Brent: Come on, Doug. How long have we gotta wait for this kid? I wanna get a good park.

 

Doug: Here he is,

 

Holly¹: You love cricket, remember?

 

Doug: Hi, Taylor.

 

Holly: Say hi.

 

Taylor: Hi. 

 

Doug: Hope you're hungry. We've got heaps of snacks.

 

Craig: Hello.

 

Holly: Hello.

 

Craig: You must be the gorgeous Holly Flash won't shut up about.

 

Holly: Oh.

 

Doug: Holly, this is my friend, Craig, He's staying with me for a while.

 

Holly: Hi, Craig.

 

Craig: Hello.

 

Doug: So, look, don't worry at all, OK? We're gonna get him straight home after the game. We're all very responsible. And...

 

Friends: Oh, nice one, Doug.

 

Holly: Relax, Doug. I trust you. It's very lovely of you to arrange all this. So thanks.

 

Brent: Alright, come on, let's go.

 

Holly: Perhaps I should come with you, eh?

 

Doug: Oh... no girls.

 

Taylor: Yeah, Mum, no girls.

 

Holly: Fair enough.

 

Taylor: You're bringing the duck?

 

Brent: Are you kidding? Of course he's bringing Pierre. Come on, let's go.

 

Doug: Alright. See you soon.

 

Holly: Yeah. You boys take good care of him.

 

Friends: Let's party! Whoo-hoo!

 

Anchorman: Come on! What do you call that?!

 

Doug: See? Up that way.

 

Craig: So... Holly?

 

Doug: The bird expert?

 

Craig: The extremely cute bird expert.

 

Taylor: She's just helping² him with Pierre.

 

Craig: Yes. Is that all? That all she's helping you with?

 

Doug: Yes, that's all.

 

Instructor³: Camera 3, just give me a sweep of the crowd. Good. Uh, Brian, stop. Go back. There. Tell me you can see that.

 

Brent: So, you like cricket, then, kid?

 

Taylor: It's OK.

 

Brent: Just OK? So, um... well, what do you like?

 

Taylor: Space.

 

Brent: Space? Cool.

 

Taylor: Do you know about NT7?

 

Brent: NT7? Um... That's a lubricant, eh? Like WD-40.

 

Taylor: No, it's an asteroid⁴.

 

Brent: Oh, OK.

 

Taylor: NT7 circles the sun every 837 days, and travels in a tilted⁵ orbit from the distance of Mars to just within the Earth's orbit. On the 1st of February, 2019, it will hit Earth, causing a global climatic disaster that will threaten the future of civilization as we know it.

 

Brent: Wow. OK, that's, um... ...pretty heavy sh... stuff there, fella.

 

Host: Howzat!

 

Brent: Boys! Heh-heh. Good game, eh?

 

Doug: Yeah.

 

Brent: Oh, man, that kid Taylor's pretty full-on. He's got some issues there, I reckon.

 

Friend: Although he's wrong about NT7. It's gonna miss us by a country mile.

 

Brent: What do you mean?

 

Friend: Oh, I read a while back on 'Sky and Telescope', apparently⁶, its course has changed somewhat. Still, don't wanna spoil a kid's fantasy, eh?

 

Host: Great delivery, and what a HUGE breakthrough.

 

Instructor: Brian, cue.

 

Instructor: Yes, he never looked settled at the crease⁷ and now he's thrown his wicket away without scoring. Oh, what the hell's that? I believe it's called a 'duck', Allan. Oh, who'd bring a duck to a cricket match? Can't be a real duck. Actually, I think It's what they call a 'shelduck', Allan. Oh, it's a shelduck, Is it? Yeah, it Is. But they're more commonly known as 'parries' over here.

 

 

1. heaps of: 一大堆，比如heaps of wood

 

heaps of times就可以用来指“很多时间”

 

比如：We have heaps of time.（我们有很多时间。）

 

2. for a while: 暂时，一时

 

例如：Now we are busy. Lay that problem aside for a while, please.（现在我们很忙，请把这个问题暂时搁在一边吧。）

 

3. fair enough: 有道理，说得对，敢情好

 

Fair enough, I think that's a very reasonable price.（有道理，我认为那是非常公道的价格。）

 

4. Let's party: 去玩咯！

 

banquet, feast, dinner, party 这些名词均有“宴会”之意。

 

banquet: 指正式而盛大的宴会或国宴。

 

feast: 指宴席酒席，有时可与banquet换用，但前者强调共享欢乐的气氛。

 

dinner: 普通用词，含义广。本义指一日的主餐，但多用于指宴请客人的正式的一餐。

 

party: 指一般的社交聚会，也引申指宴请或宴会。

 

5. fella: 伙计，小伙子

 

6. Howzat: 出局

 

7. country mile: 极长的一段距离（美语口语）

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