李華在幫Larry 打掃他的公寓。李華今天會學到兩個常用語Oodles和chuck.

    LL： Oh ！ I forgot about this closet. Whoa. There are oodles of things
in here I don't need.

    LH： Oodles ？你是說面條，noodles ？

    LL： No ， no. Oodles and noodles may rhyme ， but oodles means lots
of something.

    LH：噢，oodles和noodles 雖然押韻，但是oodles和面條毫無關系。Larry ，
你壁櫥里怎么會有那么多東西呀？看來今天我們要扔很多東西。That means there
will be oodles of things to throw away！

    LL： Yes， like the oodles of old tennis balls I'll never use again.

    LH：不只是網(wǎng)球，還有那么些舊雜志，你怎么會有這么多雜志呢？

    LL： You know ， Li Hua ， those are magazines I have had since I
was a kid. I would love to look through them， but we don't have oodles
of time.

    LH：你小時候的雜志一直保留到現(xiàn)在，難怪這么多。對了，你為什么說我們
沒有很多時間來收拾？我們今天還有別的事嗎？

    LL： Well ， I arranged for a local charity to stop by at 5 ：00 and
pick up the things I don't need. We've got oodles of work to do before
they come ， and time is running out.

    LH：原來你已經(jīng)跟慈善機構約好下午五點鐘來拉東西。你怎么不早說呢？我
們趕快收拾吧。

    LL： The problem is that I want to give them useful things. I know
I have oodles of things to throw away ， but I am not sure I'll have oodles
of things to give to charity.

    LH：別擔心，要我看，你的很多東西慈善機構都有用的。比如這些舊衣服和
餐具，肯定會有人要的。

    LL： Say， are you hungry ？ Why don't we make some lunch ？

    LH：做午飯？做什么呀？你的冰箱都是空的，沒有什么可吃的呀。

    LL： I really need to go to the grocery store ， but I DO have oodles
of noodles.

    LH：你有好多面條，那我們就煮面條吧。

    LL： I'm so glad you came by to help out， Li Hua. You've made cleaning
my apartment oodles of fun！

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    LL： Okay ， now that we've collected everything， I need to decide
what I'm going to give to charity and what I'm going to chuck.

    LH： Chuck？ chuck又是什么意思？

    LL： To chuck something is to throw it out.

    LH： Oh ， chuck就是扔掉。那我們把不要的東西分成兩堆，怎么樣？一堆
捐獻，一堆扔掉。

    LL： Okay ， I am definitely going to chuck these old magazines.

    LH：這些舊雜志一定要扔掉，那這些毛衣呢？ Do you want to chuck these
sweaters？

    LL： No ， I don't want to chuck those. I will give those to charity.

    LH：你一下子扔掉這么多東西，以后不會后悔嗎？要是你改變了主意怎么辦？

    LL： I don't think I'll change my mind， Li Hua. Most of the things
I am chucking ， I haven't used in months.

    LH：我想那些你好久沒有用過的東西，扔了你也不會再想到它們。

    LL： It just feels good to chuck a bunch of stuff you don't need.
My apartment will be neater after we are done ， and I'll have more room.

    LH：沒錯，東西扔了以后房間也會整齊一些，地方也會顯得大一些Larry ，
這個炒菜鍋也要扔掉嗎？

    LL： Well ， the handle came off， and I bought another one. So ，
I just thought I'd chuck it. Since the pan is broken， I didn't want to
give it to charity.

    LH：鍋子的把手掉了？讓我看看。Larry ，我喜歡這個炒菜鍋。把它扔了還
不如給我算了。我可以修理。

    LL： Li Hua. I'd be happy if you got some use out of it. Giving the
pan to a friend is much better than just chucking it in the trash can.

    LH：謝謝你， Larry. 你沒聽說嗎？一個人的垃圾是另一個人的寶貝："One
man's trash is another man's treasure."

    今天李華學到了兩個常用語。一個是oodles，意思是很多。還有一個是chuck，
意思是扔掉。