美語情景對話 第670期:Great Places 好去處
Todd: OK, now Keren, Hello.
託德:凱倫,你好。Keren: Hello.
凱倫:你好。Todd: I thought we would talk about travelling. Now you've travelled to many places, many continents.
託德:我們來談談旅遊吧。你去很多地方旅行過,去過很多大陸。
Keren: Yes.
凱倫:對。Todd: Can you talk about some of the places you've been to.
託德:你能説幾個你去過的地方嗎?Keren: Yes. First of all, I spent about four and a half months in Australia. I suppose the most amazing place I went to there was Uluru.
凱倫:好。首先,我在澳大利亞呆了四個半月。我去過的最神奇的地方是烏魯魯。Todd: Uluru.
託德:烏魯魯。Keren: Ayers Rock. And it's just an incredible place which is... the land is very barren and very red and the sky is very blue and it's just beautiful.
凱倫:艾爾斯巖石。那裏是一個不可思議的地方,土地非常貧瘠,呈現出通紅的顏色,而天空又非常湛藍,那裏太漂亮了。Todd: Wow, And what's it called again?
託德:哇,那個地方叫什麼來着?Keren: Uluru.
凱倫:烏魯魯。Todd: Uluru. OK, besides there, anywhere else?
託德:烏魯魯。好,除了那裏,還有其他推薦的地方嗎?Keren: I've also been to South America. I spent a year in Peru and while I was there I went to Machu Picchu.
凱倫:我還去過南美洲。我在祕魯呆了一年的時間,我在祕魯時去了馬丘比丘。Todd: Machu Picchu. What is Machu Picchu?
託德:馬丘比丘。馬丘比丘是什麼?Keren: Machu Picchu is an ancient ruin of an old Inca town.
凱倫:馬丘比丘是印加古城的遺址。Todd: Do you know how old it is?
託德:你知道馬丘比丘有多少年的歷史嗎?Keren: Probably about seven hundred, eight hundred years old, I think. It's not actually that old.
凱倫:我想大概有七八百年的歷史吧。並沒有那麼古老。Todd: Oh, really.
託德:哦,真的嗎?Keren: Really.
凱倫:真的。Todd: Huh! That's interesting.
託德:哈!這很有意思。Keren: Yeah.
凱倫:對。Todd: OK, any other places?
託德:好,還有其他地方嗎?Keren: I spent quite a lot of time in Spain and the most interesting place I went there was Granada.
凱倫:我在西班牙呆了很大時間,我認為西班牙最有意思的地方是格拉納達。Todd: Granada.
託德:格拉納達。Keren: Yeah.
凱倫:對。Todd: OK, what's in Granada?
託德:格拉納達是哪裏?Keren: The Alhambra which is the old Muslim capitol of Spain. And it's an amazing old town with Muslim palaces.
凱倫:格拉納達的阿爾罕布拉宮曾是西班牙古老的穆斯林宮殿。格拉納達是一座非常棒的古鎮,有很多穆斯林宮殿。Todd: And there is just one palace or is there many, many palaces?
託德:是隻有一個宮殿還是有很多宮殿?Keren: There is many, many ruins and there's a lot to do. You can spend the whole day there walking around the different old buildings that were built in different times.
凱倫:有很多宮殿,很多遺址,有很多可以做的事情。你可以花一整天的時間在建造於不同時期的古老建築之間漫步。Todd: Very cool. So, you've seen something in Australia, in South America, in Europe, how about Asia?
託德:真酷。你談了澳大利亞、南美和歐洲的景色,那亞洲呢?Keren: Asia. I've been to Japan and Thailand and Malaysia and Singapore.
凱倫:亞洲。我去過日本、泰國、馬來西亞和新加坡。Todd: And what is you favorite place in Asia?
託德:你最喜歡亞洲的哪個地方?Keren: Hm. It's a difficult question. I liked Hokkaido.
凱倫:嗯,這很難回答。我喜歡北海道。Todd: Hokkaido?
託德:北海道?Keren: Yeah, in Japan. Hmm... I spent a week there working on a farm, and it was just a really interesting place to be.
凱倫:對,在日本。我在那裏度過了一週的時間,在一家農場打工,那裏真的是一個很有趣的地方。Todd: Cool. Well, thanks, Keren.
託德:真酷。謝謝你,凱倫。Keren: It's Ok.
凱倫:不客氣。
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重點講解:
1. talk about 談論;談到;
例句:At tea we talk about the day's event.
我們邊吃茶點邊聊當天的事情。
2. first of all 第一;首先;
例句:First of all introduce some new conversation piece.
首先,提幾個新話題。
3. quite a lot of 相當多;
例句:He has published quite a lot of articles.
他發表了不少文章。