美語情景對話 第1268期:How is the traffic where you live? 你生活的地方交通情況怎麼樣?

How is the traffic where you live?

你生活的地方交通情況怎麼樣？

Tom: Jess, we both live in Bangkok.

湯姆：傑茜，我們都在曼谷生活。

Jess: Yep.

傑茜：對。

Tom: We travel around every day. How do you find the traffic here?

湯姆：我們每天都要出行。你認爲這裏的交通情況怎麼樣？

Jess: It's pretty awful. Yeah, I think especially on Friday afternoons and at rush hour every day, you can't really take a taxi or travel by car because you can't get anywhere.

傑茜：非常糟糕。週五下午和每天的高峯時段尤爲擁堵，在那些時間不能坐出租車或汽車出行，因爲堵車嚴重，你哪裏也去不了。

Tom: What kind of options are there for traveling around?

湯姆：那有哪些出行選擇？

Jess: There's motorcycle taxis which I won't take because I think they're too dangerous.

傑茜：我不會選擇摩托出租車，因爲我認爲那很危險。

Tom: What do you take?

湯姆：那你會選擇哪種交通工具？

Jess: I take motorbikes a lot, but I like the choice that we have in Bangkok. There are motorbikes. There's also tuk-tuks, which are kind of three-wheeled cars. There's the skytrain and the subway and taxis and private cars and a whole range of buses. Do you ever take the bus?

傑茜：我經常選擇助力自行車，我喜歡曼谷的交通選擇。曼谷有這種助力自行車。還有嘟嘟車，那是一種三輪車。曼谷還有空中列車、地鐵、出租車、私家車，以及各種巴士。你坐過巴士嗎？

Tom: No, I don't take the bus here. I think if I'm going to be stuck in traffic, I'd like to be in an air-conditioned taxi, not in a hot, sweaty bus.

湯姆：沒有，我沒在曼谷坐過巴士。我認爲，如果可能遇到堵車，那我會選擇有空調的出租車，而不是坐悶熱又會讓人汗流浹背的巴士。

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那兩個人討論了一系列問題。
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我猜想她要被調走了。
3. be stuck in 卡住的；動不了的；陷入…的；
例句：I was stuck in a traffic jam.
我被困在了交通堵塞的情況中。
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最後，我想說我的確很喜歡你們的雜誌。