实战口语情景对话 第49期:环球旅行 World Traveller

 Todd: Tennessee! 田纳西！

Tenn: Yes! 我在！

Todd: We're gonna talk about sports. 我们来谈谈运动。

Tenn: OK. I'm not big on sports, but. 好的。但是我并不热衷运动。

Todd: OK, well, that's OK. So you, you don't like sports. 没关系。这么说，你不喜欢运动。

Tenn: Well, I like sports but I'm just not an avid¹ sports watcher. You know I would usually rather watch a movie or some kind of history program. 我喜欢运动，但我不是一个狂热的运动迷。我更愿意看电影或是历史纪录片。

Todd: Oh, OK. So you're into history. 这么说你喜欢历史。

Tenn: Oh, yes! 哦，是的！

Todd: OK. What kind of history? 好的。你喜欢什么样的历史？

Tenn: That's a kind of a difficult question. I would say, ah, interested, primarily² I interested in ancient and medieval³ but I also like studying the history of the countries that I have visited, it makes it more interesting when I go sight-seeing. 这是个有难度的问题。前一阵子我喜欢古代和中世纪的历史，但我也喜欢研究我去过的国家的历史，这样我观光的时候会更有趣。

Todd: OK. What countries have you visited? 你去过哪些国家？

Tenn: I've been to 26 countries. 我去过26个国家。

Todd: Really! Oh, OK. Yeah, you can't name them all. 真的！好吧。这些国家你不可能都说一遍。

Tenn: The big ones I would say, I've been over a good bit of Europe, ah, Mexico, Peru, I spent almost a year in Egypt and I went to Isreal, Jordan, and now I'm here in Japan. I've been here in Japan for a year and a half. And while I have been here, I visited Korea for about a week. 我去过的国家有不少，我在欧洲待过很长的时间，我去过墨西哥，秘鲁，我在埃及待了近一年的时间，我还去过以色列，约旦。我现在在日本，我会在这儿待一年半的时间。在日本的这段时间，我还去韩国待了近一周。

Todd: OK. Wow. That's a lot so did you do the Pyramids in Egypt? 哇，你真是去过不少地方，你去埃及看金字塔了吗？

Tenn: Oh, yes. Actually, I climbed the pyramids. 哦，是的。实际上我还爬上金字塔了。

Todd: Oh, really. Nice. What's it like on the top? 哦，真的吗。太棒了。在塔顶上感觉怎么样？

Tenn: Very, very interesting. You can see, ah, it was during the summer so the visibility was rather low. 十分十分有趣。那时候是夏天，所以能见度很低。

Todd: Oh, OK. 哦，好的。

Tenn: But, to see, we were on The Great Pyramid, and the second Pyramid, Kefron, was right near by, and it is a very different perspective⁴ to see it from, interesting to be eye-level, to be on the same level as the top of that second pyramid. 我们爬到了大金字塔上，第二高金字塔Kefron就在旁边，从我们这个视角看它真的很与众不同，我们是在与第二高的金字塔等高的位置去水平欣赏它的。

Todd: OK. Wow! So you were in Peru, right? 哇！你还去了秘鲁对吗？

Tenn: Yes. 是的。

Todd: OK. What's the big thing people see in Peru? 好的。秘鲁有什么可观光的？

Tenn: Machu Pichu. 马丘皮丘。

Todd: Machu Pichu. OK. What is Machu Pichu? 马丘皮丘，什么是马丘皮丘？

Tenn: Machu Pichu is the ruins of a city that was built by the Inca People. 马丘皮丘是印加人城市遗址。

Todd: OK. 好的。

Tenn: Over three...six hundred years ago, and was lost, no one knew what happened to it. until it was recently discovered about a hundred years ago. 它是六百多年前迷失的城市，没人知道那里发生了什么。知道一百年前人类发现了它。

Todd: OK. Wow. Nice. Alright, thanks a lot David 哇，真棒。好的，谢谢你大卫。

Tenn: Sure! 不客气！

Todd: Or Tennessee. 或者说谢谢田纳西。

1 avid   

adj.热心的；贪婪的；渴望的；劲头十足的

参考例句：

• He is rich,but he is still avid of more money.他很富有,但他还想贪图更多的钱。
• She was avid for praise from her coach.那女孩渴望得到教练的称赞。

2 primarily   

adv.首先，主要地，基本地

参考例句：

• The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people.这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
• I am primarily interested in history.我主要对历史感兴趣。

3 medieval   

adj.中世纪的，中古（时代）的

参考例句：

• This is a medieval story.这是一个中世纪的故事。
• The museum has a fine collection of medieval ivories.该博物馆收藏着一批精美的中世纪象牙制品。

4 perspective   

n.视角，观点，想法

参考例句：

• You can get a perspective of the whole city from here.从这里你可以看到城市的全景。
• We may get a clear perspective of the people's happy lives.我们知道人民对幸福生活的展望。