<p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Instruction</b></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:22px;">Neil and Georgie have a real conversation in easy English about naps, the short sleeps people sometimes have during the day, learn to talk about </span><b style="font-size:22px;">yawning</b><span style="font-size:22px;">, be sleepy and </span><b style="font-size:22px;">snoozing</b><span style="font-size:22px;">.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:22px;"> 尼爾和喬治用簡單的英語進(jìn)行了一次真實的對話,內(nèi)容是關(guān)于午睡,也就是人們有時在白天進(jìn)行的短暫睡眠,學(xué)習(xí)如何談?wù)摯蚬?、昏昏欲睡和困倦?lt;/span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Hello and welcome to another episode of real easy English, our podcast where we have real conversations in easy English to help you learn, I'm Neil.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:22px;"> 歡迎收看新一期的《Real easy English》,在我們的博客中,我們會用簡單的英語進(jìn)行真實的對話,來幫助你學(xué)習(xí)。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: And I'm Georgie, you can watch this video with subtitles on our website where you'll also find a worksheet to test what you've learned with BBClearningEnglish.com….</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:22px;"> 你可以在我們的網(wǎng)站上觀看帶字幕的視頻,網(wǎng)站上還有一份練習(xí)單,可以測試你的學(xué)習(xí)效果。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Hi Georgie, how are you?</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: I'm good thank you, how are you?</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: I'm kind of tired today.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: So, you're tired well, today we are talking about naps, maybe you can have a little nap in the office latter, and a nap is when you have a short sleep in the daytime, so Neil, do you usually nap?</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:22px;"> 那么,你累了?嗯,今天我們要聊的是午睡也許你待會可以在辦公室小睡一會兒,午睡就是指在白天小睡一會兒,那么,尼爾,你通常會午睡嗎?</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Err…no, I don't, I'm not very good at having naps, I find it difficult to get to sleep in the day and if I do have a nap </span><b style="font-size:22px;">afterwards</b><span style="font-size:22px;"> I feel really bad.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:22px;"> …我不擅長午睡,我發(fā)現(xiàn)在白天很難入睡,而且如果我真的睡了午覺,醒來后會感覺非常糟糕。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Hmm,yeah, me too, the only time I will ever have a nap is if I've got up really really early for example, if I've got up early for a flight like 4 am then I might have a nap in afternoon but I really avoid naps because like you when I wake up I feel worse, I never feel better after a nap, so I don't understand people that nap all the time .</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:22px;"> …我唯一會午睡的情況就是,如果我起的非常早,…如果我為了趕飛機而早起,比如凌晨4點,那我下午可能會小睡一會兒,但我真的會盡量避免午睡,因為和你一樣,我醒來后會感覺更糟,我午睡后從來不會感覺好一些,所以我不理解那些用在午睡的人。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Hmm, my wife is an expert at napping.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:22px;"> …我妻子是午睡專家。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Oh,yeah.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: She can switch herself off and on like a light.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:22px;"> 她就像電燈開關(guān)一樣,說睡就睡,說醒就醒。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Hmm. </span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: I think it's an amazing skill I'm very jealous.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:22px;"> 我覺得這是一項了不起的技能。我非常嫉妒。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Yeah, does she do it often?</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Yeah, she works very early and late sometimes </span><b style="font-size:22px;">shifts</b><span style="font-size:22px;">, so I think if you have that kind of job mapping is really important.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:22px;"> …他上班時間很早,有時候也很晚,要輪班,所以,我覺得如果你做那樣的工作,午睡就真的很重要。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Hmm. I don't nap because it doesn't help me but I really enjoy, I enjoy the </span><b style="font-size:22px;">actual</b><span style="font-size:22px;"> </span><b style="font-size:22px;">process</b><span style="font-size:22px;"> of mapping it's nice to go to sleep isn't it you feel relaxed.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:22px;"> …我很享受午睡的過程本身,能睡著是件很愜意的事…</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: You do, yeah. I don't sleep enough, I don't think and it makes me feel good when I sleep well, but usually I enjoy the evening so much that I don't to go to bed early.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:22px;"> …我的睡眠不足… 而且睡得好的時候我感覺很好,但通常我太享受晚上的時光了,以至于不想早睡。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: So, you don't sleep very much or very well, does that make you tired during the day?</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Often, yes. I feel tired. But it's not as bad as it used to be because my kids are older now. How about you?</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Hmm, yes, I often feel quite energetic in the morning and then I… my </span><b style="font-size:22px;">energy crashes</b><span style="font-size:22px;"> in the afternoon, which is why I often drink coffee once in the morning and once in the afternoon to </span><b style="font-size:22px;">boost</b><span style="font-size:22px;"> my energy. </span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:22px;"> …我早上通常精力充沛,然后我…到了下午經(jīng)精力就會直線下降,所以我常常早上喝一次咖啡,下午再喝一次,來提神。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Hmm, is there anything else you do to feel better-feel less tired?</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:22px;"> …你還做什么別的事來讓自己感覺好點-感覺沒那么累嗎?</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Erm… not at the moment, but I know that when I exercise that helps me feel more energetic which is strange because you'd think that would make you more tired but it often gives people energy, what about you? any tips for feeling less tired?</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:22px;"> 目前沒有,但我知道,運動能幫我感覺更有活力,這跟奇怪,因為你可能會覺得運動會讓你更累,但它往往能給人帶來能量…有什么能讓自己不那么累的訣竅嗎?</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Yeah, I absolutely agree, if you're feeling tired, sometimes a good thing to do is do some exercise or go and get some fresh air, go for a walk and instead of making you feel more tired, it makes you wake up a bit.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><span style="font-size:22px;"> …有時候做些運動是個好辦法,或者出去呼吸點新鮮空氣,出去散散步,它不但不會讓你感覺更累,反而會讓你清醒一些。</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: So, I often feel very energetic in the morning, but then my energy crashes in the afternoon, do you have the same Neil? do you find your energy crashes or going down in the afternoon?</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Yes, sometimes, sometimes in the afternoonI </span><b style="font-size:22px;">yawn</b><span style="font-size:22px;"> a lot.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Mm-hmm. I've seen that…</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: A yawn is when you open your mouth and breath deeply, I'll show people, you go: "Aahh!"</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">:Yes, I've seen you do that in the office, you yawn a lot.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Yeah, sorry. I've seen people, actually in our office snoozing!</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Having a snooze-like having a little nap, I've seen it too.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Yeah, and not because they're lazy, because sometimes people here have to work very late at night or very early in the morning, so they're tired. </span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Yeah.…</span></p> <p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Okay, let's recap the vocabulary we're heard in this programme starting with nap, a nap is a short sleep during the daytime, and that's a noun, but it's also a verb, to nap. </span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: We also heard snooze, which is similar to nap, if you snooze, you sleep lightly for a short time.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: And we heard yawn, a yawn is when you breath in deeply when you're tired, like this: "Aahh!" and I do it a lot.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: We also heard creash, if you energy crashes it falls or goes down, for example, my energy often crashes in the afternoon.…</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: That's it for this episode of real easy English, but we'll back next week with another real conversation in easy English.</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Georgie</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Try the worksheet on our website to test what you've learnt for the BBClearningEnglish.com. And why not try our new easy video series The London Letter Challenge? You can also find it on our website, goodbye for now!</span></p><p class="ql-block"><b style="font-size:22px;">Neil</b><span style="font-size:22px;">: Goodbye!</span></p>