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，我知道錯了！其實我也是第一次酒駕，以前我都很注意的！昨天實在沒人開車了，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。我覺得就這么一次，肯定出不了事，也肯定不會被抓到，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就是專門負責(zé)開車送朋友們回家的人嘍！

DAN:沒錯！

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，運氣差，是have a tough break; party結(jié)束后專門負責(zé)開車送大家回家的人是the designated driver.