Tearing Into Waste 废纸不废
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- 创建于 2003年1月29日
- 最后更新于 2024年5月25日
- 发布于 2011年5月20日
- 作者：Mike Lee
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Bob finds his wife, Olivia, shredding documents in the garage: 鲍伯发现老婆奥莉薇亚正在车库里「轧」文件。
B: A shredder? Is this the latest thing your Conspiracy Monthly magazine has persuaded you to buy?
碎纸机？那不是你的《阴谋月刊》最不建议你买的东西吗？
O: Bob, it’s time we stopped being so complacent about discarding our bills and old bank statements; you never know who might snoop through our garbage.
鲍伯，我们不能再这样自以为是地丢弃账单和旧的银行对账单了；你永远不知道谁会窥伺我们的车库。
B: Well, you know what, it’s my mom’s birthday soon; we could use all that shredded paper to pack around the vase we’re going to send her.
好啦，你知道吗，我妈的生日快到了；我们可以用一些碎纸来把要送她的花瓶包一包。
O: Sure. I thought I might also take a load to my arts-and-crafts club; the ladies and I are looking for a good quality stuffing for our aromatherapy pillows.
当然啰。我想我也会带一堆去工艺班；我和那些太太们正在找适合的材料来做芳香按摩枕呢。
B: Tim and Janet over the road could use some to protect their breakables.
对面的提姆和珍妮特也可以用些碎纸来保护易碎物品。
O: Right! I forgot they’re moving house.
对耶！我忘了他们正在搬家。
B: And, if there’s any left over, we could save it for Emily’s hamster to nest in. But we need to make sure it doesn’t contain newspaper or newsprint; they’re toxic to small animals.
如果还有剩下的，我们可以留起来给埃米莉的仓鼠做窝。但我们得确定那些纸里面没有夹带新闻纸之类的；它们对小动物可能有毒。
O: How wonderfully environmental! We’ve managed to recycle our waste, save money, and protect our privacy.
多环保啊！我们既能把废纸回收使用，又能省钱并保障隐私呢！
B: But you still haven’t explained why you were disposing of our financial documents in the first place. Darling, if the IRS are on to us, I think I should know!
但你还没有说明起先为什么要把我们的财务文件丢掉呢。亲爱的，一旦国税局找上门，我想我就会知道了！
－by Nick Wheeler
Vocabulary
单词发音
shred [ʃrɛd] v. 用碎纸机撕毁（文件）
shredder [ˋʃrɛdɚ] n.（文件等的）碎纸机
conspiracy [kənˋspɪrəsɪ] n. 阴谋；谋叛
persuade [pɚˋswed] v. 说服，劝服
complacent [kəmˋplesnt] adj. 满足的；自满的
discard [ˋdɪskɑrd] n. 抛弃，摒弃，丢弃
bank statement（银行定期寄给账户的）银行结单
snoop [snup] v. 窥探
vase [ves] n. 花瓶；（装饰用的）瓶
stuffing [ˋstʌfɪŋ] n.〔垫子等中的〕填料﹐充填物
aromatherapy [͵ærəməˋθɛrəpɪ] n. 芳香疗法（用天然物质萃取出的油脂、香料等治疗皮肤病的方法）
over the road 跨过马路、在马路对面
breakables [ˋbrekəb!z] n.（玻璃杯等的）易碎物品
left over 剩余
hamster [ˋhæmstɚ] n. 仓鼠〔多作宠物〕
newsprint [ˋnjuz͵prɪnt] n. 新闻纸﹐ 白报纸
toxic [ˋtɑksɪk] adj. 毒（性）的，有毒的
environmental [ɪn͵vaɪrənˋmɛnt!] adj. 自然环境保护的; 生态环境保护的；环保的
dispose [dɪˋspoz] v. 去除(或处理、舍弃)某人/物[（+of）]
IRS 国税局 Internal Revenue Service
Sentence of the Day
There wasn't even a shred of evidence.
丝毫没有证据。
not a shred of .. 毫无, 丝毫没有…