美語情景對話 第1285期:What is being threatened in your country? 在你的國傢什麼正在遭受威脅?

Jingwei: Hi, I'm Jingwei.

京薇：嗨，我是京薇。

Joseph: I'm Joseph.

約瑟夫：我是約瑟夫。

Jingwei: We're from Singapore. The question today is what is being threatened in our country?

京薇：我們兩個人都來自新加坡。今天要討論的問題是，在我們國傢什麼正在遭受威脅？

Joseph: I assume this refers to animals, and as of now I really can't think of any. The Singapore is doing a pretty good job, but in the past...

約瑟夫：我認爲是動物。除此之外，目前我想不到其他的。新加坡現在做得非常好，但是以前……

Jingwei: We had tigers ...

京薇：我們有老虎。

Joseph: But they're all gone now, except for at the zoo. We had quite a few species of snakes like grass snakes, but we don't see them around much now. Hopefully, some household pests like cockroaches, ants, maybe they'll be extinct soon. Then we could all have a more comfortable and less fearful lives. Any animals that you wanna see be threatened?

約瑟夫：但是現在除了動物園，野外已經看不到老虎了。我們曾有很多種蛇，比如草蛇，但現在也不常見了。我希望蟑螂、螞蟻等對家庭有害的動物不久後也能滅絕。這樣我們就能擁有更舒適而且擔心更少的生活了。有沒有什麼動物是你希望遭受威脅的？

Jingwei: What?

京薇：什麼？

Joseph: I don't know.

約瑟夫：我不知道。

Jingwei: That's not politically correct.

京薇：從政治上來說那並不正確。

Joseph: Yeah, but I'm not a big fan of all animals. Dogs and cats, they're still alright but the big ones are scary ones.

約瑟夫：對，不過我並不是所有動物都喜歡。狗和貓之類的動物還好，但是大型動物很可怕。

Jingwei: I think some bats, and some birds and some insects are being threatened in Singapore. But we don't hear much about them.

京薇：我認爲新加坡有一些蝙蝠、鳥類和昆蟲處於威脅之中。不過我們很少聽到它們的消息。

Joseph: So I guess they are still doing fine.

約瑟夫：我認爲那說明情況還可以。

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重點講解：
1. refer to 談到；指；
例句：Asked at the time about his use of the term "young boys" , Mitterrand said he called all men "boys" and it did not refer to minors.
當時，密特朗被問及他使用的“年輕男孩”一詞，他說他把所有的男人都稱爲“男孩”，這並不是指未成年人。
2. as of 在…時；從…起；自…始；
例句：As of this afternoon, the festival site appeared to be up and running once again.
到今天下午爲止，電影節網站看似已經恢復運行。
3. except for 除了；除…之外；唯有；
例句：Everyone was late, except for Richard.
除了理查德，其他所有人都遲到了。
4. quite a few 相當多；
例句：I can cite quite a few instances to illustrate.
我可以舉出好幾件事來說明。