20091023 -- Decorating for the holidays (2)

Conversation A
Laura: Here, Jack. Please put this box of Halloween decorations in the basement.
Jack: Where in the basement?
Laura: With all the other holiday decorations.
And you can bring up the Thanksgiving decorations while you're at it.
Jack: Where are they?
Laura: In the box marked "Thanksgiving decorations" of course!
Jack: We have way too many boxes of different decorations if you ask me.
Laura: Oh, lighten up, Jack. Holiday decorations help get everyone in the mood to celebrate.
Jack: I know. And when you're finished decorating. the house looks
great. But we have so many decorations! And you buy more when they're on sale!
Laura: One can never have too many decorations!

Conversation B:
Jack: There. That's the last string of Christmas light.
Laura: Thank you, Jack! I can't wait until dark so we can turn them on and see how they look!
Jack: They're going to look great. We must have put 60,000 lights on the house.
Laura: We didn't hang that many!
Jack: Ok, probably not. But we still have a lot.
I'm glad these lights don't use much electricity or our bill would be sky-high this month!
Laura: Tonight after dark, let's drive around and look at the Christmas lights.
Jack: Ok, we'll drive into the Westport neighborhood.
All the houses there have really fancy decorations.
Laura: I know! The whole neighborhood gets into the act.



lighten up 放輕鬆/別擔心
eg: Oh, lighten up. Don't be so serious all the time.
eg: Lighten up! I was just joking.
eg: Everything will be alright. Lighten up and stop worrying!
eg: After talking to his best friend, Tim lightened up a bit.

mood n. 心情/心境
eg: I would talk to Amber right now. She's in a bad mood.

string n. 一串
eg: Anne's mom is wearing a beautiful string of pearls around her neck.
eg: a string of pearls 一串珍珠

sky-high adj. (像天一樣高的)非常高的
=> very high
eg: Max can't afford to live in his neighborhood because rents are sky-high.
eg: The boy hit the ball sky-high. It was a home-run.
eg: The price of oil went sky-high today and many industries suffered.
eg: Very few can afford the sky-high rent in Manhatton.

get into the act 參與某種活動
=> participate in
eg: The whole class got into the act and competed in the Science Fair and won the title.
eg: Everyone wants to get into the act of saving more money.

Halloween n. 萬聖節

bring up 養育/提起.../談到

//== Chat room ==//

ski v. 滑雪

sled n. 雪橇
sled v. 滑雪橇

sledding n. 乘雪橇/滑雪橇

build snowman 堆雪人

have snowball fights 打雪戰

Thanksgiving 感恩節

turkey 火雞(感恩節常見的佳餚)

Christmas 耶誕節

//== Grammer on the go ==//

We have way too many boxes of different decorations if you ask me.
=> We have way to many boxes of different decorations in my opinion.

if you ask me
=> in my opinion

eg: If you ask me, he has too much coffee.
eg: She should apply for the job if you ask me.