美語情景對話 第1375期:Talent Wish 希望擁有的才能(1)

Gyri: What are some talents you wish you had?

格里：你希望擁有哪些才能？

Viyasan: I would say this talent spreads a long time back and it's always something I'm very envious about. I don't have the best memory and so I really wish that my talent was to remember a lot easier or even have photographic memory. I think that would be very useful, especially as a student during exams where we're able to read quite a bit and remember all of it. I think that talent would be interesting to have because I wouldn't always be forgetting daily things, like my keys to my apartment.

維亞森：有一種才能我一直想要擁有，而且我一直很羨慕擁有這種才能的人。我記憶力不太好，我非常希望我擁有能輕鬆記住大量信息的才能或是過目不忘的記憶力。我認爲這種才能非常有用，尤其對學生來說，在準備考試時能複習大量知識並全部記住。我認爲擁有這種才能很重要，因爲這樣我就不會總忘記日常事務了，可以避免忘帶公寓鑰匙之類的事情。

Gyri: Right.

格里：對。

Viyasan: Or for example, my water bottle every single time I leave for class. I think memory is very important and it's very good to remember certain conversations with people. For example, sometimes I might have a conversation with someone and completely forget that I talked about that topic and then just be reminded of it when I talk to that person the next time.

維亞森：比如，我每次都把水瓶忘在教室。我認爲記憶力非常重要，記住和他人的特定對話非常有必要。舉例來說，有時我可能在和他人交流後完全忘掉剛纔的話題，下次再和那個人聊天時纔會想起來。

Gyri: Yeah.

格里：嗯。

Viyasan: I think having a better memory or photographic memory would be great for those situations.

維亞森：我認爲對這些情況來說，擁有較好的記憶力或是過目不忘的記憶力非常重要。

Gyri: Yeah, definitely.

格里：對，絕對是。

Viyasan: And yourself? What are some talents that you wish you had?

維亞森：你呢？你希望擁有哪些才能？

Gyri: I wish that I could dance. I have no rhythm at all.

格里：我希望我能跳舞。我完全沒有節奏感。

Viyasan: Yeah.

維亞森：嗯。

Gyri: I feel so stupid when like if we go out or we listen to music, I just look really goofy when I try to dance, but I feel like dancing so I still try, but it just looks horrible. Yeah, I wish I had more rhythm and the ability to learn dance moves, I guess.

格里：我感覺自己很笨拙，我們出去玩或聽音樂時，我在嘗試跳舞時看上去非常滑稽，可是我喜歡跳舞，所以我仍會嘗試，可是看上去很糟糕。我希望我能有更多節奏感，擁有學習舞蹈動作的能力。

Viyasan: Yeah, I would say that dancing is definitely a talent that some people have. Likewise, I do not have any rhythm so I'll join you on that same dance floor.

維亞森：嗯，跳舞絕對是有些人擁有的才能。我也沒有節奏感，我可以和你在同一個舞池跳舞。嗯。

Gyri: Yeah.

格里：嗯。

Viyasan: Even though I like to dance, I don't dance very well.

維亞森：雖然我喜歡跳舞，但是我跳得不太好。

Gyri: Yeah. Yeah, I wish that I was better at sports as well. I really like downhill skiing, for example, but I never skied a lot, like my dad, he skied professionally when he was young, and I'm kind of bitter that he didn't take me up to the hills more than he did because if I had started at a young age I could be really good right now, but I didn't, so I'm a casual skier but I really wish that I could be like better than average in something, especially a sport.

格里：嗯。好，我還希望我能更擅長體育運動。舉例來說，我非常喜歡高山滑雪，可是我沒有經常去滑雪，我爸爸年輕時是職業滑雪運動員，他沒有經常帶我去山上滑雪這點令我感到不滿，因爲如果我也從小練滑雪，那我現在可能會滑得非常好，可是我並沒有，現在我是業餘滑雪選手，我非常希望我能在某件事上高於平均水平，尤其是運動方面。

Viyasan: Got it, got it.

維亞森：我明白，我明白。

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重點講解：
1. be able to do sth. 可以…的，能夠…的；
He may be able to leave hospital early next week.
他下週初也許就可以出院了。
2. go out 外出交際；外出娛樂；
The children have stayed at home for a whole day, just let them go out for fun.
孩子門一天沒出門了，讓他們出去去玩一會吧。
3. even though 即使；儘管；縱然；
You can keep your word even though this may not always be easy to do.
你應該做到言出必行，儘管這很不容易做到。
4. as well 也；還；
The sea water was as blue as the sky , and it was very clean as well.
海水的顏色是如同天一般的藍色，也十分的透明。