A: So Meg, do you live in a house or an apartment?
梅格,你住在房子里还是公寓里?
B: I live in an apartment near the train station.
我住在临近火车站的公寓里。
A: Oh, you live downtown.
哦,你住在市中心。
B: I do.
没错。
A: Do you like living downtown?
你喜欢生活在市中心?
B: I do like living downtown because it's so convenient. Everything is close by, grocery stores, the mall, the station.
我的确喜欢住在市中心,因为很方便。附近什么都有,有杂货店、有购物中心,还有车站。
A: Oh, that's great. So what about your apartment? Do you have a nice apartment?
哦,那很不错。你的公寓怎么样?你的公寓漂亮吗?
B: It's a nice apartment, but it's really small.
我的公寓很好,不过非常小。
A: Oh yeah? How many rooms?
是吗?有几个房间?
B: Well, there are three rooms. But each room is pretty small. There's a bedroom, a sitting room like a living room, and the kitchen room.
有三个房间。不过每个房间都很小。有一间卧室、一个起居室,还有厨房。
A: Oh, wow. So in your bedroom, like, do you have a big queen size bed, a small bed?
哇哦。你卧室里的床是大床还是小床?
B: I have a small twin size bed or a single bed in the bedroom because it's pretty small. So there's not much space for a big bed.
我卧室里有一张小的单人床,因为卧室很小。没有足够的空间放大床。
A: All right. So do you have a TV in your bedroom?
好。那你卧室里有电视吗?
B: No. Actually, I don't own a TV at all.
没有。我家里没有电视。
A: Really? So there's no TV in the living room, too.
真的吗?所以起居室里也没有电视。
B: There's no TV anywhere in the apartment.
公寓里没有电视。
A: Wow. What do you do in your house?
哇哦。那你在家里时做什么?
B: I have a laptop computer. So usually, I can watch some TV shows or videos on my laptop.
我有一台笔记本电脑。通常我用笔记本电脑看电视节目和视频。
A: All right. Okay. Do you like to watch movies in bed?
好。你喜欢躺在床上看电影吗?
B: Yeah. Sometimes I like to watch movies in bed or sometimes I prefer to sit in the living room and watch movies.
对。有时我喜欢躺在床上看电影,有时我喜欢坐在起居室里看电影。
A: Right. So you must have high-speed Internet.
好。你家的网速一定很快。
B: I do. Yes. I have an Internet box that my laptop can connect to.
对,没错。我有一个笔记本电脑可以连接的上网盒。
A: Okay. Cool. Do you have a nice big sofa?
好,真酷。你有大沙发吗?
B: I have two small sofas. So you can push them together to make one big sofa or you can keep them separate. Usually, I keep them separate because there's more room for people to sit on.
A: Okay. Now, you like to cook. So you must have a nice kitchen.
好。你喜欢烹饪。你一定有个很棒的厨房。
B: Unfortunately, I have a very tiny kitchen.
不幸的是,我的厨房非常小。
A: Oh no. How do you cook?
哦不。那你怎么做饭?
B: I have to use some extra tables to have more space. The counter is really small, so there's not much space. So I have an extra table I use for preparing the food.
我要用其他的桌子来增加空间。厨房的操作台太小了,没有太多空间。所以我在准备食物时要用其他的桌子。
A: Okay. Do you have an oven?
好。你有烤箱吗?
B: I have a very small toaster oven. So it's not really an oven.
我有一个很小的烤箱。其实算不上烤箱。
A: All right. So do you have a microwave?
好。你有微波炉吗?
B: I do have a microwave and a small refrigerator and one burner, like a stove top burner.
我有一个微波炉,一个小冰箱,还有一个煤气灶。
A: Okay. Do you cook every night?
好。你每天晚上都做饭吗?
B: I don't cook every night. Sometimes, I'm too busy. And sometimes because my kitchen is so small, I get a little frustrated. So I just pick up some food from a restaurant.
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