英语口语练习小对话 第416期:照例
A: Hello, Jack! Fancy meeting you here!
你好，杰克，没想到在这里遇到你。
B: Yeas, it’s really a surprise. How are you?
是啊，真是让人不敢相信。你好吗?
A: Fine. How is Jim?
还好，吉姆怎么样了?
B: Oh, he is all right. But busy as usual. Well, why don’t we have a good chat at a bar? It’s been long time since we met each other last time.
他好着了，不过还是像以前一样忙。我们最好在酒吧做下聊聊吧。自从上次后，我们很长时间没有见过了。
A: Good idea!
好的。
对话精讲
第一、地道表达
【核心短语】as usual
【解词释义】此语的意思是像往常一样; 照旧; 如故; 仍然等。
【支持范例1】As usual, the cops get the baddies in the end.
跟平常一样，警察最后把坏人都抓起来了。
【支持范例2】In the hotel, the old men were drinking away as usual.
在旅馆里，这些老人和往常一样喝个不停。
【支持范例3】Please carry on as usual while I am away.
我不在时，请照常干活。
【典型范例4】I found him in the garden, dreaming away as usual.
我发现他像平日一样在花园里做着好梦。
第二、词海拾贝
have a chat：聊一聊，聊天
【典型例句1】Would you care to come and have a chat with me?
如果你不介意的话，过来和我聊聊天好吗?
【典型例句2】She said she was passing through Paris and would like to have a chat with me.
她说她要路过巴黎，想跟我聊一聊。
【典型例句3】Squatting down, the two of them started to have a chat.
两人蹲下就聊起来了。
【典型例句4】Shall we have a chat in the sitting room over the tea for a while?
我们在客厅呆一会儿，喝茶聊天好吗?
each other：相互
【典型例句1】I've never seen two people so attached to each other.
我从未见过两个人如此形影不离。
【典型例句2】Sue and Tony had a bust-up and aren't speaking to each other.
休和托尼大吵了一架，现在谁也不理谁。
last time：最后一次，上次
【典型例句1】My failure last time has not damped my interest.
上一次的失败没有使我的兴趣减弱。
【典型例句2】I'm getting on with what we talked about last time.
上次我们谈的那件事已经有点眉目了。
