對話 Dialogue
清清：天哪！我好累！為什麼要上班？我放假還沒放夠欸！
Qīngqing: Tiān’a! Wǒ hǎo lèi! Wèishénme yào shàngbān? Wǒ fàngjià háiméi fàng gòu ei!
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華華：這次清明節又連放了幾天，還不滿足啊？
Huáhua: Zhècì Qīngmíng jié yòu lián fàngle jǐ tiān, hái bù mǎnzú a?
清清：我跟家人回南部去掃墓，又陪爸媽去拜訪了幾位親戚，忙得不得了，根本沒時間休息
Qīngqing: Wǒ gēn jiārén huí nánbù qù sǎomù, yòu péi bàmā qù bàifǎngle jǐ wèi qīnqī, máng de bùdéliǎo, gēnběn méi shíjiān xiūxí.
華華：難怪昨天你還多請了一天假，台灣雖然很小，但去一趟南部確實也很累的。
Huáhua: Nánguài zuótiān nǐ hái duō qǐngle yìtiān jià, Táiwān suīrán hěn xiǎo, dàn qù yí tàng nánbù quèshí yě hěn lèi de.
清清：沒辦法，昨天回來才不會塞車，要是還要塞在路上好幾個小時，我會瘋掉！
Qīngqing: Méi bànfǎ, zuótiān huílái cái búhuì sāichē, yàoshi háiyào sāi zài lùshàng hǎojǐ ge xiǎoshí, wǒ huì fēngdiào!
華華：趕快收收心，面對現實，好好上班吧！想想有穩定的工作、有錢賺，很不錯啦！
Huáhua: Gǎnkuài shōushōuxīn, miànduì xiànshí, hǎohǎo shàngbān ba! Xiǎngxiǎng yǒu wěndìng de gōngzuò, yǒu qián zhuàn, yě hěn búcuò la!
清清：唉！我只是有「收假症候群」的問題，趁老闆還沒來，先發洩一下，晚點老闆來了，哪裡還能這樣？
Qīngqing: Ai! Wǒ zhǐshì yǒu “shōujià zhènghòuqún” de wèntí, chèn lǎobǎn háiméi lái, xiān fāxiè yíxià, wǎndiǎn lǎobǎn láile, nǎlǐ hái néng zhèyàng?
華華：你知道就好，我現在要去買咖啡，也請你喝杯拿鐵吧！等著喔！馬上回來！
Huáhua: Nǐ zhīdào jiù hǎo, wǒ xiànzài yào qù mǎi kāfēi, yě qǐng nǐ hē bēi nátiě ba! Děngzhe o! Mǎshàng huílái!
翻譯 Translation
Qingqing: Oh, my goodness! I’m so tired! Why do we have to go to work? I haven’t had enough vacation yet!
Huahua: You had a few days off for this year’s Tomb Sweeping Festival. Isn’t that enough?
Qingqing: I went back to the southern part of Taiwan with my family to sweep the graves and visited some relatives. It was so busy, and I didn’t have time to rest at all.
Huahua: No wonder you took an extra day off yesterday. Although Taiwan is small, traveling to the south can be quite tiring.
Qingqing: I had to. Coming back yesterday, at least I didn’t encounter heavy traffic. If I had been stuck on the road for hours, I would have gone crazy!
Huahua: Well, pull yourself together, face reality and focus on your work. Think about having a stable job and making money—it’s not that bad!
Qingqing: Sigh! I just have a case of post-vacation blues. I’ll vent a bit while the boss is not here. Later, when the boss comes, I won’t be able to do this anymore.
Huahua: As long as you know. I’m going to buy some coffee now, and I’ll treat you to a latte! Wait for me. I’ll be right back!
生詞 Vocabulary
1. 收假症候群 (shōujià zhènghòuqún) post-vacation blues
2. 滿足 (mǎnzú) to be satisfied
3. 掃墓 (sǎomù) tomb-sweeping, grave-sweeping
4. 拜訪 (bàifǎng) to visit
5. 根本 (gēnběn) at all
6. 瘋掉 (fēngdiào) go crazy, lose one’s mind
7. 收心 (shōuxīn) turn off vacation mode / get back to work mode / pull yourself together
8. 發洩 (fāxiè) vent, let off steam
教材音檔 Audio Files
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