美語情景對話 第796期:The Run 跑步

Aiste: Hello, Christophe. What are you doing this afternoon?

愛斯蒂：你好，克里斯托夫。你今天下午要做什麼？

Christophe: Hi, Aiste. I think I'm going to run this afternoon.

克里斯托夫：你好，愛斯蒂。我今天下午要去跑步。

Aiste: To run? But it's raining outside.

愛斯蒂：跑步？可是外面在下雨呢。

Christophe: I don't care. I love running in the rain, and I have to run because I am training for a marathon.

克里斯托夫：我不在意這個。我喜歡在雨裏跑步，我一定得去跑步，因爲我在爲馬拉松進行訓練。

Aiste: A marathon! Isn't that like some 100 kilometers of running?

愛斯蒂：馬拉松！是要跑100公里的那種嗎？

Christophe: Oh, no. A marathon is a race where you run 42 kilometers. It's a long distance, so you need to train every day for it.

克里斯托夫：不是，馬拉松長跑比賽的全程是42公里。距離很長，所以要每天都訓練。

Aiste: So do you actually run 42 kilometers every day when training for it?

愛斯蒂：那你訓練的話，是每天都跑42公里嗎？

Christophe: Oh, no. Actually, a good preparation for a marathon is about 12 weeks of running, and you never run for 42 kilometers in one training. You never do this because it's actually very, very bad for your body if you would do that, so you run a maximum, like 32 to 34 kilometers.

克里斯托夫：不是。馬拉松比賽的充分準備是要進行爲期12周的跑步訓練，但是每次訓練不能跑滿42公里。因爲這樣做對身體有害，每次訓練最多跑32至34公里。

Aiste: Every day?

愛斯蒂：每天嗎？

Christophe: Not every day of course. I think, right now, I run about 80 kilometers a week, but that's almost every day, 10, 15 kilometers that you have to run.

克里斯托夫：當然不是每天。現在，我每週跑80公里，相當於每天跑10或15公里。

Aiste: And how many marathons have you done already?

愛斯蒂：你現在參加過幾次馬拉松比賽了？

Christophe: I've already ran about four marathons, and now I'm preparing for my fifth marathon.

克里斯托夫：我已經參加過四次馬拉松了，現在我正在爲第五次馬拉松比賽做準備。

Aiste: What is that going to be like?

愛斯蒂：比賽怎麼樣？

Christophe: Well, actually, I hope to run less than three hours. It's quite fast. It's like fourteen kilometers average during forty-two kilometers.

克里斯托夫：我希望這次我能跑進三小時。這個速度已經很快了，42公里的話，相當於每小時要跑14公里。

Aiste: Whoa! That sounds difficult. I'm not really into sports very much, so I think for me, even a five-minutes run seems kind of difficult and requiring lots of endurance.

愛斯蒂：哇！聽起來很難。我不太喜歡運動，我想讓我跑五分鐘都很難，而且跑步還需要很多耐力。

Christophe: Well, in the beginning, it's hard maybe, but once you try running a little bit longer, you really start liking it, so I would recommend you to do one training with me and you start slow and then you build up slowly until you can run five, maybe ten kilometers, and then you will see, you will get addicted and you will love it too. I think in a couple of years, you will run your first marathon.

克里斯托夫：剛開始可能有點難，不過如果你嘗試多跑跑的話，你會愛上跑步這項運動的，我建議你和我一起訓練一次，你剛開始可以慢慢跑，一點一點增加跑步的距離，然後你就可以跑五公里，甚至十公里，那時你會發現你真的對跑步着了迷，愛上了這項運動。我想幾年後，你也可以參加馬拉松了。

Aiste: Oh, that sounds great, but ... I really don't think it's for me.

愛斯蒂：哦，聽起來不錯，不過……我想那並不適合我。

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重點講解：
1. right now 現在；此時此刻；
例句：You might as well tell him right now.
你不妨現在就告訴他。
2. less than （用在數字或數量前）少於，低於，比…少；
例句：In less than seven days the infested plants had recovered.
不到7天時間，受蟲害侵襲的植物就復原了。
3. be into sth. 對…很感興趣；極喜歡；
例句：All my buddies who are into reggae wear colorful hats and have long hair.
我所有喜歡雷鬼音樂的夥伴都帶着顏色鮮豔的帽子，留着長頭髮。
4. build up （使）積聚；（使）逐漸增加；
例句：We can build up the speed gradually and safely.
我們可以逐漸穩妥地提高速度。
5. a couple of 兩個；幾個；
例句：I'll be back in a couple of days.
我過幾天就回來。