昨天接到一个国外的广告骚扰电话，突然感觉自己英文口语和听力都有退化的迹象了。纵然电话的那一端很嘈杂，然而作为一个靠英文吃饭的专业人士来说，我不允许自己出现这样的情况。今天是个骚扰电话，明天若客户打来电话，我将如何应对呢？
所以，今天我又开始练习听力和口语了。He‘s Just Not That Into You 的音频，电影早看过，没太多感觉。然而这本书的开篇就吸引到了我，来放一段，大家也跟着练习一下英文吧：
It
started
out
just
like
any
other
day
.
事情发生在
一个普通的日子。
We
were
all
working
in
the
writers
'
room
of
Sex
and
the
City
,
talking
,
pitching
ideas
,
our
personal
love
lives
weaving
in
and
out
of
the
fictional
lives
we
were
creating
in
the
room
.
我们都在《欲望都市》的编剧室里工作，谈话，想点子，我们个人的爱情生活在自己所编织的虚构生活中穿插交织。
And
just
like
on
any
other
day
,
one
of
the
women
on
staff
asked
for
feedback
on
the
behavior
of
a
man
whom
she
liked
.
某日，一个女性工作人员要求大家对她喜欢的一个男人置评。
He
was
giving
her
mixed
messages
—
she
was
confused
.
他给她发
暧昧信息，她感到很困惑。
We
were
happy
to
pitch
in
and
pick
apart
all
the
signs
and
signals
of
his
actions
.
我们都乐于投入，然后就开始指摘他的行为迹象和信号。
And
just
like
on
any
other
day
,
after
much
analysis
and
debate
,
we
concluded
that
she
was
fabulous
,
he
must
be
scared
,
he
'
s
never
met
a
woman
as
great
as
her
,
he
is
intimidated
,
and
she
should
just
give
him
time
.
又一天，经分析和讨论后，我们得出的结论是，她太棒了，他一定是害怕了，因为他从未见过一个像她这么棒的女人，他害怕了，她应该给他
时间。
But
on
this
day
,
we
had
a
male
consultant
in
the
room
—
someone
who
comes
in
a
couple
of
times
a
week
to
give
feedback
on
story
lines
and
gives
a
great
straight-male
perspective
:
GregBehrendt
.
但在这一天，我们有一个男性咨询师在房间里，他一个星期来反馈几次故事情节并给出了一个重要的直男视角。他的名字叫格雷格·贝伦特。
On
this
day
,
Greg
listened
intently
to
the
story
and
our
reactions
,
and
then
said
to
the
woman
in
question
, “
Listen
,
it
sounds
like
he
'
s
just
not
that
into
you
.”
这天，格雷格很认真的听完故事和我们的反应，然后对那女人说，“听着，听起来他只是没那么喜欢你。”
我们是不是也经常有这样的情况？对一个有好感的男人，揣测他的一举一动，始终不肯面对一个事实：他其实没那么喜欢你。通过这篇，我学到了两个口语式的用法，就是紫色标出来的，之前还不知道可以这样简单形象的来表达呢。其实日常交流，就是为了让对方明白自己的意思，用词不求生僻，但求简单，言简意赅。
呈上自己昨天的画，本来想拍个过程图的，一画起来就忘了，只一心想看到完成图的样子：
