第一， 迷你对话

A: Some pretty girls seem to be just going steady with him.

有好多漂亮的姑娘好像现在正在和她约会。

B: That’s indeed a mystery. How can these girls enjoy hanging around with such a bad egg.

真受不了，这些女孩怎么会和这样一个坏蛋在一起了？

A: Birds of a feather flock together, you bet. These girls can’t be good girls. Beauty is only skin deep, you know.

物以类聚，人以群分。她们也不是好女孩，只不过是脸蛋漂亮罢了，你说呢？

第二， 地道表达

go steady

1. 解词释义

Go steady是指（男女双方）确定了情侣关系。表示与……确定情侣关系，在短语后面用介词with，即为：go steady with someone。

2. 拓展范例

After a while, Mary and John may decide they want to go steady.

经过一段时间后，Mary和John可能决定保持稳定的关系。

Mary is the one I decided to go steady with .

玛丽是我已经决定保持稳定关系的那一个。

第三，咬文嚼字

enjoy doing sth.：喜欢做……

e.g. She enjoys playing tennis.

她喜好打网球。

e.g. What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?

你业余时间喜欢做什么？

hang around：闲荡

e.g. You hang around with your old Chicago school chums.

你现在同芝加哥的一些老同学一起消磨时日。

e.g. What on earth a good girl like Mary wants to hang around with that crazy bunch for, God only knows.

象玛丽这样的好姑娘到底为什么要去跟那群疯子厮混，只有天知道。

bad egg：坏蛋，坏人

e.g. He's been in prison several times for all sorts of crimes; he's a bad egg.

他因各种罪行入狱多次，他是个坏蛋。

e.g. We are so worried; our daughter has made friends with a very bad egg.

我们很担忧，我们的女儿交上一个不三不四的朋友。

skin deep：肤浅的，表面的

e.g. True beauty is not skin deep!

真正的美丽并不只是外表的美丽！

e.g. Her beauty is more than skin deep.

她的美并非肤浅的美。