体育美语-027 - Pumping iron
M: 236, 237, 238 Oh hi Yang Chen, I didn't know you were coming to the gym today.
Y: Hi, Mar 1. What are you doing?
M: I'm doing push ups. P-U-S-H, U-P-S.
Y: I know you are doing Pushups俯卧撑。 可是我听到你在数238 ，你真的做了238个俯卧撑?
M: Of course! What, you think I was just pretending to do all those pushups because I knew you were coming to the gym and wanted to impress you? Haha! Don't be ridiculous!
Y: Oh, let me guess, 你交了新的女朋友。You want to impress her. 让她对你有好感。
M: Well, I do have a hot date next week, so I've been PUMPING IRON at the gym. I'm sure if I have big enough muscles my date will automatically 2 fall in love with me.
Y: PUMPING IRON? 你缺铁吗?
M: No, pumping iron just means working out at the gym.
Y: I like it, pumping iron at the gym. 我也需要常常到健身房 pump iron。
M: Do you want to impress somebody?
Y. No, 不过...
M What do you mean, 不过?
Y We women aren't only concerned with muscles.
M: That's true. Women also really care about my great haircut, my designer cologne...
Y: Designer cologne? 名牌香水，是在Walmart 买的吗?
M: I know you are making fun of me.
Y: Of course,, I'm making fun of you.
M: Just tell me what women are really concerned with.
Y: The inner 3 qualities of a person, 内在美！
M: Oh, come on, Yang Chen, 内在美? Are you kidding me?
Y: Maybe...
- It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence.大人们照例不参加这样的野餐以免扫兴。
- Such a marriage might mar your career.这样的婚姻说不定会毁了你的一生。
- The machine cycles automatically.这台机器自动循环运转。
- She had automatically labelled the boys as troublemakers.她不假思索地认定这些男孩子是捣蛋鬼。