实战口语情景对话 第138期:流利英语 Good English

 Todd: Now, Christian¹, you're English is amazing. Perfect actually.

Christian，你英语说的真好，简直太棒了。

Christian: Thank you.

谢谢。

Todd: And many people from Norway have excellent English. What is the secret about Norway?

很多来自挪威的人英语都很棒。到底是有什么秘诀呢？

Christian: I don't know. I actually heard that before that I meet a lot of people and they say,"Oh, you're from Norway.

我不知道。只是之前，我碰到很多人的时候他们都会说，“哦，你来自挪威。”

Norwegian people speak such good English. Why is that?"

挪威人能说得一口流利的英文。这是为什么呢？

Personally I think it's because we get a lot of exposure to English, through TV, music, media, everything, and we don't dub² movies and TV programs like they do in many other countries.

我个人觉得是因为我们生长在英语的大环境下，电视，音乐，媒体，一切的一切都是英文的，而且不同于其他国家，电影以及电视节目都是没有配音的。

We get subtitles³. And the same with music. English music is very, very popular.

我们有字幕。音乐也是一样的。英文歌也是非常流行的。

Probably more popular that Norwegian music, and I guess as well the education system provides us with really good, you know, teaching so, I mean all those combined together, you know, creates, how to say.

也许更出名的是挪威乐曲，而且我想校方也提供了相当棒的音乐课，所以我的意思是，所有的这些加起来就造就了我们。恩怎么说呢，你知道的。

Todd: Super speakers!

一流的演说家！

Christian: I don't know super speakers. It's a good combination, I guess in term of learning the language, so, you know, and a lot of Norwegians travel as well and they have time to practice as well, which is important if you want to speak English well.

我不知道什么一流演说家。但这是个很好的融合，我想，单是从学语言方面考虑，很多挪威人出去旅游，同时会有更多的时间说英语，练习英语。如果你想学好英语这一点是很重要的。

Todd: Sure, well, how difficult is it to learn Norwegian?

当然，那学习挪威语会有多难呢？

Christian: That is probably more difficult that English, I'd say, but it's interesting I have a private Japanese student at the moment and he went to Norway on exchange from his university here in Japan

我不得不说那可能会比英语更难，但有趣的是我现在有个日本学生，他从他学校来挪威做交换生。

and he didn't speak a word of Norwegian before he went but he spent the year there, and he now can have a decent conversation with me in Norwegian.

而且他来之前不会说一句挪威语但他在这儿呆了几年，现在跟很熟练地跟我用挪威语对话了。

That's three years ago since he went there, but still he speaks pretty well.

他来这儿才三年，但挪威语仍然讲得很好。

1 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

2 dub   

vt.（以某种称号）授予，给...起绰号，复制

参考例句：

• I intend to use simultaneous recording to dub this film.我打算采用同期录音的方法为这部影片配音。
• It was dubbed into Spanish for Mexican audiences.它被译制成西班牙语以方便墨西哥观众观看。

3 subtitles   

n.说明字幕，印在外国影片上的对白翻译字幕，译文对白字幕；小标题，副标题( subtitle的名词复数 )；（电影的）字幕

参考例句：

• subtitles for the deaf and the hard of hearing 为耳聋和听力不佳者打出的字幕
• a Polish film with English subtitles 附有英语字幕的波兰影片