生活中的每一天 After work/school.
(Miss ABC and Hogan are ready to eat dinner. Dr. Weird wearing fishing outfit)
Miss ABC: How was your day?
Dr. Weird: Not good!! Not a single fish. But lots of worms.
Worms used for fishing are called “nightcrawlers”
Miss ABC: Jeez, what a bummer.
What a bummer means too bad! 意思是太糟糕了。
How was your day? 你今天过得怎么样？通常在你放学或下班回到家里，家人会问你一句，How was your day?因为问的是已经过去的一天，所以这里要说was，而不是is。如果一大早你想和某人打招呼的话，你应该说：How are you today? 如果是中午，你可以说How was your day going?如果你兴致很高，你可以说：Wow! It’s fantastic!然后就此打开话题，和朋友或者家人大谈特谈。反过来，如果你不想多说话，可以回答：Well, nothing interesting就此敷衍过去。

Miss bookworm: How are things at work?
Hogan: Ok, but I have a stomachache from last night’s dinner!
当你的爱人劳累了一天回家后，你还可以这样说：How are things at work?问问他（她）工作怎么样了。同样你也可以这么问，How are things at school?学校怎么样呀？How are things at your office?公司有什么事情发生呀？看来只需要换一下最后的地方名称，就可以有很多种用法了。Things是指一切发生过的事情。比如说你在工作中有什么成就，或者出了什么错了，都可以用things来表达。看来美语是一种很偷懒的一种语言。怎么样？简单吧，回家试一试。

William: You’ll never believe what happened to me today! My boss told me to take a year off.
Dr. Beard: You mean you were fired.
You’ll never believe what happened to me today.这句话的意思是：你绝对想不到今天发生了什么
。这句话可以用在你遇到了特别高兴的事的时候，比如说涨工资了，你就可以对你的家人说：You’ll never believe what happened to me today!这样一说，你的妻子或者丈夫就会be all ears,也就是全神贯注地你讲这件令人兴奋的事。这句话多用来描述惊喜的心情。Happen是发生的意思。但是这个词隐含着某种偶然性的意思。比如说：It happened that she was out yesterday!昨天她碰巧不在家。

Culture Note:
Honey, I’m home! Everyday after work in America, something very important happens in every American family: the family dinner. Around the dinner table every night is the time and place to discuss everything that you would like to talk about with the family. It can be about work, vacation, school, fun and life. If it’s pertinent to someone in the family, then you should discuss it. There are many things you can talk about, for example, it can be an important decision for the family to make; it can be some good news or bad news that you want to share; you want to tell a story about what happened to you that day. But it’s not always fun time at meal time. People can argue a little bit; children can disagree with their parents on the decisions that they’ve made. Arguments during dinner over what people should or should not do can also happen. Sometimes children are even grounded, have their privileges restricted for arguing too much or disagreeing too much. But usually that doesn’t happen, so it’s not a problem. And children can invite their friends over to have dinner with the family and their friends can tell stories about what’s happening to them. You got that?

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