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DAN在北京學(xué)漢語，他的中國朋友要是遇到了不知道用美語怎么說的詞，就會(huì)來請教他。今天是吳瓊問的：酒后駕車。
DAN: 吳瓊, 你怎么無精打采的？
WQ: 別提了！昨天晚上讓警察給抓了！
DAN: What happened? Who did you kill?
WQ: 殺人？DAN你就別損我了，我哪會(huì)殺人，就是酒后駕車了，在美語里就是driving after drinking 對么？
DAN: Actually it's called drunk driving. WQ, drunk driving is no trivial matter. You really shouldn't do it.
WQ: 你就別教育我了，我知道錯(cuò)了！其實(shí)我也是第一次酒駕，以前我都很注意的！昨天實(shí)在沒人開車了，我在一幫人里算喝得最少的了，就想……
DAN: You took a chance and thought you'd get lucky, right?
WQ: 是。我覺得就這一次，肯定出不了事，也肯定不會(huì)被抓到，誰知道……
DAN: You got pulled over by a cop?
WQ: Pull over?
DAN: Yea. When a cop asks you to stop the car on the side of the road, that's called getting pulled over.
WQ: 明白了，警察 pull someone over, 就是示意司機(jī)把車停靠在路邊。Yes, I got pulled over by a traffic police. 我本來還想裝作沒事，結(jié)果人家警察叔叔一下就看出我喝了酒，一點(diǎn)情面也沒留，罰了我1000塊！
DAN: 1000塊？酒駕罰款不是200么？
WQ: 上禮拜才改的新規(guī)定！都讓我趕上了！
DAN: Sounds like you had a tough break!
WQ: To have a tough break 就是倒霉吧？我的確是夠倒霉的！
DAN: WQ, I'm sorry you had a tough break, but it's no excuse for drunk driving. Next time you go out drinking with a bunch of friends, don't forget to have a designated driver!
WQ: Designate? D-E-S-I-G-N-A-T-E, designate是指定的意思，designated driver就是專門負(fù)責(zé)開車送朋友們回家的人嘍！
DAN: 沒錯(cuò)！
WQ: Next time we'll definitely have a designated driver!
DAN: Good idea! Now let's see what you've learned today.
WQ: 酒后駕車是drunk driving; 警察示意路邊停車是pull someone over; 倒霉，運(yùn)氣差，是have a tough break; party結(jié)束后專門負(fù)責(zé)開車送大家回家的人是the designated driver.
B: Which friend of yours is the designated driver, 楊林？
A: Haha, I'm lucky. A friend of mine is allergic to alcohol, so she's the perfect candidate for designated driver!
B: Oh, poor her! She must be really busy driving around taking you guys home!
A: 哈哈！沒錯(cuò)！這個(gè)朋友因?yàn)閷凭^敏，所以滴酒不沾，當(dāng)然是designated driver的最佳人選嘍！大家只要在party上看到她在，就可以開懷暢飲了！
B: Gosh! She should start charging fees.
A: Hey! Don't give her ideas!
B: Haha!
A: 好了，咱們來聽下面的節(jié)目吧。
B: Okay! Let's listen to ǒGo Englishō.
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