今天Larry 和李華花了大半天時(shí)間在購(gòu)物中心里，采購(gòu)圣誕禮物。今天李華
會(huì)學(xué)到兩個(gè)常用語(yǔ)：to be beat和to O.D. on something.

    LL： The mall was so crowded！ I'm totally beat from fighting the
crowds all day long. LH ：就是啊！我從來(lái)沒(méi)有看過(guò)這么多人一塊兒逛街。哎，
Larry ，你剛才說(shuō)I'm beat，是不是說(shuō)我們擠在人群里的時(shí)候，有人打你啊？

    LL： No ， nobody hit me. The expression "I'm beat" means ， "I'm
exhausted." LH：噢，原來(lái)I'm beat，不是打的意思，而是累壞了。其實(shí)，我也
好累。你想想我們?cè)谶@兒花了6 個(gè)小時(shí)耶，怎么可能不累。

    LL： It would only have taken two hours at most if we didn't have
to spend so much time waiting in line to pay for things. I bet the sales
people are really beat by the end of the day. LH：你說(shuō)的沒(méi)錯(cuò)，光是付錢(qián)，
我們就花了很多時(shí)間排隊(duì)。我看那些售貨員一天下來(lái)肯定累壞了。

    LL： Well ， I'm glad I don't work in a store. I'm so beat that I
think I'm going to go to bed very early tonight. What about you ？

    LH：我也累死了，今晚可能也得早點(diǎn)睡。嘿！Larry ，如果我逛街逛累了，
是不是能說(shuō)shopping beat me？

    LL： No ， you can only say ， "I'm beat from shopping." LH ：噢，
這么說(shuō)，下星期我要準(zhǔn)備期末考試，我應(yīng)該說(shuō)：Next week ， I'll be beat from
studying for my final exams.

    LL： Please ， don't mention exams. I'm beat just thinking about studying
for them. LH：哎，Larry ，你也別這么想嘛！準(zhǔn)備的時(shí)候是很累，可是考試考
的得好，不也是很高興的事嘛！

    LL： That's true. I hope my family members appreciate the effort I
put into finding their Christmas presents. LH ：你花了那么大功夫買(mǎi)來(lái)的
禮物，你家人一定會(huì)喜歡的。唉！我們倆都累了，還是回家吧。明天見(jiàn)咯！

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    LH：嘿， Larry，你好一點(diǎn)了嗎？還是你仍然覺(jué)得累呢？

    LL： I'm afraid I'm not feeling much better. I caught a cold and then
I O.D.ed on cold medicine. Now， I feel really tired and spacey.

    LH：什么，你感冒啦？你還說(shuō)你O.D.了一些感冒藥。那是什么意思？嚴(yán)不嚴(yán)
重啊？

    LL： "To O.D. on something" is short for "to overdose on something."

    LH： O.D. 就是服藥過(guò)量啊？那不是很危險(xiǎn)嗎？你是不是該去醫(yī)院檢查一下
啊？

    LL： No ， don't worry. Usually ， O.D.ing on medicine or drugs is
very serious， but I probably took a little bit too much cold medicine，
not enough to hurt me.

    LH： Oh ，那就好！你剛才真把我嚇一跳。其實(shí)我也不太舒服。我看了好幾
個(gè)小時(shí)的書(shū)，現(xiàn)在頭好疼呢！

    LL： Hey， please don't mention exams and studying. I don't even want
to think about exams now that I have a cold ！

    LH：好啦！我不再提念書(shū)和考試了嘛！Larry ，也許你應(yīng)該少吃些感冒藥，
多多睡覺(jué)。這樣或許會(huì)感覺(jué)好一些。

    LL： I think O.D.ing on some more sleep is a good advice， it's probably
the only way I'm going to get through exams with a cold.

    LH：那好，如果你想多睡覺(jué)多休息，我可要多叫點(diǎn)比薩來(lái)吃，我快餓壞了！

    LL： I wouldn't mind having some pizza， too. Order enough for both
of us.

    LH： Larry，如果你還能感覺(jué)肚子餓，那你肯定沒(méi)有病的太嚴(yán)重啦！

    今天李華學(xué)到兩個(gè)常用語(yǔ)，第一個(gè)是to be beat，意思是因?yàn)樽瞿臣�事而�?br /> 壞了，就是to be beat from something.第二個(gè)常用語(yǔ)是to O.D. on something，
意思是對(duì)某個(gè)東西服用過(guò)量。