美語情景對話 第227期:New York 紐約

Marion: Yeah! So you said you went to New York there. How did you find New York?

瑪麗恩：你說你去過紐約。你覺得紐約怎麼樣？

Mauve: Oh, it was great. It was cool.

莫夫：哦，非常棒。那兒很棒。

Marion: So what did you do there?

瑪麗恩：你在那邊做了什麼？

Mauve: Well, we went to see the Empire State building, the Statue of Liberty. Took a boat around Manhattan and went to a show on Broadway.

莫夫：嗯，我們去參觀了帝國大廈，自由女神像。乘船遊覽了曼哈頓，還去百老匯看了一場音樂劇。

Marion: That must have been exciting.

瑪麗恩：那一定很激動人心。

Mauve: Oh, it was great. It was brilliant. It was so professional.

莫夫：對，非常棒。太精彩了。非常專業。

Marion: Yeah. What was the show?

瑪麗恩：音樂劇怎麼樣？

Mauve: It was really good. It was called, it was called "Wonderful Town!" I had never heard of it before but we just queued and got tickets during the day and whatever we could get we just went to see it. Yeah, but it was really, it was a comedy as well. It was really funny, and there was dance. It was very good.

莫夫：非常好。那部音樂劇名爲《迷人的城市》。我以前沒有聽說過這部音樂劇，我們當天去排隊買票，想買到哪場演出的票就去看哪場。那是部喜劇。非常有意思，裏面有許多舞蹈。非常好。

Marion: Mm, yeah, so would you go back to New York?

瑪麗恩：你還會再去紐約嗎？

Mauve: Yeah, I would, definitely. Um, it's funny though, like after I spent a week there, and after the week I feel I really know it very well, you know, we did a lot of walking, went to all the different districts, Chinatown, So-Ho, Greenwich Village, and Central Park kind of, it's very easy to find your way around as well.

莫夫：當然會再去。嗯，非常有趣，我在那裏度過了一週的時間，一週以後我感覺我已經非常瞭解那裏了，你知道，我們徒步遊覽了許多地方，去了不同的地區，比如中國城，蘇豪區，格林威治村，中央公園等等，那裏的路很好找。

Marion: All right. Yeah, that's good. With the grid system, which Dublin doesn't have. You know Dublin for a tourists it's probably harder to find their way around. It's not as signposted or well signaled. Not as well laid out kind of thing.

瑪麗恩：好的。那很好。紐約有座標體系，都柏林沒有。你知道遊客經常會在都柏林迷路。因爲那裏的標誌不是很清楚。沒有清楚地說明。

Marion: Yeah! Which of the kind of the areas did you prefer in New York. Did you have, like, one favorite?

瑪麗恩：對！你喜歡紐約的哪裏？你有最喜歡的地方嗎？

Mauve: Um, I really liked Chinatown. Chinatown was lovely. We went into lots of little small shops and it was lovely, like, you know, really quaint little places. We ate in a few, we ate in one place there as well. It was nice

莫夫：嗯，我非常喜歡中國城。中國城很迷人。我們去了許多小商店，那裏很迷人，你知道，都是很精巧的小店。我們吃了一些東西，我們在那裏的餐廳吃了些東西。非常好。

Marion: Yeah, real Chinese food.

瑪麗恩：嗯，真正的中國菜。

Mauve: Yeah, exactly and like all Chinese people walking around. It's funny. You walk around Chinatown and you just see Chinese people and you walk into the Italian district, you know, Little Italy, and you just, people are speaking Italian. It's fun, you know, when you're in one city.

莫夫：對，沒錯，而且就像周圍都是中國人。很有趣。你在中國城遊覽的時候，就會看到中國人，可是你進入意大利區卻只能看到很少的意大利人，人們都在說意大利語。這很有趣，就像你在那個城市一樣。

Marion: And the kind of change from one to the other, obvious as well.

瑪麗恩：而且從一個城市到另一個城市的感覺，非常明顯。

Mauve: Yeah, exactly, yeah! See you kind of forget you're in New York, almost.

莫夫：沒錯，就是這樣！就像你幾乎會忘了你是在紐約。

Marion: Cool. Thanks Mauve.

瑪麗恩：真酷。莫夫，謝謝你。

重點講解：
1. know sb./sth. well
熟悉；瞭解；
eg. I don't know him well; I've only met him twice.
我跟他不熟悉，只見過兩次面。
eg. She always stands by my side because she knows me well.
她總會支持我，因爲她非常瞭解我。
2. find one's way
找到正確的路（去某處）；成功地到達；
eg. He was an expert at finding his way, even in strange surroundings.
他是認路的行家，即使在陌生的環境中也是如此。
eg. After a while I pulled myself to my feet and found my way to the street.
過了一會兒我費力地站起身來，找到了那條大街。
3. lay out
闡述；講解；說明；
eg. Maxwell listened closely as Johnson laid out his plan.
馬克斯韋爾仔細聽着約翰遜講解其計劃。
eg. Cuomo laid it out in simple language.
科莫用簡單的語言作了解釋。