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Julie：How‘s your speech preparation going？

茱莉：你的演说准备得怎么样了？

Bryan：Pretty good. I‘m almost finished writing it.

布莱恩：还不错。我稿子快写完了。

Julie：What‘s it about？

茱莉：内容是关于哪方面的？

Bryan：It‘s about how the principal of the school plays video games all day in his office.

布莱恩：是有关我们学校的校长如何成天待在办公室里打电玩。

Julie：Bryan, one‘s private life is supposed to be a sacred cow. No one gives a speech about that！

茱莉：布莱恩，每个人的私生活都该受到尊重，没有旁人置喙的余地。哪有人演讲时会说这个呀。

Bryan：Yeah, well, I couldn’t think of anything else to talk about.

布莱恩：嗯，好吧，但是我想不到别的事可以说了。

Julie：Well, you‘ll have lots of time to think after you get expelled from school.

茱莉：呃，等你被退学之后就有大把的时间可以好好思考了。

[多学一点点]

★A Sacred Cow

sacred为形容词，表“神圣的“，cow指“母牛“，本俚语字面意为“神圣的母牛“，引申
为“神圣不可侵犯的人事物“或“不能问、碰不得的事“。

例：Punctuality is her sacred cow. Kelly doesn急 like her staff being late for work.（守时对她来说十分重要。凯莉很讨厌员工上班迟到。）