Larry和李华明天要考试,今天一起复习,但李华一直没法专心。她今天会学到两个常用语:zone out和now you're cooking with gas。
LL: So Reaganomics were the economic policies of US. President Ronald Reagan - Li Hua? Are you listening?
LH: (Pause) 嗯?发生什么事了?
LL: Li Hua! How can you zone out when your final is tomorrow?
LH: Zone out? 你在说什么啊, Larry?
LL: To zone out means to lose concentration and to not notice what's happening around you.
LH: 喔,你是说我分心吗?
LL: Yes. A 'zone' is an area. If you 'zone out', you mentally drift away from the place you are currently at, and go off into empty, dreamy space.
LH: 所以zone是指一个区域, zone out就是走神。
LL: Yup. So stop zoning out! We still have a lot of studying to do!
LH: 好吧。那你告诉我,什么是supply-side economics?
LL: Supply-side economics argues that economic growth can be most effectively created by lowering barriers for people to produce goods and services (supply) -
LH: 比如说降低所得税。
LL: Hey! Now you're cooking with gas!
LH: Cooking - cooking with what?