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A：Hey, Susie, what health club do you belong to?
      嘿，苏茜，你参加了哪个健身俱乐部？

B：Total Fitness, why?
      Total健身俱乐部。怎么了？

A：Well, I’ve been going to Athletic Express, but I don’t like it there.
      哦，我一直都是去Athletic Express，可是我不喜欢那儿。

B：Really? Why not? I hear it’s pretty good.
      是吗？怎么不喜欢？听说很不错哦。

A：The people don’t really work out there. They just stand around and talk all the time.
      那儿的根本不练习。他们只是站在一旁光滔滔不绝地说而已。

B：Oh, it’s one of those places.
      哦，跟其他地方也一样。

A：Yeah, is your club different?
      是呀，你们的那个俱乐部不同吧？

B：Well, they have different rooms. I lift weights by the pool where there aren’t so many people.
      哦，那里有不同的房间。当人不多的时候，我会在泳池旁边举重。

A：Do they have a lot of equipment?
      他们的设施是否齐全？

B：Yeah, they have all the machines, a pool, and a steam room and sauna.
      是的，他们有各种各样的器械，一个泳池，一个蒸汽室和一个桑拿室。

A：Sounds nice. What about classes?
      听起来还不错。那上什么课呢？

B：The usual. Aerobics, kickboxing, yoga. They just started a Tai Chi class too.
      一般的课都上。有氧运动，跆拳道，瑜珈。还开了太极课呢。

A：Wow, that sounds great.
      哇哦，真是不错。

B：Well, I have a guest pass. Why don’t you come with me tonight?
      哦，我突然想到，你为何不今天和我一起去呢？

A：Really? Thanks. I’ll stop by when I get off work.
      真的吗？谢谢了。我下班的时候会顺便来的。

B：Perfect. See you later.
      好极了，到时候见。

A：O.K., see you.
      好的，到时见。

A：Excuse me. Can you tell me how to find some books on social science?
      请问，能告诉我怎样查找社会科学书籍吗？

B：Sure. You see all these little drawers here and all the way around the walls?
      当然。你看到靠墙排列的这一个个小抽屉了吗？

A：Yes.
      看见了。

B：These drawers contain cards describing every book in our library. Together they constitute the library’s “card catalog”.You can see that each drawer runs from one part of the alphabet to another. For example, this drawer goes from SCA to SCM.
      这些抽屉里装着这本图书馆所有图书的卡片，它们构成了图书馆的“卡片目录”。你可以看出每只抽屉都是从字母表中的一部分排到另一部分。比如说这只抽屉，就是从SCA 排到SCM。

A：So if I’m looking for a look called A History of Western Society, I’d just look under “A”.
      这么说，如果我要找一本《西方社会史》的话，就在“A”的分类下找。

B：No. You’d look under “W”. The articles “a” and “the” don’t count in our alphabetization, and card are generally omitted for extremely common words and phrases such as “history of”, “introduction to”, “story of” and so forth.
      不。应该“W”下找。冠词“a”和“the”不包括在字母排列中。一般来说，目录卡片往往省略一些特别常用的词和词组。如“history of”，“introduction to”，“story of”等等。

A：What if I don’t know the title of the book?
      如果不知道书名怎么办？

B：When you can look under the author’s name.
      那你可以在作者名下找。

A：Could you give me an example?
      能举个例子吗？

B：Suppose you want to find a book by your professor, William Smith. You’d look under SMITH and then WILLIAM. Since that’s a very common name, you may have to go through several “William Smith” until you come to the one who wrote book on the subject you’re interested in.
      假如你要找一本你的导师威廉?史密斯教授写的书，你可以在SMITH 栏下寻找，由于William Smith 是一个很常见的姓名，你可能得查阅很多William Smith 才能找到你所感兴趣的书的那位William Smith。