PETS－2语法讲解(224)

What do you fancy?
　　对 话 　　Sian: Let's eat out tonight, I don't feel like cooking.
　　Vincent: Well why not? What do you fancy?
　　Sian: I think Japanese would make a nice change.
　　Vincent: Fine. How about that new place just off the market square?
　　Sian: Good idea. I'll go and freshen up first.
　　Vincent: OK, in the meantime I'll phone to book a table.
　　尚茵：我们今晚到外面用餐吧，我不想做饭。
　　文生特：那我们就去吧，你想吃什么？
　　尚茵：我想吃日本料理，既好吃，也可换换口味。
　　文生特：好。去市集广场外那家新餐馆好吗？
　　尚茵：好主意。我先去梳洗一下。
　　文生特：好。你梳洗时，我打电话订位。
　　到外面吃饭，英文叫eat out或dine out；在家里吃，则叫eat in或dine in，例如：(1) I cannot afford to dine/eat out a lot（我没钱经常到外面吃饭）。(2) She goes out with a different suitor almost every night, and seldom dines/eats in（她几乎每晚都和一个不同的追求者外出，很少在家吃饭）。
　　文生特问尚茵想吃什么：What do you fancy? Fancy有‘喜爱’、‘想要’的意思，作名词或动词都可以，例如：(1) Mary took a fancy to the house/The house took Mary's fancy（玛丽爱上了那栋房子/那栋房子获得玛丽喜爱）。(2) I fancy a coffee. Would you like one as well?（我想喝一杯咖啡。你也喝吗？）作动词的fancy，和feel like意思差不多。Feel like也是‘想’或‘想要’，I don't feel like cooking和I fancy a coffee这两句，改为I don't fancy cooking和I feel like a coffee都可以。留意Japanese (food) would make a nice change一语。Change是‘变化’，可指刻板生活中令人高兴的变化，常用于(just) for a change（为求改变一下）这词组，例如：(1) Let's have Japanese food for a change（我们吃日本料理，换换口味吧）。(2) Just for a change, I went to live in the country for a while（为了改变一下生活方式，我到乡下去住了一会儿）。最后说动词词组(phrasal verb) freshen up。Freshen即‘使新鲜’或‘使精神饱满’，freshen up一般是指梳洗或休息后显得精神些，例如：I went to the bathroom to freshen (myself) up（我去浴室梳洗一番，消除倦意）。