A Night Owl夜貓子

對話
Mary：Have you been staying up all night? I'm getting ready to go to work!
瑪麗：你一整夜都沒睡嗎？我準備要去上班了！
Jack：Yeah, I'm not tired. I guess I'm kind of a night owl.
傑克：對，我不累。我猜我有點像夜貓子。
Mary：What have you been doing all night?
瑪麗：你一整個晚上都在幹嘛？
Jack：I read a novel, played computer games, and watched a movie.
傑克：看小說、打電動，還看了一部電影。
Mary：Sounds like you didn't really get much done.
瑪麗：看來你並沒有做些什麼。
Jack：No, I guess not. But I did make a sandwich. That's kind of an achievement.
傑克：我想也是。可是我做了一個三明治。多多少少也算是某種成就。
Mary：Making a sandwich is an achievement?
瑪麗：做三明治是一種成就？
Jack：It was a really good sandwich. It had two kinds of cheese in it. Two!
傑克：那個三明治真的很好吃。裡面放了兩種起司。兩種耶！
Mary：Congratulations. Maybe you can get rich in the future because of it.
瑪麗：那真是恭喜你了。你未來有可能會靠它發財。

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俚語精解
．night owl
owl指「貓頭鷹」，貓頭鷹為夜行性動物（a nocturnal animal），在晚上特別活躍。因此，a night owl便用來形容「晚上精神特別好，喜歡徹夜不睡」的人，或者較通俗的說法為「夜貓子」。

關鍵字詞
．stay up 熬夜
＊burn the midnight oil 挑燈夜戰
例：Tom and Jerry stayed up late to watch a film.（湯姆與傑利熬夜看一支影片。）
例：Jeff has been burning the midnight oil lately because a big exam is coming up.（傑夫最近都在挑燈夜戰，因為大考快到了。）
．achievement n.成就/成就感（不可數）
例：It’s such a remarkable achievement to win an Olympic gold medal.（贏得奧運金牌是件非凡成就。）
．sandwich n.三明治
例：Would you like to have some tuna sandwiches?（你想來點鮪魚三明治嗎？）
．congratulations inter.恭喜
例：You won the English speaking contest last night? Congratulations!（你贏了昨晚的英語演講比賽嗎？恭喜！）

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