A：You have a lovely house, Jack.
      Jack，你的房子真不錯！

B：Thank you. Yeah, it's home, but a number of things have been going wrong lately.
      謝謝，是啊，這是一個家。但是最近有很多地方出了問題。

A：That's too bad. What problems are you having?
      那可太糟了，出什么問題了？

B：Oh, the whole house needs re-painting, for starters. The carpet in the living room is worn out, and I'd like to put in new wall-to-wall carpeting. Last week, I had to call the plumber to fix the toilet. Anyway, all par for the course when you own a house, I guess. I think I'm going to hire an interior decorator to look the place over.
      哦，剛剛住進來，正間房子都需要從新粉刷，臥室里的地毯也已經(jīng)很舊了，我想裝一套新的。上星期，我不得不打電話找水管工來修理廁所。不管怎么說，如果你有一間房子，我覺得這都是最尋常不過的事。我看我要請一個室內(nèi)工程師來看看這個地方。

A：I've studied Western home decoration as a hobby. Could I make some suggestions?
      我曾學(xué)過室內(nèi)裝飾。我能給你提一些建議嗎？

B：Go right ahead.
      太棒了，請講。

A：Well, I think a crystal chandelier would look great in your living room, and maybe some new drapes for the windows. Also, a grandfather clock would look great in the den. Perhaps you could buy some potted plants for the dining room.
      啊，我覺得在臥室里裝一盞水晶燈會很漂亮。另外呢，可能需要一些落地窗來裝飾窗戶。還有,休息室里放一盞落地?zé)魰芷恋摹Ｄ氵€可以買一些盆栽裝飾飯廳。

B：Wow! You really do have a talent for this, Ethabella. Thanks for your suggestions.
      哇噻！你在這方面，可真是天才啊，Ethabella，謝謝你的建議。

A：You are welcome, Jack. Glad to be of help.
      不客氣，Jack。很高興能幫上你。

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A：Excuse me. Can you tell me how to find some books on social science?
      請問，能告訴我怎樣查找社會科學(xué)書籍嗎？

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B：Sure. You see all these little drawers here and all the way around the walls?
      當(dāng)然。你看到靠墻排列的這一個個小抽屜了嗎？

A：Yes.
      看見了。

B：These drawers contain cards describing every book in our library. Together they constitute the library’s “card catalog”.You can see that each drawer runs from one part of the alphabet to another. For example, this drawer goes from SCA to SCM.
      這些抽屜里裝著這本圖書館所有圖書的卡片，它們構(gòu)成了圖書館的“卡片目錄”。你可以看出每只抽屜都是從字母表中的一部分排到另一部分。比如說這只抽屜，就是從SCA 排到SCM。

A：So if I’m looking for a look called A History of Western Society, I’d just look under “A”.
      這么說，如果我要找一本《西方社會史》的話，就在“A”的分類下找。

B：No. You’d look under “W”. The articles “a” and “the” don’t count in our alphabetization, and card are generally omitted for extremely common words and phrases such as “history of”, “introduction to”, “story of” and so forth.
      不。應(yīng)該“W”下找。冠詞“a”和“the”不包括在字母排列中。一般來說，目錄卡片往往省略一些特別常用的詞和詞組。如“history of”，“introduction to”，“story of”等等。

A：What if I don’t know the title of the book?
      如果不知道書名怎么辦？

B：When you can look under the author’s name.
      那你可以在作者名下找。

A：Could you give me an example?
      能舉個例子嗎？

B：Suppose you want to find a book by your professor, William Smith. You’d look under SMITH and then WILLIAM. Since that’s a very common name, you may have to go through several “William Smith” until you come to the one who wrote book on the subject you’re interested in.
      假如你要找一本你的導(dǎo)師威廉?史密斯教授寫的書，你可以在SMITH 欄下尋找，由于William Smith 是一個很常見的姓名，你可能得查閱很多William Smith 才能找到你所感興趣的書的那位William Smith。

1. 西方的;西部的;來自西部的
    Western means in or from the west of a region, state, or country.

    e.g. ...hand-made rugs from Western and Central Asia.
           來自西亞和中亞的手工小地毯
    e.g. ...Moi University, in western Kenya.
           位于肯尼亞西部的莫恩大學(xué)

2. (來自)西方國家的
    Western is used to describe things, people, ideas, or ways of life that come from or are associated with the United States, Canada, and the countries of Western, Northern, and Southern Europe.

    e.g. Mexico had the support of the big western governments...
           墨西哥擁有西方大國的支持。
    e.g. Those statements have never been reported in the Western media.
           那些言論似乎從來沒有被西方媒體報道過。

3. (關(guān)于19世紀(jì)美國西部生活，尤指牛仔生活的)西部電影(或小說)
    A western is a book or film about life in the west of America in the nineteenth century, especially the lives of cowboys.