美語情景對話 第557期:New Zealand Life 新西蘭的生活

Todd: So, Lucinda, in New Zealand, are you from Aukland?

託德：露辛達，你是來自新西蘭奧克蘭嗎？

Lucinda: No, I'm actually from about four-hours drive north of Aukland.

露辛達：不是，我來自距離奧克蘭以北四小時車程的地方。

Todd: Oh, you're north of Aukland.

託德：哦，所以你來自奧克蘭北邊。

Lucinda: Yeah, yeah.

露辛達：對，是的。

Todd: OK, and where are you from?

託德：好，那你來自哪裏？

Lucinda: I'm from the Bay of Islands. That's actually a region in the North Island, actually northland, North Island.

露辛達：我來自島嶼灣。那裏位於新西蘭北島。

Todd: OK, so did you grow up in a city or in the country?

託德：好，你是在城市長大的還是在鄉村長大的？

Lucinda: In very, very, very country. (Oh really) Yeah the population of my town or region is about 100 people, between 100 and 200 people. I haven't been back, been there for awhile but yeah, about 100, 200 people.

露辛達：在非常非常鄉村的地方。我家鄉的人口只有100人，大概是100人到200人之間吧。我有一段時間沒有回家鄉了，我想人口大概是一二百人的樣子。

Todd: Wow, what's it like growing up in the country?

託德：哇，在鄉村長大是什麼感覺？

Lucinda: It's very different. It's very different from living in the city and I can remember when I was a kid, I never had TV because we couldn't get reception for television or candy, anyhing that you really couldn't buy in bulk, cause my mother would go shopping I think once every two weeks and my mother is health fanatic so she basically chose all of the things myself and my brother ate and we really had no choice so we never really knew about, you know, junk food until we were quite older.

露辛達：非常與衆不同。與生活在城市非常不同，我記得我小時候家裏沒有電視，因爲我們那裏收不到電視信號，而且買不到散裝的糖果或其他食物，我記得當時我媽媽每兩週去購物一次，她熱衷於健康飲食，所以她會選擇我和我哥哥的食物，而我們則沒有選擇，因爲我們當時不知道還有垃圾食品，長大以後我們才知道。

Todd: Whoa, so did your mother grow her own food and her own vegetables and raise her own animals?

託德：哇，那你媽媽會自己種蔬菜，養動物嗎？

Lucinda: Yeah, we didn't have animals because we were living on an estate which allowed for no animals, pet animals but we, my mother grows her own lettuce, herbs, things like that, yeah. Oh, we did have chickens. We had our own eggs, so yeah.

露辛達：會，我們沒養動物，因爲我們生活的那個地區不讓養動物和寵物，我媽媽種了萵苣和草藥之類的蔬菜。哦，我們有養雞。所以我們吃的雞蛋是自家雞下的蛋。

Todd: OK, so but you said that you grew up in the country. This wasn't a farm?

託德：好，你說你是在鄉村長大的。是農場嗎？

Lucinda: No, no not a farm. My mother was raised on a farm but I was raised in, I guess we call it New Zealand, "the bush", it's like a forest.

露辛達：不是，不是農場。我媽媽是在農場長大的，不過我不是，我長大的地方新西蘭稱爲“林區”，和森林差不多。

Todd: Oh, really.

託德：哦，真的嗎？

Lucinda: But it's right by the ocean so it's very hard to explain. It's on a big mountain top and it's covered with bush with like, not really big trees, but

露辛達：那裏毗鄰海洋，很難解釋。是在一座高山的山頂，周圍都是灌木叢，沒有高大的樹木。

Todd: Small trees?

託德：是小樹嗎？

Lucinda: Yeah, and then some big trees but mainly small trees, and then there is a cliff face around the whole area. It's on like a point, and the cliff faces around the whole area and then water below, because it's islands, and a bunch of islands, so the islands are covered not with farmland but with bush.

露辛達：對，有一些高大的樹木，不過主要是小喬木，那片地區四周都是懸崖壁。那個地方周圍是懸崖壁，下面是水，因爲那裏是羣島，不過那裏並不是農場，而是林區。

Todd: So when you have children, or if you have children some day, would you want them to grow up in a similar environment or in the suburbs or in the city?

託德：你以後有了孩子，會讓他們在類似的環境成長嗎？你希望他們在郊區成長還是在城市成長？

Lucinda: Oh, that's very hard. When they are young I would like them to grow up in that environment perhaps to the end of primary school but because of schooling problems, the best school's always in the cities and so unfortunately I had to travel by bus one hour each way and I was going to high school.

露辛達：哦，這很難選擇。我希望自己的孩子在小學畢業以前在鄉村環境成長，因爲上學是個問題，最好的學校通常都在城市裏，所以非常不幸地，我上高中時坐公交車要一個小時的時間。

Todd: Oh, that's a long way.

託德：哦，那是挺遠的。

Lucinda: Yeah, and that's over a ferry, on a ferry as well, that's a boat that carries cars, and you have to travel, the bus had to go over on a boat.

露辛達：對，而且還要坐渡輪，是那種可以接載汽車的渡輪，所以當時我必須要乘坐公交然後再上渡輪。

Todd: Man, you had to take a bus and a boat to get to school.

託德：天哪，你上學要坐公交車和渡輪。

Lucinda: Yeah.

露辛達：對。

Todd: That's a commute.

託德：像通勤一樣。

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重點講解：
1. be different from 有差別的；不同的；
例句：Public speaking is different from conversation.
演講和日常說話是不同的。
2. in bulk 大宗，大批（買賣）；
例句：Buying in bulk is more economical than shopping for small quantities.
批量採購要比零買實惠很多。
3. be covered with 用…遮蓋；把…鋪在…上；
例句：The hillsides are covered with ferns.
山坡上長滿了蕨類植物。
4. a bunch of 大量；大批；
例句：There were a bunch of reasons why I couldn't go to the marathon on the weekend.
週末我不能去馬拉松的原因很多。