英語趣味課堂：清潔 Cleaning
Adrienne: Thoroughly, I would say I clean once a week.
Todd: So, do you consider yourself a clean person?
Adrienne: I consider myself an organized person.
Todd: OK. So, in your house what is the one room you hate cleaning?
Adrienne: Probably the bathroom, which includes the shower, the sink, toilet. (Yeah) All together.
Todd: Yeah, so, why?
Adrienne: I just think it's the grossest part of the house. It always seems to accumulate the most dirt and grime (Yeah) pretty disgusting.
Todd: Yeah, it's hard to get the stuff off the tiles. (Right) You got to scrub and scrub and it's still brown or green or whatever color it is.
Adrienne: Exactly. It's just a difficult place to get into to clean, and there's lots of small spaces to get into and.
Todd: Yeah! In Japan it's weird because they have these little portable bathrooms, you know, they're all plastic so,
Adrienne: It's easy. You just take the sprayer and spray the whole room.
Todd: Yeah! I'm convinced that they drop those bathrooms in a, with a helicopter. They just drop them right in there. You got everything, you know.
Adrienne: Easy! Convenient! Efficient!
Todd: What about laundry?
Adrienne: I don't like really doing any type of manual labor, but I don't mind doing laundry from time to time.
Todd: Yeah, I like laundry actually. I like the smell of the clothes when you finish.
Adrienne: Yeah, that's a good part of it, but I don't like to actually to do the work, washing!
Todd: Yeah, actually, I like to clean. That's why I have this question. (Mm) I'm a clean freak. Like, I like washing dishes. I like doing laundry. Yeah!
Adrienne: Yeah, that's not fun for me. (No!) I'd rather sleep given the choice.
Todd: Like you can pay me and I'll clean your apartment.
Adrienne: Oh, sounds good. Perfect!
Todd: How much? How much would you pay me?
Adrienne: Um, see, going rate for a maid these day, Todd?
Todd: Maid! That's a sexist comment!
Adrienne: It is a sexist comment! But it is, the going rate for a maid,
Todd: Male cleaning attendant!
Adrienne: I don't think that's what they're called. They'd still call them a maid service. Um, I don't know.I think it's about 15 dollars an hour.
Todd: Ooh! You'd pay me 15 dollars an hour?
Adrienne: No, that's the going rate. That's not what I'll pay you.
Todd: I thought I was going to make some money!
Adrienne: Well, I thought I was going to get a discount.
Todd: This web site's expensive.
Adrienne: Oh, right, right, right!
Todd: So I need the money.
Adrienne: Oh! OK, 15 it is!
Todd: OK, but how dirty is your place?
Adrienne: Pretty, pretty dirty!
Todd: Ah, well, I'll take a look at it.
Adrienne: You'll me working for the money, for sure!
1 thoroughly
adv.完全地，徹底地，十足地
參考例句：
The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下種。
The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵們都系統(tǒng)地接受過保護(hù)武器的訓(xùn)練。
2 weird
adj.古怪的，離奇的;怪誕的，神秘而可怕的
參考例句：
From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.從他不尋常的行為看來，他好像有點(diǎn)怪。
His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳簡直笑死人。
3 labor
n.勞動(dòng)，努力，工作，勞工;分娩;vi.勞動(dòng)，努力，苦干;vt.詳細(xì)分析;麻煩
參考例句：
We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我們從不延誤付給他勞動(dòng)報(bào)酬。
He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艱苦勞動(dòng)兩周后，他已經(jīng)疲憊不堪了。
