Nick: Hi everybody, this is Nick. Welcome to teaching series "how do you say this in American English."大家好，我是Nick.
David: Hi guys. My name is David
Nick: 現在呢春天到了，萬物復蘇的季節又到了。春意盎然，難免會讓人有種想談戀愛的感覺。相信我的聽眾魅力肯定都很大，所以很多人追，那不是人人你都有感覺的，對吧。所以呢，有些人可能就不會是你的款，或者說不會是你的菜，言下之意就是說，我不太喜歡TA這種類型。那TA不是我的菜，用美語怎么說呢
Nick: We got a new guest, David. Hi David, I heard that you've got a girl chasing you. Is that true?
David: Yeah, kinda. I mean she's nice, she's smart, she's a good person. It's just I don't have feelings for her. I mean, we just don't have chemistry together.
Nick: Oh really. But to be honest, in my eyes, I think she's pretty good. She's, like you said, smart. She's beautiful. She's caring. I mean, how can you find a better one? She's good enough
David: Yeah I'm not saying she's not good person. It's just she's not my cup of tea.
Nick: What? Wait wait wait, I thought you liked the cup of tea. What do you mean "cup of tea"?
David: Oh no. she's not my cup of tea is a phrase you can use in America. It means you may like someone but their personality just doesn't match your own, or if they do something that you can't really live with, then the person just isn't your type. You can just say, they are not my cup of tea-it's a simpler way of saying that.
Nick: Oh can you just say, something is not my cup of tea? Or it's not restricted to some people.
David: No, it could apply to a lot of different things. For example, it can be used to describe undesirable relationships. You could also use it to apply to food, for example. Say you like white wine that's sweet but are given a dry red wine. To politely turn down the glass, you could say, "no thank you, it's not my cup of tea."
Nick: Oh so tea here is not like the actual tea.
David: No, it can apply to any different things. Not just tea.
Nick: So I like sandwiches. I don't like burgers. I could say, "burgers, they are not my cup of tea."
David: Yeah you can say that.
Nick: Ok, thank you.
Nick: David剛剛就是說，cup of tea 或者說my type, 在這里可以表示你喜歡的東西。不一定非得是tea相關，并不一定是茶。你可以說食物，比如我舉的例子，我喜歡吃burger，不喜歡吃sandwich，那我就會說the burger is my cup of tea／my thing. So this is pretty much it for today's class. I'll see you guys next time. Bye
David: See you guys.