DAN在北京學(xué)漢語(yǔ)，他的中國(guó)朋友要是遇到了不知道用美語(yǔ)怎么說(shuō)的詞，就會(huì)來(lái)請(qǐng)教他。今天是吳瓊問(wèn)的：酒后駕車(chē)。

DAN: 吳瓊, 你怎么無(wú)精打采的？

WQ: 別提了！昨天晚上讓警察給抓了！

DAN: What happened? Who did you kill?

WQ: 殺人？DAN你就別損我了，我哪會(huì)殺人，就是酒后駕車(chē)了，在美語(yǔ)里就是driving after drinking 對(duì)么？

DAN: Actually it's called drunk driving. WQ, drunk driving is no trivial matter. You really shouldn't do it.

WQ: 你就別教育我了，我知道錯(cuò)了！其實(shí)我也是第一次酒駕，以前我都很注意的！昨天實(shí)在沒(méi)人開(kāi)車(chē)了，我在一幫人里算喝得最少的了，就想……

DAN: You took a chance and thought you'd get lucky, right?

WQ: 是。我覺(jué)得就這么一次，肯定出不了事，也肯定不會(huì)被抓到，誰(shuí)知道……

DAN: You got pulled over by a cop?

WQ: Pull over?

DAN: Yea. When a cop asks you to stop the car on the side of the road, that's called getting pulled over.

WQ: 明白了，警察 pull someone over，就是示意司機(jī)把車(chē)停靠在路邊。Yes, I got pulled over by a traffic police. 我本來(lái)還想裝作沒(méi)事，結(jié)果人家警察叔叔一下就看出我喝了酒，一點(diǎn)情面也沒(méi)留，罰了我1000塊！

DAN: 1000塊？酒駕罰款不是200么？

WQ: 上禮拜才改的新規(guī)定！都讓我趕上了！

DAN: Sounds like you had a tough break!

WQ: To have a tough break 就是倒霉吧？我的確是夠倒霉的！

DAN: WQ, I'm sorry you had a tough break, but it's no excuse for drunk driving. Next time you go out drinking with a bunch of friends, don't forget to have a designated driver!

WQ: Designate? D-E-S-I-G-N-A-T-E, designate是指定的意思，designated driver就是專(zhuān)門(mén)負(fù)責(zé)開(kāi)車(chē)送朋友們回家的人嘍！

DAN: 沒(méi)錯(cuò)！

WQ: Next time we'll definitely have a designated driver!

DAN: Good idea! Now let's see what you've learned today.

WQ: 酒后駕車(chē)是drunk driving； 警察示意路邊停車(chē)是pull someone over； 倒霉，運(yùn)氣差，是have a tough break； party結(jié)束后專(zhuān)門(mén)負(fù)責(zé)開(kāi)車(chē)送大家回家的人是the designated driver。

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（來(lái)源：VOA英語(yǔ)教學(xué) 編輯：Rosy）