"布朗尼加分"口語課堂第6期:瘋狂番茄節
大家好。歡迎走進“布朗尼加分”口語課堂。今天讓我們一起到西班牙的班尼奧爾感受一下那裏舉世聞名的番茄節盛況，同時瞭解和學習幾個能夠表達盡興，甚至瘋狂狀態的短語。一起來聽。
Once a year, the town of Bunyol in Spain throws a big party. The festival is called "La Tomatina." To get ready, townspeople put big plastic sheets over their windows. By noon on the day of the festival, an enormous crowd gathers on the central square. people shout, "Tomato! Tomato!" at the top of their lungs. They're dying to see the tomatoes. Just after 12:00 noon, the tomatoes arrive--in five big trucks! Some people put on goggles. The trucks dump the tomatoes, and the party begins. People go bananas. They dive into the tomatoes and begin throwing them everywhere. Before long, the square is a red, juicy pool. "It's wonderful to let loose and throw a big wet tomato at a neighbor," says Minerva Gonzalez of Bunyol. "Everyone has a great time."
很多朋友應該都知道舉辦聚會可以用have a party來表示，但是您知不知道還可以用throw a party來表達呢？例如這句話：Throwing a great party surely goes beyond the scope of any "how to" page. 辦一次出色的聚會當然比某些“如何辦聚會”網站介紹的要複雜的多。再比如，舉行一個慶新年聚會，也可以說成throw a New Year's party.
節日尚未開始之前，大量聚集在中心廣場上的人會先做什麼呢？shout “Tomato!” at the top of their lungs. Lungs “肺”，at the top of their lungs 在他們肺部的頂部，肺裏的氣兒都用上了，可見是 shout as loudly as possible了。用最大的力氣喊。這麼賣力的原因是，they're dying to see tomatoes。Be dying to, 相當於eager to, look forward to, 以及long for，也就是“渴望”，或者口語裏我們常說的“巴不得”怎麼樣的意思。來看一個例句：London was a new world to me and I was dying to find out more about it for myself. 倫敦對我來說是個新世界，我渴望瞭解這個城市的一切。
文章中對Party中人們“發狂，異常興奮的狀態”用了go bananas這樣的一個短語來形容。再比如：Wow, my friends are going bananas for that new Planet of the Apes movie. They love that movie. 哇，我的朋友爲那部《猿族崛起》瘋狂了。他們愛死那部片子了。
最後再來看let loose這個短語。很多人不遠千里跑到西班牙參加番茄節的原因之一也是因爲”it's wonderful to let loose”， 能夠放鬆一下非常好。Let loose放鬆。釋放。再來看一個例子：Just close your eyes and let loose your imagination. 閉上眼睛，海闊天空地遐想一番吧。
生活多艱，但總有希望。祝願大家都能找到適當的方式釋放自己，保持身心健康。好了。我們下期再見。
