今天的這段對話,在討論歷史,
你喜歡什么樣的歷史?去看過哪些歷史古跡
來聽今天的講解:
A: Tennessee!
田納西!
B: Yes!
我在!
A: We're gonna talk about sports.
我們來談談運動。
B: OK. I'm not big on sports, but.
好的。但是我并不熱衷運動。
A: OK, well, that's OK. So you, you don't like sports.
沒關(guān)系。這么說,你不喜歡運動。
B: Well, I like sports but I'm just not an avid sports watcher. You know I would usually rather watch a movie or some kind of history program.
我喜歡運動,但我不是一個狂熱的運動迷。我更愿意看電影或是歷史紀錄片。
A: Oh, OK. So you're into history.
這么說你喜歡歷史。
B: Oh, yes!
哦,是的!
A: OK. What kind of history?
好的。你喜歡什么樣的歷史?
B: That's a kind of a difficult question. I would say, ah, interested, primarily I interested in ancient and medieval but I also like studying the history of the countries that I have visited, it makes it more interesting when I go sight-seeing.
這是個有難度的問題。前一陣子我喜歡古代和中世紀的歷史,但我也喜歡研究我去過的國家的歷史,這樣我觀光的時候會更有趣。
A: OK. What countries have you visited?
你去過哪些國家?
B: I've been to 26 countries.
我去過26個國家。
A: Really! Oh, OK. Yeah, you can't name them all.
真的!好吧。這些國家你不可能都說一遍。
B: The big ones I would say, I've been over a good bit of Europe, ah, Mexico, Peru, I spent almost a year in Egypt and I went to Isreal, Jordan, and now I'm here in Japan. I've been here in Japan for a year and a half. And while I have been here, I visited Korea for about a week.
我去過的國家有不少,我在歐洲待過很長的時間,我去過墨西哥,秘魯,我在埃及待了近一年的時間,我還去過以色列,約旦。我現(xiàn)在在日本,我會在這兒待一年半的時間。在日本的這段時間,我還去韓國待了近一周。
A: OK. Wow. That's a lot so did you do the Pyramids in Egypt?
哇,你真是去過不少地方,你去埃及看金字塔了嗎?
B: Oh, yes. Actually, I climbed the pyramids.
哦,是的。實際上我還爬上金字塔了。
A: Oh, really. Nice. What's it like on the top?
哦,真的嗎。太棒了。在塔頂上感覺怎么樣?
B: Very, very interesting. You can see, ah, it was during the summer so the visibility was rather low.
十分十分有趣。那時候是夏天,所以能見度很低。
A: Oh, OK.
哦,好的。
B: But, to see, we were on The Great Pyramid, and the second Pyramid, Kefron, was right near by, and it is a very different perspective to see it from, interesting to be eye-level, to be on the same level as the top of that second pyramid.
我們爬到了大金字塔上,第二高金字塔Kefron就在旁邊,從我們這個視角看它真的很與眾不同,我們是在與第二高的金字塔等高的位置去水平欣賞它的。
A: OK. Wow! So you were in Peru, right?
哇!你還去了秘魯對嗎?
B: Yes.
是的。
A: OK. What's the big thing people see in Peru?
好的。秘魯有什么可觀光的?
B: Machu Pichu.
馬丘皮丘。
A: Machu Pichu. OK. What is Machu Pichu?
馬丘皮丘,什么是馬丘皮丘?
Tenn: Machu Pichu is the ruins of a city that was built by the Inca People.
馬丘皮丘是印加人城市遺址。
A: OK.
好的。
B: Over three...six hundred years ago, and was lost, no one knew what happened to it. until it was recently discovered about a hundred years ago.
它是六百多年前迷失的城市,沒人知道那里發(fā)生了什么。知道一百年前人類發(fā)現(xiàn)了它。
A: OK. Wow. Nice. Alright, thanks a lot David
哇,真棒。好的,謝謝你大衛(wèi)。
B: Sure!
不客氣!
A: Or Tennessee.
或者說謝謝田納西。