Episode 14 Playing Games ACT I 做游戏 第一幕

I know what you mean.^{我懂你的意思。}

know what someone means ^{明白某人的意思 / 理解某人的想法}

• I know what you mean; balancing website maintenance with lesson planning is exhausting. ^{我懂你的意思，一边维护网站一边备课确实让人筋疲力尽。}
• If you’ve ever had a server crash at midnight, you’ll know what I mean. ^{如果你经历过半夜服务器崩溃，你就会明白我的意思了。}
• We all know what she means when she talks about the advantages of city life. ^{当她谈到城市生活的种种便利时，我们都能理解她的想法。}

There is a lot of good things about suburban living.^{住郊区其实有很多好的一面。}

a lot of good things about... ^{关于……有很多好的一面 / 某事有很多优点}

• There are a lot of good things about using Cloudflare to protect your educational web properties. ^{利用 Cloudflare 来保护你的教育类网站资产有很多显而易见的优点。}
• He listed a lot of good things about the new multi-agent orchestration tools. ^{他列举了这款新型多智能体编排工具的许多绝妙之处。}
• We found a lot of good things about spending the weekends in natural scenic areas. ^{我们发现去大自然和风景区过周末真的有很多益处。}

I grew up in Riverdale, remember?^{我是在里弗代尔长大的，还记得吗？}

grow up ^{长大 / 成长}

• I grew up in a small town surrounded by rivers and mountainous areas. ^{我是在一个小镇上长大的，周围全是河流和绵延的山脉。}
• Michelle is growing up so fast; she is already very mature for a ten-year-old. ^{米歇尔长得真快，就十岁孩子而言她已经十分成熟了。}
• He grew up bilingual because his parents spoke both English and Chinese at home. ^{他在双语环境中长大，因为他父母在家既说英语也说中文。}

But, as a working woman, I think New York has all the conveniences.^{不过作为职业女性，我觉得纽约能提供所有的便利。}

as a working woman / as a... ^{作为一名职业女性 / 作为一名……（用于表明身份或立场的常见结构）}

• As a web developer, I always pay close attention to server optimization and loading speeds. ^{作为一名网页开发人员，我总是格外关注服务器优化和加载速度。}
• As an educational website manager, he strives to provide comprehensive English study materials. ^{作为一名教育网站的管理者，他尽力为学生提供最全面的英语学习资料。}
• She balances her schedule perfectly as a working mother with a young baby. ^{作为一名家里有小宝宝的职业母亲，她完美地平衡了自己的时间表。}

The truth is, I'd like to live in the city.^{老实说，我很想住在城里。}

The truth is (that)... ^{老实说 / 实际上 / 真正的核心问题是……}

• The truth is, I haven't checked my daily Duolingo learning streak yet. ^{老实说，我今天还没检查我那英语学习的打卡纪录呢。}
• The truth is, our current server infrastructure cannot handle high concurrent traffic spikes. ^{实际情况是，我们目前的服务器基础设施根本应付不了高并发的流量峰值。}
• The truth is, Harry really wants to spend more quality time with his daughter Michelle. ^{其实，哈里心里真的很想多抽点高质量的时间来好好陪陪女儿米歇尔。}

Michelle's the right age.^{米歇尔正处于最好的年龄（正当年）。}

be the right age ^{处于最合适的年龄（做某事或体验某生活）}

• She is the right age to start visiting educational museum exhibits and learning history. ^{她现在这个年纪，刚好适合开始逛各种教育博物馆展览并学习历史。}
• He is exactly the right age to learn a foreign language through consistent daily habits. ^{他正处于通过坚持每日习惯来学习外门外语的最佳年龄。}
• Don't worry about her; she is the right age to start taking the bus to school on her own. ^{别担心她，她这个岁数完全可以开始自己坐公交车去上学了。}

I've never been to the aquarium or the Museum of Natural History.^{水族馆和自然历史博物馆我可一次都没去过。}

have been to... ^{去过某地（通常指去过并已经返回，常用 never 表示从未去过）}

• I have been to Brooklyn several times to inspect new construction project sites. ^{我去过布鲁克林好几次，去考察新的建筑项目现场。}
• He has never been to Riverdale, but he knows all about its suburban lifestyle. ^{他从没去过里弗代尔，但他对那儿的郊区生活方式了如指掌。}
• Have you ever been to that beautiful natural lake area located in Gannan? ^{你以前去过位于甘南的那个美丽的天然湖泊景区吗？}

I used to love to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.^{我以前特别喜欢去大都会艺术博物馆。}

used to do something ^{过去常常/曾经做某事（强调过去如此，现在已不再这样）}

• I used to love photography when I frequently traveled to scenic mountainous regions. ^{以前我经常去多山风景区旅游的时候，曾经极其热爱摄影。}
• He used to manage his server infrastructure manually before setting up automated scripts. ^{在配置自动化脚本之前，他过去总是习惯纯手工去管理服务器基础设施。}
• Susan used to spend almost every Sunday exploring the city landmarks with her father. ^{苏珊过去几乎每个周日都会跟着她父亲去探索城里的各种地标建筑。}

You ought to think about spending more time with Michelle.^{你应该好好考虑多抽点时间陪陪米歇尔了。}

ought to ^{应该 / 应当（语气比 should 更具客观责任感或道德建议感）}

• You ought to verify the domain security configuration on Cloudflare right away. ^{你应该立刻去核对一下 Cloudflare 上的域名安全配置。}
• He ought to give some serious thought to enrolling Michelle in the local arts program. ^{他应该好好考虑一下送米歇尔去参加当地的艺术课程。}
• We ought to thank Harry for picking out such fresh tomatoes from the suburban market. ^{我们真应该好好谢谢哈里，从郊区市场挑了这么新鲜的西红柿带过来。}

And perhaps, you'll join us?^{那或许，你也会加入我们吧？}

join someone ^{加入某人 / 和某人一起做某事（后面直接接人，无需加 with）}

• Will you join us for lunch at that convenient diner right next to the bus station? ^{你要不要和我们一起，去汽车站旁边那家非常便利的小餐馆吃顿午饭？}
• I would love to have you join our team to optimize these artificial intelligence multi-file reasoning tasks. ^{我非常希望你能加入我们的团队，一起优化这些人工智能多文件推理任务。}
• She gladly decided to join her classmates for the field trip to the aquarium in Brooklyn. ^{她非常高兴地决定加入同学们，一起去布鲁克林水族馆实地考察。}

All set for lunch, Harry.^{哈里，午饭全准备齐活了。}

all set for... ^{为……一切准备就绪}

• We are all set for updating the lesson notes for the new semester. ^{我们为更新下学期的课文笔记已经做好了全盘准备。}
• Are you all set for migrating the current platform database to HostDare? ^{你为把当前的平台数据库迁移到 HostDare 做好全面准备了吗？}
• The legal documents are ready, so we are all set for the business audit. ^{法定文件都齐全了，所以我们为商业审计已经做好了完全准备。}

I wish Michelle and her friends would get here.^{米歇尔和她朋友们要是现在能到这儿就好了。}

wish + 从句（使用虚拟语气） ^{要是……该多好（表达对现在或将来难以实现的愿望，从句常用过去式或 would/could + 动词原形）}

• I wish our artificial intelligence models would process these multi-file reasoning tasks faster. ^{要是我们的人工智能模型处理这些多文件推理任务能更快一些就好了。}
• He wishes he had more time to spend with his daughter at the Brooklyn Aquarium. ^{他真希望自己能有更多的时间陪女儿去布鲁克林水族馆。}
• I wish the server traffic numbers would stabilize before the promotion ends. ^{在促销活动结束前，服务器的流量数据要是能稳定下来就好了。}

I'm starving, aren't you?^{我快饿扁了，你呢？}

be starving ^{饿得不行 / 饿扁了（比 I'm hungry 语气强烈得多，口语高频）}

• Let's get a good steak dinner right away; I am absolutely starving. ^{咱们赶紧去吃顿丰盛的牛排大餐吧，我真的快饿扁了。}
• After checking student assignment records for five hours, the entire team was starving. ^{连续核对了五个小时的学生作业记录后，整个团队都饿得不行了。}
• He skipped breakfast to finish the server deployment, and by noon he was starving. ^{他为了完成服务器部署连早饭都没吃，到了中午已经饿得前胸贴后背了。}

I can't wait to take a bite of the pumpernickel.^{我简直迫不及待想尝一口这粗麦面包了。}

can't wait to do something ^{等不及做某事 / 迫不及待做某事}

• I can't wait to inspect the latest user interactive reports generated by our tracking script. ^{我简直迫不及待想要去审查一下由我们的追踪脚本生成的最新用户交互报告了。}
• She can't wait to share the New Concept lesson notes with her English study group. ^{她迫不及待地想把自己整理的新概念课文笔记分享给她的英语学习小组。}
• They can't wait to travel to the cultural and historical sites during the summer holiday. ^{他们简直等不及要在暑假期间去那些文化和历史遗址旅游了。}

Come in, Michelle, and bring your friends along.^{快进来，米歇尔，把你的朋友们也一并带进来。}

bring someone/something along ^{把某人/某物一并带来 / 随身携带}

• Please bring your identity documentation along when you verify the account profiles at the bank. ^{去银行核对账户资料时，请务必把你的身份证明文件一并带来。}
• You should bring a high-quality camera along if you plan to visit those scenic areas. ^{如果你计划去那些风景区旅游，你真应该随身带上一台高质量的相机。}
• He decided to bring a multi-agent orchestration blueprint along to the engineering seminar. ^{他决定把多智能体编排的蓝图一并带去参加工程研讨会。}

I really appreciate your doing this for Michelle and her friends.^{你为米歇尔和她的朋友们操办这一切，我真的很感激。}

appreciate one's doing something ^{十分感激某人做某事（doing 为动名词，前面用物主代词或名词所有格作逻辑主语）}

• I truly appreciate your maintaining an 842-day study habit; it’s an incredible milestone. ^{我真的很赞赏你一直保持着842天的学习习惯，这真是一个了不起的里程碑。}
• We appreciate his fixing the host routing errors before the traffic peek arrived. ^{我们非常感激他在流量高峰到来之前修复了主机的路由错误。}
• The manager appreciated their double-checking the domain registration rules on Cloudflare. ^{经理非常感激他们仔细核对了 Cloudflare 上的域名注册规则。}

It's important for Michelle and me to get to know each other better.^{米歇尔和我多加深一些对彼此的了解，这真的很重要。}

get to know each other ^{（逐渐）了解彼此 / 熟识起来（get to 强调从不了解到解的动态过程）}

• It takes time for team members from different engineering fields to get to know each other. ^{来自不同工程领域的团队成员之间需要时间来逐渐熟悉彼此。}
• Through daily communications, the mentor and the student managed to get to know each other better. ^{通过每日的沟通交流，导师和学生成功地加深了对彼此的了解。}
• They sat down for lunch to chat and get to know each other in a more relaxed suburban setting. ^{他们坐下来一边吃午饭一边聊天，在更加轻松的郊区氛围中增进对彼此的了解。}