Dialogue

    Anne： Hey， Den， what's up？

    Den ： I've been busy lately. Anne： Doing what ？

    Den ： I've been spending a lot of time on-line. Anne ： On-line？

    Den ： On the Internet， talking to people in chat rooms. Anne： So
have you met someone yet？

    Den ： Lots of people ！ Yesterday over one hundred people wanted
to talk to me ！

    Anne： About what ？

    Den ： About anything and everything. Anne： Really ？

    Den ： One even said that I was his dream girlfriend. Anne： What ？

    Wait a minute. Don't you mean dream boyfriend ？

    Den ： Oh ， I forgot to tell you I pretended to be a 16-year-old
girl. Anne： Are you nuts ？

    Den ： I had to. Nobody wants to talk to me as a guy. Anne： I don't
know about this ， Den. Den ： But now I have a new Internet friend. Anne
： You mean the guy who thinks you're Ms. Right ？

    Den ： Yeah ， we're meeting on Friday night. Anne： You are what ？

    Have you lost it？

    Den ： I gave up on looking for a girlfriend and now I'm making friends！

    Anne： But he thinks you're a girl. He'll want to be more than friends！

    Den ： I know ， so I need your advice. Anne： If I were you， I'd
get a good psychiatrist.

    Notes

    1.對(duì)話中Den 在網(wǎng)上聊天的時(shí)候假裝成一個(gè)16歲的女孩子，并且還要和新認(rèn)
識(shí)的網(wǎng)友約會(huì)。他在聊天室里跟很多人聊天，Anne問(wèn)他都聊些什么，Den 說(shuō)About
anything and everything.就是無(wú)所不談。

    2.注意兩個(gè)人見(jiàn)面打招呼時(shí)Anne說(shuō)what's up ？最近如何？在口語(yǔ)當(dāng)中很常
用。

    3. Den說(shuō)最近一直很忙， I've been busy lately. Anne又問(wèn)到Doing what？

    這里就包含了一個(gè)詞組， be busy doing something，忙于做某事。例如：
I was busy doing my laundry when he called last night.他昨晚給我打電話
的時(shí)候，我正忙著洗衣服呢。be busy with something or someone ，忙于做某
事，忙于應(yīng)付某人。例如：I'm busy with my papers.我忙著寫(xiě)論文。She's busy
with the client.她忙著接待客戶(hù)。

    4. Den回答I've been spending a lot of time on-line. 這里用了現(xiàn)在完
成進(jìn)行時(shí)態(tài)，表示從過(guò)去到現(xiàn)在一直在做某事。例如：She has been writing to
me since last year. 從去年開(kāi)始，她就一直在給我寫(xiě)信。

    5.當(dāng)Anne知道Den 在網(wǎng)上裝成一個(gè)16歲的女孩子的時(shí)候，很驚訝，問(wèn)Are you
nuts？你瘋了？nut 是干果的意思，做“發(fā)瘋”解釋是一種俚語(yǔ)用法。

    6. Den說(shuō)I had to. Nobody wants to talk to me as a guy.我必須這樣，
因?yàn)槿绻�知道我是男的就沒(méi)有人愿意跟我聊天了。Anne卻不同意，說(shuō)I don't know
about this， Den. I don't know about this.表示“我不怎么同意這件事”。

    當(dāng)你無(wú)法同意別人所說(shuō)的話，又不想跟他爭(zhēng)吵時(shí)，就可以用這句話結(jié)束討論，
改變?cè)掝}。

    7. Ms. Right和Mr. Right 都是表示理想的伴侶，也就是公主或白馬王子。

    上面的dream girlfriend和dream boyfriend 表示夢(mèng)中情人。

    8. give up on doing something 放棄做某事，對(duì)話中原句是I gave up on
looking for a girlfriend and now I'm making friends ！我不想找女朋友了，
我只要交朋友。make friends with someone 這個(gè)短語(yǔ)是“和某人交朋友”的意
思。

    9.當(dāng)Anne知道Den 周五要跟一個(gè)男網(wǎng)友見(jiàn)面時(shí)，更驚訝了，Have you lost
it？你瘋了？跟上面的Are you nuts？是一樣的。

    10. 最后Den 想問(wèn)問(wèn)Anne對(duì)此事有什么建議，Anne的回答是If I were you ，
I'd get a good psychiatrist.如果我是你，我就要去找一個(gè)好的心理醫(yī)生看看
了。If I were you ， I would……是個(gè)虛擬語(yǔ)氣句式，表示“如果我是你，我
就會(huì)……”。給別人建議時(shí)，若要強(qiáng)調(diào)自己和對(duì)方是站在同一戰(zhàn)線的，就可以使
用這個(gè)句式。