Larry 和李华在Larry 的朋友Sam 家开party.李华今天要学两个常用语，party
foul和split. LL ： Gosh ， I am SO sorry， Li Hua ！ I just spilled some
of my drink on you. What a party foul ！

    LH：没事的，Larry.只不过是点儿汽水而已，一下就弄干净了。不过，什么
是party foul啊？

    LL： A party foul is when you do something really embarrassing at
a party - like spill your drink on someone.

    LH：噢，foul在体育比赛里是犯规的意思，那 party foul 就是指开派对的
时候出丑喽。

    LL： Right， and nobody really likes to commit a party foul ， but
sometimes when you are having a lot of fun and there are a lot of people
together in one place ， it is easy to do something stupid.

    LH：发生 party foul 的时候，其他人会怎样呢？

    LL： Sometimes they stare or it gets very quiet - or other times some
one might yell， "Party foul！" And everyone will laugh.

    LH：那可真够丢人的。不过，洒点儿饮料不算什么，我见过更糟糕的party
foul.

    LL： Really ？ What is the worse party foul you've seen ？

    LH：有一次我去参加朋友的婚礼。大家跳舞的时候，发生了我见过的超级party
foul.

    LL： Don't keep me in suspense， Li Hua ！ Tell me about this party
foul. What happened ？

    LH：有个客人踩在了新娘的婚纱上，把婚纱撕掉了一大块。所有人都傻了，
大厅里鸦雀无声。

    LL： Yikes！ That really is a major party foul. What happened then？

    LH：新郎和新娘处理得很好，他们知道那个客人一定很难堪，所以马上开了
个玩笑，帮他解围。

    LL： I think the most embarrassing party foul I committed was the
time I went to a party in a suit.

    LH：穿西装去参加派对有什么不对吗？

    LL： Well ， I received an invitation to a very fancy New Year's Eve
party once from my boss. I didn't read the invitation very closely though.

    LH： Uh-oh. 你犯了什么不可饶恕的 party foul 吗？

    LL： Well ， when I showed up at the party and all the men were wearing
tuxedos ， I knew I had committed a party foul.

    LH：别人都穿正式的燕尾服，只有你一个人穿西装，肯定特尴尬吧？哎，时
间不早了，咱们是不是该走了？

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    LL： This has been a nice party ， but you are right， Li Hua. We
really should split.

    LH： We need to split. Split不是把东西劈成两半的意思吗？

    LL： It is， but split S-P-L-I-T is also a slang term meaning to leave
a place - and sometimes to leave a place quickly.

    LH：噢，原来是马上离开的意思。我前天晚上看了一个老的西部片，有个匪
徒杀人后就说他要 split town ，逃出城。

    LL： That's a good example， Li Hua. That meant he had to get out
of town quickly ， before the police figured out he had committed the
crime.

    LH：好吧，Larry ，我准备好了，Let's split ！我们走吧。

    LL： That's a perfect use of "split"， Li Hua ！ But before we split，
we really should go find Sam and thank him for a fun evening.

    LH：对啊，不跟主人打招呼就走，别人会觉得我们没礼貌的。

    LL： You're right ， Li Hua. Oh ， there is Sam over there. I'm going
to go over and tell him we are going to split.

    LH：等等，Larry.你看，还有这么多人呢，我们不会走得太早了吧？

    LL： No ， I don't think it is too early for us to split. We've been
here a couple of hours already. Plus， Sam will understand. He knows I
have to work tomorrow - and that you have to teach classes.

    LH：那好，我在这儿等你。

    （Party sounds and music）

    LL： There. I told Sam we were going to split ， and that we had a
great time.

    LH： Sam没有不高兴吧？

    LL： Oh ， no. Not at all. In fact， he said he was glad we came and
hoped we would come again the next time he had a party.

    今天李华学到了两个常用语。一个是party foul，是在part上出丑的意思。
另一个是split ，是赶快走的意思。