流行美语：on the dot 正好 & get a taste of one's own medicine 自食苦果 (音频文字)

Larry准备参加马拉松比赛，李华在帮他进行赛前训练。他们会用到两个常用语：on the dot和get a taste of one's own medicine

LH: Larry, 加油，就剩500米了！冲刺冲刺! 好..！

Larry: (Out of breath) How...did... I do?

LH: 成绩不错，但还是没进15分钟。

Larry: (Still a bit out of breath) Let me see that watch...Hey, this isn't above 15 minutes... this is 15 minutes on the dot!

LH: Dot? 点点？这个秒表是新的，上面什么都没有啊!

Larry: No, no. The watch is fine. I'm talking about the time. Look...it says 15:00. Exactly fifteen minutes...Fifteen minutes on the dot.

LH: 哦， on the dot就是“正好”的意思。你是说，你刚才的成绩是正好15分钟。可是Larry，我的意思是，你还是没有冲破15分这个关口。这样你下个月参加比赛时，名次是不会理想的!

Larry: I know, I know... wait a minute. Next month? I thought I had way more time to prepare than that!

LH: 啊？你忘啦？距离比赛还有整整一个月，30 days on the dot!

Larry: Well, at least I'm making progress...fifteen minutes is my best time so far. I think I'm done running for today. It's 5pm on the dot.

LH: 好吧，那今天就练到这儿吧。天儿也够热的，今天是35 degrees on the dot，35度呢!

Larry: Well, when you're running, it feels more like 40 degrees on the dot!

LH: 不过回家前，你还得做30个仰卧起坐。

Larry: You sure are a strict coach...how do you know so much about training?

LH: (得意地)我高中是田径队的，教练特严格，我都是跟他学的!严师出高徒嘛!

Larry: Oh really?? (pauses for a moment as if hatching a plan) You know, Li Hua, there's a couple's race as well on race day. I think you and I should be a team!

LH: 双人跑？ 我也参加？那可不行，我整整10年没跑步了!10 years on the dot!

Larry: Hey, you've been making me run all over this track for the past week; I think it's only fair that you got to taste of your own medicine.

LH: 什么，taste of my own medicine? 我的药的味道？

Larry: Actually, you've been working me so hard, but now it's time for you to go through the same ordeal that you had put me through. In other words, you're getting a taste of your own medicine.

LH: 我明白了，get a taste of my own medicine就是自食苦果。你是说，这几天我逼你练得那么辛苦，现在你也要让我尝尝同样的滋味。

Larry: Right! Let's start early tomorrow...be here at 7 am on the dot. I can't wait to give you a taste of your own medicine!

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第二天，Larry和李华开始了训练。

Larry: Come on, Lihua, just 500 more meters! Pick up your speed! And...you're done!

LH: (Out of breath) 时间怎么样？

Larry: Eighteen minutes.

LH: 啊？这么慢？ 18 minutes on the dot? 正好18分么？

Larry: No, not on the dot. More like 18 minutes and 16 seconds...

LH: 我要累死了，不练了不练了!

Larry: Now you know how it feels to taste some of your own medicine!

LH: 是啊，现在我体会到你的辛苦了。我真不该对你那么严格。

Larry: Good! Well, I guess I can tell you now...there's no couple's race.

LH: 根本就没有什么双人跑？!

Larry: Yeah, you were pushing me so hard...I just wanted you to get a taste of your own medicine.

LH: 为了让我自食苦果，你就用这招骗我？!哎呀，糟糕，刚才跑得太快，你妈妈送我的那条项链不知道什么时候掉了。

Larry: My mother's necklace?? That's been in my family for 100 years on the dot! Why did you wear that on a run?

LH: 哈! 你着急了吧! 项链就在我包里!怎么样， you just got a taste of your own medicine，你也知道被骗的滋味不好受了吧!

Larry: Indeed...

今天李华学了两个常用语。一个是on the dot，表示“正好，精确地”。另一是get a taste of one's own medicine, 意思是“自食苦果”。

Words and Phrases

1. on the dot  正好

E.g.  It's 5pm on the dot.

2. taste of one's own medicine  自食苦果

E.g.  Now you know how it feels to taste some of your own medicine.

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