英文原版对话1000个:1212 Water Adventures

 　　Jana: So you mentioned hiking. I think South Africa must have a lot of outdoor activities, right?

 

　　Peter: Hmm.

 

　　Jane: Some extreme sports?

 

　　Peter: Right, right. Yeah, it's, actually for a dry country it's interesting that it has so many water sports, people that really love water sports too especially on the eastern side of the country because it's tropical warm climate year round. The sea temperature is quite warm and at the same time it has a lot of really big waves so I think two of the world's biggest surfing events are held in South Africa yearly. The one is near Jeffreys Bay and the other one is near Durban and that's where all the world's surf champions come to surf and test their skills. But if you're not into surfing you can go wind surfing which actually on the eastern coast is really famous because of the strong winds over there and the relatively¹, not calm seas, but actually there's a lot of open plains to do wind surfing on so it's really famous for that. And then like skiing and water skiing of course really famous too. People really enjoy the water sports.

 

　　Jana: Great. I also heard about diving.

 

　　Peter: Ah, yeah.

 

　　Jana: Diving in South Africa.

 

　　Peter: Yeah, that's, one, two interesting things. One is shark cage diving that people are really, have in recent years become interested in.

 

　　Jana: That sounds scary.

 

　　Peter: I think it is. One of the, actually the breeding colonies of the great white shark is in South Africa, I think the other one is in Australia, and people come there to go down in big steel cages to go and see some of these huge sharks and they dive with them and I think it's pretty dangerous but it's interesting for some people. The other, the other interesting thing is that I wanted to mention about water sports, I have now forgotten.

 

　　Jana: Diving?

 

　　Todd: You said there were two things about diving.

 

　　Peter: Yeah, diving or water sports that was interesting.

 

　　Jana: Diving, I think. Normal diving.

 

　　Peter: Normal diving, deep sea diving. The other one was because of the ancient sea route past the...

 

　　Todd: You'll have to start again.

 

　　Peter: The other thing that's really interesting diving in South Africa, also dangerous, is diving for treasure because of the ancient shipping² route from Europe right past the Cape³ Point, the southern most shipping route in the world. There's a lot of ships that sank because of the terrible weather in centuries past, over the last, I guess, five hundred years ships have sunk around the tip of Africa and people, divers⁴ come there to dive and find out if they can get some, if they can get rich basically diving for treasure and you get a lot of historical excavation⁵ as well. It's pretty dangerous too because there are two converging⁶ sea...

 

　　Jana: Currents.

 

　　Peter: Currents that meet and the one is warm and the one is cold so you have a really interesting combination of natural weather patterns at the same place so I guess a lot of ships sank because of all the storms in that area.

 

　　Jana: Wow, so treasure diving or wreck⁷ diving sounds more fun than shark diving.

 

　　Peter: I think so too but it depends on your interest I guess.

1 relatively   

adv.比较...地，相对地

参考例句：

• The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
• The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。

2 shipping   

n.船运（发货，运输，乘船）

参考例句：

• We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
• There's a shipping charge of ￡5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。

3 cape   

n.海角，岬；披肩，短披风

参考例句：

• I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
• She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。

4 divers   

adj.不同的；种种的

参考例句：

• He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人，要他们和他作伴。
• Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作，同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。

5 excavation   

n.挖掘，发掘；被挖掘之地

参考例句：

• The bad weather has hung up the work of excavation.天气不好耽误了挖掘工作。
• The excavation exposed some ancient ruins.这次挖掘暴露出一些古遗迹。

6 converging   

adj.收敛[缩]的，会聚的，趋同的v.（线条、运动的物体等）会于一点( converge的现在分词 )；（趋于）相似或相同；人或车辆汇集；聚集

参考例句：

• Plants had gradually evolved along diverging and converging pathways. 植物是沿着趋异和趋同两种途径逐渐演化的。 来自辞典例句
• This very slowly converging series was known to Leibniz in 1674. 这个收敛很慢的级数是莱布尼茨在1674年得到的。 来自辞典例句

7 wreck   

n.失事，遇难；沉船；vt.(船等)失事，遇难

参考例句：

• Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
• No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。