一長串的等待
Kelly and Marcus are friends. They are talking about donating blood.
凱莉和馬克斯是朋友。他們正在討論捐血。
donate(v.)捐贈
Kelly: Hey, Marcus, have you ever donated blood?
凱莉：嘿，馬克斯，你有捐過血嗎？
Marcus: No, I haven’t. But I know that there isn’t enough blood in Taiwan right now.
馬克斯：沒有，我沒有。但我知道台灣現在的血液不足。
enough(adj.)足夠的right now 立刻、馬上
Kelly: I just heard that on the news too. I guess there is a great need for every type of blood.
凱莉：我也剛在新聞上聽說。我猜每種血型都急需。
hear(v.)聽說guess(v.)猜想great(adj.)大量的need(n.)需求type(n.)類型
Marcus: Yeah, I read an article that said there aren’t enough people willing to donate.
馬克斯：對，我讀的那篇文章說願意捐血的人不夠多。
article(n.)文章willing to 願意做某事情
Kelly: Well, they just offered free lobster to blood donors in Kaohsiung! They had a long line of people waiting.
凱莉：嗯，他們在高雄甚至提供免費的龍蝦給捐血者！有一長串的人在等待。
offer(v.)提供line(n.)隊伍、排隊
Marcus: Wow! I didn’t know about that. I guess that offering gifts makes blood drives more popular. Every drop helps, right?
馬克斯：哇！我不知道這回事。我想送禮物確實讓捐血活動更受歡迎。每一滴血都有幫助，對吧？
blood drive 捐血活動popular(adj.)受歡迎的drop (n.)(一)滴
Kelly: That’s right. However, some people think that if the government changes the rules for who is allowed to be donors, there would be enough blood available in Taiwan. The current rules are really strict.
凱莉：沒錯。不過，有些人認為如果政府改變捐血者的資格規定，台灣的血液供應就會足夠。目前的規定很嚴格。
government(n.)政府rule(n.)規則be allowed to 被准許～available(adj.)可取得的current(adj.)現在的;目前的strict(adj.)嚴格的
Marcus: That would probably help a lot. I’ll look online later to see when I can donate!
馬克斯：那應該會有很大幫助。我待會兒上網查一下，看看我什麼時候可以捐血！
probably(adv.)可能地