美語情景對話 第203期:多倫多 Toronto

Todd: OK, hello!

託德：你好！

Shawn: Hello!

肖恩：你好！

Todd: What's your name please?

託德：請問你叫什麼名字？

Shawn: My name is Shawn O'reily

肖恩：我叫肖恩·奧雷利。

Todd: Shawn O'Reily.

託德：肖恩·奧雷利。

Shawn: Yes, sir!

肖恩：沒錯，先生！

Todd: OK, that's an Irish name?

託德：好的，那是愛爾蘭名字嗎？

Shawn: Yes, sir!

肖恩：是的，先生！

Todd: OK, and where are you from?

託德：好的，你來自哪裏？

Shawn: Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

肖恩：加拿大安大略省多倫多市。

Todd: OK, why don't you talk a little bit about Toronto.

託德：嗯，你爲什麼不談談多倫多呢？

Shawn: It's a very diverse, multi-cultural city. I feel it's a great place to raise your family. There's a lot of great family areas. I'd say some of the shopping malls are very good for pretty much anybody. And for the social types they have many bars in Toronto, unfortunately Toronto has a bit of a homeless problem, how-should-I-say, it's tiresome over the years, like every time you go downtown, you're bound to bump into a homeless person, like, wha-cha-call-it, for a city of 4 million compared to New York City that does not have a homeless problem it's pretty embarrassing. Um, how-should-I-say, at times it can be unsafe if you're around them because you're constantly being pestered by them, but, I'd say it's a good city, how-should-I-say, many different things to do, you're just not confined to one area of the city to have fun, you can go pretty much anywhere in the south end of the city and have fun.

肖恩：那是個非常多樣化的城市，是個擁有多元文化的城市。我認爲那是個組建家庭的好地方。那裏有許多非常棒的家庭區。我得說，幾乎所有人都認爲，那裏的一些超市非常棒。就社會型來說，多倫多有許多酒吧，不幸的是，多倫多存在乞討者。要怎麼說呢，很多年來一直是這樣，有點煩人，就像每次你去市中心，你一定會碰到無家可歸的人，就像，要怎麼說好呢，多倫多有4百萬人口，可是相較於紐約這樣沒有無家可歸者的城市來說，這種情況有些尷尬。嗯，要怎麼說呢，有時如果你走到他們身邊會有些不安全，因爲他們會不停地纏着你要錢，但是我得說，多倫多是個很好的城市，嗯，可以做許多不同的事情，你不是隻在多倫多的一個地方能享受快樂，你可以去城市南端的任何地方，在那裏都可以享受愉快的生活。

Todd: OK, wow, sounds like a really good place.

託德：好的，哇哦，聽起來那真是一個好地方。

Shawn: And of course, a lot of good looking girls in Toronto. Many different kinds so it's definitely one of those places where you'll have, how-should-I-say, you'll have neck problems cause you'll constantly turning your head for all the good looking girls.

肖恩：當然，多倫多有許多漂亮的女孩。許多不同類型的美女，所以那裏絕對是會使你的頸部有問題的地方，因爲你要不停地轉頭看那些美女。

重點講解：
1. be bound to
一定會；必然會；註定會；
eg. There are bound to be price increases next year.
明年物價一定會上漲。
eg. I'll show it to Benjamin. He's bound to know.
我會把它給本傑明看，他肯定會知道。
2. bump into
（無意地）碰撞，衝撞；
eg. They stopped walking and he almost bumped into them.
他們停下了腳步，結果他差點兒撞到他們身上。
eg. There was a jerk as the boat bumped against something.
船撞到什麼東西，猛顛了一下。
3. confine sb./sth. to
限制；使受侷限；
eg. He did not confine himself to the one language.
他沒把自己侷限於這一門語言。
eg. Yoko had largely confined her activities to the world of big business.
洋子主要是做大生意。
eg. His genius was not confined to the decoration of buildings.
他的天賦不單體現在建築物的裝飾上。