Larry 和李华正在电影院外面等朋友。电影都快开场了，可是朋友还没到。

    Larry 决定用手机给这个朋友打电话。今天李华会学到两个常用语：juice
和nuke.

    LL： Darn ！ My cell phone is out of juice. Can I use your cell phone
to call Bob and Lisa and find out why they're late？

    LH：你的手机怎么啦？Out of juice， juice是果汁。哎噢！该不是你的电
话掉到果汁里啦？难怪不能用啦！

    LL： No ， my cell phone is out of juice. "Juice" is slang for "power".
I meant that the battery in my phone is out of power. LH：噢，原来juice
在这里是指电池里的电啊！所以out of juice就是没电的意思。既然你的手机没
电了，你可以用我的，我昨晚才充过电，so it has plenty of juice.

    LL： That's fortunate. At least one of us has a functioning phone.
LH：对了，Larry 你前些天不是说你的车有毛病吗？现在怎样啦？

    LL： Yes， my car wouldn't start because the battery was out of juice.
I had to go to the mechanic and get a new battery. LH ：原来是车子里的
电池也没电啦！看来这juice 还真少不了，否则什么也干不了。昨天，我的激光
唱机没有电。噢，没有juice 了，偏偏我又找不到电池，害得我什么也听不了。

    LL： Yeah ， I hate it when that happens， too. The other day ， I
was in the middle of typing a report on my laptop ， when the battery
ran out of juice. I almost lost the whole report. LH：哇，你可得特别小
心电脑的电池呢。如果电脑没电了，你输入的报告还有档案都可能会泡汤。那可
就严重了！

    LL： I know ！ I've had some awful experiences with that. Fortunately，
now computer companies are making laptops with batteries that hold more
juice. LH ：就是，现在的电脑用的都是容量比较大的电池，所以打到一半没电
的情况比较少了。Larry ，你还是快点儿给他们打电话吧！电影很快就要开始了。

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    LH：我真不敢相信Lisa和Bob 居然说好了会不来。太糟糕了！

    LL： Yeah ， I agree. Do you still want to go out to dinner ？ Or
do you want to nuke the pizza that's in my fridge and eat that？

    LH： "Nuke a pizza" ？ "Nuke" 是nuclear 核能的简称。哎，Larry ，你
准备怎么吃那块比萨饼呀？

    LL： Oh ， to nuke something is slang for cooking it in the microwave.

    LH：噢，你真吓了我一跳呢！原来to nuke 是把东西放进微波炉里加热啊！

    所以你是说你想把冰箱里那块pizza 热来当晚饭吃。

    LL： Well ， it would save some money. I also have some frozen dinners
we could nuke. It would be faster than going to a restaurant.

    LH：嗯，吃冷冻食品是比去餐馆吃饭是比较快，又便宜，可是我觉得冷冻食
品不好吃耶！吃东西还是要吃新鲜的好！

    LL： My cousin won't eat food that's been nuked at all. She thinks
that using a microwave is unhealthy.

    LH：真的吗？你表妹说微波过的食物都不健康。那微波食物真的对身体有害
啊？

    LL： I don't know and I don't want to know. Nuking food is so convenient
and quick that I really don't want to give it up.

    LH：我知道，微波食物既方便又快速。有时候我实在太忙，没时间做饭，我
也是用微波炉来热剩菜剩饭。

    LL： I hardly ever have time to cook an entire meal. I'm also not
a very good cook， so I would probably starve without a microwave.

    LL：好多男生都不会做饭，也没有兴趣。我看没有微波炉是要饿死的。