實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Canadian Town 加拿大城鎮(zhèn)

Todd: So, Rina, where are you from?

托德：麗娜，你來自哪里?

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：我來自薩克其萬省戴維森鎮(zhèn)，那里是薩克其萬省的一個小城鎮(zhèn)，人口只有約1000人，我在那里長大。

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

托德：薩克其萬省，那是加拿大的一個省，而且人口不多，對吧?

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

麗娜：整個省有一百萬人口。

Todd: That's it.

托德：對。

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。

Todd: And you only have one?

托德：你的家鄉(xiāng)只有1百萬人?

Rina: One. There's 33 million.

麗娜：對。加拿大有3300百萬人。

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

托德：好，薩克其萬省有沒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：薩克其萬省首府是雷吉納。(是嗎)對，不知道你聽說過沒有。

Todd: No.

托德：沒聽過說。

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)村長大是什么感覺?

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。因為我父母是從黎巴嫩移民來的，所以他們對我非常嚴厲，在我上11年級以前他們不允許我做很多事情，我11年級時我哥哥的年紀足以照顧我，所以那時我可以外出，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，在我們的小城鎮(zhèn)里。因為我和那里的許多人都很親近，就像一個小型群體一樣。

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：聽起來不錯。那如果你回到加拿大定居，你想住在薩克其萬省嗎?

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，我離開以后成長了很多，已經(jīng)與以前大不相同。我喜歡大一點的城市，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：因為我有些厭倦那里。94年的時候，我們?nèi)ツ醽喖永俨悸眯?，?dāng)時我們開車經(jīng)過多倫多，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)時看到的情景。

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

托德：嗯，那正是我對洛杉磯的感覺。

Rina: Yeah.

麗娜：對。

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。