A:Hello.

你好

B:Hey,Marco.It's Drew.Are you watching TV now?

嘿，是我Drew.你看電視呢嗎?

A:No why?

沒(méi)有，怎么了?

B:Just turn it on and switch to CCTV channel 9.There's a striking news

趕快打開(kāi)電視，撥到中央九臺(tái)，出大事兒了。

A:What is it?

什么事兒啊?

B:Earthquake

地震

A:In china?

在中國(guó)嗎?

B:No ,in Africa,It's such a serious quake,measured 8.2 on the richter scale.Lots of people died and that includs 8 Chinese

不，在非洲。非常嚴(yán)重的地震。里士8.2級(jí)。死了很多人。還包括8個(gè)中國(guó)人

A:I already knew it.And there're still lots of aftershocks

我已經(jīng)知道這事兒了。還有很多余震呢

B:Yes,that's horrible,You know you may survive the quake.But die in the aftershocks

是的，真可怕。你知道你可能躲過(guò)地震，但可能死于余震。

A:No worries.Drew.That's in Africa,which is really far from China.

別擔(dān)心，Drew.那是非洲。離中國(guó)很遠(yuǎn)呢。

B:Are you sure there're no earthquakes in Beijing?

你肯定北京沒(méi)有地震嗎?

A:So far as I know,there're no so-called earthquakes in the foreseeable future in Beijing

就我目前所知。北京在可預(yù)見(jiàn)未來(lái)沒(méi)有地震。

B:Are you sure?

你肯定?

A:Absolutely.In my 29 years of living in China.I have only experienced one earthquake and that's like 28 years ago,when I was only 1 year old.

完全肯定。我在中國(guó)29年來(lái)只經(jīng)過(guò)一次地震。還是28年以前的事兒。我當(dāng)時(shí)才一歲大。

B:Did anyone die?

死人了嗎?

A:I don't know.I was like a 1-year-old baby,Drew..don't try to make a mountain out of a molehill.

不知道。我才一歲而已。Drew.別大驚小怪的。

B:I do?

我是嗎?

A:You do.China ,esp Beijing is the safest place.There's no such thing as terrorism or earthquakes in here.

是啊。中國(guó)是最安全的地方。這兒沒(méi)有恐怖主義或是地震之類(lèi)的事兒。

B:I guess I'm overworried

我可能是有點(diǎn)兒杞人憂天了。

Attention Please…特別提醒

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[1] It's such a serious quake,measured 8.2 on the richter scale地震總是難以避免。發(fā)生地震時(shí)，只有寄希望于自己不是在震中了[epicenter]

[2] Don't try to make a mountain out of a molehill.別小題大做。Molehill在這里是小土敦兒的意思。

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