哈佛大學校園英語情景對話26：裸奔和時裝秀

Li Lei asks Han Meimei to buy clothes with him.

L: Are you free this afternoon?

L:今天下午有空嗎?

H: Yes. Why?

H:有啊，怎么了?

L： I want you to help me choose clothes.

L:我想讓你幫我選衣服。

H: So, you admit that I’m an excellent judge of clothes?

H:所以，你承認我選衣服很有眼光嘍。

L： What I‘m going to buy are not ordinary clothes. I’ll wear them on Halloween.

L:我要買的可不是普通衣服，要在萬圣節(jié)上穿。

H： Oh, I see. You have to dress up as ghosts, skeletons, witches, or devils. Does Harvard have such a tradition to celebrate Halloween?

H:哦，我明白了。你們要打扮得像鬼呀、骷髏呀、女巫或魔鬼一樣。哈佛有慶祝萬圣節(jié)這個傳統(tǒng) 嗎?

L: How can Harvard miss such a big event? Every year, Harvard will host Halloween Costume Catwalk, in which students dress up as anything they like and to compete for glory.

L:哈佛怎么能錯過這么大的節(jié)日呢?每年哈佛都會 舉行萬圣節(jié)服裝走秀，學生們可以任意打扮，爭 奪榮耀。

H: It’s a competition? What awards are there?

H:是個比賽?都有什么獎項?

L: Best Impersonation, Best Couple, Best Group, Most Creative, and Most Scandalous.

L:最佳裝扮獎、最佳雙人組含獎、最佳團體獎、最佳創(chuàng)意獎、最不體面獎。

H： Quite formal.

H:挺正式的。

L: Students like it very much. Some feel they were kids again.

L:學生們都很喜歡，一些人感到又回到了童年。

H: Everyone seems to value this chance very much. You must dress yourself with elaborate care.

H:每個人似乎都很珍視這個機會，你_定要盛裝打扮。

L: That’s why I ask you to help me.

L:所以我才讓你幫我。

H: I think you’d better design the costume yourself. Maybe you can win the Most Creative.

H:我覺得你最好自己設計服裝，說不定還能臝最佳創(chuàng)意獎呢。

L: I don’t have confidence.

L:我設有信心。

H: You can count on me. By the way, it’s almost the end of the term. How is your study? Do you have time to prepare for this?

H:包在我身上。隨便問一下，快期末了，你學習怎么樣了?有時間準備這些嗎?

L: Speaking of this, I，m eager to see the Primal Scream.

L:說起這個，我很想去看看"原始尖叫"。

H: What’s that?

H:那是什么?

L: If Costume Catwalk is featured by splendid finery, Prime Scream is famous for the boldness of students who should wear no clothes!

L:如果說服裝走秀的特點是盛裝，那原始尖叫就是因學生們有膽量不穿衣服而出名。

H: Naked? Crazy! What the hell do they do?

H:裸體?真瘋狂!他們到底都干什么?

L： Every semester the night before finals，hundreds of students go in droves to Harvard Yard to do one of two things: to run around the Yard completely naked or to watch eveiyone else running around the Yard completely naked.

L:每學期期末考試前一晚，上百名學生成群結隊地到哈佛園去做兩件事：繞著哈佛 園裸奔，或者，觀看其他人裸奔。

H: Completely naked? Don，t they feel cold in such a cold winter?

H:全裸?這么冷的天他們不冷嗎?

L: Ok, ok, most of them do wear shoes and no one wants frostbitten toes. But no shirts, no pants, no nothing covering their private parts.

L:好吧，好吧，大部分人的確穿著鞋，沒人想凍傷腳趾。但沒穿T恤，沒穿短褲， 沒有遮住隱私部位。

H: Totally crazy! Why is it called Prime Scream? Do they scream? Why do they do such a crazy thing?

H:完全瘋了!為什么叫原始尖叫呢?他們尖叫嗎?為什么要做這么瘋狂的事呢?

L： As they run, they scream at the top of their lungs in order to release pent-up energy after being cooped up in the library for so long and to express their frustration about the looming exam period.

L：他們邊跔邊歇斯底里地叫，在圖書館里悶了這么久，就是想發(fā)泄一下，把氣撒在 即將到來的考試身上。

H: Do a lot of people go to watch it?

H:很多人去看嗎?

L: A good number of student watch . I’m curious about it. But it‘s a little embarrassing to watch those naked students running.

L:挺多的。我很好奮，但又覺得不好意思去看人裸奔。

H: I think so. I can hardly imagine it. American people are indeed very open. How do you see it? You said it’s a tradition at Harvard. Most students must understand and support it.

H:我想也是。很難想象，美國人果然很開放。你怎么看待這件事?你說這是哈佛的 一項傳統(tǒng)，那肯定大部分學生都理解和支持了。

L: Not necessarily. A lot of American students don’t like it, not to mention me. Once Iasked my roommate whether he would join in the activity this year. He said no.

L:也不一定。很多美國學生都不喜歡，別說是我了。有一次我問我室友他會不會去 參加今年的裸奔，他說不。

H: Why? Did he give any reason?

H:為什么?他的理由呢?

L: He said “ I want to try such a crazy thing, yet it’s impossible to ignore the hundreds of people gathering around to watch, the cameras hashing, the video-cameras recording. Now imagine, what with the Internet and all, millions of people could have access to these photos and footage. Creepy, right?"

L:他說：“我想嘗試這么瘋狂的事，但不能對圍觀的幾百號人及拍照的照相機和錄 像的攝像機視而不見。想想，因為有了網(wǎng)絡和其他東西，會有幾百萬人看到這些 照片和錄像。不寒而栗，對吧?”

H: Yes. If they want to give vent to their pressures, they can find a more mild way. It’s really creepyto find oneself naked on YouTube.

H:是的，如果他們想發(fā)泄的話，可以找一些更溫和的方式。在YouTube上發(fā)現(xiàn)自己 裸著的樣子，真可怕。