Larry 和李華在紐約參加長跑比賽。李華今天要學兩個常用語，eat my dust
和sore loser. LL： It's a good thing you've been training for this race
，Li Hua. But you are still going to eat my dust.

    LH： Eat your dust？ Yuck.吃你的土？這是什么意思啊！

    LL： When someone says "eat my dust ，" they are saying to their competitors
in a race situation that they are confident they are going to win the
race， leaving everyone else far behind.

    LH：贏比賽跟讓別人吃土又有什么關系呢？

    LL： Well ， when you run ， you kick up dust from the road. So ，
if I run very fast and you are behind me， you'll be getting my dust in
your face - and eating my dust.

    LH：噢，我明白了，跑在前面的人掀起的塵土，會落在后面人的臉上，原來
是從這兒來的。不過，Larry ，我為今天的比賽已經訓練兩個多月了，也許你會
eat my dust 呢！

    LL： But I've been running for years， and I've been in many races.
And most of the time， the other runners end up eating my dust.

    LH：那也許你能象環法自行車大賽七連冠阿姆斯特朗一樣，讓其他人都ate
his dust.

    LL： Now that I think about it， Li Hua ， I prefer to think of myself
as the cheetah of the running world. As the fastest animal on land， all
the other animals eat the cheetah's dust.

    LH：你還真自信！大話說出來，可千萬別落在別人后面噢。

    LL： Actually ， Li Hua. I am just joking. I'm not really the cheetah
of the running world. There are so many runners in this race， I am pretty
sure I will be eating someone else's dust.

    LH：輸贏并不重要，重在參與嘛！

    LL： You are right， Li Hua. And since this is a race for charity ，
it doesn't matter if you eat my dust - or I eat yours. In the end ， everybody
wins.

    LH：對呀，比賽收益全都要用來幫助無家可歸的人。Okay， Larry. 準備好，
你要eat my dust 了！

    ******

    LL： Whew ！ That was a great race. Even though I didn't place， I'm
pretty happy about my overall time. I'm just disappointed by the guy who
placed second - what a sore loser ！

    LH： Hmmm ……得第二名的那個人好像特別不高興，又跺腳，又揮拳頭，嘴
里還罵罵咧咧的。你說，這就叫sore loser嗎？

    LL： Yes， He clenched his fists and stomped around ， saying things
that weren't very nice. That is a sore loser！

    LH：在中文里，我們說這種人輸不起。

    LL： But I don't know why he was being such a sore loser， to place
second out of the hundreds of people participating in the race should
be something to celebrate.

    LH：就是啊。我要是得了第二名，一定樂死了。這種輸不起的人，讓所有人
都覺得掃興。

    LL： It's true. Do you remember when you were a kid ， Li Hua - and
you were playing a game ？ If one of the kids started acting like a sore
loser ， the game wasn't so fun anymore.

    LH：我當然記得。小孩子都不愿意輸。我有個外甥，一輸就哭鼻子。

    LL： Yeah ， but most people grow up and become adults - and grow
out of being sore losers.

    LH：但是有的人就是長不大，我就見過很多sore loser.

    LL： That is true. I'm trying really hard not to be a sore loser myself.

    LH：你怎么會是sore loser呢？

    LL： Well ， I am kind of embarrassed that you beat me in the race，
Li Hua. Especially since I told you that you were going to eat my dust.
But I am not going to be a sore loser - I'm proud of you and how well
you did in the race.

    LH：噢，原來是因為這個。謝謝你，Larry ，我確實花了很多時間為這次比
賽做準備。

    LL： Say， maybe we should celebrate the outcome by racing over to
the ice cream store for an ice cream cone ！

    LH：好啊！但是你肯定會eat my dust ，你知道我一見冰激凌就沒命了。

    今天李華學到了兩個常用語。一個是eat my dust ，是輸給我的意思。另一
個是sore loser，是指輸不起的人。