If it's something that someone designed, they designed it in a logical way, in a way that makes sense.

如果是別人設計的東西，他們的設計就會合乎邏輯，合乎情理。

There's a store in North America called Costco.

北美有一家名為 "好市多 "的商店。

It's a large store, and everything there makes sense.

這是一家大型商店，那裡的一切都很合理。

The size of the shopping carts makes sense.

購物車的大小很合理。

They're larger than a normal store.

它們比普通商店要大。

The way the parking lot lines are put out makes sense.

停車場劃線的方式很合理。

They leave extra room between vehicles, probably because the carts are wider.

他們在車輛之間留出更多空間，可能是因為推車更寬。

The way the store is laid out makes sense.

商店的佈局合理。

Everything just makes sense when I go there.

到了那裡，一切都變得合情合理。

It's a really cool place to go.

這是一個非常酷的地方。

It's designed to be efficient and logical, and I'm usually happy when I'm shopping there.

它的設計高效合理，我在那裡購物時通常都很開心。

But you know what doesn't make sense?

但你知道什麼是不合理的嗎？

Government offices.

政府辦公室。

I'm sure this is the same in every country around the world.

我相信這在世界各國都是一樣的。

I went to a government office today to renew one of my cards.

我今天去政府辦公室更新了我的一張卡。

You know how you have driver's license and health cards and all that kind of stuff?

你知道你有駕照和健康卡之類的東西嗎？

I went to renew a card, and the way that that office was set up just doesn't make sense to me.

我去換了一張卡，但辦公室的設置方式讓我覺得很不合理。

There were numbers, like I got a number, but my number was like PC801.

有號碼，比如我有一個號碼，但我的號碼好像是 PC801。

But then there were numbers that started with T and S and all different letters.

但後來又出現了以 T 和 S 開頭的數字，以及各種不同的字母。

And then for a while there, everyone with numbers with the same letters in front as me, we didn't get called up.

後來有一段時間，每個人的號碼前面都有和我一樣的字母，我們都沒有被徵召入伍。

I was there for, I think it was almost three hours.

我在那裡待了差不多三個小時。

Sometimes stuff just doesn't make sense.

有時候，事情就是說不通。

I'm not sure how well that place was designed.

我不知道那個地方設計得有多好。

So to review, when something makes sense, it's very logical and easy to understand.

是以，回顧一下，當一件事情有意義時，它是非常合乎邏輯和易於理解的。

When something doesn't make sense, it's just very confusing, and you don't understand why it was designed that way.

當有些東西不合理時，就會讓人非常困惑，不明白為什麼要這樣設計。

Anyways, I got everything done I needed to, but I was a little frustrated.

總之，我把該做的都做完了，但還是有點沮喪。

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

但是，讓我們看看之前視頻中的評論。

This comment is from Aerosmith77, also known as Judith. "I loved when I could take the long way home, but not nowadays.

此評論來自 Aerosmith77，又名 Judith。"我喜歡以前可以繞遠路回家的日子，但現在不行了。

Thanks for the lesson.

感謝您的教誨。

I gotta go." And my response, "From my understanding, you have quite the commute now.

我得走了。"我的回答是："據我所知，你現在的通勤時間相當長。

I hope it's going well.

希望一切順利。

So Judith, thank you for that comment and for using the phrase 'long way home' from the previous lesson.

朱迪絲，謝謝你的評論，也謝謝你使用了上一課中的 "回家的路還很長 "這句話。

Very cool.

太酷了

But yeah, I understood from another comment you made, I think you change jobs and I think you drive for over an hour each way now to work.

不過，是的，我從你的另一條評論中瞭解到，我想你換了工作，我想你現在上班單程要開一個多小時的車。

That's a long ways to drive.

要開很長一段路

So hopefully you have lots to listen to, some good music, maybe you listen to a few podcasts on your way there.

所以，希望你能聽很多音樂，一些好聽的音樂，也許你在路上會聽一些播客。

I just hope it's going well because that's a pretty long drive to go every day.

我只希望一切順利，因為每天都要開很長時間的車。

But hey, what was I gonna talk about today?

但是，我今天要談什麼呢？

Well, I can talk about my commute.

好吧，我可以談談我的通勤情況。

It's exactly 11 minutes every day, my commute.

我每天的通勤時間正好是 11 分鐘。

Because I live out in the country and I work in a town, not a city, there's just not a lot of traffic out this way.

因為我住在鄉下，在鎮上工作，而不是城市，所以這裡的交通並不繁忙。

It was just a big tractor that went by.

那只是一輛經過的大拖拉機。

Those sometimes slow down my commute a little bit.

這些有時會讓我的通勤速度慢一點。

But I have appreciated the fact that there's no real commute where I live.

但我很慶幸，我住的地方沒有真正的通勤。

It's just awesome.

真是太棒了。

So I feel bad.

所以我很難過。

I did though a few years ago, a few years ago, like 20, over 20 years ago, I worked at a school, okay that's exaggerating, about 18 years ago, I worked at a school in a nearby city just for a couple of years.

不過，幾年前，也就是 20 多年前，我確實在一所學校工作過，好吧，這有點誇張，大約 18 年前，我在附近城市的一所學校工作過幾年。

And it was a 45 minute drive.

而且車程只有 45 分鐘。

And the road that you drove down, you couldn't pass anybody.

在這條路上，你無法超越任何人。

It was just like one lane each way and you couldn't pass.

就像單行道一樣，你無法通過。

And so you would drive the speed limit all the way to work and all the way home from work.

是以，你會在上班和下班的路上一直限速行駛。

And that didn't make sense to me.

我覺得這說不通。

Sometimes traffic doesn't make sense to me either.

有時，交通對我來說也沒有意義。

But currently, my drive to school makes sense.

但目前，我開車去學校還說得過去。

I leave when I want to leave, and I'm there 11 minutes later every day, like clockwork.

我想走的時候就走，每天 11 分鐘後我就到了，就像鐘錶一樣。

So I appreciate that.

所以我很感激。

Anyways, thanks for watching.

總之，感謝您的收看。

I hope you're having a good day, and I'll have another short English lesson ready for you in a couple days after you watch this one.

希望你們今天過得愉快，看完這節課後，過幾天我還會為你們準備另一節簡短的英語課。

Bye.

再見。