ESL Podcast 583 – Going to a Spa
时间：2019-01-31 作者：英语课 分类：地道美语播客
Jan: This is the life! Spending the day at a spa is my idea of paradise.
Tim: Yeah, it’s great.
Jan: Aren’t you enjoying yourself?
Tim: The massage 1 was okay, but why do I have to get a facial and a body wrap? I’m a guy!
Jan: Men need rejuvenating 2, too. These are all holistic 3 treatments and you’ll feel like a new man when you’re done. Just enjoy the pampering 4.
Tim: I feel like an idiot. How am I supposed to relax?
Jan: Why don’t you get a body scrub or a scalp massage instead? Maybe that’ll calm your nerves.
Tim: I don’t need a body scrub or another massage. I just want to get out of here. When will we be done?
Jan: After this, all we have left are manicures and pedicures.
Tim: What?! I’m not getting a manicure or a pedicure.
Jan: You did promise to go with me to the spa if I agreed to have your four college friends stay in our house for two weeks, remember?
Tim: Yes, I remember. All right, let’s get this over with.
Jan: Just be glad I didn’t sign you up for waxing!
Script by Dr. Lucy Tse
- He is really quite skilled in doing massage.他的按摩技术确实不错。
- Massage helps relieve the tension in one's muscles.按摩可使僵硬的肌肉松弛。
- The rejuvenating ambience of autumn is immeasurably more ancient than even the calendar. 秋天那让人恢复青春活力的气氛远比历法还要古老。 来自名作英译部分
- Rhoda says that it's embarrassing to be so idolized, but also very sweet and rejuvenating. 罗达说，给人这样过份地崇拜是很发窘的，不过也是愉快惬意使人年轻的。
- There is a fundamental ambiguity in the use of word "whole" in recent holistic literature.在近代的整体主义著作中，“整体”这个词的用法极其含混。
- In so far as historicism is technological,its approach is not piecemeal,but "holistic".仅就历史决定论是一种技术而论，它的方法不是渐进的，而是“整体主义的”。