英文原版对话1000个:1196 Rainy Routine

 　　Valeria: For example in Argentina if it is raining, it's like you change your schedule a little, right?

 

　　Diego: Yeah.

 

　　Valeria: Because of the rain, because it's not like every day raining. But here you have to do everything under the rain.

 

　　Diego: Yeah, but at the same time it, everything is made and it's built to kind of you know work with the rain.

 

　　Valeria: Yeah, for instance, the clothes, right?

 

　　Diego: Yeah, the clothes and all the facilities, you know everything is made for that.

 

　　Valeria: It's preparing for having a lot of water.

 

　　Diego: Yeah, exactly. If you have, I don't know, two or three days in a row that it's raining in Chile, we will have serious problems.

 

　　Valeria: The same happens in Argentina.

 

　　Diego: Floods and that would be an issue so for me the weather thing is I like rain, just a little bit.

 

　　Valeria: Yeah, from time to time it's really nice.

 

　　Diego: Yeah, exactly.

 

　　Valeria: And enjoyable.

 

　　Diego: Yeah.

 

　　Valeria: But every day? Yes, it's true. The thing is that the weather is changing, right?

 

　　Diego: Yeah.

 

　　Valeria: And the infrastructure¹ of my country wasn't prepared for this weather.

 

　　Diego: That's true.

 

　　Valeria: So if it rains a couple of days in a row, sometimes the city collapses².

 

　　Diego: That's true. A lot of cities in Latin America have the same problem. They're poorly constructed and for that specific thing and we have a lot of problems especially with poor people. So when you talk about the weather I think it's not only your personal thing, sometimes you have to consider a couple of other factors as well.

 

　　Valeria: And the public transport?

 

　　Diego: Yeah, I think that's another issue because for us public transportation is just a complete mess.

 

　　Valeria: There are a lot of public transport in Argentina but the thing is that all the infrastructure is not prepared for a lot of rain so when it happens sometimes the subway should stop for a couple of hours and that is very annoying.

 

　　Diego: Because it changes the whole schedule, right?

 

　　Valeria: Yes, definitely.

1 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。

2 collapses   

折叠( collapse的第三人称单数 )； 倒塌； 崩溃； （尤指工作劳累后）坐下

参考例句：

• This bridge table collapses. 这张桥牌桌子能折叠。
• Once Russia collapses, the last chance to stop Hitler will be gone. 一旦俄国垮台，抑止希特勒的最后机会就没有了。