美語情景對話 第7期:悉尼
Todd: OK, Ann, you spent quite a bit of time in Australia recently so why don't you talk about that?
好的，安，你最近在澳大利亞居住了很長時間，爲什麼不談談在澳大利亞的生活呢？Ann: I really liked living in Australia. I was an international student and I studied education at the University of Sydney. And living in Sydney was fantastic, because I could go to the beach anytime I wanted and there was a great nightlife in Sydney. There are lots of great clubs. And people were very, very friendly and easy-going and I met a lot of international people in living Sydney.
我真的很喜歡住在悉尼。我是一名國際留學生，我在悉尼大學學習教育專業。住在悉尼真的是太棒了，因爲只要我想，我能隨時去海灘。悉尼的夜生活也是豐富多彩的。那裏有許多很棒的酒吧。那裏的人也非常友好，我在悉尼居住的時間裏認識了許多國際留學生。Todd: Mm-mm. How long were you there?
嗯，你在那裏住了多久？
Ann: I was there for almost a year.
我在那裏住了不到一年。Todd: Oh, OK.
哦，好的。Ann: And I travelled a little bit in Australia. I went up the east coast. Up to Frasier Island, which is a world heritage site. And I saw dingoes running along the beach and sharks in the water. We climbed cliffs and went through a rainforest and went camping and then we went up to the Whitsundays, which is a bit further north. And the further north you go in Australia, the hotter it gets. So we were able to go swimming in the ocean and I went diving for the first time but it was a little bit risky cause I didn't have a diving license, so I went on an introductory dive and I saw a giant clam that had a really purple spongy inside that I was able to touch and then the clam closed up really quickly.
我在澳大利亞旅遊去了一些地方。我去了東海岸。登上了世界自然遺產弗雷澤島。我在海灘上看到了澳洲野狗，我在海里看到了鯊魚。我和朋友登上了懸崖，穿越了熱帶雨林，我們一起露營，還去了再往北一點的聖靈羣島。越往澳大利亞北部走就感覺越熱。因此我們在海里游泳，我還在那裏第一次潛水，但這有點兒冒險，我沒有潛水執照，因此我只是做了入門級的潛水，潛水時我看到了一個巨型的蛤，它裏面是紫色的海綿體，我用手觸碰了一下，蛤迅速地就合上了。Todd: So, did you, did you lose your finger?
你的手指夾到了嗎？Ann: Almost.
差點兒。Todd: Almost. Ah, you're lucky. Um, it's funny, you go in the water and you worry about sharks, but not clams.
差點兒。哦，你真幸運。真有趣，你下水會害怕鯊魚，但是沒有擔心過蛤。Ann: Exactly.
是的。Todd: Will you be going back to Australia soon?
我會馬上回澳大利亞去嗎？Ann: I'd like to go and live there for at least another year. Probably I'll go back to Sydney or maybe I'll go down to Melbourne because it's a really interesting cultural city. They have lot of museums and parks.
我想去澳大利亞住至少一年的時間。也許我會回悉尼，也許我會去墨爾本，因爲那裏的文化很有趣。那裏有許多博物館和公園。Todd: OK. You gotta choose real quick, only one city, Montreal or Sydney, which do you choose?
好的，那你得快點兒選擇了，你只能去一座城市，蒙特利爾或是悉尼，你選擇那座城市？Ann: Sydney, without a doubt.
悉尼，毫無疑問。Todd: OK. All right. Thanks a lot.
好的，十分感謝。Ann: You're welcome.
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