美语情景对话 第266期:India 印度(1)

My name is Jeff Eagar. I'm from Canada but I just spent six months in India and I love India. I think India is my favorite country in the whole world. India is very interesting. It's real life. It's the good and the bad, and the rich and the poor, and the happy and the struggling, all together in one country, and when you go to India, you feel a lot of emotion, you feel a lot of sadness and happiness and joy and that's why India is my favorite country.

我的名字是杰夫·伊格。我来自加拿大，我只在印度生活了六个月的时间，可是我爱印度。我认为印度是全世界我最喜爱的国家。印度非常有意思。那里的生活很真实。有好的方面，也有不好的方面，有富人，有穷人，有快乐，也有挣扎，那个国家有所有的这些因素，你去到印度时，会感觉到多种情感，你会感到很伤心，也会感到幸福和快乐，这就是我最喜欢的原因。

India is a very interesting culture, and it's a very old culture. It takes a little bit of time for you to get used to India when you go there. They go things differently from other countries. I was eating with my hands in India. You eat with your hand and your left hand acts as toilet paper, because they don't have toilet paper in India, and they are mostly Hindu and they believe in the Hindi, Hindu religion, and it's a very old religion. A very beautiful religion, they have many gods and many deities, and it's very colorful and they do lots, lots of religions ceremonies with fire and with bells, and with holy priests, and it's very visually, for your eyes, it's an interesting place, a very interesting thing to see.

印度的文化很有意思，那里的文化很古老。你前往印度时，要花些时间才能习惯那里的生活。他们的生活与其他的国家完全不同。在印度我要用手吃饭。你用手吃饭，而你的左手则用作卫生纸，因为印度没有厕纸，大部分印度人都是印度教徒，他们信奉印度教，这是一个非常古老的宗教。也是一个非常美的宗教，印度教神祗众多，丰富多彩，他们会用燃火和铃铛进行宗教仪式，当然神父也会参加，这在视觉上非常享受，印度是一个有趣的地方，是一个可以看到有趣事情的地方。

重点讲解：
1. a little bit
少许；一点儿；
eg. I'm certainly going, but I'll be a little bit late.
我去是去，可是得晚一点儿。
eg. Helen sing a little bit worse.
海伦唱得稍微差一点。
2. believe in
相信；
eg. I don't believe in ghosts.
我不相信有鬼。
eg. It's no use citing the Bible to somebody who doesn't believe in God.
对不信上帝的人引用圣经的话是没用的。
3. act as
起作用；充当；
eg. He acted both as the ship's surgeon and as chaplain for the men.
他在船上为水手们兼作外科医生和牧师。
eg. Hopefully his punishment will act as a deterrent to others.
对他的惩罚但愿能起到杀一儆百的作用。
eg. Maybe I can act as a messenger for you.
也许我能给你当信差。