美語情景對話 第1093期:What can you do? 你能做什麼?

Rory: So Abidemi, let's talk about abilities. Can you cook?

羅瑞：阿比德米，我們來談談能力。你會做飯嗎？

Abidemi: Yes, and no. I can cook a little bit, the basic stuff but I really like to eat but I don't experiment too much. So no, I'm not a great cook, but I can cook. I cook to survive. What about you, Rory? Can you cook?

阿比德米：可以說會，也可以說不會。我會做點兒飯，基本的食物我會做，我非常喜歡吃，不過我不經常創新菜式。我不是好廚師，但是我會做飯。我做飯是爲了生活下去。你呢，羅瑞？你會做飯嗎？

Rory: Yeah, I can. I really like cooking. I love cooking Italian food. I also love baking. So I can bake cakes and cookies and bread, stuff like that.

羅瑞：我會。我非常喜歡烹飪。我喜歡烹飪意大利美食。我也喜歡烘焙。我可以烘焙蛋糕、餅乾和麪包等等。

Abidemi: Okay.

阿比德米：好。

Rory: How about singing? Can you sing?

羅瑞：那唱歌呢？你會唱歌嗎？

Abidemi: I think I can sing. Yes, I enjoy singing. I love singing. I sing a lot in church, so I can sing. What about you? Can you sing?

阿比德米：我認爲我會唱。我很喜歡唱歌。我愛唱歌。我經常在教會唱歌，我會唱歌。你呢？你會唱歌嗎？

Rory: I can't sing at all. Like even when I go to karaoke, I'm too embarrassed to pick up the microphone.

羅瑞：我完全不會唱歌。即使去KTV，我也會因爲太尷尬而沒法拿起麥克唱歌。

Abidemi: Oh, it's too bad. What about you, Rory, can you play – okay, can you play an instrument?

阿比德米：哦，那太糟了。那羅瑞，你會演奏樂器嗎？

Rory: I can't. No. I'd love to be able to play an instrument but I can't play anything. How about you? Can you play an instrument?

羅瑞：我不會。我希望我會演奏樂器，可是事實上我完全不會。你呢？你會演奏樂器嗎？

Abidemi: No, I can't. I really wish that I had learned something when I was younger. But I say I can play my voice. Ha, ha.

阿比德米：我也不會。我非常希望我小時候學過樂器。不過，我可以演奏我的聲音，哈哈。

Rory: That's nice.

羅瑞：這很好。

Abidemi: What about juggling? Can you juggle, Rory?

阿比德米：那雜耍呢？羅瑞，你會雜耍嗎？

Rory: Yeah, I can juggle. I can juggle with three balls and I can almost juggle with four.

羅瑞：我會。我會3球雜耍，我還可以做4球雜耍。

Abidemi: Wow.

阿比德米：哇哦。

Rory: Like I can do it for about 10 seconds. Yeah.

羅瑞：我可以堅持10秒鐘。

Abidemi: I can't juggle at all. So please teach me. It's always something that I've always wanted – I wanted to learn.

阿比德米：我完全不會雜耍。請教教我。我一直想學雜耍。

Rory: Okay. Can you speak three languages?

羅瑞：好。你會說三種語言嗎？

Abidemi: Yes. I think I can speak three languages.

阿比德米：對，我可以說三種語言。

Rory: Which ones?

羅瑞：哪三種？

Abidemi: I think English is my best language but I also speak Yoruba, a Nigerian language, and I speak French as well. Yes. And you?

阿比德米：我最擅長的語言是英語，我還會約魯巴語，這是尼日利亞的一種語言，我也會法語。你呢？

Rory: Well, I can speak English and I can speak some Czech. I lived in the Czech Republic for six years.

羅瑞：我會英語和捷克語。我在捷克共和國生活了六年。

Abidemi: Wow.

阿比德米：哇哦。

Rory: And I can also speak a little bit of French but it's very rusty.

羅瑞：我還會兒一點兒法語，不過非常生疏。

Abidemi: Okay. Maybe next time we'll have this conversation in French then.

阿比德米：好。也許下次我們可以用法語對話。

Rory: Okay.

羅瑞：好。

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重點講解：
1. pick up 拿起；提起；拾起；撿起；
例句：Ridley picked up a pencil and fiddled with it.
裏德利拿起一支鉛筆，不停地在手裏擺弄着。
2. be able to do sth. 可以…的，能夠…的；
例句：The company say they're able to keep pricing competitive.
該公司說他們能夠使定價保持競爭力。
3. as well 也；還；
例句：'What do you like about it then?' — 'Erm, the history, the shops—people are quite friendly as well.'
“那麼你喜歡這兒的什麼？”——“嗯，它的歷史啦，商店啦，還有這兒的人也都很友好。”