英文原版对话1000个:1215 A Few Bad Habits
时间：2018-12-25 作者：英语课 分类：原版英语对话1000个
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Erina: So Mike, do you have any bad habits?
Mike: Of course not. I'm perfect, I've no habits that are bad. Yes, I do have some bad habits. One of my bad habits is fidgeting and I think I'm a very high energy person so, especially when I'm on the phone, mixed with my slightly obsessive 1 compulsive tendencies, I tend to arrange all the things on a desk so if there are pens and books and different things on the desk, I would be turning them and arranging them in order and pretty much always using my hands and keeping them busy and although this might not be such a bad habit, perhaps for people who are with me or next to me they might be a little bit uncomfortable because it seems like, you know, I'm a bit nervous or, you know, have something on my mind so...
Erina: Not in confidence for your speech, yeah.
Mike: Right, in fact that's not the case but what happens is I start playing with things.
Erina: I've seen you do that before.
Mike: Oh have you?
Erina: Yeah.
Mike: Well then I guess that really shows it is one of my bad habits. You know, I think that I do that to focus because, you know, while I'm speaking to somebody or while I'm on the phone, I arrange things on the desk and that is kind of metaphorically 2 me arranging my thoughts in my head which is probably where this habit has come from.
Erina: I see. Yeah, do you have any other bad habits other than fidgeting?
Mike: Well maybe a bad habit is driving quickly and I'm not sure if that's considered a bad habit but I guess when I get behind the wheel of a car I sometimes get impatient and that impatience 3 drives me to put more weight on the gas pedal 4 and in turn I go faster and of course speeding is not a good thing especially when you get pulled over by the police. So that's a bad habit that I might have to work on.
Erina: Yeah, definitely. You don't want to lose your licence.
Mike: No.
1 obsessive
adj. 着迷的, 强迫性的, 分神的
- Some people are obsessive about cleanliness.有些人有洁癖。
- He's becoming more and more obsessive about punctuality.他对守时要求越来越过分了。
2 metaphorically
adv. 用比喻地
- It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically. 对一个词的理解是按字面意思还是隐喻的意思要视乎上下文和习惯。
- Metaphorically it implied a sort of admirable energy. 从比喻来讲，它含有一种令人赞许的能量的意思。
3 impatience
n.不耐烦，急躁
- He expressed impatience at the slow rate of progress.进展缓慢，他显得不耐烦。
- He gave a stamp of impatience.他不耐烦地跺脚。
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