My watch always gains ten minutes a day.

我的手表總是每天快十分鐘。

Jane: My watch always gains ten minutes a day.

簡: 我的手表總是每天快十分鐘。

Mary: That's funny. My watch always loses ten minutes a day.

瑪麗: 真有趣。我的手表總是每天慢十分鐘。

Jane: No kidding.

簡: 別開玩笑。

Mary: I'm serious. Every morning I set my watch by the radio, but it still loses ten minutes.

瑪麗: 我是認(rèn)真的。每天早上我按廣播調(diào)表, 但它仍慢十分鐘。

Jane: You know what you can do?

簡: 你知道你能做什么嗎?

Mary: Throw it away and buy a new one?

瑪麗: 扔掉它,買一個(gè)新的嗎?

Jane: No, you don't have to. You only need to set your watch forward ten minutes every day.

簡: 不，不必。你只需每天把你的表撥快10分鐘。

Mary: So you set your watch back ten minutes every day?

瑪麗: 你每天把你的表撥慢十分鐘了嗎？

Jane: Yeah, that's what I'm doing.

簡: 是的，我每天都這樣做。

Mary: Why bother? Just buy a new watch. It doesn't cost much. Besides, I just can't put up with this thing any more.

瑪麗: 何苦呢？只是買一塊新手表。成本也不高。另外，我只是不能再忍受這種東西了。

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詞語回顧

gain v．（鐘、表等）快；增加

lose v．（鐘、袁等）走慢；遺失

No kidding 別開玩笑。

serious adj．嚴(yán)肅的；認(rèn)真的

set v．拔準(zhǔn)（鐘表）；設(shè)置

put up with… 忍受，容忍