生活英语情景对话:蒙特利尔
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生活英语情景对话:蒙特利尔
Todd: Hello, Ann! How are you doing?
你好,安!你好吗?
Ann: I'm fine.
我很好。
Todd: Ann, could you introduce yourself and tell people where you are from?
安,你能介绍一下自己来自哪里吗?
Ann: Yeah, my name's Ann Hutchingson and I'm from Montreal, Canada. And right now I'm an English teacher in Tokyo, Japan.
好的,我的名字叫做Ann Hutchingson,我来自加拿大蒙特利尔市。我现在在日本东京做一名英语老师。
Todd: Mm. OK. What's Montreal like?
好的,蒙特利尔市是什么样子的?
Ann: Montreal is a really nice city. It's just very cold in the wintertime. It is..uh, it has four seasons, and the nicest season is the summertime because it's really warm and people play a lot of sports, and there are some parks in Montreal, and you can go swimming and hiking and biking and rollerblading. It's a very interesing city.
蒙特利尔市是一个很好的城市。只是那里冬天很冷。那里一年分为四个季节,最棒的季节是夏天,因为夏天很温暖,人们会出来运动,蒙特利尔有许多公园,你可以游泳,徒步游玩,骑自行车或滑旱冰。蒙特利尔市一个有趣的城市。
Todd: Wow! Were you born in Montreal?
哇!你在蒙特利尔出生吗?
Ann: I was born in Montreal and I can speak two languages. English is my first language but I also studied French in high school.
我在蒙特利尔出生,我能说两种语言。英语是我的第一语言,但我在高中还学了法语。
Todd: So, were you in a submersion program, or all your subjects in French.
法语是你的辅修课程吗,还是主课?
Ann: No, I went to an English high school but a lot of people in Montreal are in immersion programs.
不,我上的是一所英语教学高中,但蒙特利尔有很多都是浸入式教育。
Todd: OK. Since you learned French, what do you think is the best way to learn language?
好的,你学了法语后,你觉得学习英语最好的方法是什么?
Ann: I think that you have to like learning another language and if you have a possitive attitude then you can find learning another language fun rather than stressful so I think that I had a few French friends and we would practice and they would be very patient and I liked the fact that I couldcommunicate using another language cause then you have another identity.
我想你一定很喜欢学习其他语言,如果用积极的态度去面对其他语言,就会觉得其他语言很有趣而不会觉得压力大,因此我认为我有一些说法语的朋友,我们一起练习语言,他们很有耐心,我很喜欢能够用另一种语言交流,感觉有了另外一种身份。
Todd: You have your French identity?
感觉有了法国人的身份?
Ann: I do.
是的。
Todd: OK. So what's your name in French?
好的,那么你的法语名字叫什么?
Ann: "Mono e Ann"
“Mono e Ann”。
Todd: Wow! I need to get myself a French name?
我!我也应该取个法语名字?
Ann: Todd.
托德。
Todd: OK. Thanks a lot Ann.
好的,谢谢你,安。
Ann: You're welcome. Nice speaking with you.
不客气。很高兴和你聊天。
生活英语情景对话:自驾游
Todd: Tim, you want to talk about road trips!
蒂姆,你能谈谈自驾游吗?
Tim: Yeah, I wanna talk about road trips. Ah, me and my friends, when we were in high school we took a lot of road trips to lots of different places.
好的,我想谈谈自驾游。我和我的朋友在高中的时候自驾游去了很多地方。
Todd: OK.
好的。
Tim: We would go down to California, ah, sometimes Mexico. One time when I was living in Wyoming, in one weekend we drove from Wyoming, through Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico and back in the same weekend.
我们去过加利福尼亚州,有时会去墨西哥。在我还住在怀俄明州的时候,有一次我们在一个周末内开车从怀俄明州,穿过科罗拉多州,新墨西哥州,墨西哥再回到怀俄明州。
Todd: Wow! Well, actually for people who are not familiar with the United States how far is that?
哇!有些人可能并不了解美国,这条路有多远?
Tim: It's a long way. I don't know. It took, I don't know, it took probably about 15 hours one way.
这是一条很长的旅程。我不知道,大概单程花了15个小时。
Todd: Wow!
哇!
Tim: So, thirty hours all together. But it was fun. We drove down to Mexico, had a good night a good meal, a little bit of drinks and drove back the next day.
总共30小时的车程。但很有趣。我们开车到墨西哥,吃了顿好的,喝了点儿酒,睡了个好觉,第二天又开回来了。
Todd: So you went to Tijuana?
你们去了提华纳(墨西哥西北部城市)?
Tim: No, we went to, ah, Ciudad Warez.
不,我们去的是Ciudad Warez。
Todd: OK. Nice.
好的,很棒。
Tim: That was really fun and a lot of other trips we took, ah, when I lived in Oregon, when we'd go down to California, and we'd surf.
那次真的很好玩,除此之外,我们的其他行程也很有趣,我住在俄勒冈州的时候,我们自驾游去了加利福尼亚州,而且冲了浪。
Todd: Oh, really!
哦,真的!
Tim: Yeah!
真的!
Todd: Oh, you're a surfer?
你会冲浪?
Tim: A little bit, a little bit of surfer.
一点点,我会一点冲浪。
Todd: OK, What, what kind of car do you drive? What do you use for this road trip?
好的,你开的什么车?你们自驾游开的是什么车?
Tim: Well, typical American, uh a four-wheel drive vehicle, big vehicle...lots of gas but a lot of fun.
典型的美国货,四轮驱动汽车,大型车,耗油量大,但是很好的车。
Todd: Oh man, you're from Oregon, you're supposed to be a tree-hugger!
老兄,你来自俄勒冈州,你本应该是个环境保护主义者!
Tim: I know. I know. But there're good. One rule we had on our road trips was any, any lake or big body of water we had to stop and swim in. It was a good thing to do.
我知道。但那车真的很好。自驾游有一条规则就是,遇到湖泊或是积水很深的地方我们一定会停车,在水里游一会儿。这么做感觉很棒。
Todd: Well, you live in Japan now. Do you ever do road trips in Japan?
你现在生活在日本。你在日本自驾游过吗?
Tim: I took a road trip from Niigata up around Hokkaido and back, so it was a long road trip actually.
我曾驾车从新泻(日本本州岛中北岸港市)出发,到达北海道折返,那实际上也是一次长途自驾游。
Todd: OK. Wow! What's the difference between a road trip in Japan and a road trip in America?
好的。哇!在日本自驾游和在美国自驾游的区别是什么?
Tim: Well, a road trip in Japan..it's a little bit more dificult to get around, it's a little bit more expensive, ah, in America road triping is sort of, something a lot of people do.
在日本自驾游行动有些不自如,我还需要更多的经验。在美国自驾游就很常见,因为很多人都这么做。
Todd: Yeah!
好的!
Tim: And in Japan, when we do that it is a little bit strange, a little bit different, not not very normal.
另外,在日本自驾游有一点奇怪,有一点不同,自驾游在日本还不是很常见。
Todd: Yeah, that's true. OK. Great, thanks a lot Tim.
是的,事实正是如此。好的,谢谢你蒂姆。
Tim: Alright.
好的。
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