美語情景對話 第978期:Childhood Memory 童年記憶

Vella: So Daniel, let's talk about childhood memories. Do you have any fond memory?

維拉：丹尼爾，我們來談談童年記憶。你有什麼美好的回憶嗎？

Daniel: Well, yeah, I do. I had a great time when I was a kid but definitely my best memory is, well, holidays. When I was a kid in Chile, we used to have a three month summer holiday and it was brilliant because I used to go to the countryside to my great-grandma's house and she had kind of a hostel at that time and it was brilliant because you had people coming in and out all the time, new people. The town was like really, really small and everything was so natural so I got to spend three months every summer in a really nice place doing nothing but playing with my friends all the time, going to the beach every day and like having amazing food. It was too good to be true, seriously. Unfortunately like then I grew older and I couldn't have the three months so I was going like, I don't know, two weeks and stuff like that. And then lately I couldn't go any more so it's shame but at the same time it's a great, it's really good that I got the chance to do it and I got the chance to experience it and I think that's one of my great memories of my childhood.

丹尼爾：有。我小時候度過了一段非常棒的時期，那個假期肯定是我最棒的回憶。我小時候，智利一般會放三個月左右的暑假，那非常棒，因爲我以前經常去我曾祖母位於鄉村的房子，那時她開了一家招待所，我覺得那非常好，因爲一直有不同的人進出。那座城鎮非常小，一切都非常自然，所以我每年暑假都有三個月的時間在一個很棒的地方度過，而且什麼都不用做，就是和朋友們一起玩，我們每天都去海灘，享用美味的食物。說實話，那有點兒好的令人難以置信。不幸的是，我長大以後就沒有那三個月的假期了，我只有兩週左右的假期。後來我就沒時間再去那裏了，這真遺憾，不過同時我也覺得很幸運，我有機會度過這樣的時光，我有機會經歷這種生活，我認爲這是我孩童時代最棒的回憶之一。

Vella: So you go there every summer?

維拉：你每年暑假都去？

Daniel: Well, not any more but I used to go there when I was a kid every, pretty much every summer, yeah.

丹尼爾：現在已經不去了，不過我小時候基本上每年暑假都去那裏。

Vella: So how did you spend the time? Like what did you do? Did you just play with friends or...?

維拉：那你如何度過你的暑假？你會做些什麼？就和朋友們一起玩還是……？

Daniel: Well, yeah, I used to get up really late every day then I don't know go for a football game with friends then, I don't know, having an amazing lunch. In the afternoon going to the beach, coming back, have dinner and then go out and play again. It was really like the same thing every day but at the same time since I was playing every day it didn't feel like a routine so, I don't know, three months doing that every year was amazing.

丹尼爾：對，我以前每天起得很晚，然後和朋友去踢足球，享用美味的午餐。下午我們會去海灘，然後回家吃晚飯，吃完晚飯後再出去玩。基本上每天都是這樣度過的，每天都在玩，那其實並不是日程，每年有三個月的時間這樣度過非常棒。

Vella: I mean food and friends, my definition of having fun.

維拉：我對享受樂趣的定義就是，美食和朋友。

Daniel: Yeah, yeah, it is definitely, yeah.

丹尼爾：對對，沒錯，就是這樣。

Vella: So you had three months holiday?

維拉：你有三個月的假期？

Daniel: Yeah.

丹尼爾：對。

Vella: Summer holiday? That's pretty long.

維拉：暑假？時間好長。

Daniel: Yeah, it's because, well we finish everything in December before Christmas and New Year so you have pretty much the whole of December plus January and February. That's the summer in Chile.

丹尼爾：對，因爲在聖誕節和新年之前，我們會在12月完成所有的事情，所以12月、1月和2月都是假期。這三個月是智利的暑假。

Vella: Interesting, summer in December.

維拉：真有意思，12月是夏季。

Daniel: Well, yeah, it is actually.

丹尼爾：嗯，對，沒錯。

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重點講解：
1. used to do sth. 過去常常；過去曾；
例句：There used to be a small hotel on the quay.
碼頭上曾經有個小旅館。
2. all the time 一直；始終；
例句：Machinery ought to be well maintained all the time.
機器應該隨時注意維護。
3. too good to be true 好得令人難以置信；
例句：That sounds too good to be true.
聽起來好到令人難以相信。
4. at the same time 同時；
例句：Being careful but at the same time being aloof.
要很小心同時亦要表現得不太關心。
5. get up 起牀；
例句：They have to get up early in the morning.
他們大清早就得起牀。