Larry 和李華正走在公園里，兩人準備穿過公園到地鐵站去。今天李華會學
到兩個常用語：gooey 和retro.

    LL： Oh no！ I just stepped in something gooey！ Gross！

    LH：怎么啦！Larry ！你踩到什么啦？gooey 是什么？該不是鳥糞吧？

    LL： Something that is gooey is sticky and wet like glue or chewing
gum. As a matter of fact， I think that the gooey thing I stepped in is
actually chewing gum. LH：呃，你踩到口香糖啦！口香糖又濕又黏的，真是夠
惡心的！原來gooey 就是指這種東西。我最討厭那些人把吃過的口香糖隨便吐在
地上。真沒有公德。

    LL： I hate it， too， especially because gooey things like chewing
gum are really hard to clean up. Now， I'm going to have to walk around
with a gooey pink spot on the bottom of my shoe. LH ：就是啊。這些黏呼
呼的口香糖一旦沾上了，是很難洗掉的。也許你可以等到晚上口香糖干掉后，可
能會比較容易從鞋底掰下來。

    LL： That's a good idea. I'll try and peel it off later tonight. LH
： Laryy，你就別再發火了。想一想，口香糖沾上鞋底，總比沾上頭發要好一些
吧？

    LL： I can imagine. Has that ever happened to you ？

    LH：嗯，是有那么一次。我還在念小學的時候，班上的一個男孩把一瓶膠水
倒在我頭上，黏呼呼的膠水把我頭發全沾上了。我媽媽花了好幾個小時才把我的
頭發洗干凈呢！

    LL： That's awful ！ You must have been so upset！

    LH：就是啊！我哭了好久。第二天我也拿了一大罐黏稠的水彩倒在那個男孩
的衣服上作為報復。誰要他先倒膠水在我頭發上！

    LL： That's terrible， Li Hua ！

    LH：我也知道這樣做是不對的。可是你知道嗎？那個男孩再也沒敢欺負我了！

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    LH： Larry，我喜歡你這雙新鞋。真好看！

    LL： Thanks ！ I bought them to replace the shoes that were all gooey
from the gum I stepped in. I liked these because they are kind of retro.

    LH： Retro？那是什么意思啊？

    LL： Retro means similar to something from the past. These shoes are
retro because they look like the shoes people used to wear in the 1950s.

    LH：噢，retro 是指那些與過去流行的東西很類似，那不就是“仿古”的意
思嗎？我也注意到，一些仿古的衣服或飾品通常都有特殊的風格。

    LL： Yeah ， some people even go to special stores to buy actual vintage
clothes that are twenty or thirty years old.

    LH：哇！到特殊的商店去買二，三十年前的衣服啊！我雖然喜歡仿古風味的
衣服，可是我還真不明白為什么有人會花錢買一件20年前的舊衣服。

    LL： I don't understand it， either. I prefer to buy a new shirt that
looks old-fashioned instead of one that actually is old.

    LH：當然了！我也寧可買式樣是仿古的新衣服。我才不要花大錢去買那些古
董衣服呢。

    LL： Some car manufacturers are making retro cars now ， too. Chrysler
makes a couple of cars that look like cars from the 1940s.

    LH：對，我也見過克萊斯勒出的那種汽車。式樣象四十年代的車。真的很酷！

    LL： Yeah ， I like them too， but in this case ， I actually prefer
real vintage cars. A retro new car just isn't the same as a real classic
car.

    LH：你寧可買幾十年前的老車呀？式樣仿古的新車跟老車有什么不一樣哪？
是結構，還是材料不一樣？

    LL： It's hard to explain ， but sometimes nothing compares to the
real thing.

    LH：衣服嘛要買老款式的新衣服。汽車嘛要買真正的老車。Larry ，你真怪！