实战口语情景对话：Great Places 好去处

Todd: OK, now Keren, Hello.

托德：凯伦，你好。

Keren: Hello.

凯伦：你好。

Todd: I thought we would talk about travelling. Now you've travelled to many places, many continents.

托德：我们来谈谈旅游吧。你去很多地方旅行过，去过很多大陆。

Keren: Yes.

凯伦：对。

Todd: Can you talk about some of the places you've been to.

托德：你能说几个你去过的地方吗?

Keren: Yes. First of all, I spent about four and a half months in Australia. I suppose the most amazing place I went to there was Uluru.

凯伦：好。首先，我在澳大利亚呆了四个半月。我去过的最神奇的地方是乌鲁鲁。

Todd: Uluru.

托德：乌鲁鲁。

Keren: Ayers Rock. And it's just an incredible place which is... the land is very barren and very red and the sky is very blue and it's just beautiful.

凯伦：艾尔斯岩石。那里是一个不可思议的地方，土地非常贫瘠，呈现出通红的颜色，而天空又非常湛蓝，那里太漂亮了。

Todd: Wow, And what's it called again?

托德：哇，那个地方叫什么来着?

Keren: Uluru.

凯伦：乌鲁鲁。

Todd: Uluru. OK, besides there, anywhere else?

托德：乌鲁鲁。好，除了那里，还有其他推荐的地方吗?

Keren: I've also been to South America. I spent a year in Peru and while I was there I went to Machu Picchu.

凯伦：我还去过南美洲。我在秘鲁呆了一年的时间，我在秘鲁时去了马丘比丘。

Todd: Machu Picchu. What is Machu Picchu?

托德：马丘比丘。马丘比丘是什么?

Keren: Machu Picchu is an ancient ruin of an old Inca town.

凯伦：马丘比丘是印加古城的遗址。

Todd: Do you know how old it is?

托德：你知道马丘比丘有多少年的历史吗?

Keren: Probably about seven hundred, eight hundred years old, I think. It's not actually that old.

凯伦：我想大概有七八百年的历史吧。并没有那么古老。

Todd: Oh, really.

托德：哦，真的吗?

Keren: Really

.凯伦：真的。

Todd: Huh! That's interesting.

托德：哈!这很有意思。

Keren: Yeah.

凯伦：对。

Todd: OK, any other places?

托德：好，还有其他地方吗?

Keren: I spent quite a lot of time in Spain and the most interesting place I went there was Granada.

凯伦：我在西班牙呆了很大时间，我认为西班牙最有意思的地方是格拉纳达。

Todd: Granada.

托德：格拉纳达。

Keren: Yeah.

凯伦：对。

Todd: OK, what's in Granada?

托德：格拉纳达是哪里?

Keren: The Alhambra which is the old Muslim capitol of Spain. And it's an amazing old town with Muslim palaces.

凯伦：格拉纳达的阿尔罕布拉宫曾是西班牙古老的穆斯林宫殿。格拉纳达是一座非常棒的古镇，有很多穆斯林宫殿。

Todd: And there is just one palace or is there many, many palaces?

托德：是只有一个宫殿还是有很多宫殿?

Keren: There is many, many ruins and there's a lot to do. You can spend the whole day there walking around the different old buildings that were built in different times.

凯伦：有很多宫殿，很多遗址，有很多可以做的事情。你可以花一整天的时间在建造于不同时期的古老建筑之间漫步。

Todd: Very cool. So, you've seen something in Australia, in South America, in Europe, how about Asia?

托德：真酷。你谈了澳大利亚、南美和欧洲的景色，那亚洲呢?

Keren: Asia. I've been to Japan and Thailand and Malaysia and Singapore.

凯伦：亚洲。我去过日本、泰国、马来西亚和新加坡。

Todd: And what is you favorite place in Asia?

托德：你最喜欢亚洲的哪个地方?

Keren: Hm. It's a difficult question. I liked Hokkaido

.凯伦：嗯，这很难回答。我喜欢北海道。

Todd: Hokkaido?

托德：北海道?

Keren: Yeah, in Japan. Hmm... I spent a week there working on a farm, and it was just a really interesting place to be.

凯伦：对，在日本。我在那里度过了一周的时间，在一家农场打工，那里真的是一个很有趣的地方。

Todd: Cool. Well, thanks, Keren.

托德：真酷。谢谢你，凯伦。

Keren: It's Ok.

凯伦：不客气。