Larry和李华刚刚考试完毕。李华告诉Larry，她考得很不好。今天李华会学到两个常用语：Kiss something goodbye和Lose one s cool。 LH: Larry! 今天的考试真难，我连三分之一都没做完。 LL: What? That s not good. I guess you have to kiss your “A” in that class goodbye. LH: 你在瞎说八道什么呀？ 我现在很不高兴，还要和谁亲嘴？ LL: No, no, Li Hua, that s not what I said! I said “You have to kiss your ‘A’ goodbye". Kiss something goodbye indicates one accepts he or she won t or can t have something. LH: 噢，我明白了，kiss something goodbye在这里不是指和谁接吻告别，而是指一个人知道不会得到他要得东西了。你是说，我这门课考试没考好，所以就得不到A了。 LL: That s right! Li Hua, did you ever have to kiss something goodbye before? LH: 我有没有遇到过这种情况呀？我想想...对了。 上次我把手套忘在出租车里了。所以，这手套就再也没有了。I have to kiss my gloves goodbye! 这意思对不对？ LL: That s right. But when your bike was stolen last week, I bet you thought you would have to kiss that goodbye. LH: 没错，我真以为那自行车被偷了，从此就没了。没想到警察帮我把它找了回来， 我就不必跟自行车“kiss goodbye”。 LL: And when you left China, you had to kiss your mother s good Chinese cooking goodbye. LH: 是啊，很久都没有吃到我妈妈烧的菜了，有的时候真想家。Larry，我毕业以后可能会离开纽约到一个小城市去工作，那我就吃不到纽约许多不同的风味小吃了。 LL: I m staying here in New York. So if that s your plan, you ll also have to kiss interesting conversations with me goodbye. LH: 是呀，我要是真的离开纽约， 我就不能跟你经常聊天了。不过，我们可以打电话啊。 我要收藏 LL: That s right. Well, anyway, it s too bad about that test. I guess you will have to kiss your “A” goodbye. LH: Kiss my“A” goodbye，我可真不甘心。我得找教授谈一谈。 ****** LH: 这就是教授的办公室。 LL: Sure is. OK, Li Hua, when you go into the professor s office to talk about that test, remember, don t lose your cool! LH: Don t lose your cool! 这是什么意思？难道我会丢失什么吗？ LL: I said “don t lose your cool”. Don t lose your cool means stay calm, don t get angry. LH: 噢，don t lose your cool是要我冷静， 不要生气发火。 Larry， 前天我们开车明明没有超速，可是警察拦住我们， 我当时差一点要发火，可是没有"lost my cool"? LL: No, you didn t lose your cool, you were calm. One time I lost my cool with a bus driver because he didn t stop the bus at my stop. LH：你跟司机发脾气， 当然不会有好结果。 LL: Yep. I had to wait for the next stop and walk back. If I hadn t lost my cool and had nicely asked him to stop, I wouldn t have had to walk so far. LH: 你看，和司机法脾气没好处。你得等下一站才能下车，再往回走。看来你要冷静地和他商量，keep your cool，他没准就停下来了。 LL: That s true. I heard more people lose their cool in the evening than in the morning, when they are fresh. LH: 那是可以想象的。人工作了一天累了就容易发火。早上人很清醒，情绪就比较平静。好了， 闲话少说，我得进去找教授了。 LL: Remember, when you go in there you don t want to lose your cool, or you can say, you want to KEEP YOUR COOL. Lose your cool and keep your cool are opposites. LH: 知道了，lose your cool就是失去冷静；keep your cool就是保持冷静。总之，遇事一定要冷静就是了。 LL: That s for sure. I ll wait out here. See you in a few minutes. 今天李华学到了两个常用语。一个是kiss something goodbye, 意思是失去、损失。李华学到的另一个常用语是lose one s cool意思是变得不冷静， 或是说keep one s cool这是保持冷静的意思。