實(shí)戰(zhàn)口語(yǔ)情景對(duì)話：Canadian Town 加拿大城鎮(zhèn)

Todd: So, Rina, where are you from?

托德：麗娜，你來(lái)自哪里?

Rina: I am from Davidson, Saskatchewan, and it's a small town in Saskatchewan, about 1,000 people, and I grew up there.

麗娜：我來(lái)自薩克其萬(wàn)省戴維森鎮(zhèn)，那里是薩克其萬(wàn)省的一個(gè)小城鎮(zhèn)，人口只有約1000人，我在那里長(zhǎng)大。

Todd: Now, Saskatchewan, that's a part of Canada that doesn't have a lot of people, right?

托德：薩克其萬(wàn)省，那是加拿大的一個(gè)省，而且人口不多，對(duì)吧?

Rina: There's, in the whole province, there's a million people.

麗娜：整個(gè)省有一百萬(wàn)人口。

Todd: That's it.

托德：對(duì)。

Rina: In all of Canada there is only 33 million, so yeah.

麗娜：加拿大的人口也僅有3300萬(wàn)。

Todd: And you only have one?

托德：你的家鄉(xiāng)只有1百萬(wàn)人?

Rina: One. There's 33 million.

麗娜：對(duì)。加拿大有3300百萬(wàn)人。

Todd: Yeah, actually, is there any major Canadian cities in Saskatchewan?

托德：好，薩克其萬(wàn)省有沒(méi)有重要的加拿大城市?

Rina: Well, the capital is Regina. (Really) Yeah, if you've heard of that.

麗娜：薩克其萬(wàn)省首府是雷吉納。(是嗎)對(duì)，不知道你聽(tīng)說(shuō)過(guò)沒(méi)有。

Todd: No.

托德：沒(méi)聽(tīng)過(guò)說(shuō)。

Rina: But I live in, right now my parents live in Saskatoon.

麗娜：我生活在……現(xiàn)在我的父母生活在薩斯卡通市。

Todd: Oh, OK.

托德：哦，好。

Rina: And that's, my town is between Regina and Saskatoon, called the midway town.

麗娜：我成長(zhǎng)的城鎮(zhèn)位于雷吉納和薩斯卡通之間，被稱為中間鎮(zhèn)。

Todd: What's it like growing up in a very small rural setting?

托德：在小鄉(xiāng)村長(zhǎng)大是什么感覺(jué)?

Rina: It was awesome. My parents, because they immigrated from Lebanon were very strict with me so I really wasn't allowed to do very much until I was about in grade 11, when my brother was old enough to come with me, but it was, once I was able to start going out and going to dances and things like that I loved it.

麗娜：棒極了。因?yàn)槲腋改甘菑睦璋湍垡泼駚?lái)的，所以他們對(duì)我非常嚴(yán)厲，在我上11年級(jí)以前他們不允許我做很多事情，我11年級(jí)時(shí)我哥哥的年紀(jì)足以照顧我，所以那時(shí)我可以外出，可以去跳舞，去做一些我喜歡的事情。

Todd: Oh, really, even in your small town?

托德：真的嗎?即使在你們的小城鎮(zhèn)里?

Rina: In my small town, yeah. Cause I had it, I was very close with a lot of, like a very small class, very very close with a lot of people there, yeah.

麗娜：對(duì)，在我們的小城鎮(zhèn)里。因?yàn)槲液湍抢锏脑S多人都很親近，就像一個(gè)小型群體一樣。

Todd: Sounds good. So, in all of Canada, like when you go back and you settle down and you live in Canada, do you want to live in Saskatchewan?

托德：聽(tīng)起來(lái)不錯(cuò)。那如果你回到加拿大定居，你想住在薩克其萬(wàn)省嗎?

Rina: No.

麗娜：不想。

Todd: No.

托德：不想嗎?

Rina: No, it's not, it's, I've developed a lot more since I was that age and it's just not the same anymore. I'd like a bigger center, preferably Vancouver, or Montreal, on one of the coasts. Yeah. So.

麗娜：不想，我離開(kāi)以后成長(zhǎng)了很多，已經(jīng)與以前大不相同。我喜歡大一點(diǎn)的城市，我更傾向于在溫哥華或蒙特利爾這樣的海岸城市生活。

Todd: Not Toronto?

托德：你不考慮多倫多嗎?

Rina: No, I'm not a big fan of Toronto.

麗娜：不，我不太喜歡多倫多。

Todd: Ah, why?

托德：為什么?

Rina: Because I'm a little jaded. When I was, in 94, we went to Niagara Falls, and we drove through Toronto and it was just so, it looked so busy and smoggy and just crazy, and so I never really liked it since then. I have that image in my head still of that.

麗娜：因?yàn)槲矣行﹨捑肽抢铩?4年的時(shí)候，我們?nèi)ツ醽喖永俨悸眯?，?dāng)時(shí)我們開(kāi)車經(jīng)過(guò)多倫多，那里看上去又繁忙又煙霧彌漫，非常瘋狂，那以后我就不太喜歡多倫多了。我現(xiàn)在還記得當(dāng)時(shí)看到的情景。

Todd: Yeah, well, that's how I feel about L. A.

托德：嗯，那正是我對(duì)洛杉磯的感覺(jué)。

Rina: Yeah.

麗娜：對(duì)。

Todd: Yeah. I don't like Los Angeles. OK, well thanks.

托德：嗯，我也不喜歡洛杉磯。好，謝謝你。