美语会话 152 We could get a dog! 我们可以养只狗！

Gill: But this place doesn't feel like a forty-ping apartment.

LL: Well, it's forty pings including the balcony. See. It's huge.

Gill: Oh! The view is great! Mountains, fresh air! Stars?

LL: This balcony is perfect for barbecuing.

Gill: And we could get a dog!

LL: I'm sorry. No pets are allowed in this apartment building, except fish.

Gill: Well, fish it will be then.

barbecue (v.)

= BBQ 烤肉，也拼做barbeque或Bar-B-Q。而此处的barbecuing是动名词用法

Is it true that Koreans barbecue dogs?

韩国人会烤狗肉吃是真的吗?

balcony (n.)

阳台

Our upstairs neighbors keep tossing cigarettes off the balcony.

我们楼上的邻居老是把香烟丢到阳台来。

A Neighborly Movie!

吉尔：不过这间公寓不像有四十坪大。

房东：嗯，四十坪还包括阳台在内。看。很大吧。

吉尔：噢!视野真好!有山，有新鲜空气!还看 得到星星?

房东：这个阳台最适合烤肉了。

吉尔：我们可以养只狗!

房东：对不起。这栋公寓大楼不准养宠物，鱼除 外。

吉尔：嗯，那就养鱼吧。