美國(guó)之音之流行美語(yǔ)Lesson 112 - flab / ripped
李華在學(xué)校體育館里碰到Larry，今天李華會(huì)學(xué)到兩個(gè)常用語(yǔ): flab和ripped.
(Ambience sound in a busy gym)
LH: 哇！Larry! 你怎么滿頭大汗的？你在做什么??？
LL: I've been out running. I'm trying to burn all this flab on my stomach!
LH: 噢！原來你剛才是去跑步啦，怪不得一身都是汗。哎，你還說你是要燃燒掉什么？哎！該不是要靠鍛煉來去掉你身上多余的脂肪吧？
LL: That's right! Flab means fat, especially loose fat that hangs off the body.
LH: 原來flab就是脂肪的意思，特別是指身上那些鼓出來的肥肉。哎呀，其實(shí)我不覺得你胖??！你現(xiàn)在比我剛認(rèn)識(shí)你的時(shí)候要瘦多了！
LL: Sure, I might be thinner, but I still have more flab than I need. I want to look good when I visit the beach next spring.
LH: 原來你是為了明年春天到海灘去玩的時(shí)候身材看起來更漂亮？你既年輕又健康，只要少吃一點(diǎn)，多余的脂肪就會(huì)消失的。
LL: It's never that easy. A lot of westerners are like me, they grow flab very easily. If I don't exercise, the flab won't go away.
LH: 西方人好象是很容易發(fā)胖，一旦胖了就很難瘦下去。如果不運(yùn)動(dòng)，肥肉就不會(huì)消失？我倒不認(rèn)為所有的西方人都像這樣。
LL: Well, no, of course not. For instance, my friend Pete eats like a pig, but there isn't an ounce of flab on his body. It's amazing.
LH: 噢！你那個(gè)朋友Pete??！他真的是很能吃，可是還那么瘦。我猜有些人就是不容易發(fā)胖。一般來說，我也不太會(huì)發(fā)胖！不過最近我發(fā)現(xiàn)我的手臂好像越來越粗了....
LL: Really? Maybe you'd better join me next time I go running. You don't want that flab to get worse, do you?
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LH: 對(duì)了！Larry, 你怎么突然間決定要開始運(yùn)動(dòng)了呢？噢！該不是.......有新女朋友了？
LL: Pfft... I wish! It's just that last month when I was in Florida, I saw a lot of ripped guys on the beach there. I felt like a real loser after seeing them.
LH: 你上個(gè)月到佛羅里達(dá)去玩，看到海灘上好多ripped guys。什么是ripped guys? 這些人讓你覺得自己很失敗，那是為什么呀？
LL: If someone is ripped, it means that they are very strong, and have lots of muscle definition. You can see their muscles clearly.
LH: 啊，ripped原來是指那些身體很強(qiáng)壯、肌肉很發(fā)達(dá)的人，就像那些健美先生，或者是奧林匹克運(yùn)動(dòng)會(huì)的那些短跑選手嘛！
LL: That's right. Sprinters usually are pretty ripped - too much flab would slow them down.
LH: 沒錯(cuò)，短跑運(yùn)動(dòng)員身上有太多脂肪，那怎么跑得快呢！對(duì)了！Larry，你大概要花多長(zhǎng)時(shí)間才可以鍛煉成像你在海灘上看到的那些身材健美的人呢？
LL: Oh, I don't know. I don't really care if I'm ripped or not. I just want to lose some flab so that I can go to the beach without being laughed at.
LH: 我同意你的想法，不管健美不健美，只要把多余的肥肉去掉，到海灘去不給人笑就好了。其實(shí)，對(duì)大多數(shù)女人來說，健美倒不一定是她們心目中理想的男人的主要條件！
LL: Really? So you're saying women don't really care if a guy is strong and ripped?
LH: 是呀！至少我是這么想的。當(dāng)然太胖，flab太多也不行。
今天李華從Larry那兒學(xué)到了兩個(gè)常用語(yǔ)。一個(gè)是flab, 是指身上股出來的脂肪肥肉。另一個(gè)常用語(yǔ)是ripped，形容人身材健美、肌肉強(qiáng)壯。
