實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Painting 繪畫

Todd: OK. Richard, do you like art?

托德：好，理查德，你喜歡藝術嗎?

Richard: I do. Very much. Yes.

理查德：我喜歡。非常喜歡。

Todd: OK. Um, what kind of art do you like?

托德：好。嗯，你喜歡哪種藝術?

Richard: OK. Well, I like all kinds of art.

理查德：我喜歡各種類型的藝術。

Todd: OK.

托德：好。

Richard: When I was young I used to enjoy painting.

理查德：我年輕的時候非常喜歡畫畫。

Todd: OK. What did you paint?

托德：那你都畫了些什么?

Richard: OK. When I was a kid, I was in art class, so it was all fairly sort of basic standard stuff like country scenes.

理查德：我還是個孩子的時候，我上過藝術課，那個課程教授各種基礎標準的事情，比如鄉(xiāng)村風景畫。

Todd: Country scenes! So in a country scene, what can you see?

托德：鄉(xiāng)村風景畫!那鄉(xiāng)村風景畫中都有什么?

Richard: OK, I can see a red house, with a chimney, billowing smoke..um..green fields , luscious green grass in England.

理查德：我可以看到一間有煙囪的紅色房子，煙囪冒出滾滾濃煙，還有綠色的田野，還有英國柔軟的青草。

Todd: Wow, so is your..is your home like that in England?

托德：哇，那你在英國的家就是那個樣子的嗎?

Richard: Actually, no! No, It's not in the....we're in the suburbs of London, we're not really in the country.

理查德：實際上不是!它不是在……我們住在倫敦郊區(qū)，實際上我們并不住在鄉(xiāng)村。

Todd: Oh!

托德：哦!

Richard: And I used to paint sort of idyllic countryside scenes.

理查德：我以前會畫田園般的鄉(xiāng)村風景。

Todd: OK. Which do you prefer, the country of the city?

托德：好。那鄉(xiāng)村和城市你更喜歡哪個?

Richard: To paint or to live in?

理查德：是指繪畫還是生活?

Todd: Uh..to paint.

托德：嗯，繪畫。

Richard: To paint! To paint I prefer the country.

理查德：繪畫!繪畫來說，我更喜歡鄉(xiāng)村。

Todd: OK. Great.

托德：好。很好。

Richard: To live in, I think it is more convenient being, being near a big city.

理查德：要是生活的話，我認為住在大城市附近更方便。

Todd: OK. Great. Thanks.

托德：好。很好。謝謝。