日常生活中練習的英語口語

有很多的家長會想要孩子的英語很好，就要花出時間了哦，下面小編就給大家分享看看英語口語，僅供參考哦

　　Love and Relationships in France 法國的戀愛關係

Todd: Hello, Marianne. I thought we would talk about love and relationships today.

託德：你好，瑪麗安。我們來談談現在的愛情和戀愛關係。

Marianne: Okay.

瑪麗安：好。

Todd: If you don't mind.

託德：如果你不介意的話。

Marianne: That's fine.

瑪麗安：我不介意。

Todd: And we would ask you about marriage in your country of France. And is it changing? Like are fewer people getting married? Are they getting married younger or later? Like how is marriage changing in France?

託德：請你說說你的祖國法國的婚姻。婚姻情況有改變嗎?結婚的人是越來越少嗎?人們結婚的年齡是呈年輕化還是會推遲結婚?法國的婚姻情況有什麼變化?

Marianne: Well, marriage, it's kind of like very, like it's a traditional idea. Actually, it's a very conservative idea or very – it became like a conservative concept. So actually nowadays, I would say that French people do not really care about getting married. They care more about like having a stable relationship or having a real love relationship. Because I would say like for example, for my grandfather and grandmother's generation, marriage was very, like, it was very important for the stability of the family and for the stability of – even for yourself. Like even for when you were a woman at this time, you have to rely on a husband to live because women were not independent. They couldn't work or they had difficult access to work. So marriage was very important to have this possible life and having someone who can support you. But nowadays, because things are changing between men and women, they tend to be equal, so they tend to have the same rights. So marriage became less important to get some stability in your life. But the most important nowadays is to find someone that you can really rely on and someone that you really love to have a family. So people get married like when they are older. So they really enjoy like being young and enjoy, like, having different partners for example and then decide who is the best one, best partner. And then when they are older, when they are sure, they can get married and have a family. But it's not the first priority. People are more independent; women and men nowadays in France. So marriage is like kind of just like people put back – put the marriage back, it's not the first priority. The main priority is really about love, about finding happiness in your life if you find someone you love.

瑪麗安：嗯，婚姻是傳統的想法。這是一種非常保守的想法，婚姻已經成爲保守概念。現在，法國人並不在乎結婚與否。他們更在乎有一段穩定的戀愛關係或有一段真正的戀情。舉個例子，對我祖父母那代人來說，婚姻對家庭的穩定和自身的穩定來說非常重要。當時，女性要依靠丈夫生活，因爲女性並不是獨立的。她們不能工作，或者說她們很難找到工作。所以，婚姻非常重要，因爲你要找到支持你生活的人。可是現在，因爲男性和女性的情況已經發生變化，男女更平等，享有同樣的權利。所以婚姻對於維持生活穩定來說不再重要。現在最重要的是找到你真正想依靠、想組成家庭的人。所以，人們結婚的年齡越來越晚。他們在年輕時享受時光，和不同的伴侶交往，然後決定最佳伴侶人選。在他們年齡越來越大時，當他們確定時他們就會結婚，組成家庭。但是婚姻不再是首要任務。人們越來越獨立，現在法國男女非常獨立。所以他們會推遲結婚，結婚不再那麼重要。更重要的是愛情，找到你愛的人，找到幸福的生活。

Todd: Okay. Well, I think in the States it's very similar. But how do they feel about children? And also, how do they feel about, let's say, being with someone for their entire life? Like you find your soul-mate and then that's it.

託德：好。我認爲美國的情況和法國類似。法國人對生孩子有什麼看法?他們對和伴侶共度一生有什麼看法?比如找到靈魂伴侶之類的。

Marianne: Well, it's a very romantic idea. So I think it's – it doesn't have to do with marriage. Like it depends on your personality I would say because if you believe in this idea of the perfect soul-mate and someone you can live with forever, it's more like romantic. So I would say, nowadays, like still French people believe in everlasting or never-ending love. But it's not necessarily through marriage that you accomplish this.

瑪麗安：嗯，這是一個非常浪漫的想法。我認爲不一定非要結婚。這取決於你的性格，如果你相信完美靈魂伴侶，你可以和一個人共度一生，那非常浪漫。現在，法國人依然相信永恆的愛。但是，那並不一定通過結婚來實現。

Todd: Okay. And what about children?

託德：好。那孩子呢?

Marianne: What do you – so what's your question about children?

瑪麗安：就孩子來說，你想問什麼?

Todd: So you were saying that marriage isn't as important to people. Are they willing to have children out of wedlock? Or like do people feel like you have to be married to have children or they just...?

託德：你說婚姻對人們來說不再重要。那他們願意未婚生子嗎?人們是認爲一定要結婚以後再生孩子還是他們可以……?

Marianne: No, no. No, no. You have to love each other. You really have to love each other to have children. Like it doesn't matter so much if you are married or not, it's just a question of paper usually. For example, if the child should have the name of the father or the mother when you are not married, it could be this kind of issue. But like people can have children and then get married. Like for example, my friends – I have many friends around me who are just getting married now but they have already children like two or three children. So it's not, yeah, the question of having children or getting married before – we don't need – the order does not really matter nowadays. You have to marry the other if the other is really your ideal partner. But it does not matter if you have children before or after.

瑪麗安：不是，不是的。首先一定要相愛。一定要相愛才能要孩子。這與是否結婚沒有太大關係，婚姻不過是一張紙。舉個例子，如果沒有結婚，那孩子出生以後可能面臨是隨父姓還是隨母姓的問題。但是也可以有孩子以後再結婚。我身邊有很多朋友正在準備結婚，而他們已經有兩三個孩子了。現在，要孩子和結婚的順序不再那麼重要。如果對方是你理想的伴侶，那你就和對方結婚。結婚前生孩子還是結婚後再生孩子不太重要。

Todd: That makes a lot of sense. I think it's the same in a lot of countries these days.

託德：這很有道理。我想現在有很多國家都是這種情況。

　　Using AirBnB 如何用AirBnB網站

Todd: Okay. So we're talking about housing Meg. You know, these days, a lot of people can actuallystay in houses when they travel. Like they don't stayin hotels, they stay in a house. Have you heard aboutAirbnb?

託德：好。梅格，我們來談談住房。你知道，現在有許多人在旅行時選擇租房。人們不是住酒店，而是會租房。你聽說過Airbnb嗎?

Meg: Yeah, I have heard of it. I've looked at the website a couple of times. Do they haveAirbnb where you're from?

梅格：我聽說過。我瀏覽過這個網站幾次。Airbnb服務覆蓋你家鄉嗎?

Todd: They do. They actually do have Airbnb in San Francisco but I have not used it in SanFrancisco, I've only used it actually traveling in other countries. I used it Thailand and I wasgoing to use it in Japan but I ended up – I couldn't use it because of the travel problems butyeah.

託德：有，Airbnb在舊金山有房源，不過我在舊金山沒有用過Airbnb，我只會在其他國家旅行時使用Airbnb找房源。我在泰國時用Airbnb找過房子，我本來打算在日本時也使用Airbnb，可是因爲旅行中的一些問題，我沒能用到Airbnb的服務。

Meg: So how does it work?

梅格：要怎麼使用Airbnb的服務?

Todd: Basically, what it works is if somebody owns a house, they can rent out a room. And so, you find a house online and then you book it with the scheduling system online. And then youpay Airbnb the money and then the people let you stay in their house.

託德：基本上來說，就是房主出租房屋。你在找房子時可以使用Airbnb網站的在線調度系統預訂房子。然後你付錢給Airbnb，房主就會讓你住在他們出租的房子裏。

Meg: What are the cost usually? Is it expensive?

梅格：通常來說費用是多少?貴嗎?

Todd: It can be really cheap or really expensive. You have both ends. I mean, sometimes youcan just rent a room and sometimes, you can actually rent the whole house. So, you know – andnow, in places like Thailand or other places in Southeast Asia, what they do is a lot ofcondominiums now are kind of turning into mini-hotels. So rather than try to find long-termtenants, they just search for – or they just rent out their apartments on Airbnb.

託德：可以很便宜，也可以很貴。便宜的房子和貴的房子都有。有時你可以只租一個房間，有時你可以租到整個房子。像泰國和其他東南亞國家有很多共管公寓，現在這些公寓正在逐漸轉型爲迷你酒店。房主不是在找長期房客，而是將公寓租給Airbnb。

Meg: Right. Well, it sounds like a good way to stay some place you haven't been before.

梅格：好。聽起來這是在你沒去過的地方生活的一個好方法。

Todd: It is good. I mean, when I used it in Thailand, what I liked about it was you feel like youhave a real, you know, you have real roots there. You're not in the hotel so nobody is kind ofintruding on you or nobody is coming to clean your room everyday. So you feel like you havemore privacy and you feel like you really live in the place. And usually, the apartments are inreal neighborhoods so they're not in touristy areas. So there are definitely some advantages.

託德：是很好。我在泰國用Airbnb找房源時，我喜歡那種紮根於那裏的感覺。不住在酒店裏，就不會有人來打擾你，或是每天來給你打掃房間。這樣你會有更多的隱私，你會感覺到你生活在那個地方。一般來說，出租的公寓位於真正的社區，並不是在旅遊景點。所以有一定的好處。

Meg: Would you say that it's safe?

梅格：你指的是安全嗎?

Todd: Yeah. I guess that's the biggest concern. It seems to be safe. I mean, from what I see – although there was an interesting case recently in California where they've had problems ofsquatters. And a squatter...

託德：對。我想那是人們最關心的問題。看起來很安全。在我看來……不過最近加州發生了一些值得反思的案件，有人擅自佔用他人的房子。

Meg: What are squatters?

梅格：什麼意思?

Todd: A squatter is somebody who, they take the Airbnb house and then they just never leave.

託德：就是有些人租住了Airbnb提供的房子後，就不再離開。

Meg: Oh.

梅格：哦。

Todd: Yeah. And then they're hard to evict. So that was one interesting thing. And then also, recently, the company has been in the news because people that have low-income housing, likegovernment subsidized housing, they've been trying to rent out their apartments on Airbnb.

託德：對。而且很難把他們趕出去。這是一件值得注意的事情。另外，最近Airbnb上了新聞，原因是一些保障性住房，就是政府補貼住房的房主想把公寓出租給Airbnb。

Meg: On Airbnb.

梅格：在Airbnb上出租。

Todd: And then the city or the government said, "Hey, you can't do that because we give youthis house at a discount to help you because you're low income. So you can't use it to make aprofit." So it's been a very debatable situation.

託德：可是市政府說，“嘿，你們不能這樣做，因爲政府在你們買房時提供了折扣，你們是低收入人羣，所以我們提供了幫助。所以你們不能用房子來營利。”這是一個備受爭議的情況。

Meg: Yeah. I guess it's kind of like double dipping.

梅格：嗯。那就像雙重獲利一樣。

Todd: Yeah.

託德：對。

Meg: You're getting discount or paid in a way to live there and then you want to get paidmore. So it sounds like a problem.

梅格：你在買房時獲得了優惠，然後你還想獲利更多。聽起來的確是個問題。

Todd: Yeah. So what do you think? Would you be interested in doing something like Airbnb?

託德：對。你怎麼看?你對Airbnb這種服務感興趣嗎?

Meg: Yeah. I definitely think so. After researching a place, maybe if I have a lot of pictures andit seemed clear that it would be safe, yeah, I think I'd like to do it.

梅格：感興趣。我非常喜歡這種服務。在研究過一個地方以後，如果我掌握了很多照片，而且那裏看起來乾淨又安全的話，我想我會想租住的。

Todd: And actually their website is fantastic. Like if you go to their website, you can, let's say, choose a house in Paris or Madrid or whatever. And then they often have like the Google streetcam thing so you can see what the house looks like on the inside. And then you could actuallydo the rotating camera and see what the neighborhood looks like. And then everybody leavesreviews about the owner and about their stay there, so you'd get a good feel about what theplace is like. So it's kind of a new way to travel, and it's kind of cool.

託德：實際上，我認爲這個網站非常棒。假設你在Airbnb網站上選擇巴黎或馬德里的房子。然後你可以通過谷歌的街景相機看到房子裏面的情況。你還可以通過旋轉式照相機看到社區周圍的情況。在那所房子住過的人會對房主進行評價，這樣你就可以瞭解那所房子怎麼樣。這是一種旅行的新方式，一種非常酷的方式。

Meg: Yeah. It sounds interesting especially the reviews. I think knowing someone else has hada good experience, I would definitely be interested in doing it.

梅格：對。聽起來很有趣，而且還有評價可以參考。我認爲，在知道有人在那所房子裏有美好的體驗之後，我一定會更感興趣。

Todd: Yeah, definitely.

託德：對，絕對會。

　　Ridiculously Expensive City 生活成本貴得離譜的城市

Meg: So Todd, I heard that you're from San Francisco and that it's really expensive there maybe to live. Is it – is that true?

梅格：託德，我聽說你來自舊金山，那是個生活成本非常昂貴的城市。這是真的嗎?

Todd: Yeah. It's ridiculously expensive. It's obscene actually. It's so hard to get other people to realize how expensive it is. You have to actually live there and then you can experience it firsthand. But basically, you know, your average small apartment is a minimum, a minimum of like $3,000 a month.

託德：對，那裏的生活成本貴得離譜。實際上非常驚人。很難讓其他人意識到那裏到底有多昂貴。只有生活在那裏，才能親身體會到。基本上來說，一個普通小公寓的最低月租是3000美元。

Meg: Wow. That sounds really expensive.

梅格：哇哦，聽起來真是太貴了。

Todd: Yeah.

託德：沒錯。

Meg: Well, so I don't know much about the San Francisco area. Is that like just in the main downtown part or anywhere in the city is it that expensive?

梅格：我對舊金山不太瞭解。是隻有市中心比較貴還是那座城市的所有地方都很貴?

Todd: It's actually – yeah, it's pretty much the entire peninsula. And the high pricing affects all of Northern California. And the reason is because companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Cisco – all these really big rich, rich companies pay people a lot of money. And so, there's a lot of money in San Francisco for the tech world, and that just drives up the prices for everything.

託德：實際上，基本上所有地方都貴。高昂的價格影響了整個北卡羅來納州。我想這是因爲臉譜網、谷歌、蘋果、雅虎、思科等大型富有公司提供的工資很高。所以，舊金山的科技世界有很多錢，這就導致了所有物品價格的上漲。

Meg: So everyone who lives there like must be pretty rich?

梅格：那生活在那裏的人一定都很有錢吧?

Todd: Yeah. So it's very high income. I think the average income is over $100,000 a year or something crazy like that.

託德：對。那裏的收入非常高。我想平均年薪可能超過10萬美元。

Meg: Wow.

梅格：哇哦。

Todd: Yeah, it's a lot.

託德：對，收入很高。

Meg: So if apartments are $3,000 a month, what about houses?

梅格：如果公寓的月租是3000美元，那房價呢?

Todd: Houses are ridiculously expensive. So your average house is probably – in San Francisco, a really small rinky-dink house can go for almost $1 million.

託德：房價更是貴得離譜。舊金山那種又小又舊的普通房屋的價格近100萬美元。

Meg: Wow.

梅格：哇哦。

Todd: Yeah.

託德：嗯。

Meg: Wow. That sounds impossible.

梅格：哇哦。聽上去真是不可思議。

Todd: Yeah. It sounds obscene. Yeah. Years ago I worked on the construction crew, and this was 15 years ago. And we were just renovating or painting a very small little shack. I mean, the house wasn't even that big and it was going for $1 million.

託德：對。簡直駭人聽聞。很多年以前我在建築隊工作，大概是15年前。我們的工作是翻新或粉刷一座非常小的房子。那個房子沒有多大，而價格是100萬美元。

Meg: Wow. So when you were working there, were you living in San Francisco also?

梅格：哇哦。你在那裏工作時，是住在舊金山嗎?

Todd: I was. And that's actually why I became a teacher in Asia, why I moved to Japan because we were losing our lease on our apartment, and I had to go find new housing. And not only is the house inexpensive but even if you have the money, you might not get a house because you have to go through this long process. It's almost like getting into college. You have to get through this interview process. And just going and finding an apartment is such a complicated process in San Francisco that I thought, "Oh, forget it, I'm just going to take the easy way out and go back and start teaching overseas again."

託德：對。那也是我現在在亞洲當老師的原因，也是我搬到日本來生活的原因，因爲我們失去了我們公寓的租約，我必須要找新的住處。我來到日本不僅因爲日本的房價便宜，在舊金山，即使你有錢，你可能也找不到房子，因爲手續非常複雜。就像上大學一樣。上大學要進行面試。在舊金山，找房子的手續非常複雜，所以我想“算了吧，我要找簡單的方法，我要再去外國教英語。”

Meg: So if someone were interested in living in San Francisco, what would your advice be?

梅格：如果有人想在舊金山生活，你會給他們什麼建議?

Todd: Don't, or make sure you have a lot of money or you have a really good job. I guess there are some ways around it. You can rent rooms and things like that. But it's doable because there is low-income housing. And if you live in the outskirts and if you are going to commute into the city, you could probably find something around $1,500 a month. But still, it's pretty expensive.

託德：不要去舊金山生活，除非你要很多錢或者有份好工作。應該有一些方法能讓你在舊金山生活。你可以租房。這是可行的，因爲舊金山有低收入住房。如果住在郊區，每天要通勤去市區，那可能可以租到月租金1500美元左右的房子。不過，這個價格依然很貴。

Meg: So work for Google first, then move to San Francisco.

梅格：首先要去谷歌公司工作，然後再搬到舊金山去。

Todd: Right. Exactly. Make sure you get that job at the tech company. And then once you have that job, then you're set.

託德：對，沒錯。確保在科技公司找到工作。找到工作以後，再準備。

Meg: Great. Well, thanks for sharing about San Francisco.

梅格：不錯。謝謝你分享有關舊金山的情況。

Todd: Sure.

託德：不客氣。