VOA流行美語 Unit 138: juice/nuke

Lesson 138 - juice / nuke
Larry和李華正在電影院外面等朋友。電影都快開場了，可是朋友還沒到。Larry 決定用手機給這個朋友打電話。今天李華會學到兩個常用語：juice和nuke.

LL: Darn! My cell phone is out of juice. Can I use your cell phone to call Bob and Lisa and find out why they're late?

LH: 你的手機怎么啦？Out of juice, juice是果汁。哎噢！該不是你的電話掉到果汁里啦？難怪不能用啦！

LL: No, my cell phone is out of juice. "Juice" is slang for "power". I meant that the battery in my phone is out of power.

LH: 噢，原來juice在這里是指電池里的電啊！所以out of juice就是沒電的意思。既然你的手機沒電了，你可以用我的，我昨晚才充過電，so it has plenty of juice.

LL: That's fortunate. At least one of us has a functioning phone.

LH: 對了，Larry你前些天不是說你的車有毛病嗎？現在怎樣啦？

LL: Yes, my car wouldn't start because the battery was out of juice. I had to go to the mechanic and get a new battery.

LH: 原來是車子里的電池也沒電啦！看來這juice還真少不了，否則什么也干不了。昨天，我的激光唱機沒有電。噢，沒有juice了，偏偏我又找不到電池，害得我什么也聽不了。

LL: Yeah, I hate it when that happens, too. The other day, I was in the middle of typing a report on my laptop, when the battery ran out of juice. I almost lost the whole report.

LH: 哇，你可得特別小心電腦的電池呢。如果電腦沒電了，你輸入的報告還有檔案都可能會泡湯。那可就嚴重了！

LL: I know! I've had some awful experiences with that. Fortunately, now computer companies are making laptops with batteries that hold more juice.

LH: 就是，現在的電腦用的都是容量比較大的電池，所以打到一半沒電的情況比較少了。Larry, 你還是快點兒給他們打電話吧！電影很快就要開始了。

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LH: 我真不敢相信Lisa和Bob居然說好了會不來。太糟糕了！

LL: Yeah, I agree. Do you still want to go out to dinner? Or do you want to nuke the pizza that's in my fridge and eat that?

LH: "Nuke a pizza"? "Nuke"是nuclear核能的簡稱。哎，Larry，你準備怎么吃那塊比薩餅呀？

LL: Oh, to nuke something is slang for cooking it in the microwave.

LH: 噢，你真嚇了我一跳呢！原來to nuke是把東西放進微波爐里加熱啊！所以你是說你想把冰箱里那塊pizza熱來當晚飯吃。

LL: Well, it would save some money. I also have some frozen dinners we could nuke. It would be faster than going to a restaurant.

LH: 嗯，吃冷凍食品是比去餐館吃飯是比較快，又便宜，可是我覺得冷凍食品不好吃耶！吃東西還是要吃新鮮的好！

LL: My cousin won't eat food that's been nuked at all. She thinks that using a microwave is unhealthy.

LH: 真的嗎？你表妹說微波過的食物都不健康。那微波食物真的對身體有害啊？

LL: I don't know and I don't want to know. Nuking food is so convenient and quick that I really don't want to give it up.

LH: 我知道，微波食物既方便又快速。有時候我實在太忙，沒時間做飯，我也是用微波爐來熱剩菜剩飯。

LL: I hardly ever have time to cook an entire meal. I'm also not a very good cook, so I would probably starve without a microwave.

LL：好多男生都不會做飯，也沒有興趣。我看沒有微波爐是要餓死的。

今天李華學到兩個常用語。第一個是juice，也就是電源，電力的意思。 另一個常用語是nuke，是用微波爐加熱的意思。