美語情景對話 第287期:Travel 旅遊

Michael: Simon have you done much traveling?

邁克爾：西蒙，你經常旅遊嗎？

Simon: I'd like to think that I have. Yes.

西蒙：我想是的，是。

Michael: OK, so where have you been?

邁克爾：好，那你都去過哪裏？

Simon: Well, I've been to a lot of places. I'd probably say about twenty different countries. I've taught English in Japan, Korea, and in Thailand and traveled throughout Southeast Asia. I have family in Europe so I've done the, you know, the high school backpacking trip around Europe and since I'm North American I've visited pretty much all of North America, you know, US, Mexico, Canada, and I went on a delightful trip to Cuba.

西蒙：嗯，我去過很多地方。我大概能說出20個不同的國家。我在日本、韓國和泰國教過英語，去東南亞旅遊過。我有家人在歐洲，所以你知道，我高中時在歐洲遠足過，因爲我來自北美，所以我遊覽過北美的大部分地區，你知道，美國、墨西哥、加拿大，我還在古巴度過了愉快的旅行。

Michael: Cuba! Excellent!

邁克爾：古巴！真棒！

Simon: How bout you? Are you well traveled?

西蒙：你呢？你去過很多地方嗎？

Michael: Um, not as well as you. I think my tally is now is 14 countries. I've been to Scotland, Ireland, England. I've been to Trinidad and Tobago.

邁克爾：嗯，並不像你那麼多。我想，目前我大概去過14個國家。我去過蘇格蘭、愛爾蘭和英格蘭。我還去過特立尼達和多巴哥。

Simon: Wow that sounds! That would be an interesting place.

西蒙：哇，很好！那一定是個有趣的地方。

Michael: Yeah, it was. I've been to quite a few places in Asia now. Singapore and Hong Kong. I've been to Australia. I've been to about 20 prefectures in Japan.

邁克爾：對，沒錯。我去過亞洲的許多地方。新加坡和香港。我也去過澳大利亞。目前爲止我大概遊覽過日本的20個縣。

Simon: Oh, wow. That's quite a few. Travel in Japan is quite difficult actually. For those of us that don't make a lot of money anyway.

西蒙：哦，哇！那真的很多。實際上在日本旅遊很難。當然是對我們這種錢不多的人來說。

Michael: Yeah, it is kind of expensive, but actually, the prefectures are so small, that you can go to quite a few on a local train from Tokyo.

邁克爾：對，有點貴，不過實際上，那些縣很小，你從東京坐火車就可以去很多地方。

Simon: That's true. That's true. Ah, is there any prefecture that stands out in your mind as being special or interesting or different?

西蒙：的確是這樣。沒錯。啊，你有想到哪個縣很特別、很有趣或是很不同嗎？

Michael: Mm, that's a good question. Prefecture! I don't know about Hiroshima prefecture but the city stands out in my mind. The people are really, really lovely. And as far as the scenery, Mie prefecture is gorgeous and for that real Japan experience for that people from abroad, their image of Japan, Hakone in Kanagawa. I stayed in a Japanese inn there and it was just perfect.

邁克爾：嗯，這是個好問題。日本的縣！我並不瞭解廣島縣，不過我想到了廣島市。那裏的民衆非常非常可愛。說到風景，三重縣非常漂亮，對那些想體驗真正的日本風景的外國人來說，神奈川縣箱根很不錯。我在那裏時住在了一家日式客棧，非常完美。

Simon: Wow, that sounds great. Yeah, for me, the real good stuff in Japan was Tohoku because it's one of the few places in Japan where you don't see power lines everywhere but you still have a lot of Japanese traditional architecture and style.

西蒙：哇，那聽起來真不錯。嗯，對我來說，日本真正好的地方是東北地區，因爲那裏是日本少數幾個沒有電線卻有許多日本傳統建築和風格的地方之一。

Michael: Yeah, I had one of those experiences in Tohoku, I think it was in Akita, driving and we passed, we were on a bridge and we passed by a valley with a very traditional Japanese houses and a little tiny river and it was exactly like you imagined Japan.

邁克爾：對，我有過在日本東北地區的經歷，我想是在秋田，我們是開車去的，然後路過……當時我們在橋上，經過了一個山谷，那裏有非常傳統的日式房屋還有小河流，那完全是你所想象的日本的模樣。

Simon: Oh, that's great!

西蒙：哇，那真棒！

重點講解：
1. quite a few
相當多；不少；
eg. We haven't seen each other for quite a few days.
咱們有日子沒見面了。
eg. I can cite quite a few instances to illustrate.
我可以舉出好幾件事來說明。
2. as far as
就……而言；
eg. As far as I know, he is kind.
就我所知，他人不錯。
eg. As far as I know, he is kind.
就我所知，他人不錯。
3. pass by
從…旁邊走過；經過；
eg. I see them pass by my house every day.
我每天看見他們從我家旁邊經過。
eg. They were injured when a parked car exploded as their convoy passed by.
他們的車隊經過時，一輛停放着的汽車爆炸了，他們受了傷。