LL：（Laugh ） No ， there aren't any monkeys like the monkeys in
the zoo. Greasemonkey is a slang term for auto mechanic. LH ：你們把汽
車修理工叫g(shù)rease monkey ？真有意思。所以你是說，修車的工人告訴你，車子
在3 點以前會修好。

    LL： Right， but I doubt it will be ready. Every time a grease monkey
tells my car will be ready， he's wrong. LH ：你不相信那修車的人？為什
么每次他們說的時間都是錯的？

    LL： Well ， last time I had my car fixed. The mechanic said it would
be ready the next day. As it turned out ， my car wasn't ready until three
days later. LH：原來上回修車你就受騙過。說好第二天可以取車，結(jié)果拖了三
天才修好。怪不得你不相信他們了。對了，Larry ，我們可以當(dāng)著修車工的面叫
他們grease monkey 嗎？

    LL： Some mechanics wouldn't care ， but others might not like being
called a grease monkey. If I mean it as a joke， it's okay； however，
it can also be used negatively. LH：有些人不在乎，有的人會不高興。這也
是很自然的。要是叫他們grease monkey 是開玩笑的話，我想應(yīng)該不會有什么問
題。

    LL： Yeah ， but it can be an insult. LH：那么到底怎么樣才算是開玩
笑呢？

    LL： Well ， my sister tried to fix her car and got covered in grease.
After that， my father jokingly called her his little grease monkey. LH
：哈哈，你妹妹自己想修車，結(jié)果搞的全身油污，你爸爸叫她my grease monkey.
那你呢？你有沒有自己修過車？

    LL： No ， I'm not very good at fixing cars. I would be a lousygrease
monkey.

    ******

    LH： Larry，你還沒告訴我，為什么你的車要送去修�。�

    LL： I was in a little fenderbenderthe other day and my tail light
needed to be fixed.

    LH：你的車怎么啦？ A fender bender？那是什么東西啊？

    LL： A fender bender is a minor car accident. Usually ， no one is
seriously hurt in a fender bender and the cars are not damaged too badly.

    LH： A fender bender就是小事故。Larry 你撞車?yán)�，怎么都沒有告訴我呢？

    LL： It was just a fender bender， so I didn't think it was important
enough to tell you about.

    LH：小事故也可能會受傷啊。你怎么樣？你沒什么事吧？

    LL： I'm fine. I didn't even get a scratch.

    LH：你沒事就好。對了，你怎么會和別的車擦撞呢？

    LL： The girl in the car behind me was talking on her cell phone and
she wasn't paying attention. She drove into the back of my car.

    LH：一面開車一面打手機真的很危險的。那個從后面撞上你的女孩，如果開
車速度再快一些，你們都有可能受傷呢！

    LL： Fortunately， she wasn't driving very fast ， so it turned out
to be just a minor fender bender.

    今天李華學(xué)到兩個常用語。一個是grease monkey ，是指修理汽車的工人。

    另一個常用語是fender bender ，這是指小車禍，通常沒有人受傷的事故。