英语初级口语对话 05：斯里兰卡
Todd: Hello, Mini.
Todd：你好，Mini。
Mini: Hello.
Mini：你好。
Todd: Now, Mini, you are from Sri Lanka.
Todd：Mini，你是来自斯里兰卡吧。
Mini: Yes.
MIni：是的。
Todd: If somebody is going to your country, can you recommend three things they should do or three things they should see?
Todd：如果有人去你国家，你能举出哪三样东西他们应该做和哪三个地方他们应该去看的吗?
Mini: OK, the first thing is you can go and see the ancient things that all the Kings and Queens built, like castles. We have a castle called... it's called the Rock Castle. It's called Sigirya, so it's very beautiful.
Mini：好呀，首先你应该去看那些国王和王后们建造的古代建筑，比如城堡。我们有个城堡叫做石头城堡，大名叫Sigirya，非常漂亮。
Todd: This is the Rock Castle.
Todd：石头城堡。
Mini: Yeah, it's... the castle is on the rock itself, so you can see the ruins there. It's really beautiful, with pictures, paintings, arts and stuff.
MIni：Yeah，城堡在石头上，你在那里可以看到遗迹呢，真的很漂亮哦，有图画，油画，艺术一些东西。
Todd: Oh, really. That's really cool, so this rock castle, how old is it?
Todd：哦，真的。太棒了这个石头城堡。它有多古老啊。
Mini: I'm not sure, but maybe around two thousand. I'm not sure. Sorry.
Mini：我不确定，也许有两千年左右吧，很抱歉我不是很确定。
Todd: What else should people see?
Todd：人们还可以看些别的什么呢?
Mini: The second thing should be beaches. We have beautiful beaches all over the place, blue, clean. You can swim. You can surf. It's very beautiful. That's the second thing.
Mini：第二个玩的地方就是海滩了，海滩到处都是，蓝色干净的大海，你可以游泳，冲浪，非常美妙。
Todd: Surfing is popular in Sri Lanka?
Todd：冲浪在斯里兰卡很受欢迎吗?
Mini: M-hm. I mean, not popular amongst Sri Lankans but most of the... many tourists come, especially the Germans, they come to my country and surf because the hotels near the beaches are very cheap and it's very beautiful hotels and very cheap. Food is cheap. It's nice.
Mini：额，在斯里兰卡不是很受欢迎，但是大部分游客，特别是来自的德国的游客常来我们国家冲浪，因为在海滩附近的旅馆很便宜很精致，食物也价廉物美。
Todd: OK. So, we've got the Rock Castle, surfing on the beach. Anything else?
Todd：好啊，我们可以去石头城堡看看，海滩上冲浪，还有呢?
Mini: And then a third thing should be the Tooth Temple. It's like the tooth of a Buddha, so we got it from I guess India, King Ashoka, so it's one of the things that you can see there. It's a really beautiful temple.
Mini：第三件事就是这个牙齿寺庙了，因像一个大佛的牙齿得名，我猜这可能来自印度国王Ashoka。你可以去那里看看，是个很漂亮的寺庙。
Todd: OK, I'm sorry. Can you say the name of that again?
Todd: 好的，不好意思，能再说一下那个寺庙的名字吗?
Mini: Temple of Tooth Relic.
Mini：牙齿寺庙。
Todd: The Temple of Tooth Relic.
Todd：牙齿寺庙。
Mini: Yeah.
Mini: 是的。
Todd: OK.
Todd：好的。
Mini: It's in Kandy. A place called Kandy.
Mini：在Kandy，一个叫Kandy的地方。
Todd: Kandy. OK. Well, thanks for the tips Mini.
Todd：Kandy，好的，Mini，谢谢你的建议。
