地道美语听力播客957：闹钟和厨房定时器

拉贵莎：袋子里装的什么?

Yun: Three alarm clocks and a kitchen timer.

云：闹钟和厨房定时器。

Laquisha: What are they for?

拉贵莎：用那干什么?

Yun: I have a very important interview tomorrow morning and these will help me prepare for it.

云：我明天早上有一个重要的面试，这是提醒我别忘了做准备。

Laquisha: How?

拉贵莎：怎么提醒?

Yun: The timer will help me time my responses to common interview questions so I don’t run off at the mouth. See? Instead of the stopwatch function, I use the countdown function so I’ll know when to wrap up.

云：定时器可以帮我在回答面试问题时定时，那样我就不会口若悬河说个不停了。明白吗?我没有用秒表，我用的它的倒计时功能，这样我就知道什么时候该结束了。

Laquisha: And the alarm clocks?

拉贵莎：闹钟呢?

Yun: I have a habit of pressing the snooze button after an alarm goes off. I’ve tried different kinds of alarms: ones that buzz, ones that beep, ones that vibrate, and ones that use a ringtone. But I still fall back to sleep.

云：我有一个习惯，就是闹钟响了之后，就按小睡催醒按钮。我试过不同的闹钟铃声：嗡嗡的， 哔哔的，震动的还有铃声的。但是我最后还是去睡觉了。

Laquisha: And what do you plan to do with three alarm clocks?

拉贵莎：你怎么用着三个闹钟?

Yun: I plan to set the alarms one minute apart and put them around my bedroom. By the time I turn them all off, I should be awake.

云：我想的他们都设成间隔一分钟的，然后放在我房间的不同地方。到时候，我要是把闹钟都按掉了，我也就该醒了。

Laquisha: And if not?

拉贵莎：要是没醒呢?

Yun: Then maybe I should be applying for jobs as a mattress tester.

云：那可能我就该申请那些床垫检测员这样的工作了。