美語情景對話 第741期:Wild Life 野外生活

Todd: So, Asako, we are talking about your time in Alaska. Now you are from a major city in Japan, correct?

託德：麻子，我們來聊聊你在阿拉斯加州的生活。你來自日本一個大城市，對吧？

Asako: That's right. Nagoya.

麻子：沒錯，我來自名古屋。

Todd: Now, Nagoya is a very big city.

託德：名古屋是一座非常大的城市。

Asako: Very big. Two million people.

麻子：非常大。有兩百萬人口。

Todd: So, what was it like going from a big city in Japan to way out in the wilderness in Alaska?

託德：那從日本的大城市搬到阿拉斯加州的原野生活，是什麼感覺？

Asako: Do you know what? A lot of people think I had problems, many problems, but actually I did not. I just loved it. I did not have any problems.

麻子：你知道嗎？許多人認爲我會遇到問題，會遇到很多問題，但其實並不是這樣。我喜歡阿拉斯加州。我沒有遇到任何問題。

Todd: So maybe, by nature, you are actually more of a nature person.

託德：可能從本性上來說你更喜歡大自然。

Asako: Exactly. So when... actually when I had problems, was when I came back to Japan, back to the big city in Nagoya. Then I had a lot of problems.

麻子：沒錯。其實我回到日本，回到大城市名古屋以後，倒遇到了問題。我回來以後產生了很多問題。

Todd: You missed the wilderness?

託德：你想念原野的生活？

Asako: I missed silence. Quiet. I... just too many, too many sounds in the city. Even when you're sitting in your room, you still hear some sort of sounds, noise, surrounded by some sort of noise all the time, and I just couldn't stand it. It took me a long time to get used to.

麻子：我想念那份寂靜和安靜。城市裏有太多的噪音。即使在自己的房間裏，還是會聽到各種聲音、各種噪音，周圍一直有嗓音，我實在忍受不了這點。我花了很長時間才適應。

Todd: You know that's kind of interesting because I grew up in a small town and then I moved and I lived some major cities: London, you know, Tokyo, and I lived in Bangkok and when I would come home from being in Bangkok, Thailand, I was so used to having people around all the time, it was really hard to have too much space.

託德：我覺得這很有意思，我在一個小城鎮長大，然後搬到倫敦和東京這樣的大城市生活，我還在曼谷生活過，我離開泰國曼谷回家以後，我發現我非常習慣那種周圍擠滿人的生活，有太多空間反而更不適應。

Asako: Interesting.

麻子：有意思。

Todd: It was too much, like I missed having action and noise around me all the time.

託德：我想念那種被各種事和噪音圍繞的生活。

Asako: So you are a city person?

麻子：所以你是城市人？

Todd: You know, it's funny, oddly enough, I grew up on a farm and in a small town and I actually think, Yes, I am more of a city person.

託德：這很有趣，說來奇怪，我在一個小城鎮的農場長大，可是我認爲我更適應城市的生活。

Asako: Wow.

麻子：哇。

Todd: Maybe it us just the difference.

託德：也許這是我們的不同之處。

Asako: Maybe so. Maybe. Yeah.

麻子：也許吧，可能是。

Todd: So would you like to move back to Alaska some day?

託德：你想搬回阿拉斯加州生活嗎？

Asako: I would love to. It could be a little difficult because it's very cold in the winter. But I would love to. I miss nature.

麻子：我很想。不過有點難，阿拉斯加的冬天太冷了。不過我想回去，我想念大自然。

Todd: Now do you do the really rough, Alaskan things, like hunting, fishing, things like that?

託德：你在阿拉斯加的時候有試過打獵、釣魚之類的傳統活動嗎？

Asako: I have tried. I couldn't catch any.... well, fish yes, but I couldn't shoot anything, but I tried.

麻子：我試過。但是我沒有釣到魚，而且打獵的時候也什麼都沒打到，不過我的確試過。

Todd: You tried to shoot?

託德：你試過打獵？

Asako: Shoot. I did.

麻子：對，打獵。

Todd: You didn't hit anything?

託德：你什麼都沒打到？

Asako: I didn't.

麻子：對。

Todd: Really!

託德：真的嗎？

Asako: I was really bad.

麻子：我槍法太差了。

Todd: Well, I am sure, out there, there's some animal that's very thankful you're not good at hunting.

託德：我確定，那裏的動物一定很感謝你並不擅長打獵。

Asako: I'm sure they were.

麻子：我也是這麼認爲的。

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重點講解：
1. be surrounded by 圍繞；環繞；
例句：The old manwas surrounded bya troop of children.
老人被一羣孩子圍住了。
2. all the time 一直；始終；
例句：She seemed preoccupiedall the timeI was talking to her.
我跟她講話時她始終顯得心事重重。
3. get used to sth./doing sth. 開始習慣於；
例句：You'd betterget used todoing as you're told.
你最好習慣於照吩咐的去做。
4. be used to sth./doing sth. 習慣於；
例句：Sheisnotused toliving in a cold climate.
她不習慣寒帶生活。
5. oddly enough 說也奇怪；奇怪的是；
例句：Oddly enough, he didn't seem to remember his own birthday.
說也奇怪,他似乎不記得自己的生日。
6. be good at 擅長的；精通的；能幹的；
例句：Heis good atteaching his students to reason.
他擅於教導學生如何推理。