今天的这段对话,在讨论奖品,
打电话想要领取中奖的奖品,发现被骗该怎么办
来听今天的讲解:
A: Hello and welcome to The English We Speak. I'm William.
大家好,欢迎收看《我们说英语》。我是威廉。
B: And I'm Yang Li.
我叫杨丽。
A: You look very pleased today Li.
丽,你今天看起来很高兴。
B: Well, I should be. I've just won a prize!
我应该是的。我刚刚中了奖!
A: Wow, great! What did you win?
哇,太棒了!你赢了什么?
B: I don't know yet. I ate this bar of chocolate and it told me to phone a number to find out my prize.
我还不知道。我吃了这块巧克力,它告诉我打个电话号码看看我的奖品。
A: Oh wow, cool. Let's call them.
哦,哇,太酷了。我们给他们打电话吧。
B: OK.
好的。
Welcome to the Choccy Choc Chocolate prize hotline. Please hold to find what amazing prize you've won.
欢迎收看巧克力巧克力奖热线。请稍等,看看你赢得了什么了不起的奖品。
B: Wow, this is exciting!
哇,这太令人兴奋了!
Welcome to the Choccy Choc Chocolate prize hotline. Please hold to find what amazing prize you've won.
欢迎收看巧克力巧克力奖热线。请稍等,看看你赢得了什么了不起的奖品。
A: Hmmm.
嗯。
Welcome to the Choccy Choc Chocolate prize hotline. Please hold to find what amazing prize you've won.
欢迎收看巧克力巧克力奖热线。请稍等,看看你赢得了什么了不起的奖品。
B: It can't be long now...
现在不会太久了......
A: Li, can I see that chocolate wrapper?
丽,我能看看巧克力包装纸吗?
B: OK. What does it say?
好的。上面写着什么?
A: It says "Calls to this line are charged at 20 a minute"!
上面写着“打这条线的电话每分钟收费20英镑”!
B: What?! No way! Well, shall we hang up?
什么不可能!好吧,我们挂断电话好吗?
A: I should think so! What a swizz.
我应该这么想!这是欺骗。
Hangs up
挂断
B: A swizz?
嗖嗖的一声?
A: Yes, a swizz. A swizz is a scheme that tricks people to make money. Like this company is making you call an expensive phone line – it's a swizz.
是的,嗖嗖。嗖嗖是一种欺骗人们赚钱的计划。就像这家公司让你打一条昂贵的电话线一样——这是一种嗖嗖声。
B: I see.
我明白了。
A: We might say "What a swizz", or "That's a bit of a swizz".
我们可能会说“多么嗖嗖”,或者“有点嗖嗖的”。
B: So, how do we spell this word, swizz?
那么,我们怎么拼写这个词,swizz?
A: Well you know, I'm not too sure. I've seen it spelled S.W.I.Z.Z. but I've also seen S.W.I.Z.
你知道,我不太确定。我见过它拼写为S.W.I.Z.Z,但我也见过S.W.I.Z。
B: You mean you don't know how to spell it? But this is BBC Learning English! We should know how to spell it. What a swizz!
你是说你不知道怎么拼写?但这是BBC学习英语!我们应该知道怎么拼写。多么时髦!
A: Ha ha. Yeah, I'm sorry! But that's just the way English is sometimes, it's always changing! At least you know -Phone rings.
哈哈。是的,对不起!但有时候英语就是这样,它总是在变化!至少你知道-电话铃声。
B: Oh! Hello?
哦喂?
C: Hello, is that Yang Li?
你好,是杨丽吗?
B: Yes.
是的。
C: We have a missed call from you. Just ringing to say you've won a prize!
我们接到你的未接来电。只是打电话说你中奖了!
B: Wow, what is it?
哇,这是什么?
C: You need to ring this number to find out. 0800 23 4…
你需要打这个号码才能知道。0800 23 4…
B: Ha! What a swizz. Bye.
哈!好哇,再见。
A: Bye.
再见。