第28課:Talking About A Party

一、生活場景學習

Talking About A Party
Sara: “Hey – you feeling OK?”
Dan: “Ugh. I’m hung over.“
Sara: “On a Tuesday morning? Seriously?”
Dan: “You know my brother – the one who’s a bit of a party animal? Well, he’s gonna spend a semester in Australia, and he left this morning – so we had a send-off for him last night.”
Sara: “Must have been one hell of a party.”
Dan: “We went to Dino’s on 52nd Street.”
Sara: “Was it any good? I went there once, and it was sorta dead. Plus I thought the $20 cover charge was pretty steep.”
Dan: “I guess they have a new DJ or something – the place was packed. My brother ordered round after round of shots – said drinks were on him – we musta run up a $200 tab.”
Sara: “Hope you had a designated driver.”
Dan: “Oh, we took a cab home after getting kicked out of the club.”
Sara: “What?! How’d that happen?”
Dan: “So… my brother’s girlfriend couldn’t make it, and he started chatting up this blonde chick. Well, there was some other guy who was also hitting on her, and he threw a punch at my brother. Things kinda got outta hand, and the bouncer came and threw us all out.”
Sara: “Uh… sounds like… fun. Was your brother hurt?”
Dan: “Nah. He was so wasted, he thought the whole thing was hilarious.”

1) Are you feeling okay? = You feeling ok?
2) I’m hung over = I have a hangover.
3) Party animal
4) Have a send-off for someone
5) Was it any good?
6) Cover charge
7) Steep/packed
8) Designated driver
9) Make it
10) Chat up someone = hit on someone
11) Wasted
12) Gonna/sorta/kicked out of= kicked outta

二、美劇學習（慾望都市29集）（時間：11:18）

1. Lady, you’ve got it going on!

1) 臺詞：
Lady, you’ve got it going on!

2) got it going on = a pretty female with a nice shape
例句：girl u got it going on.你好有魅力啊！

Get用法小總結：
1) get out- leave or move. I don't want you here. Get out of my way!
2) get over (something)- stop thinking about something. I can't get over how hard that test was.
3) get away with (something)- do something wrong without punishment. The bank robbers got away with robbing the bank. The police never found them.
4) get on with (something)- continue with something. Listen everyone, it's time to stop talking and get on with our class.
5) get around to (something)- finally do something. I finally got around to doing my homework. I didn't do it for several days.
6) get along with- be friendly with. My neighbor and I get along very well. We talk everyday.
7) get by- have enough to survive. I have enough money to get by until next week.
8) get down to- become serious about. Dinner is finished and now it's time to get down to business.

美劇學習（慾望都市29集）（時間：14:24）

guys! I just got back from the market. Fresh corn and seafood for dinner. Except Carrie, your groupie can’t stay, I only got enough for the four of us.
1) 臺詞：
Hey guys! I just got back from the market. Fresh corn and seafood for dinner. Except Carrie, your groupie can’t stay, I only got enough for the four of us.

1) 逐一慢速發音（見語音）
2) 重讀：（見語音）

2) just got back from 從…剛回來
例句：I just got back from seeing Peter. 我剛見完Peter回來。
例句：I just got back from NYC. 我剛從紐約回來。

搭配：got back from doing sth or got back for + 地點

3) groupie 狂熱得小粉絲
例句：Laura is such a groupie for Justin Bieber.

美劇學習（慾望都市29集）（時間：17:39）

lotte prepared to launch a full-out war.

1) 臺詞：
Charlotte prepared to launch a full-out war.
1) 慢讀（見語音）
2) 斷句（見語音）

2) prepare oneself for something爲自己做好準備
例句：If you just graduate from college, generally speaking you won’t make a lot of money. But you don’t need to worry about that, because if you prepare yourself well for future opportunities, when your opportunities come, you can make a killing. Like When I was in my early twenties, I made like 10k a month, but I earn like 100 times more a month now.

例句：I’m preparing myself to be a father, reading all the parenting books, attending many lectures about how to raise a baby properly and stuff.

3) Prepare (myself) to do sth

三、生活表達＋習語俚語

1. slurp 吸
例句：Don't slurp the soup, please.

Up = be brave enough to deal with a difficult situation
例：I know the job is tough, but you have to man up and get the job done.

3. Thin Line Between = there is only a small difference between __&__
例句：There is a thin line between being a genius and a crazy person.