美語情景對話 第778期:Wish List 願望清單
Todd: So, Rebecca, let's talk about things we wish could do that we can't do. What is something you wish you could do, that you can't do now?
Rebecca: I think it would be definitely playing music, like playing a guitar. Some of my friends can just pull out a guitar and start singing and then you have everybody around and it's such a great night. I just wish I could join them and actually, yeah, have fun with that as well, but no, I can't play guitar.
麗貝卡：那肯定是演奏樂器，彈吉他這樣的事情。我有一些朋友可以邊彈吉他邊唱歌，這會把所有人都吸引到他們身邊去，大家一起度過愉快的夜晚時光。我希望我也能加入，像他們那樣開心地玩，可是我不會彈吉他。Todd: So, if you could play any instrument, it would be the guitar?
託德：如果你能演奏一種樂器，你希望是吉他嗎？
Rebecca: Yeah. Yeah. I think so. I have played piano and saxophone before but not overly that well.
麗貝卡：對，沒錯。我希望這樣。我之前彈鋼琴、吹薩克斯，可是都不是很精通。Todd: Oh, really so you actually had musical training?
託德：哦，你以前受過音樂訓練？Rebecca: Yeah, when I was in high school.
麗貝卡：對，上高中的時候。Todd: In the piano and the saxophone?
託德：彈鋼琴和吹薩克斯？Rebecca: Yep. Yeah. The saxophone was maybe for one or two years and I would love to get back into playing that as well, but they're quite expensive little instruments actually.
麗貝卡：對，是的。薩克斯我練習了一兩年，我也想再繼續練習薩克斯，不過薩克斯這種樂器非常貴。Todd: Yeah. Slightly.
託德：對，有點貴。Rebecca: And then the piano is very large so, you can't really transport that around with you wherever you go.
麗貝卡：鋼琴太大了，不能隨身攜帶。Todd: So do you think that if had learned music at a younger age, you would still be with it? Was the problem just that you waited too late in life to start?
託德：如果你從小開始接觸音樂，那你現在還會堅持嗎？你是不是覺得你接觸音樂的時間太晚了？Rebecca: I don't think so. I think it's more the friends circle that I was with. We weren't really a musical group and the people that I've met now are really musical so you sort of wish maybe if I had kept going I could have joined them now, but I do enjoy listening to them.
麗貝卡：我不這麼認爲。我認爲和朋友圈有很大的關係，以前我接觸的人和音樂沒有關係，現在我的朋友都會演奏樂器，如果我一直練習樂器的話，那我現在也可以和他們一起演奏了，不過我很享受聽他們的演奏。Todd: Well, what about singing? Are you a good singer?
託德：那唱歌呢？你唱的好嗎？Rebecca: No. Not at all. I don't think I want to be a good singer either cause then everybody would expect you to sing all the time so I just do backup vocals. Really badly.
麗貝卡：不好，一點兒也不好。我並不想成爲好歌手，因爲如果你唱歌很好，那其他人就會一直讓你唱歌，我只能做伴唱。我唱得很差。Todd: Well, I'm the same way. I can't sing at all. OK, so basically you wish you could play the guitar, but you have played the piano and the saxophone before.
託德：我和你一樣，我唱的一點兒都不好。基本上來說，你希望能彈吉他，你之前有彈鋼琴和吹薩克斯。Rebecca: Yes.
麗貝卡：對。Todd: OK, is there anything else that you wish you could do?
託德：好，你還有其他想做的事情嗎？Rebecca: To be able to speak maybe a couple languages would be nice.
麗貝卡：我要是能掌握幾門語言就太好了。Todd: Yeah, that's a good one. So if you could speak any two languages, what two would you want to speak?
託德：對，這個不錯。如果你能說兩種語言，你希望是哪兩種？Rebecca: I think Japanese and Spanish.
麗貝卡：日語和西班牙語。Todd: Japanese and Spanish.
託德：日語和西班牙語。Rebecca: Yeah. Yeah. They both sound really interesting and they're both the countries that I would like to go and visit and maybe attempt to work there but you need to be able to speak the language before you can work.
麗貝卡：對，對。這兩種語言聽起來很有意思，而且這兩個國家也是我想去遊覽並工作的地方，在工作之前要先掌握語言。Todd: Right. That's true. I think if I could choose any two languages I would choose Chinese and Arabic just because both those languages when I hear them they sound so completely impossible to speak, so if you could speak those, that would be pretty amazing.
託德：對，沒錯。如果我能選擇兩種語言，那我會選中文和阿拉伯語，因爲我覺得這兩種語言的發音非常難，如果我能掌握這兩種語言，那就太棒了。Rebecca: Yeah, definitely. Yeah, Chinese sounds like a hard language.
麗貝卡：沒錯。中文是很難的語言。Todd: All those tones.
託德：有很多音調。
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重點講解：
1. as well 也；還；
例句：The three other teachers had resigned as well.
其他三位教師也都辭職了。
2. sort of 有幾分；近似；有那麼點兒；
例句：In the end, she sort of pushed it.
最後，她幾乎是用了推的。
3. be able to do sth. 可以…的，能夠…的；
例句：Jim was able to hold back his anger.
吉姆抑制住了憤怒。
4. would like to do sth. （表示願意）想要；
例句：He mentioned that he would like to start a school.
他提起他想創辦一所學校。
