原版英语对话1000个:098 Soccer in Kenya

Todd: Alex, when you were little, what did you like to do?

Alex: When I was small and I was in junior high school we used to like playing soccer with my friends. Actually in Kenya, what's different from other countries, we used to make our own soccer ball to play. So, it's very easy.

Todd: Wow. How do you make the soccer ball?

Alex: We used to collect like plastic papers¹ and bind² them with string, around them to make something round. So it was like, you didn't have to spend any money.

Todd: Wow, that's ingenious³. That's great. So were you a good soccer player?

Alex: Not really. I used to like playing soccer but I was not very good, actually to tell the truth

Todd: Yeah, me too. I wasn't a very good athlete. I mean I like sports but I was never very good. Um, so do you play soccer in Japan?

Alex: Sometimes... until last year when I was in school I still played soccer. Right now, actually I'm not playing anymore because I'm like busy.

Todd: Yeah.

Alex: Yeah. You can't play soccer without a big group of people and everyone is busy right now so I'm not playing anymore.

Todd: Yeah, that's a bummer. Like I always want to play sports but it's just hard as you get older. When's the last time you played soccer?

Alex: About one year ago. I think November of 1993?,...2003, November.

Todd: OK. Actually in Kenya do you call it soccer or football?

Alex: In Kenya you call it football.

Todd: Football. I'm sorry.

Alex: Actually, I've been in Japan for sometime⁴ so I'm used to calling it soccer. In Kenya you call it football.

 

1 papers   

n.文件，纸币，论文

参考例句：

• I want to check with my secretary before I sign the papers.在签署这些文件前，我要与我的秘书商议。
• The lawyer read all the papers relating to the case.律师阅读了与该案有关的全部文件。

2 bind   

vt.捆，包扎；装订；约束；使凝固；vi.变硬

参考例句：

• I will let the waiter bind up the parcel for you.我让服务生帮你把包裹包起来。
• He wants a shirt that does not bind him.他要一件不使他觉得过紧的衬衫。

3 ingenious   

adj.设计独特的，巧妙的，善于创造发明的

参考例句：

• Try to think of unusual and ingenious solutions.尽量想想不同寻常的、巧妙的解决方法。
• The director used ingenious devices to keep the audience in suspense.导演用巧妙手法引起观众的悬念。

4 sometime   

adv.将来某一时候；改天

参考例句：

• He came sometime last month.上个月某个时候他曾经来过。
• It will happen sometime and somewhere.有朝一日这总会在什么地方发生的。