第一、迷你对话

A: I met Mark yesterday. He looked blue.

我昨天遇到马克，他看起来很忧郁。

B: He’s been on the gravy train these years, hasn’t he?

这几年他一直在做很挣钱的工作呀，不是吗?

A: It belongs to the past. He lost his job the other day, and he’s up a tree now.

那是过去的事情了，前几天他失业了，他现在正处于困难中。

B: It seems that nobody can always expect things to pan out well each time.

看来每个人都期望自己总是一帆风顺呀。