談一談新西蘭的克賴斯特徹奇，以及去新西蘭旅游的最佳和不適宜的月份

 
談一談新西蘭的克賴斯特徹奇，以及去新西蘭旅游的最佳和不適宜的月份
 
來聽今天的講解:
 
A: So, Hello!
 
你好！
 
B: Hi!
 
你好！
 
A: Can you say your name please?
 
請問你叫什么名字？
 
B: Gabrielle:
 
加布里埃爾。
 
A: Gabrielle. Now, Gabrielle you talked to us last year.
 
加布里埃爾，我們?nèi)ツ暝?jīng)談過。
 
B:That's right!
 
沒錯！
 
A: And you said that you're from Christchurch?
 
你說你來自克賴斯特徹奇？
 
B: Uh-huh, from Christchurch in New Zealand.
 
嗯，我來自新西蘭的克賴斯特徹奇。
 
A: OK, can you talk about your city?
 
好，你能談?wù)勀闼诘某鞘袉幔?br />  
B: Absolutely! Absolutely! Well, Christchurch I guess compared to Japan is pretty small, but for New Zealand it's quite a big city. I think it's a great place. Yeah, we've got the beach, the mountains, yeah so city center and nature, really close.
 
當(dāng)然可以！當(dāng)然！嗯，和日本比的話，克賴斯特徹奇非常小，但是克賴斯特徹奇在新西蘭是個大城市。我認(rèn)為那是個很棒的地方。我們那里有海灘，有高山，市中心和大自然非常近。
 
A: Sounds nice! How many people live in Christchurch?
 
聽起來不錯！克賴斯特徹奇有多少人口？
 
B: Oh, that's a good question. Gosh! We're certainly not up to a million! I guess about 600,000 people.
 
哦，這是個好問題。天哪！不到1百萬人！我猜大概60萬人吧。
 
A: Wow, that's it! Just 6!
 
哇！就只有60萬！
 
B: That's it. Big city in New Zealand!
 
對。那是新西蘭的大城市！
 
A: Wow! So there's three big cities in New Zealand!
 
哇！新西蘭有三個大城市！
 
B: That's right! That's right! We're probably the second or third biggest city.
 
沒錯！對！克賴斯特徹奇可能是第二大或者是第三大城市。
 
A: Uh, what's the transportation like?
 
哦，那里的交通怎么樣？
 
B: Well, I use my bike usually or a car. We certainly don't have the trains like Tokyo, but there's a bus system. It's not too bad, but most Kiwis have cars. Yeah, more convenient.
 
嗯，我通常是騎自行車或是開車出行。我們沒有東京這樣的火車系統(tǒng)，但是有公交車系統(tǒng)。還不算太壞，但是大部分新西蘭人都有車。這樣更方便。
 
A: OK, now can I ask you about costs?
 
好，我能問問你那里的開銷嗎？
 
B: Sure! Sure!
 
當(dāng)然！當(dāng)然！
 
A: OK, and you can say Japanese yen prices.
 
好，你可以用日元來表示。
 
B: Yeah! Yeah!
 
好的！好！
 
A: How much is an apartment? A one bedroom apartment, downtown?
 
一間公寓要多少錢？市中心一間臥室公寓的價錢？
 
B: Well, to be honest we don't have that style. We've got plenty of space so we usually rent a house which has three bedrooms and a garden, for example, and much cheaper, much, much cheaper. I'm just trying to convert.
 
嗯，說實話，我們那里沒有這種類型的公寓。那里有很多空間，所以通常我們會租有三間臥室和花園的房子，而且比日本便宜很多，非常便宜。我正在努力換算。
 
A: Three bedrooms and a garden!
 
三間臥室和一個花園！
 
B: Yeah! And often we go "flatting" which means we share the house with maybe a couple of friends, probably pay about, I was paying $80 a week for my room so, oh, sorry my conversion rate is not working too quickly at the moment.
 
對！而且一般我們會合租公寓，就是和幾個朋友一起租公寓，我租的房間一周大概要付80美元，抱歉，目前我匯率的換算不是很熟練。
 
A: That's really cheap though!
 
那真是很便宜！
 
B: It's incredibly cheap. Yeah, much, much cheaper! Much bigger!
 
便宜得令人難以置信。對，比這里便宜很多，便宜非常多！
 
A: Wow! sounds like a nice place! OK, how much is, New Zealand prices OK, how much is a loaf of bread?
 
哇！聽起來是個很棒的地方！好，新西蘭面包賣多少錢？
 
B: A loaf of bread! To get the good bread, probably about $2.50 a loaf, yeah, so, maybe about, oh sorry, my conversion's not working, I've been in Tokyo for too long!
 
一塊面包！要買好面包，大概要2.5美元，抱歉，我現(xiàn)在沒有換算出來。我來日本的時間太長了！
 
A: How about a movie ticket?
 
電影票的價格呢？
 
B: A movie ticket would be about $13, so it's much cheaper than here. Yeah, definitely!
 
一張電影票大概要13美元，比這里便宜很多。對，絕對是！
 
A: And bus fare!
 
公交車費(fèi)呢？
 
B: Bus fare, a dollar fifty, two dollars for one way.
 
公交車單程費(fèi)用大概1.5美元或2美元。
 
A: How about if you're going to buy your friend a sweater, a nice sweater, how much would that cost?
 
那如果你要是給朋友買毛衣，一件不錯的毛衣要多少錢？
 
B: Well, I like the good outdoor brand sweaters so I would probably say about $50 but an everyday sweater you could get about $15 New Zealand. Yeah.
 
嗯，我喜歡戶外毛衣品牌，那大概要50美元，不過在新西蘭普通的毛衣大概是15美元。對。
 
A: OK, Wow! Sounds like a great place. Oh, and last one, the weather, when is the best time of year to visit?
 
哇！聽起來真是個好地方。最后一個問題，天氣，一年中什么時候是去新西蘭旅游的最佳時節(jié)？
 
B: Oh, summer, definitely.
 
絕對是夏季。
 
A: So that's December?
 
那就是12月嗎？
 
B: Yeah, so we're going into summer now so December to February, but we have four seasons in one day, so you can count on all weather even within summer. Yeah! Yeah!
 
對，現(xiàn)在是我們國家的夏季，12月至2月是夏季，不過我們那里可以在一天內(nèi)體驗到四種季節(jié)，所以即使在夏天你也可以體驗到所有天氣。沒錯！
 
A: Do you have a really bad month to go, where the weather is not nice?
 
那有沒有最不適宜旅行的月份呢？什么時候天氣不好？
 
B: Yeah, usually June, July, it probably rains the most, but we still get gorgeous sunny days in the winter so, yeah there's not really any bad time.
 
有，通常一月和七月是雨水最多的月份，但是在冬季也會有陽光燦爛的天氣，所以，實際上并不算不適宜的時間。
 
A: Oh, sounds nice! Thanks Gabrielle!
 
哦，聽起來真好！謝謝你，加布里埃爾！
 
B: No problem!
 
不客氣。