Yvette:I want to hear more about your first boyfriend, the professor. So, you couldn't concentrate on your homework, and you started having naughty thoughts about him. Then what? (依芙特:我想多知道一些關於你的第一任男友-----那個教授的事。你說,你不能專心在功課 上,你開始對他有非分之想。然後怎樣?)
Sam:As soon as I allowed myself to be attracted to him, he could sense it. (山姆:我一容許自己受他的吸引,他就察覺到了。)
Yvette:How do you know? What did he do? (依芙特:你怎麼知道?他做了什麼?)
Sam:We started walking together after class. One day, we were sitting on a bench by the lake, and he said,"Do you know that I'm gay?" I said I knew. And then he said, "And do you know that you are too?" (山姆:我們在課後開始一起散步。一天,我們坐在湖邊的一個長椅上, 他說:「你知道我是同志嗎?」我說我知道。然後他說:「你知道你也是嗎?」)
俚語小解析
Then what? 然後怎樣? 用這個簡短的慣用語目的是使說話者繼續說。它表達出興趣與關切。在上面的例子裡,依芙特先簡述了關於山姆和他的第一任男友她已經知道的部分。然後說:"Then what?"「然後怎樣?」來表示她要聽到更多關於他們的事。
It doesn't matter as long as ...... 沒關係,只要......就好了。 It doesn't matter as long as ...... 是「沒關係,只要......就好了。」的意思。非常適合用來表達「只此而已,別無奢求。」這種知足常樂的心情。注意,as long as 之後要接完整句子。
照樣造句→
ex:It doesn't matter as long as you're with me. (沒有關係,只要你跟我在一起就好了。)
ex:It doesn't matter as long as you're happy. (沒有關係,只要你快樂就好了。)
ex:It doesn't matter as long as I get a fair evaluation. (沒有關係,只要我得到公正的評價就好了。)
ex:It doesn't matter as long as my kids are healthy. (沒有關係,只要我的孩子健康就好了。)
ex:It doesn't matter as long as you pay me. (沒有關係,只要你付錢給我就好了。)
Word List
.make a living 謀生、fair evaluation 公平的評估、healthy 健康的