實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Christchurch 克賴斯特徹奇

Todd: So, Hello!

托德：你好!

Gabrielle: Hi!

加布里埃爾：你好!

Todd: Can you say your name please?

托德：請問你叫什么名字?

Gabrielle: Gabrielle:

加布里埃爾：加布里埃爾。

Todd: Gabrielle. Now, Gabrielle you talked to us last year.

托德：加布里埃爾，我們?nèi)ツ暝?jīng)談過。

Gabrielle:That's right!

加布里埃爾：沒錯!

Todd: And you said that you're from Christchurch?

托德：你說你來自克賴斯特徹奇?

Gabrielle: Uh-huh, from Christchurch in New Zealand.

加布里埃爾：嗯，我來自新西蘭的克賴斯特徹奇。

Todd: OK, can you talk about your city?

托德：好，你能談?wù)勀闼诘某鞘袉?

Gabrielle: Absolutely! Absolutely! Well, Christchurch I guess compared to Japan is pretty small, but for New Zealand it's quite a big city. I think it's a great place. Yeah, we've got the beach, the mountains, yeah so city center and nature, really close.

加布里埃爾：當(dāng)然可以!當(dāng)然!嗯，和日本比的話，克賴斯特徹奇非常小，但是克賴斯特徹奇在新西蘭是個大城市。我認(rèn)為那是個很棒的地方。我們那里有海灘，有高山，市中心和大自然非常近。

Todd: Sounds nice! How many people live in Christchurch?

托德：聽起來不錯!克賴斯特徹奇有多少人口?

Gabrielle: Oh, that's a good question. Gosh! We're certainly not up to a million! I guess about 600,000 people.

加布里埃爾：哦，這是個好問題。天哪!不到1百萬人!我猜大概60萬人吧。

Todd: Wow, that's it! Just 6!

托德：哇!就只有60萬!

Gabrielle: That's it. Big city in New Zealand!

加布里埃爾：對。那是新西蘭的大城市!

Todd: Wow! So there's three big cities in New Zealand!

托德：哇!新西蘭有三個大城市!

Gabrielle: That's right! That's right! We're probably the second or third biggest city.

加布里埃爾：沒錯!對!克賴斯特徹奇可能是第二大或者是第三大城市。

Todd: Uh, what's the transportation like?

托德：哦，那里的交通怎么樣?

Gabrielle: Well, I use my bike usually or a car. We certainly don't have the trains like Tokyo, but there's a bus system. It's not too bad, but most Kiwis have cars. Yeah, more convenient.

加布里埃爾：嗯，我通常是騎自行車或是開車出行。我們沒有東京這樣的火車系統(tǒng)，但是有公交車系統(tǒng)。還不算太壞，但是大部分新西蘭人都有車。這樣更方便。

Todd: OK, now can I ask you about costs?

托德：好，我能問問你那里的開銷嗎?

Gabrielle: Sure! Sure!

加布里埃爾：當(dāng)然!當(dāng)然!

Todd: OK, and you can say Japanese yen prices.

托德：好，你可以用日元來表示。

Gabrielle: Yeah! Yeah!

加布里埃爾：好的!好!

Todd: How much is an apartment? A one bedroom apartment, downtown?

托德：一間公寓要多少錢?市中心一間臥室公寓的價錢?

Gabrielle: Well, to be honest we don't have that style. We've got plenty of space so we usually rent a house which has three bedrooms and a garden, for example, and much cheaper, much, much cheaper. I'm just trying to convert.

加布里埃爾：嗯，說實話，我們那里沒有這種類型的公寓。那里有很多空間，所以通常我們會租有三間臥室和花園的房子，而且比日本便宜很多，非常便宜。我正在努力換算。

Todd: Three bedrooms and a garden!

托德：三間臥室和一個花園!

Gabrielle: Yeah! And often we go "flatting" which means we share the house with maybe a couple of friends, probably pay about, I was paying $80 a week for my room so, oh, sorry my conversion rate is not working too quickly at the moment.

加布里埃爾：對!而且一般我們會合租公寓，就是和幾個朋友一起租公寓，我租的房間一周大概要付80美元，抱歉，目前我匯率的換算不是很熟練。

Todd: That's really cheap though!

托德：那真是很便宜!

Gabrielle: It's incredibly cheap. Yeah, much, much cheaper! Much bigger!

加布里埃爾：便宜得令人難以置信。對，比這里便宜很多，便宜非常多!

Todd: Wow! sounds like a nice place! OK, how much is, New Zealand prices OK, how much is a loaf of bread?

托德：哇!聽起來是個很棒的地方!好，新西蘭面包賣多少錢?

Gabrielle: A loaf of bread! To get the good bread, probably about $2.50 a loaf, yeah, so, maybe about, oh sorry, my conversion's not working, I've been in Tokyo for too long!

加布里埃爾：一塊面包!要買好面包，大概要2.5美元，抱歉，我現(xiàn)在沒有換算出來。我來日本的時間太長了!

Todd: How about a movie ticket?

托德：電影票的價格呢?

Gabrielle: A movie ticket would be about $13, so it's much cheaper than here. Yeah, definitely!

加布里埃爾：一張電影票大概要13美元，比這里便宜很多。對，絕對是!

Todd: And bus fare!

托德：公交車費呢?

Gabrielle: Bus fare, a dollar fifty, two dollars for one way.

加布里埃爾：公交車單程費用大概1.5美元或2美元。

Todd: How about if you're going to buy your friend a sweater, a nice sweater, how much would that cost?

托德：那如果你要是給朋友買毛衣，一件不錯的毛衣要多少錢?

Gabrielle: Well, I like the good outdoor brand sweaters so I would probably say about $50 but an everyday sweater you could get about $15 New Zealand. Yeah.

加布里埃爾：嗯，我喜歡戶外毛衣品牌，那大概要50美元，不過在新西蘭普通的毛衣大概是15美元。對。

Todd: OK, Wow! Sounds like a great place. Oh, and last one, the weather, when is the best time of year to visit?

托德：哇!聽起來真是個好地方。最后一個問題，天氣，一年中什么時候是去新西蘭旅游的最佳時節(jié)?

Gabrielle: Oh, summer, definitely.

加布里埃爾：絕對是夏季。

Todd: So that's December?

托德：那就是12月嗎?

Gabrielle: Yeah, so we're going into summer now so December to February, but we have four seasons in one day, so you can count on all weather even within summer. Yeah! Yeah!

加布里埃爾：對，現(xiàn)在是我們國家的夏季，12月至2月是夏季，不過我們那里可以在一天內(nèi)體驗到四種季節(jié)，所以即使在夏天你也可以體驗到所有天氣。沒錯!

Todd: Do you have a really bad month to go, where the weather is not nice?

托德：那有沒有最不適宜旅行的月份呢?什么時候天氣不好?

Gabrielle: Yeah, usually June, July, it probably rains the most, but we still get gorgeous sunny days in the winter so, yeah there's not really any bad time.

加布里埃爾：有，通常一月和七月是雨水最多的月份，但是在冬季也會有陽光燦爛的天氣，所以，實際上并不算不適宜的時間。

Todd: Oh, sounds nice! Thanks Gabrielle!

托德：哦，聽起來真好!謝謝你，加布里埃爾!

Gabrielle: No problem!

加布里埃爾：不客氣。