【英语趣味课堂】梦想清单-Dream List

Todd: So, Rebecca, let's talk about things we wish could do that we can't do. What is something you wish you could do, that you can't do now?

Rebecca: I think it would be definitely¹ playing music, like playing a guitar. Some of my friends can just pull out a guitar and start singing and then you have everybody around and it's such a great night. I just wish I could join them and actually, yeah, have fun with that as well, but no, I can't play guitar.

 

 

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Todd: So, if you could play any instrument, it would be the guitar?

 

Rebecca: Yeah. Yeah. I think so. I have played piano and saxophone before but not overly that well.

 

Todd: Oh, really so you actually had musical training?

 

Rebecca: Yeah, when I was in high school.

 

Todd: In the piano and the saxophone?

 

Rebecca: Yep. Yeah. The saxophone was maybe for one or two years and I would love to get back into playing that as well, but they're quite expensive little instruments actually.

 

Todd: Yeah. Slightly.

 

Rebecca: And then the piano is very large so, you can't really transport that around with you wherever you go.

 

Todd: So do you think that if had learned⁴ music at a younger age, you would still be with it? Was the problem just that you waited to late in life to start?

 

Rebecca: I don't think so. I think it's more the friends circle that I was with. We weren't really a musical group and the people that I've met now are really musical so you sort of wish maybe if I had kept going I could have joined them now, but I do enjoy listening to them.

 

Todd: Well, what about singing? Are you a good singer?

 

Rebecca: No. Not at all. I don't think I want to be a good singer either cause then everybody would expect you to sing all the time so I just do backup vocals⁵. Really badly.

 

Todd: Well, I'm the same way. I can't sing at all. OK, so basically⁶ you wish you could play the guitar, but you have played the piano and the saxophone before.

 

Rebecca: Yes.

 

Todd: OK, is there anything else that you wish you could do?

 

Rebecca: To be able to speak maybe a couple languages would be nice.

 

Todd: Yeah, that's a good one. So if you could speak any two languages, what two would you want to speak?

 

Rebecca: I think Japanese and Spanish.

 

Todd: Japanese and Spanish.

 

Rebecca: Yeah. Yeah. They both sound really interesting and they're both the countries that I would like to go and visit and maybe attempt to work there but you need to be able to speak the language before you can work.

 

Todd: Right. That's true. I think if I could choose any two languages I would choose Chinese and Arabic⁷ just because both those languages when I hear them they sound so completely⁸ impossible to speak, so if you could speak those, that would be pretty amazing.

 

Rebecca: Yeah, definitely. Yeah, Chinese sounds like a hard language.

 

Todd: All those tones⁹.

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 interactive   

adj.相互作用的，互相影响的，（电脑）交互的

参考例句：

• The psychotherapy is carried out in small interactive groups.这种心理治疗是在互动的小组之间进行的。
• This will make videogames more interactive than ever.这将使电子游戏的互动性更胜以往。

3 audio   

n./adj.音频(响)(的)；声音(的)，听觉(的)

参考例句：

• Often,the meeting is recorded on audio or video media for later reference.通常这种会议会以视频或者音频形式记录下来，供以后查阅。
• You don't even have to pay for audio programs.你大可不必为自己听这些节目付费。

4 learned   

adj.有学问的，博学的；learn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
• In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里，他被视为有学问的人。

5 vocals   

（乐曲中的）歌唱部份，声乐部份( vocal的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Also look out for soaring vocals on The Right Man. 另外，也可留意一下《意中人》中的那高亢的唱腔。
• Lazy bass line, lazier drums, lush violins, great piano and incomparable vocals. 懒惰的低音线，较懒惰的鼓，饮小提琴，棒的钢琴和无比的声音。

6 basically   

adv.基本上，从根本上说

参考例句：

• His heart is basically sound.他的心脏基本上健康。
• Basically I agree with your plan.我基本上同意你的计划。

7 Arabic   

n.阿拉伯语；adj.阿拉伯语的，阿拉伯人的，阿拉伯式的

参考例句：

• It is not easy to learn Arabic.学阿拉伯语不容易。
• Arabic script reads from right to left.阿拉伯文是从右至左读的。

8 completely   

adv.完全地，十分地，全然

参考例句：

• She never completely gave up hope.她从不完全放弃希望。
• I feel completely in the dark on this question.这件事使我感到茫然。

9 tones   

音( tone的名词复数 )； 色调； 腔调； 全音 （英式英语）

参考例句：

• his clipped military tones 他那短促的军人音调
• His name was always mentioned in almost reverential tones. 人们每次提起他的名字，语调中几乎总是充满了敬意。