美語情景對話 第94期:肯尼亞足球 Soccer in Kenya
Todd: Alex, when you were little, what did you like to do?
艾利克斯，你小時候喜歡做什麼？Alex: When I was small and I was in junior high school we used to like playing soccer with my friends. Actually in Kenya, what's different from other countries, we used to make our own soccer ball to play. So, it's very easy.
我上高中的時候喜歡和朋友踢足球。肯尼亞與其他國家的區別就在於，我們要自己製作足球。這十分簡單。Todd: Wow. How do you make the soccer ball?
哇。你怎麼做足球？
Alex: We used to collect like plastic papers and bind them with string, around them to make something round. So it was like, you didn't have to spend any money.
我們會收集塑料紙，用繩子捆起來，再找圓的東西照在外面。這樣，你就不用花錢買足球了。Todd: Wow, that's ingeneous. That's great. So were you a good soccer player?
哇，真是聰明。真棒。你球踢得好嗎？Alex: Not really. I used to like playing soccer but I was not very good, actually to tell the truth
不是很好。我以前很喜歡踢足球，但說實話並不是很擅長。Todd: Yeah, me too. I wasn't a very good athlete. I mean I like sports but I was never any good. Um, so do you play soccer in Japan?
我也是。我不是很擅長運動。我的意思是我喜歡運動，但我並不擅長。嗯，你在日本也踢球嗎？Alex: Sometimes, until last year when I was in school I still played soccer. Right now, actually I'm not playing anymore because I'm like busy.
有時候踢，去年我在學校的時候還踢足球呢。現在不踢了，因爲忙起來了。Todd: Yeah.
是的。Alex: Yeah. You can't play soccer without a big group of people and everyone is busy right now so I'm not playing anymore.
是的。要踢球必須找一大批朋友，而現在大家都很忙，所以就不踢了。Todd: Yeah, that's a bummer. Like I always want to play sports but it's hard as you get older. When's the last time you played soccer?
是的，這點很麻煩。我喜歡運動，但年紀越大堅持越難。你上一次踢足球是什麼時候？Alex: About one year ago. I think November of 199?,...2003, November.
大約一年前。好像是九幾年11月，或者03年11月。Todd: OK. Actually in Kenya do you call it soccer or football?
在肯尼亞你們管足球叫“soccer”還是“football”？Alex: In Kenya you call it football.
在肯尼亞，人們管足球叫“football”。Todd: Football. I'm sorry.
“football”。真遺憾。Alex: Actually, I've been in Japan for sometime so I'm used to calling it soccer. In Kenya you call it football.
我在日本已經待了一段時間了，所以習慣叫足球“soccer”了。在肯尼亞我們叫它“football”。注：譯文屬原創，未經允許，請勿轉載。
