莉婭：我也會沉迷於不健康的事物，所以我並不是健身狂。

Todd: OK, so that leads us to the next question. Are you a party animal?

託德：好，這樣就引出了我們的第二個問題。你是聚會迷嗎？

Julia: Not any more. I'm too old now.

朱莉婭：現在不是了。我現在已經不再年輕了。

Todd: When you were younger, you were a party animal?

託德：你年輕的時候是聚會迷？

Julia: I think, yeah, that was probably the type that I most fitted into.

朱莉婭：我想是的，我可能屬於那種類型。

Todd: Nice. I was never a party animal.

託德：好。我從來就不是聚會迷。

Julia: No?

朱莉婭：不是嗎？

Todd: No, I've always been pretty tame. I've always been pretty tame.

託德：不是，我一直是很無聊的人。我一直屬於枯燥乏味的人。

Julia: Yes, I was pretty wild when I was younger.

朱莉婭：好，我年輕的時候非常狂熱。

Todd: Really?

託德：真的嗎？

Julia: Yeah.

朱莉婭：對。

Todd: So you used to drink, smoke, stay up late?

託德：那你以前喝酒、抽菸、熬夜？

Julia: Yeah. All that and more, yeah.

朱莉婭：對，這些我都做過，而且更甚之。

Todd: Come home in the wee hours of the morning?

託德：凌晨纔回家？

Julia: Oh, yeah.

朱莉婭：哦對。

Todd: Oh, nice, that's cool. OK, next one would be do you know anybody in your family who's a couch potato?

託德：好，這很酷。下一個問題是，你家裏有人是電視迷嗎？

Julia: Couch potato?

朱莉婭：電視迷？

Todd: Because I know that you're not a couch potato.

託德：因爲我知道你不是電視迷。

Julia: I'm not a couch potato, no. My brother sometimes demonstrates couch potato traits.

朱莉婭：我的確不是電視迷。我哥哥有時會呈現出電視迷的特徵。

Todd: Yeah.

託德：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.

朱莉婭：他喜歡玩電子遊戲，他會花很多時間看電影，和我比起來，他坐着的時間的確很多。我想他使我看起來像健身狂，因爲他不會做太多的運動。

Todd: Right. And so for people listening a couch potato is somebody who watches a lot of TV and sits on the couch.

託德：好。我們要向聽衆解釋一下，電視迷是指那些花很多時間坐在沙發上看電視的人。

Julia: Spends a lot of time on the couch, yeah.

朱莉婭：對，花很多時間在沙發上。

Todd: Well, how about the similar personality trait of the bookworm? Are you a bookworm?

託德：那有相似特徵的書迷呢？你是書迷嗎？

Julia: A bookworm? No, but I think my husband's probably a bookworm.

朱莉婭：書迷？不是，不過我想我丈夫可能是個書迷。

Todd: Yeah?

託德：是嗎？

Julia: He spends a lot of time reading books. He reads very fast so he gets through a lot of books.

朱莉婭：他會花大量的時間看書。他閱讀的速度非常快，所以他讀過很多書。

Todd: He's a speed reader?

託德：他是速讀者？

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.

朱莉婭：對，他看書的速度非常快，而且他必須要看書。他一定要隨身帶着書。如果沒有書，他就不能在等候室、火車或任何閒坐着的地方呆着。

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.

託德：好。我一個人住，我有一個糟糕的特徵。我不能只是坐着或吃東西，我吃飯的時候不能沒有佔據我注意力的事情。如果我在等候室或是在飛機上，我一定要看書或是在電腦上看東西。我一定要看點什麼。這快把我逼瘋了。

Julia: You see I can't read on transport because I get sick. It makes me sick, it makes me nauseous.

朱莉婭：你看，我不能在交通工具上看書，因爲我會不舒服。在交通工具上閱讀會讓我感覺很暈，讓我會噁心想吐。

Todd: Like motion sickness?

託德：像暈車那樣？

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.

朱莉婭：對。所以我沒有在火車上閱讀的習慣。在坐公交車和乘車時，天哪，我完全不能看書。我做不到，不過我丈夫不管在哪裏，一直都在看書。

Todd: Oh, that's cool.

託德：哦，那很酷。

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重點講解：
1. indulge in (使自己)沉迷；放縱(自己)；
例句：He used to indulge in fantasies about being a famous actor.
他過去沉迷於當名演員的幻想中。
2. fit into 歸屬，適於(某種情形或體系)；
例句：People don't often fit into neat categories.
人常常不能簡單歸類。
3. stay up 深夜不睡；熬夜；
例句：I am going to stay up late to finish my paper.
爲了完成報告我打算熬夜不睡。
4. sit around 閒坐着；無所事事；
例句：Eve isn't the type to sit around doing nothing.
伊芙不是那種喜歡坐在那裏無所事事的人。