生活英語情景口語:你覺得自己會遇到外星人嗎?

B: guess what! I know something you don't know!

L: what's that?

B: how many planets are there in the solar system?

L: that's easy. Everyone knows that there are nice.

B: not anymore! Can you believe it? They've decided that Pluto is not a planet anymore!

L: nice try. I wasn't born yesterday, you know.

B: I'm dead serious. They've decided that it's too small to be a planet, but actually they haven't yet agreed on how big something has to be in order to be a planet anymore.

L: that sounds crazy. They can't just change their mind about things like that.

B: yes, they can. If you remember correctly, people used to believe that the world was flat.

L: I suppose you're right. They also used to think that they were so important that the sun revolved around them, not the other way around.

B: we actually know relatively little about space and the cosmos.

L: do you think that we'll one day be able to travel to another planet for a vacation?

B: I suppose we could actually live on a planet outside of the milky way.

L: do you think we'll ever get to meet an alien from outer space?

B: I hope not. I think they would be a threat to those of us that lived on Earth.

L: you're so old-fashioned. That's what people used to think about people from another country!

B: point taken. Hopefully one day, we'll live in an interplanetary society.

你猜怎麼找?我知道一些你不知道的事!
什麼事?
你知道太陽系有多少行星嗎?
很簡單,大家都知道有九大行星.
現在可不是啦!你相信嗎?他們決定取消冥王星的行星資格了.
想得美.別哄我了,我又不是三歲小孩.
我是認真的.他們認爲冥王星太小了,不夠做行星的資格,不過他們尚未對行星的體積究竟該有多大達成一致的意見.
這聽起來簡直是瘋了!他們不能對這種事情隨便亂改主意.
是的,他們可以.如果你還記得的話,以前人們曾經以爲地球是平的.
我覺得你說得有道理.他們過去還認爲人類是特別重要的,以至於太陽都是圍繞着我們轉的,不存在其他運行的方式.
可能我們隊空間和宇宙的瞭解只是非常有限的一點點.
你覺得未來我們有可能去其他星球度假嗎?
我想我們可以居住在銀河系以外的其他星球上.
你覺得咱們會在外太空遇到外星人嗎?
我希望不會.我覺得他們可能對生活在地球上的人類是一種威脅.
你的思想可太老派了.這就好像人們以前對外國人的看法一樣!
知道啦.希望未來有一天,我們能生活在一個行星際的社會裏.

Nice Try

表面上好像是在誇別人"做得好、乾的漂亮",而多數情況下意思是"想得美、得了吧",是一種反諷.
另外,當別人很努力做某事卻失敗的時候,你也可以拍拍肩膀對他說Nice try,這時就有鼓勵、安慰的意思了.所以大家要把握好說話的語境.

Nice try. I wasn't born yesterday, you know.
想得美.我又不是三歲小孩兒.

Nice try, but do you think I would believe that?
得了吧,你覺得我會相信嗎?

point taken: used to say that you accept that somebody else is right when they have disagreed with you or criticized you (接受相反的意見)同意,好吧,算你有理
Point taken. Let's drop the subject. 好吧.咱們就拋開這個話題吧.

revolve around/round something: to move around something in a circle 繞...旋轉(或做圓周運動)
The earth revolves around the sun. 地球繞太陽公轉.

revolve around/round somebody/something: to have somebody/something as the main interest or subject 圍繞;以...爲中心;將...作爲主要興趣(或主題)
His whole life revolves around surfing. 他一生都在做衝浪運動.
She thinks that the world revolves around her. 她以爲整個世界都以她爲中心.
The discussion revolved around the question of changing the club's name. 討論的中心問題是改變俱樂部的名稱.