实战口语情景对话：Mornings with the Dog 和狗狗一起度过的清晨时光

Todd: Michael, what time did you get up this morning?

托德：迈克尔，你今天早上几点起的床?

Mike: About 7, no 6.

迈克：大概七点吧，不对，是六点。

Todd: Really, is that like your normal schedule?

托德：是吗?这是你的正常作息时间吗?

Mike: I usually get up around 6. (Yeah) Yeah. Go to bed around 11. Get up at 6. On a good day, sometimes go to bed later.

迈克：我一般6点起床。(好)对。我晚上11点上床睡觉，早上6点起床。有时候会晚睡一会儿。

Todd: Yeah, do you have to have an alarm clock when you get up?

托德：你早上需要闹钟叫早吗?

Mike: I sometimes set an alarm if it's a really important day, but I almost never need it, you know what I mean. It's like a back up.

迈克：如果是非常重要的日子那我会定闹钟，不过我几乎不需要闹钟，你知道我的意思。闹钟是备用的。

Todd: Right. Right. Yeah, I always wake up at first sunlight, like I can't sleep once it's light outside.

托德：好。我明白。我会在第一束阳光照射进来的时候醒来，天亮了以后我就睡不着了。

Mike: You're like a natural animal.

迈克：你就像大自然中的动物一样。

Todd: Yeah, exactly, actually I never use an alarm clock. Now you have a beautiful dog. I saw your dog.

托德：对，没错，实际上我从来不用闹钟。现在你养了只非常漂亮的狗。我看见过你的狗。

Mike: She will sometimes wake us up.

迈克：她有时会叫我起床。

Todd: Yeah, that is what I was wondering.

托德：嗯，这就是我想知道的事情。

Mike: Because, like, she has a natural cycle so at six in the morning, bam, you start to hear her wagging her tail or scratching, or trying to get attention. Time to get up.

迈克：她有自己的自然周期，所以早上六点你会听到砰的一声，然后你会听到她摇尾巴或抓东西来吸引注意力。那就是该起床的时间了。

Todd: That's so cool. I want a dog. Yeah, so do you walk your dog in the morning?

托德：这太酷了。我也想养只狗。你早上遛狗吗?

Mike: Yeah, and that's another ritual I have is she needs a walk in the morning, so I've got this route. It's about a two mile walk that we go on. Almost the exact same route every morning. It takes about 30 minutes or so to do, yeah.

迈克：遛，这是每天必做的另一件事，因为她早上要散步，我选择的散步路线大约有两英里。基本每天早上都是同样的路线，大约需要30分钟。

Todd: And so, in some countries or places you need a leash for your dog, so your dog can't get away from you. Do you have a leash for your dog?

托德：有些国家或地区规定遛狗时要拴狗绳，这样你的狗就不会离开你的身边了。你有给狗准备狗绳吗?

Mike: Yeah. I keep her on a leash when we're walking were there are other people because you know, a lot of people are not comfortable with big dogs (right) but she'll stay close to me, even without a leash (right) but I do it for their comfort, but if we're in an open area, I'll let her off the leash and she loves that.

迈克：有。我们散步时我一直用狗绳拴着她，因为周围有其他人，有很多人会有点害怕大型犬(对)，不过即使不拴狗绳，她也一直在我身边，为了让其他人感到舒服，我会拴狗绳，不过在开放区域时我会把狗绳解掉，她喜欢那样。

Todd: That's so good, because you know I'm a runner and it always freaks me out when I see people with their dogs and their big and the dogs aren't on a leash.

托德：这很好，因为你知道我有跑步的习惯，有时我看到人们遛狗没有拴狗绳时会吓到。

Mike: You kind of wonder, is this dog safe to go past?

迈克：你是不是在想经过这只狗的身边是安全的吗?

Todd: Well, yeah, and plus, I'm running behind the owner of the dogs and so I might startle the owner, and startle the dogs, and the dogs might be protective and attack me, so sometimes I'll holler in advance, "Hey, I'm coming. I'm coming."

托德：对，而且因为我是从狗主人和狗的身后跑过去，所以我可能会让狗主人和狗吓一跳，这时狗狗可能会为了保护主人而攻击我，所以有时我会提前喊一声：“嘿，我要过去了，我要过去了。”

Mike: Right, right.

迈克：对，没错。

Todd: So. Yeah, cool. Thanks Mike.

托德：好，酷。谢谢你，迈克。