英文原版对话1000个:770 Prisons

Todd: OK, Mark, you've travelled quite a bit.

Mark: I have, yeah.

Todd: And you've actually done a lot of unique things that people don't do when they travel. You were saying that when you travel you like to look at prisons.

Mark: That's right. I have a strange fascination¹ with prisons when I go traveling.

Todd: Is it your conscience? Do you feel guilty that you should be in prison?

Mark: Not really, no but I don't know why but the history of prisons is fantastic. For example, obviously the most famous one's Alcatraz.

Todd: Right.

Mark: You go there. Now you can take an audio tour. Have you ever taken that?

Todd: You know, I'm from San Francisco and I've never been to Alcatraz.

Mark: Ah, it's fantastic. It was one of the best places I visited in America. It was Alcatraz prison. And you can take the audio tour and listen about all the ex-convicts. What they did and what daily life was like in Alcatraz. Really, good.

Todd: Wow, well, I'm going home in a few days and I'm gonna go to Alcatraz.

Mark: You should do. You should do it. And another prison that I visited that's very famous was Robben Island just off the coast of Cape² Town in South Africa, and that's where Nelson Mandela spent most of his days.

Todd: No kidding. Robben Island.

Mark: Robben Island. Yeah.

Todd: Do they still have his room made up?

Mark: They do. They have his room all still made up, and you can read lots of leaflets³ about Nelson Mandela and hen they take you, show you the work yard, and basically he was spending, I think was twelve hours per day working outside in the South African heat.

Todd: That's insane⁴.

Mark: You can see all around the prison yard. That's really interesting.

Todd: So you've seen the prisons in South Africa and in America.

Mark: Also I went to a crazy prison in Kuala Lumpur in the center on Malaysia.

Todd: Oh, yeah.

Mark: Yeah. As you arrive at the airport, if you take the monorail from the station into central Kuala Lumpur, then you see the old prison. It's now closed, but outside the prison, on the walls, it's got lots of graffiti and basically the government has written the graffiti and it basically tells you do not smuggle⁵ drugs into Malaysia or you will be staying here for a long time, and the prison looks like the worst building you've ever seen in your life.

Todd: Wow!

Mark: Yeah, and also it warns you about the death penalty⁶, if you smuggle drugs into Malaysia, you'll receive the death penalty.

Todd: Man, that's... well, that's tough.

Mark: Yeah. I think I got this fascination for prisons because near my house in England there used to be a big prison that looked like an old castle, old scary castle and I used to pass that sometimes when I was going to work when I was younger, so that's why I have this strange interest in prisons.

 

1 fascination   

n.令人着迷的事物，魅力，迷恋

参考例句：

• He had a deep fascination with all forms of transport.他对所有的运输工具都很着迷。
• His letters have been a source of fascination to a wide audience.广大观众一直迷恋于他的来信。

2 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。

3 leaflets   

n.传单，散页印刷品( leaflet的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Leaflets have been delivered to every household. 传单已发送到每家每户。
• They stood there, giving out the leaflets to the passers-by. 他们站在那里，向过路人散发传单。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 insane   

adj.蠢极的，荒唐的，精神错乱的，疯狂的

参考例句：

• Insane people are sometimes dangerous.精神病人有时非常危险。
• The letter made her insane with jealousy.那封信使她妒忌得发疯。

5 smuggle   

vt.私运；vi.走私

参考例句：

• Friends managed to smuggle him secretly out of the country.朋友们想方设法将他秘密送出国了。
• She has managed to smuggle out the antiques without getting caught.她成功将古董走私出境，没有被逮捕。

6 penalty   

n.处罚，刑罚，罚款

参考例句：

• If you knock the ball with your hand in football,you will suffer a penalty.如果在踢足球时你用手碰到球，你将受到处罚。
• One of those arrested could face the death penalty.被捕的那些人中有一人可能被判死刑。