美語情景對話 第360期:Home Vacation 家鄉度假

OK, now I'll talk about my winter vacation. This winter vacation I spent two weeks in my hometown which is Daytona Beach, Florida. It was wonderful. The weather was warm every day. It was sunny every day and the temperature was almost 80 degrees. I visited my mother and I spent every morning having a nice leisurely cup of coffee and reading the newspaper and after that I got my bicycle out and rode down to the beach and enjoyed the sun and the surf, ah, came back home and read a book and went to bed early.

好，現在我要談談我的寒假。這個寒假我在家鄉佛羅里達州的代託納海灘度過了兩週時間。那真是太美好了。每天都是溫暖明朗的天氣，溫度達到近80華氏度。我還去看望了我母親，每天早上我都會一邊悠閒地享用美味的咖啡，一邊看報紙，之後我會騎自行車去海灘，盡情享受陽光和海浪，我回到家以後會看書，然後會早點睡覺。

I had a wonderful time. I saw a couple of new movies, when I was home in Florida. I saw The Aviator and also an interesting movie called Spanglish, which I hope you all can see because it's an interesting movie about English and the Spanish.

我過得非常愉快。我在佛羅里達的家中休假時看了幾部新電影。我看了《飛行家》，還有一部很有意思的電影《西班牙女傭》，我希望你們可以看看這部電影，因爲它很有趣，講的是英國人和西班牙人之間發生的故事。

重點講解：
1. talk about
講；談論；
eg. They always talk about computers.
他們總是談論有關電腦的事情。
eg. The lesson of that was that we have to talk about it.
我們吸取的教訓是，我們必須開誠佈公的談論這個問題。
2. spend some time (in) doing sth.
花費時間做某事；
eg. We don't spend that much time thinking about search.
我們沒有花那麼多時間去考慮搜索。
eg. We spend a great deal of time putting on make-up to help perfect our look.
我們每天花費大量時間化妝來使我們的面容更加美麗。
3. a couple of
兩個；幾個；
eg. So we did a couple of things to change this.
因此我們做了幾件事以改變這種情況。
eg. Once I faced that fact, I solved the problem in a couple of days.
而一旦我正視那個事實，我在其後的一段時間裏就將這個問題解決了。