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购物

A：Bob, do you want to go grocery shopping with me?
鲍伯，你想和我一起去杂货店买些东西吗？

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B：Where are you going—to the corner shop down the road or to the new supermarket downtown?
你是去路那边的街角小店还是去市里的新超市？

A：I thought we could go to the new supermarket to check it out. Maybe they’ll have some of those olives that you like so much.
我想我们还是去那个新的超市看看吧。可能那儿有你非常喜欢的橄榄。

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B：Alright. Have you made your shopping list?
好吧。你列购物清单了没有啊？

A：No, I thought we’d just have a look.
没有，我想我们只是看一看。

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B：You know what they say. You should never go grocery shopping when you are hungry.
你知道大家怎么说的：当你饿的时候，绝不要去买东西。

A：Why not?
为什么不呢？

B：Because you’ll end up buying a lot more food than you normally would. Maybe we should at least give ourselves a budget to work with.
因为你通常会买比原本打算要买的多很多。或许我们至少应该定一个预算。

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A：Fine. We won’t spend any more than $50.
好，我们不要超过50 美元。

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B：Ok. Let’s go!
好，走吧。

Social Security-(社会保险)

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A：Man, they take a lot of our paycheck.
嘿，他们从我的薪水里扣了不少钱哦。

B：Yeah, the government really takes a bite, doesn’t it?
是呀，政府确实扣除不少。

A：Seriously. The only tax I don’t mind them taking is social security. It’s only a few dollars every paycheck.
当然。只有社会保险这种税我不介意上交。每回只要从薪水里面扣除几元钱。

B：Yeah, I don’t mind it either. We’ll both end up rich slobs and not need it, but what if we do, you know?
是呀，我也不介意。我们最终肯定不会缺钱也不会需要它，但是如果我们有这个钱的话，你知道？

A：Yeah. It won’t be much, but at least we’ll have a monthly check when we get old.
是呀，虽然不多，但是最少老了以后每个月有一个固定收入。

B：Yeah. My grandmother gets by on social security and the money my grandfather invested when he was alive.
是呀，我祖母就是靠社会保险金和祖父在世时的投资生活。

A：Let’s just hope the politicians don’t figure out a way to spend it.
让我们巴望政治家们不会想着法子把它用掉吧。

B：Really？No, they couldn’t. None of them would have jobs if they did.
真的吗？不，不会的。如果他们这样做了，他们的工作就不保了。

Cable TV-(有线电视)

A：Mom, can we get cable TV or a satellite dish?
妈妈，我们可以装有线电视或者卫星电视吗？

B：It costs money, dear. What’s wrong with the regular television stations?
亲爱的，那可很贵呢。一般的电视台有什么不好？

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A：The shows are dull and they’re too many advertisements.
这些节目都很没趣，而且广告太多了。

B：Well, you already watch too much TV instead of doing your homework, anyway.
哦，你可是光看那么多电视不做作业了。

A：There ’re educational stations too. I could learn while I watched TV.
（卫星电视）也有教育电视台嘛。我可以一边看电视一边学习。

B：Well, that’s true, but you’d probably only watch cartoons and action movies.
哦，那倒是真的。可是你可能只会看卡通片或动作片哦。

A：No I wouldn’t…can’t we get cable? Everybody has cable.
不，我不会的。我们不可以装有线电视吗？家家都有。

B：Well, if everybody jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?
那么，如果人人都跳河，你也跟着跳吗？

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A：Mom!!!! Please. All my friends have had it for years.
妈妈！拜托，我的朋友们几年前就有了。

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B：Get new friends.
那就交一些新朋友。

end up在线翻译

A：Why are you always so mean?
你为什么总是这么小气？

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B：Because you’d end up spoiled rotten if I wasn’t.
如果我不这样的话你肯定会被我宠得不行的。

A：I could help pay for it.
那我也可以出一部分钱嘛。

B：Let’s see how your grades are this semester, and maybe I’ll talk to your father about it.
我们看看你这个学期考得怎么样，然后我倒可以和你爸爸商量一下。

A：O.K. Thanks, Mom!
好的，谢谢妈妈。