美語情景對話 第914期:Match Day 比賽日

Valeria: So how about in tournament time?

瓦萊裏婭：比賽時間呢？

Daniel: How?

丹尼爾：怎麼了？

Valeria: How do you live that?

瓦萊裏婭：一般有比賽時你們是怎麼過的？

Daniel: Well if it's an important tournament, like World Cup or Copa America, we would watch the matches like normally watch and...

丹尼爾：如果是世界盃或美洲盃這樣的重要比賽，我們會正常觀看比賽……

Valeria: What do you mean normally watch?

瓦萊裏婭：正常觀看是什麼意思？

Daniel: Normally watch means even if you have classes, even if you are working, if there's a match in between you're going to watch it.

丹尼爾：就是說即使要上課或是要上班，如果有重要比賽，我們還是會觀看。

Valeria: So wait a second. If you are working, suppose you are working in your office and the matches are three pm meaning like working hours or the match is at ten am like it's school hours you still watch the match?

瓦萊裏婭：等一下。如果你在上班，比如你在辦公室工作，比賽在下午3點開始，這時還是工作時間，或是在上午10點開始，這時學生還要上課，那你們也會看比賽嗎？

Daniel: Yeah, yeah. You get a TV at the office or your classroom and you watch the game.

丹尼爾：對，沒錯。辦公室和教室裏有電視，可以看比賽。

Valeria: Really?

瓦萊裏婭：真的嗎？

Daniel: Yeah, we stop working because otherwise you wouldn't do anything anyway.

丹尼爾：對，我們會停下手裏的工作，因爲不然你也做不了什麼。

Valeria: So you stop working, you stop studying?

瓦萊裏婭：你們會停止工作，停止學習？

Daniel: Yes.

丹尼爾：對。

Valeria: You stop everything that you are doing for watching the match?

瓦萊裏婭：你們停下手頭上的一切事情，去看比賽？

Daniel: Yeah.

丹尼爾：對。

Valeria: It's kind of the same in Argentina.

瓦萊裏婭：這和阿根廷一樣。

Daniel: You see because it's really important, like football is really important for us so if you're supporting your team, if it's your national team everyone gets involved.

丹尼爾：因爲這真的很重要，足球對我們來說非常重要，如果有你支持的球隊，如果有國家隊的比賽，那所有人都會關注比賽。

Valeria: In my country the rating of the matches is like more than thirty each time.

瓦萊裏婭：在我們國家，每次足球比賽的收視率都超過30%。

Daniel: Yeah, yeah, it's the same in Chile. It's really successful when you broadcast the match.

丹尼爾：對，智利也是這樣。傳播比賽會取得非常大的成功。

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重點講解：
1. even if 即使；儘管；縱然；
例句：Even if they didn't put her in jail, they would deport her.
即使他們不把她關入監獄,他們也會把她驅逐出境。
2. stop doing sth. 停止；停下；
例句：Stop throwing those stones!
不要再扔那些石頭了！
3. kind of 稍微；有幾分；有點兒；
例句：She kind of hoped to be invited.
她有點兒希望能受到邀請。