社团招新没人停步★★★★★
甲
We are the third table on the left, and nobody has stopped here for an hour.
我们在左边第三张桌子，可已经一个小时没人停下了。
乙
This is the loud side of the hall. The music club is right next to us.
这一边吵。音乐社就在我们旁边。
甲
Should we ask to move?
我们去要求换个位子？
乙
Ask first. They gave us this place by number, not by what it looks like.
先问。他们是按号码分位子给我们的，不是按这儿好不好。
甲
I will go and ask the man at the front table now.
我现在去问前头那张桌子的先生。
乙
While you are there, ask if we may put one paper on the door.
你顺便问一下，我们能不能在门上贴一张纸。
甲
He says we can take the back after four, when the big club finishes.
他说四点以后我们可以挪到后面，大社团那时正好结束。
乙
That is twenty minutes away. Do we sit here for twenty minutes with nothing?
那还有二十分钟。这二十分钟我们干坐在这儿？
甲
We can start with one thing. Write five lines: when we meet, where, and what we did last year.
我们可以先弄一件事。写五行：我们几点见、在哪儿、去年干了什么。
乙
Five lines? Nobody reads five lines at a table like this.
五行？这种桌子前没人看五行。
甲
Then three lines. When, where, and one photo.
那就三行。什么时候、在哪儿、加一张照片。
乙
We have the photo from the mountain trip. People stopped for that one last year.
我们有去山里那次拍的照片。去年就是它让人停下来。
甲
Give it to me and keep the table. I will print it at the office.
你把它给我，看着桌子。我去办公室打出来。
乙
How many names do we need today?
今天我们得收到多少个名字？
甲
Ten, to keep the club open. Last year we had eight.
十个，社团才保得住。去年我们只有八个。
乙
That was the year we almost closed.
那就是我们差点关掉的那一年。
甲
So we ask every person who stops, not only the ones who look at us.
所以只要有人停下我们就问，不能只问看我们的人。
乙
I can do that. You get the photo, and I will learn the three lines by heart.
这个我能做。你去拿照片，我把那三行背下来。
甲
And take the box of sweets. It is a small thing, but people stop for it.
还把那盒糖带上。东西小，可是有人为它停下。
乙
That is the best plan on this table today.
这是今天这张桌子上最好的一条办法。
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