Larry 下班后，跟李華一起去喝咖啡。今天我們要學兩個常用語：brutal和
rager.

    LH： Larry，怎么樣，今天上班忙不忙？

    LL： Oh it was way brutal.

    LH： Brutal ？ Brutal 不是粗暴、殘忍的意思嗎？

    LL： Here it means harsh. You know， like a hassle. It was way brutal.

    LH：噢，你說今天上班was way brutal就是特別麻煩，不順的意思。你說具
體點兒，In what way was it brutal ？

    LL： Well for one thing ， the coffee machine in my office was broken，
so that was lame.

    LH：咖啡壺壞了頂多也就是不方便，也談不上brutal啊。

    LL： Well on top of that they were doing some sort of maintenance
in the hall ， so all day there was this high pitched drilling noise.
I have a pounding headache.

    LH：一整天都有人在樓道里修房子，那可是夠吵的。It is brutal！

    LL： Yeah it was totally brutal.

    LH：我這兩天正在申請一家大公司的實習機會。Let me tell you ， it's
so brutal.

    LL： How is it brutal ， Li Hua ？

    LH：這家公司要我證明身份，結果害得我跑了四趟大使館，腿都跑細了。

    LL： Woah ， brutal. Are you at least done with the application process
now ？

    LH： I wish ！我現(xiàn)在還要到學校的工作許可辦公室去開證明，最后還不知
道到底是不是能拿到這個實習的位置。

    LL： Is it paid ？

    LH：沒有，是沒有報酬的那種實習。

    LL： Brutal. I did an unpaid internship once. It was alright though.

    LH：申請實習的手續(xù)麻煩點兒也就算了，我現(xiàn)在唯一的希望是，真開始實習
了，工作上不要更加brutal.

    ******

    李華第二天中午興高彩烈地打電話給Larry.

    LL： Hello？ This is Larry London speaking.

    LH： Larry？

    LL： Hi Li Hua， how's it going ？

    LH：告訴你一個好消息，我拿到那個實習的機會了。

    LL： That's great Li Hua！

    LH：公司人事部門打電話通知我，我簡直高興死了。

    LL： We have to celebrate ， we should throw a rager.

    LH： Rager，那是什么？聽起來好象挺可怕的。

    LL： No ， a rager means a huge party. A raging party.

    LH：哦，我知道了，a rager 就是一個特別瘋狂的派對。好啊，我同意，咱
們把朋友都叫來，開個rager.

    LL： My friend Jack the DJ has been looking to find some more work.
I'm sure he'd be willing to set up his turntables at our rager.

    LH：你是說你那個做職業(yè)DJ的朋友Jack嗎？太棒了，要真能把他找來，It is
bound to be a killer rager.

    LL： I think it should be pretty good. We can have it at my place.

    LH：在你那兒開？你可想好了，那些人一定會把你家搞得一團糟。

    LL： Eh ， it's fine. I don't have anything nice that can be damaged
anyhow.

    LH：你在家大吵大鬧地開派對，鄰居會不會有意見？

    LL： Probably not ， there are a lot of young people around here anyhow.
I feel like somebody is always throwing a rager on this street.

    LH：太好了，那你說，咱們都請誰？

    LL： Well you should tell friends in your classes ， and I'll send
out a Facebook invitation. Oh ， When will we hold our rager？

    LH：這個星期五晚上怎么樣？

    LL： Mmm， this Friday isn't good. I told my friend Kevin I'd help
him fix the bike. How about Saturday？

    LH：星期六好。星期六大家精神頭更足。

    LL： Exactly， you want people to be high energy if you are going
to throw a rager. Do you think a lot of people will come？

    LH：那還用說，I think it will be a huge rager.你說咱們的派對應該幾
點開始？

    LL： We can say nine o'clock and no one will likely show up until
10：30 at the earliest.

    LH：十點半？那么晚��？

    LL： That tends to be how it goes.

    LH：好，就聽你的，拿到這個實習的機會，我真是高興死了。

    LL： Congratulations！ You earned it.

    今天李華學了兩個常用語。一個是brutal意思是很糟糕，很麻煩。另一個是
rager 指特別瘋狂、特別熱鬧的派對。