賴世雄英語書信通Unit 65：再告訴友人寄宿生活近況函

September 10, 2005

Dear Yulin,

Sorry that it’s taken me awhile to write you back. I’ve been busy. I found an apartment last week. I’m sharing it with another Taiwanese student, a friend of my cousin’s. There are quite a few other Taiwanese students here, and even a Taiwanese student organization, which I’ve joined. To answer your third question, my roommate and I usually cook at home. We usually eat Chinese food (yes, you can buy it here), but sometimes we try to make Western dishes or go out to eat.

Classes have already started, so I have a lot to do. I have trouble understanding the professors’ lectures, so I take a tape recorder to class. This means I have to spend time listening to the tapes. I hope my English improves quickly so I won’t have to do this anymore. You may think my English is better than yours, but I don’t. In any case, mine still isn’t good enough!

How are things in Taiwan?

Sincerely,

Julie Chen

親愛的玉琳：

抱歉過了這么久才回你的信。我太忙了。上星期我找到了一間公寓。我和另一位臺灣學生一起住，她是我表姊的一位朋友。這里有相當多的其它臺灣學生，甚至還有一個臺灣學生組織，我已加入這個組織了?；卮鹉愕牡谌齻€問題，我和室友常在家煮飯。我們通常吃中餐(當然，在這里可買得到)，但有時候，我們也會設法做西餐或到外面吃。

學校已經(jīng)開始上課了，所以我有很多事情要做。我對教授授課內(nèi)容的了解仍有問題，所以我都帶錄音機去上課。這表示我必須花時間去聽錄音帶。希望我的英文能很快進步，那么我就不用再這么做了。你可能認為我的英文比你好，但我卻不這樣想。無論如何，我的英文仍不夠好!

在臺灣一切都好嗎?

陳茱莉　敬上

2005年9月10日

字詞解釋：

1.awhile 一會兒

2.share 共有，分享

share sth with sb 和某人分享某物

例：The little boy didn't want to share his toy with his sister.

3. cousin 堂兄弟

4.quite a few+復數(shù)名詞 相當多的...

quite a little +不可數(shù)名詞 相當多的...

例：Kate has been to quite a few rock concerts.

5.organizaton 組織

6.join 參加

例：Over 30 students have joined the new club.

7.roommate 室友

8.dish 菜肴，食品

9.have trouble in V-ing

=have difficulty (in) v-ing

=have problems (in) v-ing

有...方面的麻煩/問題

例：He's so out of shape that he has trouble climding the stairs to the second floor.

10.Lecture 講課

11.tape recorer 錄影機