美语情景对话 第1272期:How often do you check your e mail? 你多久查看一次邮箱?

George: Hi, I'm George from Hawaii.

乔治：嗨，我是乔治，来自夏威夷。

Crystal: And I'm Crystal from America.

克里斯托尔：我是克里斯托尔，来自美国。

George: And today's question is how often do you check your e-mail? So, Crystal, how often do you check your e-mail?

乔治：今天要讨论的问题是，你多久检查一次邮箱？克里斯托尔，你多久查看一次邮箱呢？

Crystal: Well, before I used to never check my e-mail. But, oh my god, if you do not check your e-mail, you get in big big troubles.

克里斯托尔：以前我从来不查收电子邮件。不过，天哪，如果不查看邮箱，那会遇到很大问题。

George: Why? What happened? What happened to you?

乔治：为什么？发生了什么？你遇到什么事了？

Crystal: I almost got kicked out of my own house before.

克里斯托尔：我以前差点被从自己的房子里赶出去。

George: It sounds awesome. So, you ... what happened?

乔治：听上去太可怕了。到底发生了什么？

Crystal: I haven't check my e-mail for months and they've been sending me e e-mails saying oh you're gonna get kicked out, and please remove your stuff from your house.

克里斯托尔：当时我有好几个月的时间没有查收邮件，而他们一直在给我发邮件，邮件上说：哦，你会被赶出去，请收拾东西离开房子。

George: Hah!

乔治：哈！

Crystal: And I never got it till the last day when I was leaving the country.

克里斯托尔：在我要出国前的最后一天我才收到。

George: Interesting.

乔治：有意思。

Crystal: A big lesson learned, you must check your e-mail. How often do you check your e-mail? George.

克里斯托尔：我学到了一个大教训：必须查收电子邮件。乔治，你多长时间查收一次电子邮件？

George: Oh..I checked it pretty often, but I just never really replied to anybody. You know I probably replied maybe once every three months.

乔治：哦，我经常查看邮箱，不过我从来不会回复。你知道，我可能每三个月回复一次。

Crystal: Yeah, you never reply to me.

克里斯托尔：对，你从来不回复我。

George: Yeah, my bad, my bad, I'm sorry. Alright.

乔治：哦，这是我的错，我的错，我很抱歉。好了。

Crystal: OK!

克里斯托尔：好吧！

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重点讲解：
1. used to do sth. 过去常常；过去曾；
例句：She used to enjoy a healthy and active life as other happy children but a disease has snatched away all that she used to have.
她曾和其他快乐的孩子一样健康活泼，但是一场病夺去了一切。
2. sth. happen to sb. （尤指不愉快的事）发生（在…身上）；(某人)遭到；遇到；
例句：This sort of thing should not happen to us.
这样的事情不应该发生在我们的身上。
3. kick out of 强使离开；赶走；
例句：The country's leaders kicked five foreign journalists out of the country.
该国领导将5名外国记者驱逐出境。
4. reply to 回复；回答；
例句：He did not even have the courtesy to reply to my fax.
他连回复我传真的这点儿礼貌都没有。