美語情景對話 第10期:非洲生活 Africa Life
Todd: OK, Leath, you're from Zimbabwe. Could you talk about that?
好的，利思，你來自津巴布韋。你能和我們講兩句嗎？Leath: Yeah, OK. Well, I'm from Harare, which is the capital of Zim. And I was born there. My folks are British. My dad is from Manchester and my mom is from Scotland. They went out a long time ago. And, yeah, growing up in Zimbabwe was "lacker" as we say there. That means really cool in Africans. It was like, you grow up in an open free place with animals and sunshine and it's just a really healthy place to be. Well at least it was. Today it's not doing to well because the economy has crashed, but growing up there was really slick.
好的。我來自津巴布韋的首都哈拉雷。我在那裏出生。我家都是英國人。我父親來自曼徹斯特，我母親來自蘇格蘭。他們很久前就過世了。在津巴布韋長大被稱爲“拉克爾”，也就是很酷的非洲人。就好像是你成長在一片自由的土地，有動物陪伴，陽光沐浴，這裏真的是一塊利於健康成長的土地。事實正是如此。因爲經濟崩潰，現在津巴布韋的情況並不好，但在這裏長大真的很棒。Todd: Wow! What animals could you see?
哇！你都能看到什麼動物？
Leath: Ah, just about an hours drive out of any city, you are liable to come across just about anything. I've seen leapords often at night about an hour out of the capital where I live. You see monkeys along the road, right up to the city outskirts. In certain areas you'll have to stop for elephants. There's quite a few buck warning signs because they are actually quite dangerous at night. They jump across the road and your cars hit them at windscreen height. It is a bit of a problem. So, there's buck everywhere. And then away from residential areas, there's you know your big five, rhino, lion being the most... well interesting and I guess for foreigners. They are never really never around human settlement cause they are very very dangerous. They do take people from time to time.
在津巴布韋只要一個小時的車程，你就可以去任何地方，做任何事情。我曾經在晚上花一個小時離開我住的市區去看豹子。你能在街邊看到猴子，就在城市的郊區。在一些特定的區域你要停下等待大象經過。那裏有一些牌子警示人們，因爲大象在夜間是很危險的。他們會跨越馬路，車的擋風玻璃會撞在大象腿上。這是一個很嚴重的問題，所以隨處可見告示牌子。離開了居民區，你就能看到許多動物了，犀牛和獅子是最常見的，我猜外來遊客一定會覺得很有趣。它們是你在居民區附近絕不會看到的，因爲它們都非常危險。有時他們會襲擊人致死。Todd: Wow! That's fascinating. Thanks a lot Leath.
哇！這太棒了。謝謝你。Leath: You're welcome buddy! OK.
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