美語情景對話 第561期:Surf and the Sea 衝浪和海洋

Joel: So, Mitchell, you talked about surfing. You surf of course. Do you have any good surf stories?

喬爾：米切爾，你之前談到了衝浪。當然你會衝浪。你有沒有有趣的衝浪經歷？

Mitchell: Well, one day I was surfing and my friend said, "Oh, I see a shark" so I'm just like, "Right, you didn't see no shark" so you know we keep on surfing and next thing you know, we're surfing some more and it was like, "Ah, Mitch. I promise I saw a shark. I saw a shark". I was like, "Man, you're lying. Just shut up" you know cause my friends tend to joke a lot when they're surfing you know, cause we like to enjoy. So we're surfing and the next thing you know, we hear this siren coming, and like 200 yards away, we see this girl like getting out of the water like franticly. It's like, next thing you know, since we go out, we see an ambulance, something happened, like commotion, and everyone's going "Oh, this girl got bitten by a shark."

米切爾：有一天我正在衝浪時，我朋友突然說：“哦，我看到鯊魚了”，可當時我說：“你沒有看到鯊魚”，所以我們又繼續衝浪了，一段時間之後，我朋友說：“米切爾。我確定我真的看到了一隻鯊魚了。我看到鯊魚了。”可是我還是不信：“嘿，你在說謊。閉嘴吧”，因爲我朋友們經常在衝浪的時候開玩笑，我們喜歡這樣。所以我們繼續衝浪，然後我們聽到了警報聲，就在離我們200碼遠的地方，一個女孩慌亂地從水裏出來。我們上岸後看到了一輛救護車，肯定是發生什麼事了，那裏有一陣騷動，我們聽到大家在說：“這個女孩被鯊魚咬傷了”。

Joel: She actually got bitten by a shark.

喬爾：她真的被鯊魚咬傷了嗎？

Mitchell: She actually got bitten.

米切爾：對，她的確被咬傷了。

Joel: Oh, my god.

喬爾：哦，天哪。

Mitchell: Well, not bad but like bit her toes or something. It's a reef shark. They're not very big but they tend to swim close to shore and in the rocks, cause like, a lot of people, they, we surf by the reef because the waves break nicely but it is also dangerous because you have the chance of hitting you head on the reef and getting scrapes and cuts.

米切爾：情況不太糟，她被咬傷的地方好像是腳趾。咬傷她的是一隻礁石鯊，這種鯊魚個頭不太大，一般在海岸附近和岩石間活動，有很多人會在礁石附近衝浪，因爲那裏很容易破浪，不過那裏同樣非常危險，因爲你的頭有可能會撞到礁石，或者會被擦傷。

Joel: What other kinds of wildlife do you see in the ocean? I surfed in California and they have like, Pelicans and sometimes dolphins.

喬爾：你在海里還見過什麼野生生物？我曾在加利福尼亞衝過浪，那裏有鵜鶘，有時還能看到海豚。

Mitchell: Yeah, we see dolphins, we see manta rays, We see a lot of turtles.

米切爾：嗯，我們也看到過海豚，我們還看到過蝠鱝和很多烏龜。

Joel: Turtles, like the green sea turtles.

喬爾：烏龜，是綠海龜嗎？

Mitchell: Green sea turtles. Like back in the days, it was legal to eat turtles,

米切爾：是綠海龜。以前吃烏龜是合法的……

Joel: So, the what?

喬爾：什麼？

Mitchell: It was legal to eat turtles.

米切爾：以前吃烏龜是合法的。

Joel: Oh, legal to eat turtles.

喬爾：哦，吃烏龜曾經是合法的。

Mitchell: So people made like turtle soup, cause the meats like real tender, juicy, white, but they kind of got like extinct so they made a law saying that you can't eat turtles so now, right now, you can see a lot of turtles when you're surfing or in general in you're in Waikiki beach, some of those famous beach, you can see a lot of turtles.

米切爾：人們以前會做烏龜湯，烏龜肉是白色的，而且鮮嫩多汁，不過烏龜已經瀕臨滅絕，所以他們制訂了一項法律禁止食用烏龜，所以現在你在衝浪時能看到很多烏龜，一般來說，在威基基海灘等一些著名的海灘能看到很多烏龜。

Joel: By the way, what kind of board do you surf on, a long board or.

喬爾：順便問一下，你衝浪時用的是哪種衝浪板？是長板還是其他的？

Mitchell: A long board or short board, or tankers, like it matters how the wave is, where in, what part of the beach I'm at. I usually surf, like 7-foot boards. Short boards or long boards.

米切爾：長板、短板還有小長板都會用，這要取決於海浪的種類還有我在海灘的哪個地方。一般我會用7英尺長的衝浪板，短板或長板。

Joel: So you check the weather forecast before you go?

喬爾：你衝浪前會查天氣預報嗎？

Mitchell: yeah, call the surf hotline, the surf hotline saying, where's good, how strong the trade winds are, how deep the buoys are.

米切爾：會，我會打衝浪熱線，衝浪熱線會告訴你哪裏適合衝浪、信風的強度和浮標的深度。

Joel: I see. Oh, you make me want to go surfing. Let's stop.

喬爾：我明白了。你說的我都想去衝浪了。我們就聊到這裏吧。

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重點講解：
1. keep on 重複；繼續；
例句：A business must stay in the black to keep on.
一個公司必須盈利才能維持。
2. shut up （使）住口；（使）閉嘴；
例句：She gave me a gentle nudge in the ribs to tell me to shut up.
她用肘輕輕捅了一下我肋骨讓我住口。
3. tend to do sth. 往往會；經常就；
例句：Most old people tend to cling to old ideas.
多數老年人常常墨守成規。
4. in general 總的來說；總體上來看；大體上；
例句：In general her work has been good,but this essay is dreadful.
總的說來，她的作品不錯，不過這篇文章糟透了。
5. by the way 順便地；附帶說一句；
例句：Oh, by the way, there is a telephone message for you.
噢，對了，有你一個電話口信。