銳意英語口語資料庫(kù)6-3
阿美：媽媽，這些舊東西都放到這盒子里嗎？
May: Mama, shall I put all of the old things in the box?
媽媽：有些東西已經(jīng)沒用了。你決定吧，如果覺得沒多大用，就扔了吧。
Mom: Not all things are useful. It’s up to you. If you think it isn’t of much use, you may throw them out.
阿美：好吧，但是對(duì)我來說好像很難。好多東西都讓我回想起我的童年，我舍不得扔它們。
May: OK, but it seems it’s not easy for me. Many of them remind me of my childhood. I feel myself unable to throw them away.
丹尼爾：好了，扔吧，小女孩兒。舊的不去，新的不來。
Daniel: Come on. Go ahead, little girl. Be off with the old, on with the new.
媽媽：想怎么做就怎么做，留下些讓你回憶的和可以裝飾我們新家的東西。
Mom: Do as you like. Keep something that has memory for you and something decorates our new house.
（過了一小會(huì)兒）
（A short while）
丹尼爾：噢，我的天哪。媽媽，這不公平。阿美的活兒只是整理書柜，但是我得清理所有這些臟東西。我們很久都沒有用這些東西了，真是太臟了。
Daniel: Oh, my God. It’s unfair, Mom. May’s job is just to tidy up the bookcase but I must clean up all the dirty things. We haven’t used them for so long time. They are so dirty.
媽媽：是啊，你是超人，所以我們安排你做些適合你這樣的男子漢做的事情。
Mom: Yes, you are a superman, so we arrange something that is just suitable for a man like you.
丹尼爾：那事情也太多了吧！真可惜我不會(huì)分身。
Daniel: There are so many things to do! It’s a pity that I can’t be in two places at once.
阿美：不要緊。你快點(diǎn)做，要不我們?cè)趦商靸?nèi)就搬不完了。但是如果有個(gè)鐘點(diǎn)工來擦玻璃就好多了。
May: Never mind. You may want to do it faster or we will not be able to finish the moving in two days. But if we had a maid to clean the windows, it would be much better.
丹尼爾：鐘點(diǎn)工？擦高樓的玻璃？那不是蜘蛛俠嗎？
Daniel: A maid? And clean the glass of a high building? Isn’t the Spiderman?
阿美：蜘蛛俠擦的是外面的玻璃，我們只要擦里面的玻璃就行了。好了，我告訴過你我占了這個(gè)有陽臺(tái)的房間了。
May: Spiderman works on the glass outside, and we just have to clean them from the inside. That’s OK. And I told you I had called this room with the balcony.
丹尼爾：噢，算了吧，沒人看見你占了那個(gè)房間。
Daniel: Oh, come on. Nobody was there to see you call it!
阿美：呃，媽媽，我們?cè)趺刺幚磉@些舊報(bào)紙呢？沒人再讀了，有些比丹尼爾的年紀(jì)還大。
May: Ur, Mom, what should I do about the old newspaper? Nobody ever read them. And some of them were older than Daniel.
丹尼爾：真的？我看看。
Daniel: Really? I’ll have a look.
媽媽：你們可以把它們賣錢，然后你們倆平分。那是你們今天勞動(dòng)所得。
Mom: You may sell them for some money, and share the money equally between you two. That would be your income for today.
丹尼爾：噢，媽媽，就給那么點(diǎn)錢啊，你太吝嗇了。
Daniel: Oh, Mom, it’s mean of you to allow us with little money.
