Brett: Hey, Shawn, how are classes going?

布莱特：嗨，肖恩，课上的怎么样?

Shawn: Well, it's exam time right now, and you know what, I really think I'm going to fail this one class.

肖恩：现在是考试季，我想我这门课可能会不及格。

Brett: Why is that?

布莱特：为什么?

Shawn: Well, it's not any of my fault. It's actually, I think that the teacher doesn't like me.

肖恩：并不是我的错。实际上，我认为老师不喜欢我。

Brett: He doesn't like you. What do you mean?

布莱特：他不喜欢你。你这么说什么意思?

Shawn: It's kind of strange, I mean, I go up and I ask him and he disagrees with me and but he actually takes personal offense to what I say.

肖恩：我觉得有点奇怪，我去问他问题，他不同意我的观点，而且认为我说的话冒犯了他。

Brett: Personal offense.

布莱特：受到冒犯。

Shawn: Which is funny, right.

肖恩：这很好笑。

Brett: What do you mean?

布莱特：什么意思：

Shawn: Like, I'll give you an example. I went up because I didn't get a question on my homework right, and I asked him why I didn't get any marks for it, and the question in the book, asked you for your own opinion, so I did write my own opinion, but when I went up to talk to him about the question he said that what I had written wasn't in the book so I got no points for it.

肖恩：我举个例子吧。我去找他是因为我对我的作业有疑问，我问他为什么没有给我的作业判分，书上的作业是让发表个人观点，我就写下了我的个人观点，可是我和他谈论这个问题的时候，他说我写的内容课本上没有，所以我就没有分数。

Brett: So what's the point of asking for your own opinion?

布莱特：那为什么还让你们谈个人观点?

Shawn: See, that's the funny part. I don't know. What about you? How are your classes going?

肖恩：这就是好笑的地方。我也不知道。你呢?你的课怎么样了?

Brett: My classes are going OK. Right now I'm really just working on my thesis, and it's taking me a long time to gather all the materials, resources, and go through all the readings, but it's going OK, I think.

布莱特：我的课很顺利。现在我正在写论文，把所有材料和素材整合在一起、浏览所有材料花了我很长时间，不过我想现在一切顺利。

Shawn: How many pages do you have to write for your thesis?

肖恩：你们要求论文写多少页?

Brett: I probably have to write about twenty pages, or so, and I have to survey about a thousand people and it's taking me a lot of time to analyze all that data.

布莱特：我可能要写20页吧，大概是这样，我要对1000个人进行调查，所以我花了大量时间进行数据分析。

Shawn: Twenty pages, that's not, is that double space or single space?

肖恩：20页，你是用两倍行距还是单倍行距?

Brett: That's double space.

布莱特：两倍行距。

Shawn: So that's not that much.

肖恩：哦，那就不是太多了。

Brett: Yeah, it's about 10,000 words, or so.

布莱特：对啊，大概1万字左右吧。

Shawn: Well, I hope you do well and good luck to your research.

肖恩：嗯，我希望你顺利，祝你研究顺利。

Brett: Thank you.

布莱特：谢谢你。