实战口语情景对话：Shopping 购物

Todd: So, Shona, you talked about shopping today. You bought some food and you bought some furniture. Are you a big shopping fan?

托德：夏娜，你今天去购物了。你买了食物还有家具。你很喜欢购物吗?

Shona: Not really to be honest. I'm not one of those people who go shopping every weekend or every weekday, or you know, but to be honest, like if I am around shops, and I do see something that I really like, I don't have much will power, and I will buy it, which isn't great, but yeah, I have accumulated like a few, you know, things over the years, specifically clothes, which I do enjoy buying.

夏娜：说实话，我不是很喜欢。我并不是每个周末或是每个工作日都去购物，不过说实话，如果我逛街时看到我很喜欢的东西，因为我的意志力不太强，所以我看上就一定会买下来，这样其实不太好，过去几年我买的东西越来越多，尤其是衣服，我特别喜欢买衣服。

Todd: So you like shopping for clothes?

托德：你喜欢买衣服?

Shona: I like shopping for clothes but I don't really like shopping for anything else.

夏娜：我喜欢买衣服，不过我不喜欢买别的东西。

Todd: Now when you buy your clothes, are you saying you usually buy clothes on impulse. You see them and you like them?

托德：你刚才说你买衣服的时候通常是一时冲动。那你是一看到就很喜欢吗?

Shona: Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I probably would say that. I'm not like staying at home and looking at catalogues, and I think, "Oh, I want a black t-shirt" and I go out and buy that. I will just be wandering about. Something will catch my eye, and I'll think it looks nice so I might end up buying it.

夏娜：对，没错。我想我得承认。我并不喜欢在家里看商品图册，想到我要买件黑色T恤，然后再出去买。我通常会四处逛。如果有衣服吸引了我的注意力，我觉得那还不错，我就会买下来。

Todd: You know, these days, you mentioned a catalogue. These days you can buys stuff on the internet quite easily. Have you ever bought clothes over the internet?

托德：你刚提到了图册。现在可以在网上买东西，很方便。你有在网上买过衣服吗?

Shona: Yes, I have actually. Yeah, I've bought a couple of items over the internet which is like lots of fun, because 'Is it going to fit?, Is it going to look nice?' You don't know, so once you get it it's like always a bit exciting, like to see how it actually looks in real life.

夏娜：买过。我在网上买过几件衣服，我觉得这很有趣，因为你会想“会不会合身?”“会好看吗?”而你并不知道答案，所以你收到衣服时通常会很兴奋，想看看实物究竟怎么样。

Todd: Did it fit?

托德：那合身吗?

Shona: Yeah. Yeah. Actually there we like two really, like, items that I wear quite a lot, so.

夏娜：嗯，合身。因为我买的是我经常穿的那种衣服。

Todd: What did you buy?

托德：你买了什么?

Shona: I bought like a pinstriped jacket, like this little jacket thing with all these like different badge things on it, and I also bought like, this nice like blue and red and white stripy dress, which is really nice.

夏娜：我买了一件细条纹夹克，就是在这种夹克上有一些徽章类的装饰，我还买了这种蓝红白相间的裙子，非常不错。

Todd: Oh, cool. Now when you shop, do you always pay cash or do you pay by credit card, or?

托德：哦，真酷。你在购物时是付现金还是刷信用卡?

Shona: I'm more like prefer to pay by cash because then I know how much I'm spending, like if you pay with credit card, or whatever, you don't really, you're not aware of how much money you're actually spending, so I prefer to take cash out and pay with that, so then I have more of a budget.

夏娜：我更喜欢付现金，因为这样我马上就能知道我花了多少钱，可是要是用信用卡的话，当时并不清楚花了多少钱，所以我更喜欢用现金付款，这样我能更清楚预算。

Todd: Wow, that's pretty good because you say you're an impulse shopper, so I think credit cards usually people like to use them. They see something, they got to have it.

托德：哇，这样做很好，因为你刚说你是冲动购物者，我认为一般人们更喜欢用信用卡。看上什么就可以买下来。

Shona: Exactly, which is probably going to lead them into a lot of debt eventually, which I would try to avoid.

夏娜：没错，这样最后可能会让他们陷入债务中，这是我要尽量避免的事。