美語情景對話 第349期:Routine 日常生活

Hi, I'm Mike and this is my daily routine. I get up early every day, around 6:30 and I go to the gym for a work-out before I go to work. I usually do aerobic exercise for awhile and then do some weight lifting for maybe half an hour at the gym, then I'll return home, and as I work from my home, I turn on my computer and start working on what needs to be done. I usually skip breakfast and I'll work until about 12:00 then I'll prepare lunch and have a fairly big lunch because I don't eat breakfast. Then after lunch, I'll go back, continue working on Internet or whatever I have to do for work, until about 6:00 when I usually start getting phone calls from friends of mine who live abroad and then in the evenings if I'm not using my time doing things with the Internet or surfing the web, then I'm speaking to people on the Internet or on my phone and that pretty much sums up my usual daily routine.

大家好，我是邁克，這是我的日常生活。我每天都早起，大概早上6點半起牀，之後我會在上班前去健身房鍛鍊。通常我會做一會兒有氧運動，然後在健身房做大約半個小時的舉重練習，結束後就會回家，我在家工作，所以我會打開電腦，開始做需要完成的工作。我一般不吃早餐，工作到中午12點左右，之後我會準備午餐，午餐我會吃得很豐盛，因爲我沒有吃早點。午餐後我會繼續在網上或是進行其他需要完成的工作，一直工作到下午6點，之後我會開始和住在國外的朋友們通電話，晚上如果我不上網瀏覽或是上網衝浪，我會和朋友們在網上聊天或是打電話聊天，通常我的日常工作就是這樣了。

重點講解：
1. work-out
體育鍛煉；體育訓練；
eg. Give your upper body a work-out by using handweights.
用啞鈴來鍛鍊上身。
2. work on
從事於…；忙於；
eg. Leaders ought to work on sanctioning unethical behavior before it gets to a level that regulators would flag. "
領導者應該努力制裁不道德的行爲，避免它惡化到引起監管者關注的地步。
eg. The federal government gambled hundreds of thousands of dollars in research funds to work on the project.
聯邦政府爲了這項研究計劃冒險動用了好幾十萬美元的資金。
3. sum up
總結；概括；
eg. 'I love my wife, my horse and my dog,' he said, and that summed him up.
他說：“我愛我的妻子、我的馬和我的狗。”他大致上就是這麼一個人。
eg. Obree summed his weekend up in one word: 'Disastrous.'
奧布瑞用一個詞總結了他的週末經歷：“災難。”