Michael和李華在復習功課，做完功課后他們準備去看電影。在今天的對話中，李華會學到兩個常用語：no way和to bet.

    L： Michael，準備好了嗎？我們要去看電影了。Anna正開車來接我們呢。

    M： Yeah I'm ready……let me get this call though. Hello？ Sorry， I can't come to work right now. I have to pick up a friend from the airport. Yep. Sorry I can't help out. OK.

    L： 哎呀，Michael，你怎么能騙你同事說你要去機場接人呢？我覺得他們可能真的很需要幫手，你就去吧。我們可以下次再看電影嘛。

    M： What？ No way！ I'm not going to help him！

    L： 你說什么？no way是什么意思啊？

    M： No way means that there is no way I will do that. It means that I refuse completely.

    L： 噢，我知道了， No way就是絕對不行的意思，好象中文里的門兒都沒有。你真的不能幫幫他嗎？

    M： No way！ That guy is just lazy. He is always trying to escape from work and find other people to do his job for him. Nobody trusts him.

    L： 可是不管怎么說，我還是覺得同事之間還是應該互相幫忙啊。

    M： Really？ Well， what if Professor Wang called right now and said he needs you to help him grade Chinese test papers all afternoon？

    L： No way！ 我才不干呢，我以前幫過他好幾次忙，可他從來都不付給我工資，更氣人的是他連聲謝謝都不肯說。

    M： Well anyway， Anna and I have been waiting for a long time to see this movie. There is no way I'm changing my plans.

    L： 我明白了，我看你是喜歡Anna，不想錯過和她一起看電影的機會吧。

    M： What？ No way！

    L： 哎，你怎么又說no way，這回我又沒要求你做任何事情啊。

    M： Oh， well sometimes no way also means that's not true or absolutely not. It shows that you disagree with something that somebody said.

    L： 得了，我就是覺得你喜歡Anna.

    M： No way！

    M： Hmm， Anna still isn't here. I bet the traffic is bad.

    L： 啊？你說什么？

    M： I said "I bet the traffic is bad". That means I think， or I'm pretty sure that the traffic is bad. Bet， as in to bet money.

    L： 噢，bet本來的意思是下賭注，例如賭錢，不過在這里是認為或相信的意思。

    M： That's right. When you bet money， you can't always be 100% sure about your bet.

    L： 對啊，賭錢的人不可能100%地預料到下賭注的結果， 所以說， 如果你說“I bet”，那表示你是在推測。

    M： That's right. Anyway， I'm not worried about Anna， I bet she 'll arrive any minute now.

    L： I bet you are right. Anna從來不遲到。你覺得這部電影會好看嗎？

    M： I don't know. It's an action movie， so I bet you won't like it very much.

    L： 誰說的，其實我也很喜歡動作片啊，當然除了那些爛片子。

    M： I bet you'll say it is stupid no matter how good it really is. You always say action movies are stupid.

    L： Whatever. 我聽好多人說這部電影好看，我想今天電影院一定滿座。

    M： Hey， look， there's a red car down the street. I bet that's Anna.

    L： No way. Anna的車比這輛車小多了。

    M： Looks like I was right. Let's hurry.

    L： I bet Anna她一定很高興見到你。

    M： No way！ Stop joking around like that， ok？

    今天李華學到了兩個常用語。No way表示不可能；to bet是確信的意思。