职场社交英语口语对话 Lesson 53:离我远一点
职场社交英语口语对话 Lesson 53:离我远一点SCENE② A 吉娜在艾文的隔间附近遇到他【离我远一点】Zina: Hi, Elvin.
How are the new programmers I got for you?
吉娜： 嗨，艾文。
我帮你找来的新程序设计师如何？
Elvin: Stay away from me.
艾文： 离我远一点。
Zina: Are you still mad about your nose?
How is it?
吉娜： 还在气你鼻子的事啊？
鼻子还好吧？
Elvin: I'm serious, Zina.
1) Back off.
I have a bottle of pepper 2) spray in my pocket.
艾文： 我是认真的，吉娜。
给我退后。
我的口袋里有胡椒喷雾器。
Zina: That won't be necessary, Elvin.
Look, I want to 3) apologize for your nose.
I'm sorry.
吉娜： 没这个必要吧，艾文。
听我说，我要为鼻子的事跟你致歉。
对不起。
Elvin: Why are you being so nice to me?
Don't think for a second that I trust you.
艾文： 你干嘛对我好？
你别以为我会相信你。

语言详解:A: I apologize for calling you this early in the morning.
我很抱歉这么一大早就打电话给你。
B: This had better be an emergency.
这较好是很要紧的事。
【mad about 为……生气】mad about 有两个主要意义，一个是上面对话中所表现出的“生气”，另一个是“沉迷、热衷于”。
例如：I guess they're mad about the performance of their baseball players.
我猜他们是为了他们的棒球员表现而气愤不已。
Rose is quite mad about Andy.
萝丝相当着迷于安迪。
A: Did you say Jack wasn't mad about our spending more than 100 dollars of his money?
你是说杰克没有为了我们花掉他一百多块遥而生气吗？
B: Right.
Because Jack is mad about you.
Aren't you aware of that?
对的，因为杰克爱慕你。
你没有感觉到吗？
换句话说，“mad about+人”是“着迷、爱慕某人”“mad with+人”才是“生某人的气”。
例如：She has been mad with me for a week.
她气我已经气一个星期了。
1) back off 退后2) spray (n.
) 喷雾器3) apologize (v.
) 道歉