A：Mom, this is your third bowl of rice!

媽媽，這是你的第三碗米飯了!

B：I know but I have no choice. My stomach just keeps crying for more and more.

我知道，但是我沒辦法，我的胃總是想要吃更多。

A：Why? I never saw you eat so much before.

為什么?以前我從沒見過你吃這么多啊。

B：I've been going to the gym these days. The exercise makes me hungry all the time.

我最近去健身房。鍛煉時我總是覺得很餓。

A：So your stomach is the one that actually gets a lot of work-out.

你的胃一定做了很多的運動嘍!

B：Don't pull my leg.

別拿我開心了。

A：This way you'll probably put on more weight. Will you give up?

這樣你可能會增肥的。你會放棄嗎?

B：Surely not. I can feel the results. I'm starting to feel different now.

當然不了，我覺得非常有效果。現(xiàn)在，我開始感覺到身體的變化了。

A：Then how are you gonna deal with the problem of getting extra weight?

那你要怎么處理變胖的問題呢?

B：I'm planning to meet my personal trainer to have the work-out plan fixed.

我在考慮見一下我的私人健身教練，改一下健身計劃。

A：Oh, I've got an idea. Why don't you ask Dad to go with you? He badly needs some exercise.

哦，我有一個主意。干嗎不叫爸爸和你一起去呢?他很需要運動。

B：Your father is a bit too timid. He even doesn't know how to introduce himself.

你爸爸太膽小了。我想他連怎么介紹自己都不知道。

A：He can just say,I'm Benjamin. I'm new and shy.

他只要說,我是本杰明，我是新來的，我很害羞。

B：Girl, don't make fun of your Daddy. But I can introduce him to my personal trainer. Maybe one day he will be a fitness freak instead of a cough potato.

嗨，別拿你爸爸開玩笑。不過，我可以把你爸爸介紹給我的健身教練，也許有一天，你爸爸會變成一個健身狂而不是現(xiàn)在的電視精。

A：Who knows!

誰知道呢!

注釋:

stomachache n. 胃痛

badly adv. 極度地

timid adj. 膽怯的

introduce vt. 介紹

shy adj. 害羞的

freak n. 怪人

1.fitness freak: fitness的意思是健康，freak的意思是怪物，有的人瘋狂迷戀健身，所以被稱為fitness freak(健身狂)。

2. couch potato: couch potato長沙發(fā)，土豆，當然這里既沒有沙發(fā)也沒有土豆，這是幽默的手法，因為有的人老看電視，什么都不做，像種在沙發(fā)中的土豆一樣，意思是“電視精”。