實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Kiwi Summers 新西蘭的夏天

Todd: So, Mark, what do Kiwis like to do in the summer?

托德：馬克，新西蘭人在夏天喜歡做什么?

Mark: Yeah, I think the first thing for some people to realise is that Christmas is midsummer in New Zealand.

馬克：我想一些人應該首先意識到圣誕節(jié)正值新西蘭的盛夏時節(jié)。

Todd: Oh nice!

托德：哦真好!

Mark: So Kiwis combine Christmas holiday and New Year holiday with a summer vacation as well. I can remember when I was small, we'd have family Christmases and then the next day, which is Boxing Day, we'd go to the beach or we'd travel somewhere and rent a small house on the beach. They call them 'batches' in the north of the island or 'cribs' in the south island. And you just spend 4, 5 days, maybe a week, 2 weeks, just swimming in the sea, playing in the sand dunes, walks in the forest: just a really relaxing time with family and family friends.

馬克：所以新西蘭人把圣誕假期、元旦假期和夏日假期結合到一起。我記得我小的時候，我們會一家人一起過圣誕節(jié)，圣誕節(jié)后就是節(jié)禮日，我們會去海灘或者去其他地方旅行，然后在海灘上租間小房子。島嶼北部的人稱房屋為batches，而南部的人稱之為cribs。你可以在那里度過四五天，甚至是一兩周的時間，可以在海里游泳，在沙丘上玩耍，在森林里散步;和家人和朋友享受休閑時光。

Todd: That sounds nice, so you know in Australia they're really big on surfing. Do a lot of people surf in New Zealand?

托德：聽起來不錯，你知道澳大利亞人非常熱衷于沖浪。新西蘭喜歡沖浪運動的人多嗎?

Mark: There is a surfing population. I think the Australian beaches are probably much larger and maybe they have better waves, I don't know, but several of my friends used to go on surfing holidays in summer as well.

馬克：有喜歡沖浪的人。我認為澳大利亞的海灘要大得多，而且可能那里的海浪也更適合沖浪，我不清楚，不過我的一些朋友在夏日假期也經常去沖浪。

Todd: And what foods do people like to eat when they get together for the summer?

托德：那人們一起過夏日假期時喜歡吃什么食物?

Mark: Barbecue is almost the national obsession in summertime, you know, you'd just throw a sausage on the barbie or friends would ring up and say 'hey, it's a nice night, let's have a barbie!'. I think all my friends have their own barbecue set.

馬克：新西蘭人在夏天最喜歡的是燒烤，你可能剛剛開始烤香腸，你的朋友就會打電話來說“嗨，這是個美好的夜晚，我們去燒烤吧!”我覺得我所有的朋友都有燒烤裝備。

Todd: What meats do people barbecue?

托德：人們喜歡烤什么肉吃?

Mark: Again, New Zealand foods used to very much sort of be the lamb or beef, but now it's getting a lot more varied, you can grill a nice fish on the barbecue, you can still have sausage, chicken, pork, beef, lamb, whatever you want.

馬克：我要再說一次，新西蘭食物以前基本以羊肉和牛肉為主，不過現(xiàn)在種類就很多了，燒烤時可以烤新鮮的魚類，也可以烤香腸、雞肉、豬肉、牛肉、羊肉等等，任何你喜歡的食物都可以烤。

Todd: Yeah, it sounds good. OK, well thanks, Mark.

托德：好，聽起來真不錯。謝謝，馬克。

Mark: OK.

馬克：好的。