美語情景對話 第699期:Birthday Party 生日派對

Lupe: So, Kara, how did you like your birthday party last night?

盧佩：卡拉，你對昨晚的生日派對滿意嗎？

Kara: I had a great time. It was the first time probably I had a birthday party like that with all my family and friends in probably about ten years.

卡拉：我過得很開心。這是10年來我第一次和所有家人和朋友一起開生日派對。

Lupe: Yeah, because since I met you, I've never been to a birthday party. I mean, we've gotten together, gone to restaurants, had a few drinks, but we've never really had a party for you.

盧佩：我認識你以來從來沒參加過你的生日派對。我們經常在一起，一起去吃飯，一起去喝酒，但是我們從來沒有給你辦過派對。

Kara: I really enjoyed it. It was nice to have everybody out for it. Good food and good company.

卡拉：我很享受這個派對。大家一起開派對的感覺很好。有美食還有朋友的陪伴。

Lupe: Yeah, really good food. That guacamole was the best.

盧佩：對，食物非常好吃。最好吃的是墨西哥鱷梨醬。

Kara: Who made that — your mom?

卡拉：那是誰做的？你媽媽嗎？

Lupe: No, actually it was me.

盧佩：不是，那是我做的。

Kara: It was you.

卡拉：是你做的。

Lupe: Yeah, my own recipe and I know that everybody really liked it, even if nobody believed that I made it.

盧佩：對，我有自己的食譜，我知道所有人都很喜歡吃，雖然沒人相信那是我做的。

Kara: Yeah, I don't think you look like the cooking type.

卡拉：對，我覺得你看上去並不像喜歡做飯的人。

Lupe: I'm not the cooking type but I did make guacamole.

盧佩：我的確不太喜歡做飯，不過墨西哥鱷梨醬確實是我做的。

Kara: Well, Bravo.

卡拉：太棒了。

Lupe: Did you like your presents?

盧佩：你喜歡那些生日禮物嗎？

Kara: I loved my presents.

卡拉：我很喜歡。

Lupe: What was your favorite?

盧佩：你最喜歡哪件禮物？

Kara: My favorite? Well, the thing I needed the most was the screen I got to.

卡拉：我最喜歡的？就是我需要的那個屏風。

Lupe: That was beautiful.

盧佩：那很漂亮。

Kara: Make my makeshift closet. And my second favorite of course, because I'm a shoe girl, would be the shoes you got me — the leopard high-heels.

卡拉：我能用那個來做個臨時衣櫃。我非常喜歡鞋子，所以我第二喜歡的禮物當然就是你送我的那雙豹紋高跟鞋。

Lupe: Yeah, I was really hoping you would like because I really wanted to get those for myself and for sure they didn't have them in my size so I just decided to get them for you.

盧佩：我很希望你能喜歡那雙鞋，我其實自己也很想買那雙鞋的，可是沒有我穿的號，所以我就買來送你了。

Kara: And the purse I got last night from you, I'm wearing today.

卡拉：我今天帶了你昨晚送我的錢包。

Lupe: Oh, I'm so glad. I was hoping you would have enough stuff to match with it, cause you know, you don't have that much clothes or that many shoes.

盧佩：哦，我真高興。我希望你能有和它相配的東西，你的衣服和鞋子並沒有那麼多。

Kara: Very funny, Lupe. Very funny.

卡拉：盧佩，這很有趣。很有意思。

Lupe: Only half your room is filled with them.

盧佩：衣服和鞋子只在你房間佔據了一半的空間。

Kara: Well, you know. What can I say. It's a habit. You're one to talk with your one hundred-fifty, two hundred pairs of shoes.

卡拉：你知道，我能說什麼呢。這是個習慣。你就會說別人，你得有150雙或者200雙鞋吧。

Lupe: I think you do beat me with the count of shoes, Kara. I think you have a few more.

盧佩：卡拉，我覺得你鞋子的數量肯定能打敗我。我想你的鞋子更多。

Kara: Mm, I doubt it.

卡拉：我對此表示懷疑。

Lupe: I think you are at the two hundred by now.

盧佩：我想你現在得有200雙鞋了。

Kara: Well, not there. I counted the other day. I only had about eighty.

卡拉：沒有那麼多。那天我數了一下，我只有80雙鞋。

Lupe: Yeah, well you can always just use another pair, right.

盧佩：你現在又多了一雙鞋。

Kara: Right, well now I can fit eighty-one.

卡拉：好吧，現在我有81雙鞋。

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重點講解：
1. even if 即使；儘管；縱然；
例句：Her idea is fundamentally sound, even if she says silly thing sometimes.
即使她有時說些傻話，她的想法基本上是好的。
2. for sure 無疑；肯定；
例句：No one knows for sure how people first learned to preserve food.
沒有人確切地知道當初人們是如何學會保存食物的。
3. be filled with 佈滿；使遍及；
例句：The hall was filled with choking clouds of smoke.
大廳裏充滿了使人窒息的煙霧。