哈佛大学校园英语情景对话26：裸奔和时装秀
L: Are you free this afternoon?
L:今天下午有空吗?
H: Yes. Why?
H:有啊，怎么了?
L： I want you to help me choose clothes.
L:我想让你帮我选衣服。
H: So, you admit that I’m an excellent judge of clothes?
H:所以，你承认我选衣服很有眼光喽。
L： What I‘m going to buy are not ordinary clothes. I’ll wear them on Halloween.
L:我要买的可不是普通衣服，要在万圣节上穿。
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。你们要打扮得像鬼呀、骷髅呀、女巫或魔鬼一样。哈佛有庆祝万圣节这个传统 吗?
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:哈佛怎么能错过这么大的节日呢?每年哈佛都会 举行万圣节服装走秀，学生们可以任意打扮，争 夺荣耀。
H: It’s a competition? What awards are there?
H:是个比赛?都有什么奖项?
L: Best Impersonation, Best Couple, Best Group, Most Creative, and Most Scandalous.
L:最佳装扮奖、最佳双人组含奖、最佳团体奖、最佳创意奖、最不体面奖。
H： Quite formal.
H:挺正式的。
L: Students like it very much. Some feel they were kids again.
L:学生们都很喜欢，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:每个人似乎都很珍视这个机会，你_定要盛装打扮。
L: That’s why I ask you to help me.
L:所以我才让你帮我。
H: I think you’d better design the costume yourself. Maybe you can win the Most Creative.
H:我觉得你最好自己设计服装，说不定还能臝最佳创意奖呢。
L: I don’t have confidence.
L:我设有信心。
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。随便问一下，快期末了，你学习怎么样了?有时间准备这些吗?
L: Speaking of this, I，m eager to see the Primal Scream.
L:说起这个，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:如果说服装走秀的特点是盛装，那原始尖叫就是因学生们有胆量不穿衣服而出名。
H: Naked? Crazy! What the hell do they do?
H:裸体?真疯狂!他们到底都干什么?
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:每学期期末考试前一晚，上百名学生成群结队地到哈佛园去做两件事：绕着哈佛 园裸奔，或者，观看其他人裸奔。
H: Completely naked? Don，t they feel cold in such a cold winter?
H:全裸?这么冷的天他们不冷吗?
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，大部分人的确穿着鞋，没人想冻伤脚趾。但没穿T恤，没穿短裤， 没有遮住隐私部位。
H: Totally crazy! Why is it called Prime Scream? Do they scream? Why do they do such a crazy thing?
H:完全疯了!为什么叫原始尖叫呢?他们尖叫吗?为什么要做这么疯狂的事呢?
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：他们边跔边歇斯底里地叫，在图书馆里闷了这么久，就是想发泄一下，把气撒在 即将到来的考试身上。
H: Do a lot of people go to watch it?
H:很多人去看吗?
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。我很好奋，但又觉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。很难想象，美国人果然很开放。你怎么看待这件事?你说这是哈佛的 一项传统，那肯定大部分学生都理解和支持了。
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。很多美国学生都不喜欢，别说是我了。有一次我问我室友他会不会去 参加今年的裸奔，他说不。
H: Why? Did he give any reason?
H:为什么?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:他说：“我想尝试这么疯狂的事，但不能对围观的几百号人及拍照的照相机和录 像的摄像机视而不见。想想，因为有了网络和其他东西，会有几百万人看到这些 照片和录像。不寒而栗，对吧?”
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，如果他们想发泄的话，可以找一些更温和的方式。在YouTube上发现自己 裸着的样子，真可怕。
