李華剛買了一臺筆記本電腦。她今天要學兩個常用語，bells and Whistles
和savvy.

    LL： So ， you got a new laptop computer， Li Hua ？ Wow！ It has
all the bells and whistles， doesn't it ？

    LH： Bells and whistles ？我怎么沒看見這臺電腦上有什么鈴鐺和哨子啊。

    LL： Oh ， What I meant was that your lap top has a lot of special
features and extras that ordinary lap tops don't have.

    LH：噢，我知道了，你剛才說的bells and whistles是指電腦上的DVD 播放
器和超寬屏幕等額外的功能。

    LL： Yeah ， that is right. Manufacturers like to put lots of bells
and whistles on lap tops to entice people to buy them.

    LH：沒錯，我就是沖著這些bells and whistles才買這臺電腦的。你看，上
面還有無線調制解調器和一個超大儲存量的硬盤呢！

    LL： When I bought a lap top computer last year ， Li Hua ， I did
NOT get one with all the bells and whistles ， and now I kind of regret
it.

    LH：是啊，這些bells and whistles確實要多花點兒錢，可我覺得還是值得
的。

    LL： I suppose I can always add some bells and whistles to my basic
lap top. I would like to have a bigger hard drive.

    LH：我聽說加個硬盤并不難，我覺得你真的可以在你的電腦上加點兒bells
and whistles.

    LL： Although sometimes it is possible to have too many bells and
whistles！

    LH： Bells and whistles 還會嫌太多嗎？

    LL： Well ， I was thinking of the cell phone I bought recently. It
definitely came with all the bells and whistles. So many bells and whistles，
in fact ， I don't even know everything it does ！

    LH：你是說手機啊。我也有同感。現在的手機功能越來越多，很多我都用不
著，也不知道該怎么用。

    LL： But some people really like to have all the bells and whistles.
Like my Dad. The last time he went shopping for a new car ， it had to
have all the bells and whistles.

    LH：車上能有些什么bells and whistles？

    LL： He wanted a car with leather seats that heated themselves and
had a built in global positioning system.

    LH：能加熱的皮座椅，全球定位系統，看來車上也能有不少的bells and whistles.

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    LH： Larry，你能幫我把這些軟件裝到電腦上嗎？

    LL： I am happy to help you load your software on your new lap top，
Li Hua. You know I'm tech savvy.

    LH： Tech Savvy ？我知道tech是technology科技的意思，那savvy 呢？

    LL： Savvy means to understand something very well.

    LH：所以你說自己tech savvy，就是說你對電腦和高科技的東西很在行嘍？

    LL： That's right. I've always been interested in computers ， and
as a result I am fairly tech savvy.

    LH：那太好了。我可一點兒也不tech savvy. 我就知道怎么用電腦寫論文，
發電子郵件，除此之外就一竅不通了。Larry ，除了高科技以外，還有什么東西
可以說savvy 嗎？

    LL： Oh ， sure ， Li Hua. We often say that some one who dresses
well and has good fashion sense is fashion savvy.

    LH：噢，fashion savvy 就是很跟得上服裝的潮流。那我可以說fashion savvy
吧。

    LL： Oh ， you definitely have fashion savvy， Li Hua. You always
dress very stylishly.

    LH：這肯定是我祖母的遺傳。我看過她的照片，穿得可漂亮了。She definitely
had fashion savvy.

    LL： A person can also have street savvy.

    LH： Street savvy ？你是說會認路嗎？或者是有方向感？

    LL： No ， no. A person with street savvy knows how people act in
the city and how to be safe in parts of the city that might be a little
rough.

    LH：噢，street savvy是說街頭的生存能力，特別是能在那些比較亂的街區
不惹麻煩�？磥�，tech savvy和street savvy我都學不來，有fashion savvy 就
行了。

    今天李華學到了兩個常用語。一個是bells and whistles，意思是附加的功
能或是點綴品。另一個是savvy ，是指在什么方面很在行。