美語情景對話第774期:The Plan 計劃

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Todd: Jeff, you mentioned to me that you went across the Amazon in Brazil.

託德：傑夫，你之前跟我說過你的穿越巴西亞馬遜雨林之旅。

Jeff: Yes. Yes. I was going to South America and when I do a trip I don't like to be a regular tourist and just go and sightsee, so I got an idea from a National Geographic magazine to go straight across South America from the Pacific Ocean in Peru, starting in Peru, across to the Atlantic Ocean on the opposite side in Brazil and you have to go through the Andes Mountains and then you have to go across and through the Amazon, so that's what I did.

傑夫：對，沒錯。我去過南美洲旅行，我在旅行時不喜歡像一般遊客那樣只是去觀光，我在翻看《國家地理》雜誌時有了個想法，我計劃穿越南美洲，從祕魯的太平洋沿岸前往對面巴西的大西洋沿岸，這個計劃需要先穿越安第斯山脈，再穿亞馬遜雨林，我的確這麼做了。

Todd: That's fantastic.

託德：那太不可思議了。

Jeff: It was a good trip.

傑夫：那是次很棒的旅行。

Todd: How did you go? Did you travel alone? I mean it must have been dangerous.

託德：你是怎麼去的？你是獨自一個人旅行嗎？那樣太危險了。

Jeff: It was. It was dangerous. It was high season, monsoon season, so the river was high, and of course they speak Spanish in South America and I can't speak Spanish and I was traveling alone and I didn't want to travel alone. It's too dangerous, so I had to look for another travel partner who was a little bit as crazy as I was to do this trip, so when I arrived in Lima, the capitol of Peru, I started looking around for someone else who looked like a tough, good traveller, and one night in my guesthouse, this bald Russian guy came into the guesthouse carrying a big pack, and he had a big pack with a tent, a sleeping bag strapped to it and he had a big machete hanging off his belt, and I said this guys perfect, so went up and talked to him.

傑夫：的確很危險。當時是旅遊旺季，而且是季風季節，所以河流水位很高，南美洲說西班牙語，可是我不會說西班牙語，我是獨自一個人去的，可是我並不想獨自去去實現這個旅遊計劃。因爲太危險了，所以我想找一個和我一樣瘋狂的旅伴，我到達祕魯首都利馬以後，就開始尋找看上去很堅韌的旅伴，有一天晚上，我住的那家賓館走進來一位拿着大大的黑色揹包的光頭俄羅斯人，他的揹包上綁着帳篷和睡袋，他的腰帶上掛着一把大刀，我覺得這個人是非常合適的旅伴，所以我走過去和他攀談。

Todd: He sounds a little bit like Indiana Jones.

託德：聽起來他很像印第安納·瓊斯。

Jeff: Oh, he was great. He was a great guy, and his wife is Mexican so he spoke perfect Spanish, so I told him my idea and he was gung ho. He was ready to do it.

傑夫：哦，他非常好。他是一個非常棒的人，他的妻子是墨西哥人，所以他的西班牙語很流利，我跟他說了我的想法以後，他非常興奮。他準備加入我的計劃。

Todd: Oh, man.

託德：天哪。