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【篇一】
Todd: Monica, you mentioned a farm home stay in New Zealand. Have you ever actually everlived on a farm?
托德:莫妮卡,你提到过新西兰的寄宿农场。你有在农场生活过吗?
Monica: I haven"t lived on a farm as such, but I"ve visited family friends who have lived onfarms.
莫妮卡:我没有在农场生活过,不过我去拜访过住在农场的家族朋友。
Todd: Did you like it?
托德:你喜欢农场吗?
Monica: Yeah, I remember loving visiting my family friends on farms. Yeah, especially ridinghorses. I loved riding horses when I was young.
莫妮卡:喜欢,我喜欢去拜访住在农场的家族朋友。我非常喜欢骑马。我小时候很喜欢骑马。
Todd: So are you good? Are you an equestrian professional?
托德:你骑马骑的好吗?你是专业骑手吗?
Monica: I wouldn"t say that. I do remember one time. My mother always seems to tell peoplethis story about when I was young, and we were at her friend"s farm. I was on a horse, and thehorse took off, and I was only about, I think ten at the time and I was hanging off the side ofthis horse and my mother was really worried for me, and then when the horse finally stoppedshe ... you know ... she came running up and asked me if I was OK and things, and apparently Isaid to her, "Oh, it"s OK. I wanted it to go fast."
莫妮卡:我不能这么说。我记得一件事。我妈妈经常和别人讲我小时候住在她朋友农场时发生的事。当时我只有10岁,我骑在马上,马开始动了以后,我悬在了马鞍的一侧,我妈妈非常担心我,马停下来以后,她马上跑过来问我有没有事,我的回答当然是:“哦,没事,我想让马跑快点儿。”
Todd: That"s cute. You"re lucky you didn"t get hurt though.
托德:太可爱了。你没受伤真走运。
Monica: Yeah, well, I guess I just didn"t sense the danger.
莫妮卡:对,我想我当时没有危险的感觉。
Todd: Actually, I kind of grew up on a farm. My grandfather had a ranch growing up so I spendevery summer on his ranch, so I have quite the ... I don"t know ... I guess I have a lot ofexperience on a farm. Yeah, it"s good. I remember when I was young I thought the life on afarm was just the best. I mean I had it so good, and I loved everything about living on a farmand I thought when I was gonna get older, I would want to be on a farm, but now that I"molder, I couldn"t image doing it every again.
托德:其实我是在农场长大的。我祖父有个牧场,我小时候每年夏天都会去他的牧场住,要怎么说,我想我有很多农场生活的经验。这种生活很好。我记得我小时候认为农场生活是最棒的。在农场生活感觉很好,我喜欢农场生活的一切,当时我想长大以后去农场生活,不过现在我已经长大了,可是我无法想象再去农场生活。
Monica: What can"t you imagine doing?
莫妮卡:为什么无法想象?
Todd: I don"t know, I guess, I just couldn"t imagine all that work, and I think I"m just soaddicted to city life or suburban life and living in a house and just doing work on computersand things like that. I couldn"t go back to that lifestyle, but when I was young, I have to admit,I enjoyed it a lot. So how about you? Could you see yourself moving and living on a farm?
托德:我也不知道,我想我只是无法想象农场的工作,我现在非常喜欢城市生活,我喜欢住在房子里,用电脑工作等等。我不能回到农场的生活方式,不过我得承认,我小时候非常喜欢农场的生活方式。你呢?你能搬去农场生活吗?
Monica: Well, yeah, I think my thoughts are similar to yours in that I"m very used to beinginside using a computer, and I"m used to a very different lifestyle to one that involves being ona farm, but yeah, I"ve never had a long period of time where I"ve stayed on a farm like you soyeah maybe it"s a bit different for me.
莫妮卡:嗯,我想我和你的想法相似,我也非常习惯在室内用电脑工作,我已经习惯了与农场生活完全不同的生活方式,不过对我来说有些不同,因为我与你不一样,我没有在农场生活过很长时间。
【篇二】
Todd: So, Monica, you are from New Zealand.
托德:莫妮卡,你来自新西兰。
Monica: Yes, that"s right.
莫妮卡:对,没错。
Todd: So, for people going to New Zealand, what would you recommend? What are three orfour places that you must see in New Zealand?
托德:对计划去新西兰旅行的人们,你有什么建议?请你推荐三至四个新西兰必去景点。
Monica: Oh, OK, three or four places you must see. Well, it depends what you"re looking forreally. I think a lot of people that come to New Zealand enjoy an outdoor lifestyle, so there"s lotsof outdoor activities and places you can go to to enjoy in New Zealand. Personally, I find theSouth Island of New Zealand very scenic in comparison to the North Island, so for me, amust-do is the West Coast of the South Island. It"s very pretty.
莫妮卡:哦,好,三至四个必去景点。这要取决于你对什么感兴趣。我认为大部分来新西兰游玩的游客喜欢户外生活方式,新西兰有许多户外运动,也有很多可以享受户外运动的好去处。我个人认为与新西兰北岛相比,新西兰南岛的景色更美,我认为必去的景点是南岛的西海岸,那里非常漂亮。
Todd: The West Coast.
托德:西海岸。
Monica: Yeah. In particular, there"s two glaciers. Franz Joseph and Fox Glaciers, which arevery stunning to look at, and you can either have a look at them by foot, or you can pay for ahelicopter ride that takes you up and shows you an aerial view of them.
莫妮卡:对。特别是那里的两个冰川。弗朗兹·约瑟夫冰川和福克斯冰川,这两座冰川非常迷人,游客可以步行去观赏冰川,也可以乘坐直升飞机从上空鸟瞰冰川。
Todd: Now, do people ever walk across the glaciers?
托德:人们可以步行穿越冰川?
Monica: There are guides that can walk you across. Yeah, I haven"t done it personally, but it ispossible.
莫妮卡:有导游引领游客穿越冰川。我还没有尝试过,不过是可以的。
Todd: So what else would you recommend for New Zealand? What other places should peoplesee?
托德:还有其他的新西兰景点推荐吗?其他值得一去的景点?
Monica: I think if you want to see ... let me think ... rural New Zealand. It"s quite a nice ideato drive the length of the country and then you can see the interesting farming that is takingplace, in particular in the South Island. The lower part of the South Island, and a lot of theNorth Island as well. There"s a lot of sheep in New Zealand and there"s a lot of cattle as well,so I think it"s always interesting to go for a drive to see that firsthand.
莫妮卡:我想,如果你想看……让我想一下,如果大家对新西兰郊区感兴趣,那开车游览是个不错的主意,沿途你们会看到南岛地区有趣的务农场景。南岛的下端和北岛的大部分地区也有农场。新西兰有许多羊和牛,我认为开车沿途欣赏这种景色非常有意思。