李华刚买了一台笔记本电脑。她今天要学两个常用语，bells and Whistles
和savvy.

    LL： So ， you got a new laptop computer， Li Hua ？ Wow！ It has
all the bells and whistles， doesn't it ？

    LH： Bells and whistles ？我怎么没看见这台电脑上有什么铃铛和哨子啊。

    LL： Oh ， What I meant was that your lap top has a lot of special
features and extras that ordinary lap tops don't have.

    LH：噢，我知道了，你刚才说的bells and whistles是指电脑上的DVD 播放
器和超宽屏幕等额外的功能。

    LL： Yeah ， that is right. Manufacturers like to put lots of bells
and whistles on lap tops to entice people to buy them.

    LH：没错，我就是冲着这些bells and whistles才买这台电脑的。你看，上
面还有无线调制解调器和一个超大储存量的硬盘呢！

    LL： When I bought a lap top computer last year ， Li Hua ， I did
NOT get one with all the bells and whistles ， and now I kind of regret
it.

    LH：是啊，这些bells and whistles确实要多花点儿钱，可我觉得还是值得
的。

    LL： I suppose I can always add some bells and whistles to my basic
lap top. I would like to have a bigger hard drive.

    LH：我听说加个硬盘并不难，我觉得你真的可以在你的电脑上加点儿bells
and whistles.

    LL： Although sometimes it is possible to have too many bells and
whistles！

    LH： Bells and whistles 还会嫌太多吗？

    LL： Well ， I was thinking of the cell phone I bought recently. It
definitely came with all the bells and whistles. So many bells and whistles，
in fact ， I don't even know everything it does ！

    LH：你是说手机啊。我也有同感。现在的手机功能越来越多，很多我都用不
着，也不知道该怎么用。

    LL： But some people really like to have all the bells and whistles.
Like my Dad. The last time he went shopping for a new car ， it had to
have all the bells and whistles.

    LH：车上能有些什么bells and whistles？

    LL： He wanted a car with leather seats that heated themselves and
had a built in global positioning system.

    LH：能加热的皮座椅，全球定位系统，看来车上也能有不少的bells and whistles.

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    LH： Larry，你能帮我把这些软件装到电脑上吗？

    LL： I am happy to help you load your software on your new lap top，
Li Hua. You know I'm tech savvy.

    LH： Tech Savvy ？我知道tech是technology科技的意思，那savvy 呢？

    LL： Savvy means to understand something very well.

    LH：所以你说自己tech savvy，就是说你对电脑和高科技的东西很在行喽？

    LL： That's right. I've always been interested in computers ， and
as a result I am fairly tech savvy.

    LH：那太好了。我可一点儿也不tech savvy. 我就知道怎么用电脑写论文，
发电子邮件，除此之外就一窍不通了。Larry ，除了高科技以外，还有什么东西
可以说savvy 吗？

    LL： Oh ， sure ， Li Hua. We often say that some one who dresses
well and has good fashion sense is fashion savvy.

    LH：噢，fashion savvy 就是很跟得上服装的潮流。那我可以说fashion savvy
吧。

    LL： Oh ， you definitely have fashion savvy， Li Hua. You always
dress very stylishly.

    LH：这肯定是我祖母的遗传。我看过她的照片，穿得可漂亮了。She definitely
had fashion savvy.

    LL： A person can also have street savvy.

    LH： Street savvy ？你是说会认路吗？或者是有方向感？

    LL： No ， no. A person with street savvy knows how people act in
the city and how to be safe in parts of the city that might be a little
rough.

    LH：噢，street savvy是说街头的生存能力，特别是能在那些比较乱的街区
不惹麻烦。看来，tech savvy和street savvy我都学不来，有fashion savvy 就
行了。

    今天李华学到了两个常用语。一个是bells and whistles，意思是附加的功
能或是点缀品。另一个是savvy ，是指在什么方面很在行。