Larry 和李華在Larry 的朋友Sam 家開party.李華今天要學(xué)兩個常用語，party
foul和split. LL ： Gosh ， I am SO sorry， Li Hua ！ I just spilled some
of my drink on you. What a party foul ！

    LH：沒事的，Larry.只不過是點兒汽水而已，一下就弄干凈了。不過，什么
是party foul��？

    LL： A party foul is when you do something really embarrassing at
a party - like spill your drink on someone.

    LH：噢，foul在體育比賽里是犯規(guī)的意思，那 party foul 就是指開派對的
時候出丑嘍。

    LL： Right， and nobody really likes to commit a party foul ， but
sometimes when you are having a lot of fun and there are a lot of people
together in one place ， it is easy to do something stupid.

    LH：發(fā)生 party foul 的時候，其他人會怎樣呢？

    LL： Sometimes they stare or it gets very quiet - or other times some
one might yell， "Party foul！" And everyone will laugh.

    LH：那可真夠丟人的。不過，灑點兒飲料不算什么，我見過更糟糕的party
foul.

    LL： Really ？ What is the worse party foul you've seen ？

    LH：有一次我去參加朋友的婚禮。大家跳舞的時候，發(fā)生了我見過的超級party
foul.

    LL： Don't keep me in suspense， Li Hua ！ Tell me about this party
foul. What happened ？

    LH：有個客人踩在了新娘的婚紗上，把婚紗撕掉了一大塊。所有人都傻了，
大廳里鴉雀無聲。

    LL： Yikes！ That really is a major party foul. What happened then？

    LH：新郎和新娘處理得很好，他們知道那個客人一定很難堪，所以馬上開了
個玩笑，幫他解圍。

    LL： I think the most embarrassing party foul I committed was the
time I went to a party in a suit.

    LH：穿西裝去參加派對有什么不對嗎？

    LL： Well ， I received an invitation to a very fancy New Year's Eve
party once from my boss. I didn't read the invitation very closely though.

    LH： Uh-oh. 你犯了什么不可饒恕的 party foul 嗎？

    LL： Well ， when I showed up at the party and all the men were wearing
tuxedos ， I knew I had committed a party foul.

    LH：別人都穿正式的燕尾服，只有你一個人穿西裝，肯定特尷尬吧？哎，時
間不早了，咱們是不是該走了？

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    LL： This has been a nice party ， but you are right， Li Hua. We
really should split.

    LH： We need to split. Split不是把東西劈成兩半的意思嗎？

    LL： It is， but split S-P-L-I-T is also a slang term meaning to leave
a place - and sometimes to leave a place quickly.

    LH：噢，原來是馬上離開的意思。我前天晚上看了一個老的西部片，有個匪
徒殺人后就說他要 split town ，逃出城。

    LL： That's a good example， Li Hua. That meant he had to get out
of town quickly ， before the police figured out he had committed the
crime.

    LH：好吧，Larry ，我準(zhǔn)備好了，Let's split ！我們走吧。

    LL： That's a perfect use of "split"， Li Hua ！ But before we split，
we really should go find Sam and thank him for a fun evening.

    LH：對啊，不跟主人打招呼就走，別人會覺得我們沒禮貌的。

    LL： You're right ， Li Hua. Oh ， there is Sam over there. I'm going
to go over and tell him we are going to split.

    LH：等等，Larry.你看，還有這么多人呢，我們不會走得太早了吧？

    LL： No ， I don't think it is too early for us to split. We've been
here a couple of hours already. Plus， Sam will understand. He knows I
have to work tomorrow - and that you have to teach classes.

    LH：那好，我在這兒等你。

    （Party sounds and music）

    LL： There. I told Sam we were going to split ， and that we had a
great time.

    LH： Sam沒有不高興吧？

    LL： Oh ， no. Not at all. In fact， he said he was glad we came and
hoped we would come again the next time he had a party.

    今天李華學(xué)到了兩個常用語。一個是party foul，是在part上出丑的意思。
另一個是split ，是趕快走的意思。