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Larry 和李华刚刚看完电影。李华在问Larry 她没看懂的地方。今天李华会
学到两个常用语:copycat 和wacky.
LH: Larry,我特别喜欢看这种侦探片,最后把坏人抓住,特痛快。对了,
刚才那电影里的侦探说,那杀人凶手是个copycat.那是什么意思啊?
LL: A copycat is someone who imitates someone else. The murdererin
the movie imitated other famous murderers , so he was copycat killer.
LH:嗯,copycat 就是指模仿别人的人。噢,现在我懂了。那个侦探是说那
个杀人犯是模仿其他杀人犯的作案方法。哎呀,怪不得我看电影的时候有些地方
弄不懂。对了,Larry ,这个copycat 还可以用在其他的地方吗?
LL: Sure. For instance , my younger sister used to imitateme a lot
when she was a kid. She would repeat whatever I said, so I caller her
my little copycat.
LH:你叫你小妹妹little copycat. 你妹妹一定很可爱。她一定很崇拜你,
所以才模仿你的一举一动,重复你说的话!
LL: Yeah , it was kind of cute, but it got annoying after a while.
LH:小妹妹学你的样有什么讨厌的?
LL: Kids are great copycats and they always manage to copy things
that they shouldn't. If I said a bad word , my sister always repeated.
My mother thought I was teaching her bad words on purpose.
LH:所以大人要给小孩树立好的榜样嘛!你不要你妹妹说粗话,那你就不该
说粗话。不过,你妈妈以为你故意教坏妹妹,那肯定让你很不好受。对不对?
LL: That's right. It got me into a lot of trouble. Hey , I also
remember that when I was a kid, it was common for kids to accuse each
other of being a "copycat."
LH:没错,小孩子最喜欢说别人学自己,好象自己很聪敏,别人就只会模仿。
LL: You're right. To call someone a copycat means that the other
person isn't original and was just imitating what someone else was doing.
LH: Larry,你说的这句话不是跟我刚才说的意思一样吗? You're a copycat!
LL: Not entirelythe same !
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LL: Hey, Li Hua , did you ever do any wacky things when you were
a kid ?
LH:对不起,Larry ,你刚才说什么。我没听懂,你问我小时候做过什么wacky
的事,那是什么意思啊?
LL: Wacky means crazy or silly. Kids tend to do wacky things. For
instance, when I was a kid , I tried to play Tarzan with our living
room curtains. LH : Wacky就是指疯疯颠颠或犯傻。对,小孩子往往会做一些
傻事。不过,像你小时候想学泰山而把窗帘当树枝爬上去,这也太危险了。
LL: Yeah , I had just seen the movie, Tarzan , and I decided to
climb the curtains and swing from them the way Tarzan swung from the vines.
Pretty wacky, huh?
LH:我想也是,你肯定是看了泰山这电影后才那么wacky 的。不过说到wacky
,我小时候也不见得比你差,也做了不少wacky的事呢!
LL: Such as?
LH:嗯,比方说,我8 岁那年,我爬上邻居家的一棵树,上去了,却不知道
该怎么下来呢。
LL: That's wacky ! So what did you do ?
LH:我挂在树上,还能怎么办?只好大叫,请人来救我喽!后来有人拿了张
梯子,把我给救下来了。
LL: That's funny. Hey, how's your cat doing ? Has she done anything
wacky lately?
LH:嗨,说到我的猫小雪球,它做的wacky 事那才多呢!昨天我在看电视上
一个介绍大自然的节目,小雪球看到银幕里的小鸟就一直想扑上去和它玩。那个
模样真逗!
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