英文原版对话1000个:1175 The Day of the Dead

 　　Daniel: Hi Olga, how are you?

 

　　Olga: Fine, Daniel, how are you?

 

　　Daniel: Good, thanks. I wanted to ask you something. I'm really interested about Mexican holidays.

 

　　Olga: What?

 

　　Daniel: Can you tell me something about it?

 

　　Olga: Sure but what do you want to know? I mean why are you interested in Mexican holidays?

 

　　Daniel: What kind of holidays you have, what do you do in those holidays?

 

　　Olga: Well my favorite holiday is the Dìa de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead.

 

　　Daniel: What is it?

 

　　Olga: What do you think about when you hear Day of the Dead?

 

　　Daniel: I don't know. It's a bit scary¹, isn't it?

 

　　Olga: Yeah, kind of but actually for us Mexicans it's not really scary. We're so used to it. Actually that day we celebrate the, not celebrate but remember the people who are already dead especially in our close family.

 

　　Daniel: OK.

 

　　Olga: We put an altar for them which is like a big table decorated with flowers, bread, coffee or whatever the person that is dead used to like and we think that on that day that person is going to come back from the dead.

 

　　Daniel: Really?

 

　　Olga: Yeah and visit us and maybe eat the food.

 

　　Daniel: OK.

 

　　Olga: It's on November first, the second too. The second, the altar is still there and after that we just take everything off and go on with our lives.

 

　　Daniel: You keep the altar only on the first and the second?

 

　　Olga: Yeah.

 

　　Daniel: OK and do you do it just for your family or do you go and visit friends or other relatives?

 

　　Olga: No, we only keep it within the family actually.

 

　　Daniel: OK.

 

　　Olga: Well sometimes we do it at school but still it's just like you know to keep the tradition but usually in the family.

 

　　Daniel: OK.

 

　　Olga: Well another holiday I can think about is Easter. You have Easter too in Chile?

 

　　Daniel: Yes, we do have Easter.

 

　　Olga: Easter we actually don't keep it traditional any more.

 

　　Daniel: What do you mean?

 

　　Olga: You know traditionally² we make plays where we represent³ Jesus and the moment when he died and everything right? But you know we don't reflect about it any more. We just go on vacations to the beach and celebrate and you know go to concerts and stuff⁴.

 

　　Daniel: Just as Chilean people do.

 

　　Olga: I guess it's kind of a trend⁵ now right?

 

　　Daniel: Yeah. We don't really think a lot about Easter.

 

　　Olga: Yeah.

1 scary   

a.引起惊慌的；害怕的

参考例句：

• What animal do you think is the most scary?你认为什么动物最可怕？
• Are you afraid of scary movies?你害怕恐怖电影吗？

2 traditionally   

adv.传说地；传统地

参考例句：

• Traditionally,people clean the house before the Spring Festival.传统上，人们在春节前打扫房子。
• Medicine is traditionally the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year.根据传统，医学奖是诺贝尔奖每年颁发的第一个奖项。

3 represent   

vt.表现，表示；描绘，讲述；代表，象征；回忆；再赠送，再上演；vi.提出异议

参考例句：

• I'll represent to him the risk he is running.我要向他指出他所面临的险境。
• We selected her to represent us.我们选她作为我们的代表。

4 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。

5 trend   

n.趋势，倾向，方位；vi.倾向，转向

参考例句：

• Today's trend is toward less formal clothing.眼下时尚趋向于穿着随便。
• The trend of prices is still upwards.物价的趋向是仍在上涨。