白领的一天:日常聊天之如何在打长途电话上省钱

真实场景：Peter 给现居澳大利亚的母亲打了个电话。看看如何在打长途电话上省钱。

J: How was your phone conversation with your mom?
J:你在电话里跟母亲谈得怎样？
P: It was great!! At last I have been able to catch up with her properly. Phone calls from here to Australia are so expensive
P：太棒了！最终我还是跟她通上话了。从这儿打到澳大利亚很贵的。
J: That's why you did it through Skype.
J：这就是你用skype的原因了。
P: Yep... it works out at about 3 cents per minute.
P：是的…算来是每分钟三澳分。
J: I have to say it’s dirt cheap.
J：必须承认这很便宜。
P: Sure is!!
P：当然了！
J: As far as I know, even an instant message costs ￥1 from China to Australia
J：据我所知，一条从中国发往澳大利亚的即时信息还要一元人民币呢。
P: Yeah which is about 20 cents.
P：是的，20澳分。
J: I guess I’d better teach my parents how to use Skype. I want them to contact me through Skype when I am in Beijing so that the cost would be low.
J：我想我最好还是教父母使用Skype，希望当我在北京时，他们用skype跟我联系，这样话费就很低了。
P: Yeah that would be a good idea.
P：是的，好主意。

重点口语句型:

catch up with: (口语)与某人取得联系

work out (at sth): 计算，计算出

It’ll work out cheaper to travel by bus.
算来还是乘公共汽车便宜些。

dirt cheap: (adj.& adv.) 非常便宜的

It was dirt cheap. 这太便宜了。

I got it dirt cheap. 我买得非常便宜。