【英语趣味课堂】沙滩-Beaches

 Rebecca: Hey, Diego.

Diego: Hey.

 

Rebecca: What are you going to do for summer break?

 

Diego: I'm thinking about going back home.

 

Rebecca: To Mexico?

 

Diego: Yeah. What about you?

 

Rebecca: I will go back to Australia, and I'll probably go the beach of course because Australia has such beautiful beaches.

 

Diego: Really?

 

Rebecca: Yes. Everybody knows that. On the East Coast. The best beaches. Does Mexico have any beaches?

 

Diego: Yeah, yeah. We have really, really nice beaches down by the Caribbean Ocean, like in southern Mexico, there's this beautiful place called Cancun and the Ocean is really, really blue, like baby blue, and the sand is white so it looks like snow. It's a really amazing place.

 

Rebecca: Can you surf at the beach?

 

Diego: I'm sure you can surf in some places, yeah.

 

Rebecca: What about snorkeling?

 

Diego: Yeah, definitely¹. It's the Caribbean Ocean so the water is transpiring² so it's amazing. It's like looking at the sky and it's together with the ocean, ...

 

Rebecca: Blue!

 

Diego: Yes.

 

Rebecca: Well, have you been to the Great Barrier Reef³?

 

Diego: I've heard about it, but I've heard that it's the biggest one in the world.

 

Rebecca: Hmm.

 

Diego: Well, we have the second biggest one in Mexico.

 

Rebecca: Aaahhhhh! This could be turned into a debate on who has the best beaches.

 

Diego: Maybe so. But what I like about this place called Cancun, is it has a lot of history. Have you ever heard about the Mayan civilization.

 

Rebecca: No.

 

Diego: It's an ancient civilization that was settled in Southern Mexico, so this is where the ruins are they were very advanced people. They knew how to predict the eclipses⁴ for the next three hundred years, and they just vanished⁵. They just disappeared.

 

Rebecca: They disappeared?

 

Diego: Yeah! And there's a new movie directed by Mel Gibson, Apocolypto. It's about their civilization.

 

Rebecca: Oh, OK. No, I haven't seen that movie at all. Well, I suppose I could go and compare our beaches. Go to Mexico and check out this place. What was the name of it again?

 

Diego: Cancun.

 

Rebecca: Cancun.

 

Diego: Well, we could do a home exchange. You can go to Mexico and I can go to Australia.

 

Rebecca: OK, let's do that.

 

Diego: Yeah, let's do that.

 

Rebecca: Great.

1 definitely   

adv.一定地，肯定地；明确地，确切地

参考例句：

• The team will definitely lose if he doesn't play.如果他不参加比赛，这个队肯定会输。
• I shall definitely be home before six o'clock.6点以前，我一定回家。

2 transpiring   

（事实，秘密等）被人知道( transpire的现在分词 )； 泄露； 显露； 发生

参考例句：

• Excellent, everything is transpiring as the Awareness has foreseen. 好极了，一切都按照“意识”的预言进行。
• But, In the face of all that is transpiring, I realize how meager my knowledge is. 但是，当面对这突发一切时，我才意识到自己的知识有多么贫乏。

3 reef   

n.礁，礁石，暗礁

参考例句：

• The ship and its crew were lost on the reef.那条船及船员都触礁遇难了。
• The ship was wrecked on a coral reef.这条船在珊瑚暗礁上撞毁了。

4 eclipses   

（日、月）食( eclipse的名词复数 )； 消失，黯然失色

参考例句：

• Astronomers can accurately foretell the date,time,and length of future eclipses. 天文学家能精确地预告未来日食月食的日期、时刻和时长。
• The moon eclipses the sun. 月亮遮住太阳。

5 vanished   

adj.消失了的v.消失( vanish的过去式和过去分词 )；突然不见；不复存在；绝迹

参考例句：

• He walked through—and vanished. Poof! Like that. 他走了过去，然后就嗖的一下子不见了。
• The magician vanished in a puff of smoke. 魔术师在一股烟雾中突然不见了。