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Neil: Hello and welcome to The English We Speak. My name's Neil.
尼爾：大家好，歡迎收看地道英語節目。我是尼爾。
Helen: (Sigh) And I'm Helen.
海倫：（嘆氣）我是海倫。
Neil: Oh Helen, that was a very heavy sigh.
尼爾：海倫，那真是沉重的嘆息啊。
Helen: A heavy sigh? By that, you mean a big sigh?! Well, I suppose it was. It's just I've been trying to lose some weight but my diet is not working.
海倫：沉重的嘆息？你的意思是說長出了一口氣嗎？！嗯，我想是這樣的。我一直在努力減肥，可是我的節食沒起作用。
Neil: So how heavy are you exactly?
尼爾：那你現在有多重？
Helen: I'm not going to tell you my weight!
海倫：我是不會告訴你我的體重的。
Neil: OK but my advice is to cut down on the biscuits, eat more fruit and stick to the diet!
尼爾：好吧，我的建議是少吃餅干，多吃水果，堅持節食！
Helen: Yeah, yeah, yeah!
海倫：對，對，沒錯！
Neil: Sorry, am I getting too heavy?
尼爾：抱歉，我是不是太嚴厲了？
Helen: Heavy? You mean you're putting on weight too?
海倫：重？你是說你也胖了嗎？
Neil: No! Heavy can have another meaning. Used informally, it can mean serious or intense. Have a listen to this:
尼爾：不是！heavy這個詞還有其他的意思。在非正式用語中，可以表示嚴肅或者強烈的意思。來聽下面的例句：
Our relationship's getting a bit heavy. I think we need to go out more and have a bit more fun.
我們的關系變得有點兒緊張。我想我們需要多出去，享受更多的快樂時光。
Neil: And another informal use of the word can mean difficult.
尼爾：這個詞另一個非正式用法表示難。
That was a heavy lecture! I had trouble understanding it all.
那節課真難！我完全無法理解。
Helen: A heavy lecture–I've been to a few of them!
海倫：很難的課程——我也上過一些難以理解的課程！
Neil: Me too. But Helen, we can also use the word 'heavy' in a more formal way to mean 'intense':
尼爾：我也是。不過海倫，我們還可以用heavy的正式用法來表示“強烈”。
There was such a heavy fog I couldn't see where I was going.
霧太濃重了，我幾乎看不見我要去哪里。
The flooding was caused by days of heavy rain.
持續幾天的強降雨引發了洪水。
Heavy fighting broke out after the government's announcement.
政府發表聲明以后，爆發了激烈的戰斗。
Helen: So heavy in those examples also means intense, bad or strong. What about a heavy drinker or a heavy smoker? What does that mean?
海倫：所以在這些例句中，heavy同樣表示強烈的，糟糕的或者是強大的。那heavy drinker或者heavy smoker又是什么意思呢？
Neil: Heavy here means to indulge to a great extent.
尼爾：這里heavy的意思是在很大程度上沉迷于某件事。
Helen: Well that's not me–but there is one kind of 'heavy' I do like to indulge in.
海倫：哦，那可不是說我，不過有一種heavy我確實很沉迷。
Neil: And what's that?
尼爾：那是什么？
Helen: Heavy metal!
海倫：重金屬！
(Turns on heavy metal music)
（播放重金屬音樂）
Neil: (shouting) That's a little heavy on my ears. Turn it down! What a noise!
尼爾：（大叫）這對我來說太吵了。關小點聲！太吵了！
