美語情景對話 第213期:愛爾蘭血統 Irish Roots

Jessica: Kate, where are you from?

傑西卡：凱特，你來自哪裏？

Kate: I'm from London in England.

凱特：我來自英國倫敦。

Jessica: OK, and your heritage is..?

傑西卡：好，那你的祖籍是？

Kate: My heritage is Irish. My grandparents were Irish, both sets of grandparents.

凱特：我的祖籍是愛爾蘭。我祖父母都是愛爾蘭人，外祖父母也是愛爾蘭人。

Jessica: Oh, wow. What part of Ireland were they from?

傑西卡：哦，哇。他們來自愛爾蘭的哪裏？

Kate: They're from Galway City.

凱特：他們來自戈爾韋市。

Jessica: Where is that?

傑西卡：那是哪裏？

Kate: That's on the west coast of Ireland. It's really beautiful there. Absolutely gorgeous.

凱特：在愛爾蘭的西海岸。那裏非常美。極其的漂亮。

Jessica: Great, and do they move to England?

傑西卡：很棒，他們後來搬到英國了嗎？

Kate: Yeah, my grandfather actually came over to become a priest, but obviously he didn't. So yeah, then, he met my grandmother who also come over from England and then they got married. So, yeah, my name is an Irish name. Kate's an Irish name and Kenny as well, my surname. It's a very Irish name.

凱特：對，實際上我祖父來到英國想成爲牧師，但是當然他並沒有當牧師。之後他遇到了同樣來到英國的我祖母，然後他們結婚了。所以，其實我的名字是愛爾蘭名字。凱特是愛爾蘭名字，當然我的姓氏肯尼也是愛爾蘭姓氏。是一個很普遍的愛爾蘭名字。

Jessica: Wow, so now what was it like having Irish grandparents in England?

傑西卡：哇，那來自愛爾蘭的祖父母在英國感覺怎麼樣？

Kate: I think initially for them it was difficult when they first came over because there weren't many jobs for the Irish and there as quite a lot of prejudice against the Irish, but it's wonderful having Irish heritage because there's such funny warm kind people. Really interesting. They can tell a good story so it was great to have that.

凱特：我想剛開始的時候，他們剛過來的時候覺得很困難，因爲當時沒有什麼工作提供給愛爾蘭人，而且對愛爾蘭人也有許多偏見，但是擁有愛爾蘭血統很棒，因爲他們都是風趣又熱情的人。他們真的很風趣。他們可以講很棒的故事，所以擁有愛爾蘭血統很棒。

Jessica: Yeah, so have you been to Ireland?

傑西卡：嗯，那你去過愛爾蘭嗎？

Kate: Oh, yeah. Many times. Yeah.

凱特：哦，是的。去過很多次。

Jessica: Did you go and see where they grew up and...

傑西卡：那你有去看過他們成長的地方或是……

Kate: Yeah.

凱特：是的。

Jessica: Cool.

傑西卡：不錯。

Kate: It's a beautiful place. I've been there lots of times. I want to go back. Definitely. Really lovely country and the people are so friendly. It's so beautiful there.

凱特：那是個非常漂亮的地方。我去過那裏很多次。我想回去。一定要回去。那真是一個可愛的國家，那裏的人們都非常友好。那裏真的非常美麗。

重點講解：
1. come over
從遠方來；過來；
eg. You really must come over sometime and have dinner with us.
你確實應該找個時間過來, 跟我們一起吃頓飯。
eg. Not having known her address, I might as well telephone her to come over.
由於還不知道她的地址，我只好打電話讓她過來。
2. grow up
長大成人；成熟；形成；興起；逐漸發展；
eg. She grew up in Tokyo.
她在東京長大。
eg. A variety of heavy industries grew up alongside the port.
各種重工業沿着港口逐漸發展起來。