原版英语对话1000个:147 The Beach

Todd: Richard!

Richard: Yes!

Todd: Do you like the beach?

Richard: I love the beach.

Todd: OK. When, when do you go to the beach?

Richard: So in the summer I like to go with my family and, yeah, in the summer.

Todd: OK. Is there a beach near your home?

Richard: No, do you mean in Japan or in England?

Todd: In Japan.

Richard: In Japan, we have to drive a long way to go to the beach.

Todd: Oh!

Richard: But I can go to the beach in Chiba. Kujuukurihama, or to the Izu Pennisula.

Todd: OK. And what do you do at the beach?

Richard: OK. We enjoy swimming in the sea and boating and just making sand castles with my son.

Todd: OK. Ooh! Sand castles! Nice! What do you take to the beach?

Richard: Beach towel, very important, something to put on the sand to try to stop the sand from getting into everything.

Todd: OK. And what..

Richard: Bucket and spade¹.

Todd: But..what?

Richard: Bucket and spade.

Todd: a bucket and spade

Richard: To make sand castles.

Todd: Oh, nice. OK.
 

1 spade   

n.铁锨，铲子

参考例句：

• This spade is very handy.这把铁锹使起来挺顺手。
• He dug the ground with a spade.他用锹挖地。