美語情景對話 第757期:Hotel Costs 酒店費用

Todd: So, Mini, your country, Sri Lanka, is a very popular tourist destination. Can you talk a little about costs? Like how much does it cost to have a nice vacation in Sri Lanka?

託德：米妮，你的祖國斯里蘭卡是旅遊勝地。你能說說費用問題嗎？去斯里蘭卡度假需要多少錢？

Mini: It's a very cheap place to have a vacation, so for example if you have... your budget is around 50,000 yen in terms of rupees around 45,000 rupees, you can have a good vacation. You can have a good hotel. You can have good food. You can shop as well — by clothes and all the stuff and go around the country as well.

米妮：去斯里蘭卡度假很便宜，5萬日元左右的預算，也就是4.5萬盧比左右，你就可以度過一個愉快的假期。你可以住好酒店，吃美味的食物。當然還可以去購物，買衣服和其他東西，還有在斯里蘭卡觀光。

Todd: That's pretty cool. So, how much is a nice hotel, like a five-star hotel?

託德：那太酷了。那五星級酒店的價格大概是多少？

Mini: For one day, it's around 10,000 yen. Around 9,500 rupees.

米妮：一天大概1萬日元，也就是9500盧比。

Todd: Right. So 10,000 yen. OK, so that's pretty cheap. That's about 100 dollars I think. Right? One hundred U.S. dollars? So, a five-star hotel, you're talking about beautiful room, nice swimming pool, nice facilities, everything.

託德：好。1萬日元。真的很便宜。大概是100美元，對吧？100美元？五星級酒店，你說的是有漂亮的房間，游泳池、完備設施的那種吧？

Mini: Everything is there, and it's near the beach as well.

米妮：裏面什麼都有，而且附近還有海灘。

Todd: Oh, man, that's great. So, what if you want something cheaper. What if you just want a small room, very basic, just a bed, a bathroom, no swimming pool, nothing nice. How much would a hotel like that cost?

託德：天哪，那太棒了。如果想要便宜的房間呢？如果說是那種小房間、只有牀和浴室等基本設施，沒有游泳池，也不是那麼完備的房間，這種酒店要多少錢？

Mini: OK, for that, you can pay around a thousand yen. Around nine hundred rupees.

米妮：這種大概是1000日元，900盧比左右。

Todd: A thousand yen.

託德：1000日元。

Mini: A thousand yen. A thousand, five hundred yen.

米妮：1000日元，或者是1500日元。

Todd: Ten dollars.

託德：10美元。

Mini: Mm-hm. That's cheap.

米妮：嗯，很便宜。

Todd: For one night?

託德：一晚上的價格？

Mini: Yeah.

米妮：對。

Todd: Really.

託德：真的嗎？

Mini: Mm-hm.

米妮：嗯。

Todd: I wanna go.

託德：我想去。

Mini: I'm sure.

米妮：我確定。

Todd: That is really, really cheap.

託德：那真是太便宜了。

Mini: Yeah, it's very cheap.

米妮：對，是非常便宜。

Todd: OK, what about things like internet access? So can you get high-speed internet access?

託德：那有網嗎？有高速網絡接口嗎？

Mini: If you want to stay in a hotel like that, no, you can't get internet access from those kind of hotels, but if you stay in four-star hotel, maybe three-star hotel you can get high-speed internet access.

米妮：沒有，這種酒店裏沒有網絡接口，但是四星級酒店裏有，可能三星級酒店也有高速網絡接口。

Todd: OK.

託德：好。

Mini: But you have like centers, internet media centers, kind of stuff. You can pay like fifty rupees and access to the internet. You can do it anytime.

米妮：斯里蘭卡有網絡媒體中心。花50盧比就可以接入網絡。隨時都可以。

Todd: Right. OK. And just lastly, what about meals? How much do meals cost?

託德：好。最後一個問題，食物呢？食物的價格呢？

Mini: If you want to go for a nice buffet, maybe around two thousand yen, a thousand, five hundred rupees around.

米妮：一頓豐盛的飯菜大概要花2000日元左右，約1500盧比左右。

Todd: Oh, that's actually kind of expensive, isn't it. Two thousand yen.

託德：哦，那有點兒貴，是吧？2000日元。

Mini: But you have everything there. It's really nice. I love it.

米妮：但是這頓飯裏什麼都有，非常棒，我很喜歡。

Todd: OK. Well, it sounds like a great place to go. Thanks Mini.

託德：好，聽起來斯里蘭卡是個好去處。謝謝你，米妮。

Mini: You're welcome.

米妮：不客氣。

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