A：You have a lovely house, Jack.
      Jack，你的房子真不错！

B：Thank you. Yeah, it's home, but a number of things have been going wrong lately.
      谢谢，是啊，这是一个家。但是最近有很多地方出了问题。

A：That's too bad. What problems are you having?
      那可太糟了，出什么问题了？

B：Oh, the whole house needs re-painting, for starters. The carpet in the living room is worn out, and I'd like to put in new wall-to-wall carpeting. Last week, I had to call the plumber to fix the toilet. Anyway, all par for the course when you own a house, I guess. I think I'm going to hire an interior decorator to look the place over.
      哦，刚刚住进来，正间房子都需要从新粉刷，卧室里的地毯也已经很旧了，我想装一套新的。上星期，我不得不打电话找水管工来修理厕所。不管怎么说，如果你有一间房子，我觉得这都是最寻常不过的事。我看我要请一个室内工程师来看看这个地方。

A：I've studied Western home decoration as a hobby. Could I make some suggestions?
      我曾学过室内装饰。我能给你提一些建议吗？

B：Go right ahead.
      太棒了，请讲。

A：Well, I think a crystal chandelier would look great in your living room, and maybe some new drapes for the windows. Also, a grandfather clock would look great in the den. Perhaps you could buy some potted plants for the dining room.
      啊，我觉得在卧室里装一盏水晶灯会很漂亮。另外呢，可能需要一些落地窗来装饰窗户。还有,休息室里放一盏落地灯会很漂亮的。你还可以买一些盆栽装饰饭厅。

B：Wow! You really do have a talent for this, Ethabella. Thanks for your suggestions.
      哇噻！你在这方面，可真是天才啊，Ethabella，谢谢你的建议。

A：You are welcome, Jack. Glad to be of help.
      不客气，Jack。很高兴能帮上你。

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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？

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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。

1. 西方的;西部的;来自西部的
    Western means in or from the west of a region, state, or country.

    e.g. ...hand-made rugs from Western and Central Asia.
           来自西亚和中亚的手工小地毯
    e.g. ...Moi University, in western Kenya.
           位于肯尼亚西部的莫恩大学

2. (来自)西方国家的
    Western is used to describe things, people, ideas, or ways of life that come from or are associated with the United States, Canada, and the countries of Western, Northern, and Southern Europe.

    e.g. Mexico had the support of the big western governments...
           墨西哥拥有西方大国的支持。
    e.g. Those statements have never been reported in the Western media.
           那些言论似乎从来没有被西方媒体报道过。

3. (关于19世纪美国西部生活，尤指牛仔生活的)西部电影(或小说)
    A western is a book or film about life in the west of America in the nineteenth century, especially the lives of cowboys.