美語情景對話 第770期:Livable Locations 宜居地點

Mari: Hey, Mike, so we live in the countryside, and we go to school up on a mountain. Could you see yourself living here?

馬裏：嗨，邁克，我們現在在鄉村生活，去學校的話要翻過一座山。你怎麼看在這裏的生活？

Mike: Well, I do really like living in the country, but I don't think I could stay here for a long period of time, even though I do like staying here for the period that we are here now.

邁克：我非常喜歡鄉村生活，不過我想我不會在這裏生活太長時間，不過我很喜歡我們在這裏生活的這段時間。

Mari: Where do you want to live?

馬裏：你想在哪裏生活？

Mike: Well, I've never lived in a big city, so I think that I would like to try to live in a big city.

邁克：我從沒在大城市生活過，所以我想嘗試一下大城市的生活。

Mari: Like which one?

馬裏：比如哪座城市？

Mike: Possibly one like New York or London. I think, I've always seen it on TV and I've always wanted to try to live there but I've never, so I think that would probably be really interesting.

邁克：紐約或倫敦這樣的大城市。我經常在電視上看到這樣的大城市，我一直想嘗試一下大城市的生活，我沒有在大城市生活過，所以我想那會非常有趣的。

Mari: What attracts you to those cities?

馬裏：這些城市有什麼吸引你的地方？

Mike: I guess just the diversity that you might find or just the fact that so much stuff is going on in the city. I might like to see how that lifestyle is.

邁克：我想是那種多樣性，還有城市裏發生的各種各樣的事情。我想看看那種生活方式是什麼樣子的。

Mari: Sounds cool.

馬裏：聽起來很酷。

Mike: What about you?

邁克：你呢？

Mari: I couldn't see myself living here in the long-term. I grew up in two really big cities so... and I've moved around a lot and... so in the future, I think I just want to stay in one place.

馬裏：我想我以後不會生活在這裏。我在兩個大城市長大，我經常搬家，所以以後我想定居在一個地方。

Mike: What types of cities?

邁克：哪種城市呢？

Mari: I guess a big city in Japan. My parents live here, so I feel like I'm more inclined to live here. My brother lives in the States and so if we both lived in the United States, I think my parents would feel a little bit lonely so I feel more inclined to live in Japan.

馬裏：我想應該是日本的大城市。我父母生活在日本，所以我傾向於在日本生活。我哥哥住在美國，如果我們都住在美國，那我父母會感到孤獨的，所以我傾向於在日本生活。

Mike: Which city in Japan would you like?

邁克：你想住在日本的哪座城市？

Mari: My parents live near Osaka. I grew up in Tokyo. I'm thinking maybe like Kobe. I think that... I like Kobe a lot because it's like an international port city, or originally it was. We have the ocean, the water, and the mountain and it just seems like a very cosmopolitan city to me in Japan.

馬裏：我父母住在大阪附近。我在東京長大。我想我會在神戶生活。我非常喜歡神戶，因爲神戶是國際港口城市。神戶有大海、有高山，對我來說那裏是日本的國際大都市。

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重點講解：
1. even though 即使；儘管；縱然；
例句：Even thoughhe's old he's game for anything.
儘管他年歲已大，但他對什麼都敢作敢爲。
2. would like to do sth. （表示願意）想要；
例句：Iwould like tospend my holiday in Hawaii once more.
我想再去夏威夷度一次假。
3. go on 進行；發生；
例句：He drew the curtain aside to see what wasgoing on.
他拉開窗簾看看出了什麼事。
4. in the long term 從長遠來看；
例句：In the long run, you'll be sitting pretty.
你的情況最終會好起來。
5. be inclined to do sth. 願意…的；有…意向的；
例句：Heis inclined tomagnify difficulties.
他老是愛誇大困難。