美語會(huì)話 235 superstitious crap迷信的鬼東西

Jess: Did you get Bean's ten different good luck forwards, like that one from the Dalai Lama?

James:Yeah, I deleted all that superstitious crap. What a waste of bandwidth!

Jess: I figured I might as well send one or two of them out. Maybe my luck will get better.

James:Do you really think the Dalai Lama sent that? I'm tired of all these forwards.

Jess: It's worth a shot. Maybe we'll get some luck in thinking up something for this case.

forward (v.,n.)

轉(zhuǎn)寄的電子郵件;轉(zhuǎn)寄。good luck e-mail是俗稱的「幸運(yùn)信」，good luck forward是「別人轉(zhuǎn)寄來的幸運(yùn)信」

A: Did you hear about tonight's meeting?

你知道今晚要開會(huì)嗎?

B Yes, I got your forward, thanks.

知道，我有收到你轉(zhuǎn)寄的信，謝謝。

delete (v.)

刪除

I'm deleting all my e-mail.

我刪掉了我全部的電子郵件。

superstitious (a.)

迷信的

A: Why are houses near cemeteries so cheap?

為什么在墓地旁的房子這么便宜?

B: Because Taiwanese are superstitious and afraid of being near dead people.

因?yàn)榕_(tái)灣人很迷信，又怕接近死人。

crap (n.)

胡言亂語

Pop music is mostly crap.

流行音樂幾乎都是在鬼扯。

bandwidth (n.)

(網(wǎng)絡(luò))頻寬

Video transmissions take up to much bandwidth.

影片的傳送會(huì)花去很多頻寬。

might as well...

或許該…比較好

I might as well quit my job and join the circus.

我可能會(huì)辭掉我的工作，加入這個(gè)馬戲團(tuán)。

It's worth a shot.

值得一試。

It's worth a shot. What do I have to lose?

這值得一試。我必須失去什么?

think up

想出

I still haven't thought up a solution to this problem.

我還沒有想出這問題的解答。

潔　絲：你有收到炳轉(zhuǎn)寄來的十封不同的幸運(yùn)信嗎?好比那封出自達(dá)賴?yán)锏摹?/p>

詹姆士：有啊，我把那堆迷信的鬼東西全砍光了。這真是太浪費(fèi)頻寬了!

潔　絲：我覺得還是轉(zhuǎn)寄個(gè)一兩封比較好。說不定我的運(yùn)氣會(huì)好一點(diǎn)。

詹姆士：你真的以為這是達(dá)賴?yán)锛牡膯?我已經(jīng)受夠這些轉(zhuǎn)寄信了。

潔　絲：值得一試嘛?；蛟S我們?cè)诎l(fā)想這個(gè)案子時(shí)，可以得到一些好運(yùn)喔