英語自習室

"See you there."

「在那裡見嘍。」

"We have a soccer game today, Franklin."

「我們今天有足球比賽，富蘭克林。」

"I know, Bear."

「我知道，大熊。」

"Hurry, you'd better tell him."

「快，你最好告訴他。」

"I can't. He's my dad. I don't want to tell him I'd rather play soccer than go golfing with him."

「不行，他是我爸，我不想告訴他比起陪他打高爾夫球我更想踢足球。」

"Mmm, I see what you mean."

「嗯，我懂你的意思。」

"Hi, Mama."

「嗨，媽媽。」

"Sister, you'd better stop that nail-biting before it becomes a bad habit."

「熊妹妹，妳咬指甲的毛病最好在變成壞習慣之前改掉。」

"Oops, I keep forgetting. Why is it so hard for me to stop doing it?"

「喔噢，我一直忘記。停止咬指甲對我而言怎麼會這麼難呢？」

"If you do a certain thing often enough, you don't even think about it. It's sort of like this path-- the wheelbarrow has gone over it so many times that it's worn a deep rut right down the middle. And it keeps getting deeper every time I use it. It's the same way with a bad habit. The more you do something, the harder it is to get out of it."

「如果妳經常做某件事做得夠久，妳就連想都不用想了。這就有點像這條小路-- 手推車來來回回這麼多次，在中間就碾壓出深陷的凹痕，我每使用一回，它就凹陷得愈深。這和壞習慣的養成是一樣的道理，越常做的事情，就越難摒棄。」

"I see what you mean. I want to get out of my nail-biting rut before it gets any harder."

「我明白您的意思，我想在根深蒂固之前改掉咬指甲的壞毛病。」