Sara跟Roc聊房子的时候说到了一个词two-story，让Roc摸不着头脑。到底怎么回事？请看他们的对话：

Roc: Morning, Sara.

【早啊Sara。】

Sara: Morning, Roc. You are late again.

【早上好Roc。你又迟到了。】

Roc: Yeah, I know. But, you know what, I live too far from the office. It takes me 2 hours from door to door.

【是啊，我知道。但你知道吗，我住地离这里太远了。路上要花我两个小时啊。】

Sara: Why not move to around here?

【那你为什么不搬到这边附近呢？】

Roc: I would love to, but the rent is too high.

【我当然想啊，但是这边房租太高了啊。】

Sara: Not really. I live in a two-story house in the neighborhood, but the rent is just 2000 Yuan.

【不高吧，我住在这边附近一个两层小楼里，但房租也才两千块钱。】

Roc: No kidding! That’s really cheap! But why does the house have two stories?

【不是开玩笑吧！这也太便宜了！但是为什么这个房子还有“两个故事”？】

Sara: What?! Two stories? I mean the house has two floors.

【什么？两个故事？我是说这个房子有两层。】

Roc: Two-story means two floors?

【two-story的意思是“两层”？】

Sara: Yes.

【是啊。】

原来，two-story竟然是“两层楼”的意思。看来story还真是个“有故事”的story。那我们接下来就好好品一品story这个单词，看它还有哪些有意思的意思。

A likely story

一种反语，意为“真是个故事”，表示“不相信某人的话”

例句：

Roc said he could change blank paper into cash. A likely story!

Roc说他能把白纸变为钱，真是不错！

(Cut/make a) long story short.

长话短说。

例句：

(to cut a) long story short, I will fix everything.

长话短说，我会处理好一切的。

Tell a different story.

事与愿违。

例句：

You promised that you would pass the exam. But the result tells a different story.

你承诺你会通过考试，可是结果却并不如人意。

Tell its own story.

不证自明，显而易见。

Please stop explaining, the report tells its own story.

请不要再解释了，报告已经说得很清楚了。

That’s the story of my life.

一种无奈的表达，表示“坏事总是发生在我身上”。

例句：

It is not strange I lost my phone. That’s the story of my life.

我把手机丢了并不奇怪，这就是我的生活。

出处：头条号 @RocEnglish