Dialogue 1
Jingjing: Welcome back to Beijing, Mark. How was your trip?
京晶：歡迎回京，馬克。旅途可好？
Mark: It was nice to get away for a few days. But I've been back for almost a week now.
馬克：出去幾天挺好的。不過我已經(jīng)回來快一周了。
Jingjing: Wow, I just got back the day before yesterday. Anything new?
京晶：哇，我可是前天才回來的。有什么新鮮事？
Mark: Yeah, actually. I got a house pet. Can you guess what it is?
馬克：還真有。我弄了一只家養(yǎng)小寵物，能猜到是什么嗎？
Jingjing: A dog? A cat?
京晶：狗子？貓咪？
Mark: Nope. Think about what year it is.
馬克：不是哦。想想今年是什么年頭。
Jingjing: Huh? Don't tell me you got a pig.
京晶：啊？別跟我說是只豬哦。
Mark: Bingo! A friend of mine wanted me to take care of her piglet while she went on a long trip. It turns out the “teacup pig” she got is going to grow to be at least 50kg. So, I talked her into letting me keep it.
馬克：猜對嘍！有個朋友要我在她長途旅行這段時間幫忙照看她的小豬，結果呢，她這只“茶杯豬”要長到至少五十公斤。所以，我讓她給我養(yǎng)。
Jingjing: Wow. Is it still pretty young?
京晶：哇哦，那它還是挺小的嗎？
Mark: It drinks milk from a bottle, but we're getting ready to switch to solid food.
馬克：它喝瓶裝奶，但我們已經(jīng)準備要換成固體食物了。
Jingjing: I heard they like to eat slop.
京晶：我聽說它們喜歡吃泔水。
Mark: Yeah. We got some huge sacks of wheat and barley. We're going to soak 1 or 2 kg in boiling water overnight and then give it to her in the morning.
馬克：我們準備了巨大袋子的小麥和大麥。我們要取個一兩公斤在滾水里泡一晚，然后早上給她吃。
Jingjing: Oh, so it's a sow then.
京晶：噢，所以她是只母豬。
Mark: Yep, and she's pretty healthy. We turned the whole balcony into a pen. She's still getting used to it.
馬克：是呢，她很健康。我們把整個陽臺弄成了一個圈，她還在適應中。
Jingjing: Is it pretty dirty?
京晶：到處會很臟嗎？
Mark: Naw. When I come back home, I don't smell it. We set up a cat litter box in the corner with a platform around it. That's her pen. We just need to get a trough of some sort, for when she gets big enough to tip over her water bowl.
馬克：并沒有。我平時回家是，什么也聞不到。我們在墻角放了一個貓砂盆，周圍是一圈平臺，那就是她的小圈，我們只需要弄一個飼料槽，她長大以后就該踢翻水碗了。
Jingjing: Well, it sounds like you've made a pretty good home for her. Let me know how she grows.
京晶：嗯，聽上去你已經(jīng)給她弄了一個很舒服的家了。到時候跟我說說她的成長情況啊。

New words : 習語短語
piglet 小豬，乳豬
a young pig
teacup pig 茶杯豬
a specially bred pig that grows to be less than half the size of a normal adult
slop 剩菜剩飯的混合物，泔水
mixed food with liquid
sow 母豬
a female pig
trough 飼料槽
a long and heavy dish, from which animals like cows and horses eat

Dialogue 2
Jingjing: Hi again, Mark. How's it going with your pet pig?
京晶：嗨，又來了，馬克，你的小豬豬怎么樣了？
Mark: I have two now. We adopted another because we didn't want the first one getting bored and lonely during the day.
馬克：我現(xiàn)在有兩只了。我們又收養(yǎng)了一只因為不想第一只白天在家孤單又無聊。
Jingjing: Where did you get the second one?
京晶：第二只哪兒來的？
Mark: We went to a farm and got pick of the litter. I think the younger one will be a good influence. It's also a female, and was really calm with the mother.
馬克：我們?nèi)チ艘患肄r(nóng)場，挑崽兒。我想小的那只會表現(xiàn)更好，也是母的，和豬媽媽在一起時很乖。
Jingjing: Was your first pig getting into stuff and wrecking your house?
京晶：你家第一只小豬迷上什么物品，開始拆家了嗎？
Mark: She was starting to—and squealing late at night. I've trained animals before, and know not to reward negative behavior.
馬克：她已經(jīng)有些趨勢了——晚上會叫喚。我以前訓練過動物，知道不獎勵（動物的）壞行為。
Jingjing: Hmm. Good luck. Do you have pictures?
京晶：嗯，那祝你好運。有照片嗎？
Mark: Yeah. The pink one's Princess, the first one we got.
馬克：粉色這張就是公主，我家第一只。
Jingjing: Oh, the other one's a black pig. Will it grow to full size?
京晶：噢，另一只是黑豬呢，會長大嗎？
Mark: Well, the mother was about 150kg. But Isabelle here was the runt of the litter. So, she won't get so big.
馬克：他媽媽300斤左右吧。但伊莎貝拉是一窩崽里最瘦弱的，所以她長不了那么大。
Jingjing: It'll be interesting to see Isabelle outgrow her older sister, Princess.
京晶：看著伊莎貝拉長過她的公主姐姐才有趣呢。
Mark: That might happen. I already got separate troughs and made a pen for each of them at opposite ends of my balcony.
馬克：有可能。我已經(jīng)在陽臺兩頭給它們各自準備了食槽和小圈。
Jingjing: Do you take them out for walks?
京晶：你帶他們出去散步嗎？
Mark: At least once a day. They've gotten used to harnesses.
馬克：每天至少一次。他們已經(jīng)習慣了戴上牽引繩。
Jingjing: I bet they get tons of attention.
京晶：我打賭回頭率超高。
Mark: They sure do, especially from kids.
馬克：當然啦，尤其小朋友投來的目光。
Jingjing: Well, they're the fifth smartest animal in the world. So, you'll probably be happy with them.
京晶：他們可是世界上第五聰明的動物。所以，你應該和他們相處挺愉快的。

New words : 習語短語
pick of the litter 挑崽兒
getting to choose one from 8-10 newborn animals, when they are still with their mother
getting into stuff 寵物的一些室內(nèi)活動，俗稱拆屋的開始
opening doors and packages that are not meant for a pet
squeal 豬的尖叫聲
the noise a pig makes
runt 一窩中最弱小的幼崽兒
an abnormally small pig, less massive than its siblings
harness 保護帶，挽具套
a kind of collar that holds the chest of an animal also, to attach a leas