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Helen: Hi, I'm Helen, and welcome to The English We Speak. Sorry, I'll be with you in a minute, Chris – I'm just on the phone to Rob...
海倫：大家好，我是海倫，歡迎來到我們所說的英語。抱歉，我一分鐘就回來，克里斯，我正和羅伯打電話呢。
Chris: Sure.
克里斯：好的。
Helen: Rob, do you need me to come and record with you in the studio this afternoon?
海倫：羅伯，你今天下午需要我來和你一起到演播室錄音嗎？
Rob: No, don't worry – I've got Neil coming over to record with me. Everything's hunky-dory.
羅伯：不用，別擔心。尼爾和我一起來錄音。一切都很好。
Helen: Everything's wha-?
海倫：一切都什么？
Rob: Gotta go. Speak to you later – bye!
羅伯：得掛了。待會再說，再見！
Helen: OK, b- … Oh, he hung up.
海倫：好吧，再...哦，他掛了。
Chris: Having a busy day, Helen?
克里斯：很忙的一天啊，海倫？
Helen: Yes, it's been so busy – I've got to move all these boxes. How is your day going?
海倫：是的，太忙了——我得把這些盒子移走。你今天怎么樣？
Chris: No problems really. I've finished my script and I've already recorded another programme with Rosie... I'm hunky-dory.
克里斯：沒什么問題。我寫完了我的腳本，而且我已經錄完了另一個和羅西的節目...我一切都好。
Helen: Hunky-dory? That's what Rob just said to me. Neither of you is very hunky though…
海倫：一切都好？這是剛才羅伯和我說的。但你們都不是魁偉的人。
Chris: What?!
克里斯：什么？
Helen: Well, hunky means muscular doesn't it?
海倫：這是魁偉的意思不是嗎？
Chris: Well yes, hunky is a slang word for describing someone who is muscular…
克里斯：是的，魁偉是描述某人很有肌肉的俚語。
Helen: So, you're not telling the truth when you say, 'I'm hunky… Dory'. My name's not 'Dory' though – why do you call me that?
海倫：所以,當你說你很“魁偉”的時候并沒有說實話。而且我的名字也不是“多里”，你為什么這么叫我？
Chris: I wasn't lying and saying 'I'm hunky'… and I wasn't calling you 'Dory' either. The phrase hunky-dory doesn't have anything to do with being muscular – it's an informal way of saying something's fine or satisfactory.
克里斯：我說“我很魁偉”的時候沒有撒謊，而且我也不是在叫你“多里”。這個短語和肌肉沒有任何關系——這是一個不太正式的說法形容某事很好或很令人滿意。
Helen: Ohhhh… It's a bit of a strange phrase though.
海倫：哦，但這是個有點奇怪的短語。
Chris: Yes, it is. No-one really knows where it comes from, other than it's believed to be an American phrase.
克里斯：是的。沒人知道它怎么來的，只知道是一個美式短語。
Helen: I see. So how can you use it?
海倫：我知道了。那么怎么用呢？
Chris: Well, here are some examples:
克里斯：以下是一些例子：
I was really worried I'd lost her, but everything's hunky-dory now – she was waiting for me by the car.
我真的不擔心我會失去她，但是現在一切都很好，她正在車旁等我。
Our washing machine broke last night. An engineer is coming to take a look at it today, so it should be hunky-dory soon.
我們的洗碗機昨晚壞了。一個維修師今天會來看一下，所以應該一會兒就好了。
Chris: So you can use hunky-dory as an informal way to say that a situation is fine.
克里斯：所以你可以用一切順利作為不正式的形式來說某個情景很好。
Helen: Now I understand! … Well, sadly nothing is hunky-dory for me… I've got all these boxes to move.
海倫：現在我理解了！那么不幸的是我什么事都不好....我得把這些盒子都搬走。
Chris: Is that why you invited me here?
克里斯：這是你請我來這的原因嗎？
Helen: Maybe…?
海倫：或許？
Chris: Hmm… right then, let's get on with it. Right, where do you want them?
克里斯：嗯...那么好吧，讓我們來一起對付它吧。好的，你想把它們弄到哪里？
Helen: Just over there, thanks.
海倫：那里，謝謝。
Chris: OK…
克里斯：好的。
Helen: Haha! My work will soon be done! … Join us again for another edition of The English We Speak and visit our website, bbclearningenglish.com. Bye!
海倫：哈哈！我的任務不久就會完成了！加入我們來獲取其他版本的我們所說的英語并訪問我們的網站，bbclearningenglish.com.再見！
