adayinthelifeofjeff解释 部分.docx

1、adayinthelifeofjeff解释 部分Jeff 1Our story begins by me describing how much I do not like getting up. To get upmeans to get out of your bed, to stand up after you have been lying down on abed. I say that, “The worst part of my day is when I have to get up. Waking up,that I can handle.” To wake up, “wak

2、e up,” (two words) means that you aresleeping and you stop sleeping and now you are awake. The verb is to wake up.So, you can wake up while you are in bed, and then, you get upyou stand up after lying down.I said that “waking up” is something “that I can handle.” To handle, “handle,”here means to be

3、 able to controlsomething that I can managesomething that I can accept; its not a problem. Another expression would be something I can deal with. To deal, “deal,” with something is the same, in this case, as to be able to handle something.I say that “getting up” is something that “I hate. The covers

4、 I have on my bed are heavy.” The covers, “covers,” are the things that you put over you to keep you warm. Usually, the covers include a blanket, sometimes a comforter and usually,what we would call the top sheet or flat sheet. A comforter, “comforter,” is a very thick blanketa very heavy blanket. A

5、 blanket, “blanket,” is something that you put over you when you are sleeping to keep you warm.Blanket is a general term; a comforter is a kind of blanketa heavy blanket. The opposite of a comforter would be a light blanket. A light, “light,” blanket would be the opposite, and that is a blanket that

6、 will keep you warm, but if it gets very cold,it might not keep you warmit might not be sufficient.So, we have a comforter and we have a light blanket. Usually, there is a topsheet, “sheet,” that you put over you in between your body and the blankets, and this top sheet is sometimes called a flat sh

7、eet. The sheet that goes on the bed itselfthat goes onto the corners of the bedthats called a fitted sheet, a fitted,“fitted,” sheet. So, we have a fitted sheet on the bed that you sleep on top of,then we have a top sheet and then a blanket, sometimes, if its very cold, a comforter as well.I say in

8、the story that “I sleep with two pillows.” A pillow, “pillow,” is what you put your head on when you sleep. Now, “for some reason,” I say I “have different colored pillowcases.” This is true, actually; I have a black pillowcase and a blue pillowcase for my two pillows. I think the reason is I am too

9、 lazy to go and buy a new pillowcase.Well, the pillowcase, “pillowcase,” (one word) is the thing that you put over the pillow so the pillow doesnt get dirty; we call that the pillowcase. I say, “Well, at least the sheets match.” We already know what a sheet is. When we say the sheets match, “match,”

10、 we mean that they are the same color or two colors that look good together. We use that verb, to match, when we are talking about clothing as well, or anything where you have two colors.“I sometimes wake up before the alarm goes off.” When we say the alarm goes off, we mean that the alarm starts to

11、 make a sound. Your alarm, “alarm,” is a machine that makes noise at a certain time; usually it has a clock. Well, “Isometimes wake up before my alarm” makes noisemy alarm goes off. “I like to keep the alarm at a low volume,” meaning not very loud, “at a low volume, with some classical music, nothin

12、g too jarring.” When we say a sound is jarring,“jarring,” we mean that it is loud and it causes you to jump or to be surprised. Its something that is not very nicenot very pleasant. A jarring noise would be one that bothers you, perhaps because it is very loud or it is not a very nice sound.So, I do

13、nt want my alarm to have a jarring noise, instead I play classical music.Now, “My old roommate”the person I used to share an apartment with”used to like the terrible buzzer you find on most alarm clocks.” This, again, is true. I had a roommate that had a very loud and bad sounding buzzer; it was a t

14、errible buzzer. The buzzer, “buzzer,” is when the alarm clock doesnt play music, but it just plays a sound. Sometimes it is like a bell ringing; thats the buzzer. Well,this buzzer “always used to drive me nuts.” To drive someone nuts, “nuts,”means to drive them crazyto make them crazyto make them go

15、 crazy.I continue the story by saying, “As I was saying.” We use that expression, as I was saying, when we are talking about one thing then we start talking about asecond thing, and now we want to go back and talk about the first thing again.So, when you interrupt yourself when you are talking, and

16、then you change thetopicchange what you are talking aboutand then want to go back to youroriginal topic, you say, “As I was saying.”“As I was saying, I sometimes wake up before the alarm, usually because ofsome noise outside the house.” When we say there is some noisesomesoundoutside the house or ou

17、tside of the houseyou can say either onewe mean that someone is making a noise that is very loud. Some of those noises are “a car door slamming.” The verb, to slam, “slam,” means that you close the door usually very quickly and you make a loud noise. Someone closes their car door very fast, it will

18、make a noise; we call that “slamming the door.”My mother always used to tell me when I was young, “Dont slam the doors,”meaning when I come in and close the door, I should close it slowly and quietly.Of course, I was not a good boy so I would sometimes slam the door.As I was saying, an alarm goes of

19、f, thats another noise that can wake you upoutside and this would be a car alarm. Here, in Los Angeles, everyone has a car alarm, and sometimes those alarms go off at night. Another noise is gunfire;gun, “gun,” fire, “fire.” Gunfire is when someone shoots a gun and it makes a noise. This is, again,

20、Los Angeles, so we sometimes have gunfire but of course,Im joking. I say, “well, okay, not gunfire,” meaning Im just kiddingthat isnt actually true, although, it is true sometimes.I then say, “Man, is my neighborhood noisy!” That expression, “man,” is just a way of expressing your emotion when you a

21、re saying something that you really mean or really want to emphasize. “Man, is my neighborhood noisy,” that means my neighborhood is very noisy.“Of course, when Im staying at a hotel, its usually easier to just get a wake up call from the hotel.” A wake up call, “call,” is when the hotel calls you o

22、n the phone to wake you up, so you dont have to set your own alarm. To set, “set,” an alarm means to turn it on and to put a certain time that you want to get up. Well,sometimes people have problems with their alarm clocks and so, if they are in a hotel, they can ask the hotel to wake them up with a

23、 wake up call.At the end of the story I say, “Im not really an early riser.” An early, “early,” riser,“riser,” means someone who wakes up and gets up very early in the morning.You could be an early riser; you could be a late riser. The word riser comes from the verb to rise, “rise,” which, in this c

24、ase, means to get up. Well, “Im not really an early riser,” I say, “so I dont jump out of bed.” To jump out of bed means to get out of bed very quickly. “I dont jump out of bed ready to take on the world.”“To take on the world,” means Im ready for the day. Its an expression we use to say that I am r

25、eady to go out into the world and do my best. “Im not an early riser, I dont jump out of bed ready to take on the world.” Instead, “I get up very slowly, usually one foot on the floor at a time.” So first, I get up and I put one foot on the floor and then another foot on the floor, and then I stand

26、up.“Every once in awhile,” I say, “Ill oversleep.” To oversleep, “oversleep,” (one word) means that you sleep later than you should. For example, you are wanting to get up at seven oclock in the morning and you sleep until 7:30. You dont realize that you are sleeping too late; we call that oversleep

27、ing. To oversleep means that you sleep longer than you wanted to.At the end of the story I say, “I really love the weekends,” Fridays and Saturdays,“when I can sleep in.” To sleep in means that you dont get up at your normal time; you sleep longer than you normally do. So, if you normally get up at

28、seven,on Saturday or Sunday if you dont work, you may sleep in until nine a.m.Now lets listen to the story, this time at a native rate of speech.2In this episode, we are “Cleaning Up,” or making ourselves clean.“I go into my bathroom,” I begin the story, “sometime around 6:45 a.m.” Notice that we sa

29、y a.m., but you could also say, “in the morning.” 6:45 is also the same as quarter to seven. “My sink and medicine cabinet are on the left when you enter my bathroom.” In your bathroom and in your kitchen there is usually a sink and a faucet. The faucet, “faucet,” is where the water comes out, and n

30、ormally you have hot water and cold water. The sink is where the water goes into.Usually, it is a round or a square white bowl, really, that has a hole at the bottom and we call that hole the drain, “drain.” Thats where the water goes down into the pipeits where the water goes out of the sink. If yo

31、u want to fill your sink with water, you usually have to stop the drain. To stop a drain means to put something over it so that the water doesnt go down.So, we have a faucet and we have a sink, and in your bathroom, you often have a small box, sometimes with a mirror on it so you can see yourself, t

32、hat we call the medicine cabinet. A cabinet, “cabinet,” is like a small box where you put things, but its a box that hangs on the wallit is attached to the wall. You can have cabinets in your kitchen, where you put your dishes. So, theyrecontainerstheyre things that you used to put and store or keep things.A medicine cabinet is a place where you have medicine, but also, its a placewhere you put your other things that you use in the bathroom; things likemouthwash, shaving cream, razors and so forth. Well talk about those in asecond. So, thats y