【英语：语法基础】C5.日常对话-社交专题

社交初阶表达

• Alex: Hi, Katia. How are you?
• Katia: l’m doing good.And you,Alex?
• Alex: I’m doing good, thank you.l have a question foryou.Are you on Facebook?
• Katia: Yes, l am in Facebook, but l really do not checkvery often.

How are you doing?

• l’m doing fine / OK / well lgreat / good / terrific.

How are you?

• Not bad.
• So-so.
• The same as ever.
• l can’t complain too much.

How’s it going?

How's everything going?
How've you been?

• Well, I’m still alive and kicking.
• so far so good.
• All right.

What’s happening?

What' s happening with youthese days?
Anything interesting happening

• Not much.
• Not much lately.

What’s new?

What's up?

• Nothing much.
• Nothing in particular.
• Nothing special.

How do you feel today?

• Pretty good.
• l feel like a new man.
• Terrible. I’ve had a headache morning.

What’s going on?

What are you up to? 你最近在忙什么?

• Nothing much. 没忙什么。

社交进阶表达

• Are you making progress?
• Did you sleep soundly last night?
• Have you gotten over your cold?
• How come you look so tired?
• Why are you in such a goodmood?
• l just stopped by to say hello.
• What a pleasant surprise running into you!
• l’m glad l ran into you. Where have you beenhiding lately?
• l’ve been thinking about you lately. Let’s talkover coffee.
• You’re just the man l want to see.
• l haven’t seen you for ages/in years/for along time.
• lt’s nice to see you again. Have youchanged jobs?
• How was your trip to New York?
• What has kept you so busy?
• You just look fantastic today.

结识新朋友

• A: Mary, this is Stone’s brother,Jim.
• B: l’m very glad/pleased to meet you.
• C: lt’s a pleasure to meet you.
• B: How do you like China so far? / What’s your impression of China? / What do you think of China?
• C: lt’s really different from what l expected.
• B:Don’t worry. You’ll get used to it inno time.

首次见面的不尴尬表达

• 1. May l have your name, please?
• 2. l think Ive seen you before. You look veryfamiliar.
• 3. Say, don’t I know you from somewhere?
• 4. l must have seen you somewhere before.
• 5. Haven’t we met before?
• 6. We have talked of you often.
• 7. l didn’t quite catch your name.I’m sorry. I didn’t get your name.
• 8. How do l address you?
  • Please call me Mary.That’s my first name.
• 9. How many brothers and sisters do you have?
• 10. Where are you working now?
• 11. I’ve been looking forward to meeting you.
• 12. I’ve heard a great deal about you.
• 13. ls this your first trip to China?Have you ever been to Guangzhou?
• 14. What impressed you the most aboShanghai?
• 15. May l ask where you are from?
• 16. l hope you’re enjoying your stay here
• 17. lt always takes time to get used to anew place.
  • did you mention something about.(礼貌的切入话题)

社交邀约必备句式

• Uh, are you going to be busy this evening?
• l was thinking of going to a movie tonight. Would you like to come?
• Are you doing anything tonight? l was wondering if you’d like to go to a movie with me.
• l’m going to play with a group of friends. WouldyouTike to join us?
• That’d be very nice./l’d love to./That’s a greatidea.
• Sorry,l’m afraid !'m busy tonight.]Tonight’s aproblem. What about tomorrow.night? Sorry,l’ve got people coming over tonight.

练习

• Herbert: How’s life these days?
• Rose: Mm, OK.And you?
• Herbert: l’ve been working onsome song lyrics.
• Rose: I’d like to have a look at themsometime.
• Herbert: Mm, well, maybe youcould come to Hsinchu(新竹).

l've been working on...我最近在忙…
work on something 是表示在努力做某事，既花时间，又耗精力,好比有一个项目需要完成，你就得要去 work on the project.

举例

• How come l haven’t seen you recently?

• l’ve been busy working on my newest book.

• Sue: You’re kind of down these days.

• Rose: I’m OK.

• Sue: Sure? Boy problems?

• Rose: No, I’m fine.

• Sue: Are you busy on the 30th?

• Rose: No.

• Sue: Well then, let’s go to an outdoor symphony concert. My treat!

• Alex: Hi, Katia. How are you?

• Katia: I’m doing good.And you,Alex?

• Alex: I’m doing good, thank you. l have a question for you.Are youon Facebook?

• Katia: Yes, l am in Facebook, but l really do not check very often.

• Alex: OK, how often do you check it usually?

• Katia: l actually try not to check it very often. lt’s been taking a lot ofmy time, so right now l check it about.I try once a week during theweekends.

• Alex: OK.l used to be on Facebook a lot before.l was like checking it every day and, you know,posting on my friends’ walls and trving’ to catch up with everybodyon Facebook.But then l realized that l was losing a lot of time onit.I was, l don’t know if investing is the word,but I was spending a lotof time on it and T kind of like decided to close my wail,
  because l thouaht that l was iust spendina too much time,and it was not really adding anvthing so, but l don’t know ifthat’s the riaht thina, because sometimes I feel that I need to communicate stuff to my friends and since my wall has been closed for so long,l don’t want to kind of like just communicate something there and then just stopped communicating through my wall any more so l don’t knowhow to do it.

• Katia: It has really become an issue, hasn’t it? You can getlost from what is actually happening around you and live ina virtual world so l’m actually a little bit worried about that,about what is happening and how we live our lives and how we present ourselves to others.l believe that it shouldbe handled differently than it has up to now so maybe you’re doing good by closing or, you know, thinking about it at least.

• Alex: Yeah.

• Katia: But how much, that you might have to consider.

• Alex: Yeah, that’s right. lt’s very funny how all this communication has changed in the last few years.l remember just four years ago,or even five. years ago l wasn’t on Facebook and af the communication l used to have with my friends was throuah email or by phone or by meeting vou know.But now with Facebook evervbody spends so much time on Facebook. Sometimes if vou don’t publish something on Facebook, it seems that you didn’t doanything,so l don’t know it’s just weird.

• Katia: Well the question is are you actually more in communication now than you were four or fiveyears ago?

• Alex: l am more in communication with people that l haven’t been in touch with for the last ten years let’s say.Like all my friends from elementary school that l wasn’t really in touch and everybody’s now on Facebook and now everybody is updated on what l’m doing or why l do this, what I’m going to do onnext vacation, what about my plans for anything so that’s a good thing, l think. lt really depends on how much importance you give to it.

• Katia: That is true.