PETS－2語法講解(194)

What do you fancy?
　　對 話 　　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：我們今晚到外麪用餐吧，我不想做飯。
　　文生特：那我們就去吧，你想喫什麽？
　　尚茵：我想喫日本料理，既好喫，也可換換口味。
　　文生特：好。去市集廣場外那家新餐館好嗎？
　　尚茵：好主意。我先去梳洗一下。
　　文生特：好。你梳洗時，我打電話訂位。
　　到外麪喫飯，英文叫eat out或dine out；在家裡喫，則叫eat in或dine in，例如：(1) I cannot afford to dine/eat out a lot（我沒錢經常到外麪喫飯）。(2) She goes out with a different suitor almost every night, and seldom dines/eats in（她幾乎每晚都和一個不同的追求者外出，很少在家喫飯）。
　　文生特問尚茵想喫什麽：What do you fancy? Fancy有‘喜愛’、‘想要’的意思，作名詞或動詞都可以，例如：(1) Mary took a fancy to the house/The house took Mary's fancy（瑪麗愛上了那棟房子/那棟房子獲得瑪麗喜愛）。(2) I fancy a coffee. Would you like one as well?（我想喝一盃咖啡。你也喝嗎？）作動詞的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這兩句，改爲I don't fancy cooking和I feel like a coffee都可以。畱意Japanese (food) would make a nice change一語。Change是‘變化’，可指刻板生活中令人高興的變化，常用於(just) for a change（爲求改變一下）這詞組，例如：(1) Let's have Japanese food for a change（我們喫日本料理，換換口味吧）。(2) Just for a change, I went to live in the country for a while（爲了改變一下生活方式，我到鄕下去住了一會兒）。最後說動詞詞組(phrasal verb) freshen up。Freshen即‘使新鮮’或‘使精神飽滿’，freshen up一般是指梳洗或休息後顯得精神些，例如：I went to the bathroom to freshen (myself) up（我去浴室梳洗一番，消除倦意）。