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LL: Li Hua, it's Saturday, I want to sleep in for once. What's so important that you have to wake me up?

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LL: Ok, now pay attention. "Sleep in" is a very, very important term to me. "Sleep in" means to sleep later than usual.

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LL: Hey, sleeping in once in a while does not make a person lazy.

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LL¡GLi Hua, why didn't you sleep in this morning? It's Saturday!

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LL: Sleep is important, too, Li Hua. You should have slept in and run later.

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LL: All right. I guess I'm awake now anyway. Wait for me, I'll be ready to go in a minute.

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LL¡GLi Hua, why don't we stop at Starbucks and have a coffee!

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LL: Come on! I'm not a slacker. I'm just a little tired because somebody didn't let me sleep in this morning.

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LL: A slacker is someone who "slacks off" or very lazy.

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LL: You got it. For example: a student who doesn't do his homework and is always late for class is a slacker.

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LL: You know that guy in our history class who always sleeps through class and never reads his textbook? He is a slacker.

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LL: Ah, she was such a slacker! She was so slow that it took nearly an hour to get our food. I thought I was going to starve to death.

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LL: Can't we walk the rest of the way?

LH: §A·Q¨«¡H ¤£¦æ¤£¦æ¡A§Ú­Ì­n°í«ù¶]¨ì²×ÂI - Don't be a slacker, Larry!

LL: Stop calling me that! Next weekend, I'm going to wake you up at 6 a.m. to go running and then we'll see who is the slacker!

LH: ¤°»ò¡H§A¤U¬P´Á¤»¦­¤W6ÂIÄÁ¥s§Ú°_¨Ó¶]¨B°Ú¡H§Ú¥i¤£·F¡A¤U¬P´Á¤»§Ú­nºÎÃiı - I'm going to sleep in¡I

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