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Gucci: It’s too expensive. Ten cookies cost a bundle.

May: I noticed that they have Italian buffet upstairs. Maybe we should have chosen that?

Gucci: Let’s do it, now.

May: What is the charge of buffet for each person?

Waitress: It depends on your weight. Come on to the scale, please!

Gucci: Interesting! Look, I’m 45kg.

May: Me, 46kg.

Waitress: 50 yuan for each.

Gucci: I love it. Look, they’ve got everything.

May: Wow, coffee and cheese puddings. Love it.

Gucci: It’s the only neat decision we made today!

May: It is. And it’s not all bad now.

Gucci: No more for me. I’ll all set.

May: Me either. That’s the problem about buffet. Always over eating.

Gucci: You can’t get everything.

聽看學

古奇：這也太貴了。10塊小甜餅就 要那么多錢。

阿美：我發現樓上有意大利自助餐。 也許我們本該去那里的。

古奇：那我們現在去吧。

阿美：自助餐每個人的收費是多 少?

服務生：收費是按體重來算的。上 這個稱看看吧!

古奇：真有趣。看，我是45公斤。

阿美：我是46公斤。

服務生：每人50元。

古奇：我很喜歡這個地方，這里什 么都有。

阿美：哇噻，咖啡、奶酪布丁，我 最喜歡了。

古奇：這是我們今天做的唯一正確 的決定。

阿美：是啊，看來今天也不是什么 都差勁。

古奇：吃不下了，我搞定了。

阿美：我也吃不下了。這就是自助 餐的問題啊，總是吃太多。

古奇：總是不能十全十美嘛!

經典背誦 Recitation

MayI love buffet. Better yet if it’s an Italian buffet. There is one such place, downtown. It’s interesting that the customers there would be charged by their weight.The only problem about it is overeating. People just don’t know when to stop. Anyway you can’t have everything.

生詞小結

bundle n. 堆，捆

notice vt. 注意

buffet n. 自助餐

cheese n. 奶酪

pudding n. 布丁

注釋

1.Ten cookies cost a bundle.

Bundle本意為“一大堆”，這里指的是“一大堆錢”，中文口語中也有相似的表達方法，例：“好貴啊，花了我一大堆錢。”

2.You can’t get everything.

get在這里的意思是“得到”，直譯為你不能得到每一件東西。(可見總有遺憾。)所以也較容易想到意譯應為：做不到十全十美。

Scene practice 情景練習

抱怨句型練習

仔細閱讀下面五個場景，兩人一組，使用抱怨句型，用一用，練一練。

1.May bought a CD in a shop, but it was not the right CD inside, if you were May, what would you complain to the manager?

2.May and Gucci are having lunch in a restaurant, but the soup tastes horrible. If you were Gucci, what would you complain to the waitress?

3.Benjamin’s neighbor has two young children, they were very noisy. They scream and shout event at midnight. His neighbor doesn’t seem to care about their screaming. Benjamin has just had a sleepless night as a result, if you were Benjamin, what would you complain to the neighbor?

4.Shirley bought some shoes to wear in the rain but they leak. She takes them back to change them. If you were Shirley, what would you say to the shop assistant?

5.If you were Daniel, your mother complains about your laziness, what would you say to your mother?