美語情景對話 第752期:Bad Day 糟糕的一天

Joel: Hey, Michele.

喬爾：嗨，米歇爾。

Michele: Hi.

米歇爾：嗨。

Joel: You don't look very happy. What happened?

喬爾：你看起來不太高興。發生什麼事了？

Michele: Oh, well, I'm a little bit frustrated.

米歇爾：哦，我有些沮喪？

Joel: Why?

喬爾：爲什麼？

Michele: Well, I went to the bank today and I couldn't communicate well because my Japanese wasn't good enough and the bank teller didn't speak English.

米歇爾：我今天去銀行了，可是我的日語不太好，銀行職員又不會說英語，所以我們的溝通不好。

Joel: What were you trying to do?

喬爾：你去銀行做什麼？

Michele: Well, I've ordered a ticket to go to Australia and I have to send the money to the travel agency and they only accept one form of payment. They want me to send a bank transfer.

米歇爾：我訂了張飛澳大利亞的機票，我要把錢匯給旅行社，那家旅行社只接受一種付款方式。他們讓我通過銀行轉賬。

Joel: OK.

喬爾：好。

Michele: So, I have a post office account and I can't do it through the post office, so I went to the bank and I started to explain that I want to send.... do a bank transfer.

米歇爾：我有郵局賬戶，可是不能通過郵局匯款，所以我去了銀行，試圖和銀行職員說明我要轉賬。

Joel: Right.

喬爾：嗯。

Michele: And because I'm a foreigner, I think she thought I wanted to send money abroad and she was saying, "Oh, I'm sorry, you can't do that here" but I had to explain, "No, no. I just want to send it within Japan," but I don't know, because I don't have an account at that bank there was some sort of problem and she wanted me to fill out a form and I didn't really understand it.

米歇爾：因爲我是外國人，我想她可能認爲我要往外國匯款，所以她說：“抱歉，在這裏你不能這麼做”，然後我解釋說，“不是，我只是想在日本境內轉賬”，可能因爲我沒有在那家銀行開設賬戶，所以有一些問題，她想讓我先填表，可是我看不懂那張表。

Joel: Right, and then the form is in Japanese.

喬爾：好，那張表上是日語。

Michele: Yes, so now I have the form. I guess I'll have to go find a friend to help me with...

米歇爾：對，我把那張表拿回來了。我想我要去找個朋友幫我……

Joel: You never solved the problem.

喬爾：你沒有解決問題。

Michele: No, no. I just took the form and said, "OK, I'll take it and come back."

米歇爾：不是。我拿了表以後，跟她說：“表我拿走了，我很快回來。”

Joel: How long were you there?

喬爾：你在銀行待了多長時間？

Michele: Not too long, maybe five or ten minutes. There weren't many people in the bank but I still felt like, oh I'm taking up too much time here or something.

米歇爾：時間並不長，可能也就五到十分鐘。當時銀行里人不多，不過我還是覺得我佔用了太多時間。

Joel: So, you just gave up and...

喬爾：所以你就放棄了……

Michele: Yes.

米歇爾：對。

Joel: Well, I'll have to take you over to my landlord here. This Japanese woman is really nice and she'll... I'm sure she'll help you fill out the form.

喬爾：我帶你去找我的房東吧。我的房東是名日本女性，她人非常好，我確定她會幫你填表。

Michele: Oh, really.

米歇爾：哦，真的嗎？

Joel: And take care of you. Yeah.

喬爾：她會幫你處理。對。

Michele: Oh, that's great.

米歇爾：哦，那真是太好了。

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重點講解：
1. fill out 填，填寫（表格等）；
例句：To apply for a job, you mustfill outa form.
申請工作要填表。
2. take up 佔用，花費（時間、空間或精力）；
例句：know how busy you must be and naturally I wouldn't want totake uptoo much of your time.
我知道您肯定特別忙，我當然不想佔用您太多的時間。
3. or something （表示對說的話不能肯定）或別的什麼，或諸如此類；
例句：Mr. Green is a shopkeeperor something.
格林先生大概是店主之類的人。
4. give up 放棄；戒除；
例句：It is a pity togive upthe job.
要放棄這份工作，真是遺憾。
5. take care of 處理；應對；
例句：There are still many things totake care of.
還有許多要處理的事。