实战口语情景对话 第13期:暑假

 Todd: OK. We're back with Jeanna. You wanna talk about your summer vacation. 好的，吉娜。能谈谈你的暑假吗。

Jeanna: Sure. I went to Las Vegas, Nevada; Reno, Nevada; Tahoe, California¹; and San Diego, California and I went to Disneyland². 好的。我去了内华达州的拉斯维加斯，里诺，和加利福尼亚州的塔霍湖，圣地亚哥，我还去了迪斯尼乐园。

Todd: Wow! Sounds like a really good time. 哇！听上去你玩得很愉快。

Jeanna: Yeah, it was. It was a lot of fun. 是的。我玩得很有趣。

Todd: What was the best place? 最棒的地方是哪里？

Jeanna: Probably Las Vegas. It was the most interesting. 也许是拉斯维加斯。那里最有趣。

Todd: OK. why was it the most interesting? 好的。为什么那里最有趣呢？

Jeanna: It was just really busy and there was always stuff³ going on. Ya know, never resting. 那里很繁华，总有各种娱乐活动，你知道，那里从来不闲。

Todd: OK. Ah, for example what stuff is going on? Like, what did you do? 好的，例如什么活动，你在那里做什么？

Jeanna: Well, we went shopping a lot, in a lot of different casinos that had malls in them, we went and visited the Hoover Dam⁴. 我们经常购物，在不同的赌场里都有购物中心，我们还去了胡佛水坝。

Todd: Oh, wow! It's pretty big. 哇！水坝很大。

Jeanna: Yeah, really big. 是的，很大。

Todd: That's a lot of water. Did you go swimming? 那里有很多水，你游泳了吗？

Jeanna: No. 没有。

Todd: Can you swim in the Hoover Dam? 能在胡佛水库里游泳吗？

Jeanna: You can swim in the reservoir⁵. 能在蓄水池里游泳。

Todd: I mean in the reservoir. Yeah. OK. How did you get to Las Vegas? 我就是说在蓄水池里。好的。你怎么到拉斯维加斯的？

Jeanna: By plane from Oakland to Las Vegas. 从奥克兰搭乘飞机到拉斯维加斯的。

Todd: OK. How long did it take? 路上花了多长时间？

Jeanna: About an hour and forty-five minutes. 大约花了1小时45分钟。

Todd: OK. Do you think you'll go back to Las Vegas someday in the future? 好的。

Jeanna: Hopefully. 希望如此。

Todd: OK. Great. Thanks a lot Jeanna. 好的。谢谢你，吉娜。

Jeanna: You're welcome. 不客气。

1 California   

n.加利福尼亚(美国)

参考例句：

• He was elected governor of the state of California.他当选为加州州长。
• We were driving on a California freeway.我们正沿着加利福尼亚的一条快车道驾车行驶。

2 Disneyland   

n.迪斯尼乐园

参考例句：

• Excuse me, is this the right way to Disneyland?劳驾，这是去迪斯尼乐园的路吗？
• Can you tell me something about Disneyland?请您给我讲迪斯尼乐园的情况好吗？

3 stuff   

n.原料，材料，东西；vt.填满；吃饱

参考例句：

• We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
• He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。

4 dam   

n.水坝，水闸；堰堤；vt.在…上筑坝，堵住

参考例句：

• The villagers went at building a dam with a will. 村民们劲头十足地着手修一座水坝。
• The Aswan Dam helps to control the River Nile in Egypt.阿斯旺水坝有助于控制埃及的尼罗河。

5 reservoir   

n.水库，蓄水池；(人才等的)储藏，汇集

参考例句：

• The town is supplied with water from a reservoir.该城镇由小山中的一座水库供水。
• A large quantity of water is stored in the reservoir.水库存了大量的水。