Larry 下班后，跟李华一起去喝咖啡。今天我们要学两个常用语：brutal和
rager.

    LH： Larry，怎么样，今天上班忙不忙？

    LL： Oh it was way brutal.

    LH： Brutal ？ Brutal 不是粗暴、残忍的意思吗？

    LL： Here it means harsh. You know， like a hassle. It was way brutal.

    LH：噢，你说今天上班was way brutal就是特别麻烦，不顺的意思。你说具
体点儿，In what way was it brutal ？

    LL： Well for one thing ， the coffee machine in my office was broken，
so that was lame.

    LH：咖啡壶坏了顶多也就是不方便，也谈不上brutal啊。

    LL： Well on top of that they were doing some sort of maintenance
in the hall ， so all day there was this high pitched drilling noise.
I have a pounding headache.

    LH：一整天都有人在楼道里修房子，那可是够吵的。It is brutal！

    LL： Yeah it was totally brutal.

    LH：我这两天正在申请一家大公司的实习机会。Let me tell you ， it's
so brutal.

    LL： How is it brutal ， Li Hua ？

    LH：这家公司要我证明身份，结果害得我跑了四趟大使馆，腿都跑细了。

    LL： Woah ， brutal. Are you at least done with the application process
now ？

    LH： I wish ！我现在还要到学校的工作许可办公室去开证明，最后还不知
道到底是不是能拿到这个实习的位置。

    LL： Is it paid ？

    LH：没有，是没有报酬的那种实习。

    LL： Brutal. I did an unpaid internship once. It was alright though.

    LH：申请实习的手续麻烦点儿也就算了，我现在唯一的希望是，真开始实习
了，工作上不要更加brutal.

    ******

    李华第二天中午兴高彩烈地打电话给Larry.

    LL： Hello？ This is Larry London speaking.

    LH： Larry？

    LL： Hi Li Hua， how's it going ？

    LH：告诉你一个好消息，我拿到那个实习的机会了。

    LL： That's great Li Hua！

    LH：公司人事部门打电话通知我，我简直高兴死了。

    LL： We have to celebrate ， we should throw a rager.

    LH： Rager，那是什么？听起来好象挺可怕的。

    LL： No ， a rager means a huge party. A raging party.

    LH：哦，我知道了，a rager 就是一个特别疯狂的派对。好啊，我同意，咱
们把朋友都叫来，开个rager.

    LL： My friend Jack the DJ has been looking to find some more work.
I'm sure he'd be willing to set up his turntables at our rager.

    LH：你是说你那个做职业DJ的朋友Jack吗？太棒了，要真能把他找来，It is
bound to be a killer rager.

    LL： I think it should be pretty good. We can have it at my place.

    LH：在你那儿开？你可想好了，那些人一定会把你家搞得一团糟。

    LL： Eh ， it's fine. I don't have anything nice that can be damaged
anyhow.

    LH：你在家大吵大闹地开派对，邻居会不会有意见？

    LL： Probably not ， there are a lot of young people around here anyhow.
I feel like somebody is always throwing a rager on this street.

    LH：太好了，那你说，咱们都请谁？

    LL： Well you should tell friends in your classes ， and I'll send
out a Facebook invitation. Oh ， When will we hold our rager？

    LH：这个星期五晚上怎么样？

    LL： Mmm， this Friday isn't good. I told my friend Kevin I'd help
him fix the bike. How about Saturday？

    LH：星期六好。星期六大家精神头更足。

    LL： Exactly， you want people to be high energy if you are going
to throw a rager. Do you think a lot of people will come？

    LH：那还用说，I think it will be a huge rager.你说咱们的派对应该几
点开始？

    LL： We can say nine o'clock and no one will likely show up until
10：30 at the earliest.

    LH：十点半？那么晚啊？

    LL： That tends to be how it goes.

    LH：好，就听你的，拿到这个实习的机会，我真是高兴死了。

    LL： Congratulations！ You earned it.

    今天李华学了两个常用语。一个是brutal意思是很糟糕，很麻烦。另一个是
rager 指特别疯狂、特别热闹的派对。