校园英语情景对话中英文对照（二）
5. Sorry, I'm Late. 对不起，我迟到了
A: Well, you finally got here. It's about time. I've been waiting in this restaurant a full thirty minutes.啊，你总算来了。你迟到了。我在这家饭店足足等了三十分钟。
B: Sorry, Jeannie. You know me. I'm always late.对不起，珍妮。你是知道我的，我总是迟到。
A: Everybody knows, and every body's getting tired of it. Five,
ten, thirty minutes all the time. No one is that busy. Even in school you always interrupt the teacher right in the middle of a sentence. The whole class has to wait while you sit down and put down your books. It annory s him and everyone else.人人都知道，人人都对此感到讨厌，迟到五分、十分、三十分钟，老是这样。没有人会那么忙。即使在学校里，老师讲话讲到一半总是被你的迟到打断。全班不得不等你坐好放下书本。这使老师和每个同学都感到讨厌。
B: All I can say is sorry. Maybe I'll reform, but don't count on it.我所能说的只有抱歉。也许我会改正，不过别对我抱太大希望。
Notes:
it's about time-you are late (注意：这是一句表示生气的话，用于责怪对方不遵守时间。在青年人中常用)
get tired of… 对…感到厌倦
it annoys him 这使他讨厌
reform 改正(作风、做法)
6. The First Class 第一堂课
A: Today I had my first English class.今天我上了第一堂英语课。
B: How was it?课上得怎样？
A: It was interesting. The teacher gave us three ways to help ourselves learn the language. First, stop talking anything except English. Then learn many complete sentences by heart. Finally, have American friends tell us how they say things we have trouble with, and always imitate them.很在意思。老师告诉我们有三种方法可帮助我们学习语言。首先,除英语外不要用其他语言谈话。其次.背下大量完整的句子。最后请美国朋友告诉我们，我们在口语中感到困难的那些句子，他们是怎样表达的,并且要一直模仿他们。
Notes:
by heart 默记
how they say things we have trouble with 我们感到难以表达的那些事物他们是如何表述的
imitate 模仿
7. Hearing and Writing 听和写
A: Tell me about your English class, Mary.玛丽，给我说说你们英语课。
B: Well, yesterday the teacher wro-te some sentences on the board. The first was "if you can't produce the sounds of a langua-ge acceptable, then you can't really hear them when other people make them". Next he worte, "if you can't hear the sounds of a language then you probably can't write the language well. Your inadequate pronunciation contributes to making your writing substandard."好吧，昨天老师在黑板上写了一些句子。第一句话是"对于一种语言如果你不能正确地发音,那么当别人发这些音时你实际上不可能听懂。"然后他又写道“如果你听不懂一种语言的发音，你大概也不可能很好地书写这种语言。你的不合格的发音将导致你的书写也不能令人满意。”
A: Do you think that's right?你认为这对吗？
B: I don't know, Bob. I'll tell you when the course is over.我不知道，鲍勃。等这门课结束时我会告诉你的。
Notes
Substandasd--unacceptable, inferior
8. Learning English 学英语
A: Ralph, do me a favor, will you?拉尔夫，帮我一个忙，好吗？
B: That all depends on what it is.这要看帮什么忙。
A: This is the proble, I'm still having trouble with my English. The instructor suggests that I ask an American to help me by telling me how he says the things I say which just aren't English. I wanted you to be the American.我有个困难。我的英语仍然遇到麻烦。老师建议我请一位美国人帮助，要他告诉我，我说的那些根本不像英语的话应当怎样说。我想要你做这个美国人。
B: What good'll it do? You never speak English unless you absolutely have to. I'll help you if you promise to speak noting but English all the time.这有什么用？你除了非说不可的时候，你从来不说英语。好吧！我跟你达成一个协议：如果你保证在任何时候除了英语外什么也不说，我就帮助你。
A: All right. Maybe I'll do that. It's the only way I'll be able to learn English fast enough, I guess.好吧，也许我能办得到。我想这是我能迅速学会英语的唯一方法。
Notes
What good'll it do? - it will be useless
Unless you absolutely have to… 除了你非…不可
Make a bargain with sb. 同…约定
9. Learning Vocabulary 学习词汇
A: I don't understand why we have to memorize conversations. We need more vocabulary, not pronunciation.我弄不懂为什么我们一定要记住会话。我们需要的是词汇，而不是发音。
B: Don't you think memorizing conversations is a part of learning vocabulary? Every time we memorize a conversation, we're memorizing a whole series of contexts. Each context tells us one way a word can be used, I know from my own language that I can't always use words by simply looking them up in a dictionary and then putting them into sentences. Some words have many meanings. We have to know which meanings go where.你不认为记住会话是学习词汇的一个组成部分吗？每当我们记住一句会话，我们就记住了全部的上下文。而这上下文可以供我们了解一个单词的一种用法。我从自己的语言中意识到，光靠查词典然后把这些词汇拼成句子，并不意味着会正确使用这些词。有些意识有很多解释。我们必须弄清楚在哪种情况下适用哪一种解释。
Notes
Context (文章或讲话中的)前后文(根据前后文的逻辑可以确定某一个具有多种解释的词或短语的含义)
Which meanings go where 哪一种解释讲得通
10.Spelling 拼写
A: You know, Ralph, since I started speaking English all the time my pronunciation's getting better and even the grammar's beginning to make some sense. But I don't think I'll ever be able to spell.拉尔夫，你知道，自从我开始所有时间都讲英语以来，我的发音有了进步，而且语法也开始理顺了。不过我不认为我能把字拼出来。
B: You're not alone there. I have trouble with spelling too. When I was in grade school, I learned which words were the most frequently misspelled, but I never did learn how to spell them.不是你一个人如此。我在拼音方面也有困难。当我上小学的时候，我知道哪些词是经常拼错的，但我没有学会如何拼这些词。
A: Since it's so difficult, why is it so important to learn how to spell properly?既然这么难，为什么学会准确拼音又如此重要呢？
B: Because if you spell satisfactorily, you're considered educated. If you don't, you're not.因为如果你能准确无误地拼音，人家就会把你看作受到教育的人。否则，在别人眼里你是个缺乏教育的人。
Notes
Make sense - to become understandable
Grade school (美国的)小学
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