實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Venice 威尼斯

When I was living in Pisa, a few friends and I decided to go to Venice for the carnival, so the carnival in Venice, it's usually, usually about February or March, depending on when Easter is that year cause Easter can change every year, it's a different day, so this time it was, I think about, it was about the middle of February, that's right, so we went there about the 11th or 12th of February, and it was so cold. I remember just being bitterly, bitterly cold. I remember a few of us had to buy extra scarves and gloves and jumpers cause it was just so, so cold, especially at night. During the day wasn't so bad, it was still cold but it was really awful at night if you were walking around, but it was an awful lot of fun to be in Venice for carnival because, em, lots of people dress up in really, really elaborate costumes and masks. One of my friends there, she goes almost every year to the carnival and she does face-painting on the streets so I met up with her, kind of by chance. We knew that we were both going to be there but it's such a busy time we weren't sure if we were going to meet or not, so it was really good that we met up in the huge piazza, Piazza San Marco. She told me roughly which side of the piazza she would be and I found her, so that was really great to see her after such a long time and then the other amazing thing we did that weekend or that few days was that my friends and I went on a gondola. So, a gondola, you've probably seen on television or in a book or something, a gondola is the long, kind of, boat that they have in Venice and there's a man who stands at the back with a big, long pole that he steers the boat with so he drives the boat along by pushing this long stick into the mud on the bottom of the canal, I suppose. It was really amazing because that's one of the, I suppose, the most stereotypical things when you think of Venice and when I'd been there the first time I hadn't gone on a gondola because I thought aw, it's too touristy, I'm not going to do that, but my friends this time, they really wanted to go on one, so we went and we asked some of the guys, the gondoliere as they're called, by piazza san Marco and asked them how much it would cost but we'd forgotten that that day it was the 14th of February so it was Valentine's Day and, as you can imagine, going out in a gondola is, is usually a very romantic occasion for a couple and whatever, to go off and be maybe serenaded by, by another gondoliere, so they sing all sorts of, of songs like you've probably seen on TV or heard in television adverts so they wanted an awful lot of money, I remember, just because it was Valentine's Day, so there were a few of us trying to argue with them in Italian and you know, we were saying that it wasn't fair because it was just a group of us and we just wanted the experience so I think eventually they kind of gave us a more reasonable price so we set off in the gondola and went along the canals, the little canals around Piazza San Marco so it was really, really, really nice. We got to see a lot of the, the backstreets, like I say, and lovely old bridges crossing, crossing the canals. It's a really unique experience as Venice is a pretty unique city really. There was, em, our gondoliere was pretty funny in the end as it turned out. He was very nice, and so there was a few of us from Ireland in the gondola he was asking us all where we were from and soas soon as we told him Ireland he started singing us a song by U2 which is a bit strange, not the usual song that you expect from a gondoliere but, em, it was quite funny, anyway. So, like I say, a really unique experience.

我住在比薩城的時候，決定和一些朋友去威尼斯參加狂歡節(jié)，威尼斯的狂歡節(jié)一般在二月或者三月舉行，舉辦時間要取決于那年的復(fù)活節(jié)在什么時候，因為每年的復(fù)活節(jié)時間都會變動，每年的時間都不一樣，我們參加的那場狂歡節(jié)是在二月中旬舉行的，所以我們是二月11日或者是12日去的，當(dāng)時非常冷。我記得當(dāng)時很冷，非常寒冷。我記得因為當(dāng)時太冷，我們中有些人不得不再買條圍巾、手套和針織毛衫，而且晚上要更寒冷。不過那天還不算太糟，雖然非常冷，但是晚上出去走走還是非常不錯的，在威尼斯參加狂歡節(jié)非常有趣，因為有很多人穿著精美的服裝，戴著美麗的面具。我有一個朋友幾乎每年都會參加狂歡節(jié)，她通常會在街頭做面部彩繪，而我剛好和她偶遇了。我們知道我們都要去那里，可是因為時間太趕了，所以我們不確定我們是否會相遇，而我們在圣馬可廣場相遇了，那真是太好了。她大概跟我說了一下她會去廣場的哪個地方，然后我就在那里找到了她，在那么長時間以后見到她真是太高興了，而且那個周末或者說那幾天我們還做了其他令人不可思議的事，那就是我和朋友們?nèi)プ送崴沟醮?。你們可能在電視上或是在書上和其他地方看到過吊船，吊船是威尼斯一種很長的船，會有個船夫拿著又長又大的船桿站在船尾，他會那支船桿來控制船，我想他把船桿插入河流底部的泥土里來讓船前行。那真是太不可思議了，因為我認(rèn)為那是威尼斯最典型的事物，而我第一次去威尼斯的時候并沒有坐吊船，因為我覺得那就是為吸引游客才設(shè)計的，所以我不會坐那種船，但是我朋友們非常想試試，所以我們就去了，我們向圣馬可廣場的一些船夫詢問了吊船的價格，可是我們忘了那天是2月14日情人節(jié)，你可以想象，乘坐吊船對情況來說會是很浪漫的事情，船夫會吟唱小夜曲，他們會一路吟唱你可能在電視上或是電視廣告中聽過的那種歌曲，當(dāng)然他們也會要一大筆錢，因為那天是情人節(jié)，我們中有些人試著用意大利語和他們爭辯，我們說那并不公平，因為我們是一群人，我們只是希望有這種體驗，我想最終船夫向我們要了更合理的價格，所以我們開始了乘坐吊船游覽的行程，我們沿著圣馬可大廣場周圍的河流游覽，那真是非常美妙的經(jīng)歷。我們看到了一些后街的風(fēng)景，就像我說過的，我喜歡跨海大橋。那真是次獨特的經(jīng)歷，而威尼斯真是一個非常獨特的城市。后來證明我們的吊船之旅非常有意思。船夫人非常好，我們中有些人來自愛爾蘭，船夫問了我們所有人來自哪里，我們告訴他我們來自愛爾蘭之后他就開始為我們演唱U2樂隊的歌，那有點奇怪，因為那并不是船夫通常會唱的歌曲，不過不管怎么樣說，那確實很有趣。就像我說過的，那真是次非常獨特的經(jīng)歷。