实战口语情景对话：City vs Country 城市还是乡村

Joel: So, Michele, you said you are from Canada.

乔尔：米歇尔，你说过你来自加拿大。

Michele: Yeah.

米歇尔：对。

Joel: What part of Canada?

乔尔：你来自加拿大哪里?

Michele: I lived in Ontario in a small town called Beaverton.

米歇尔：我住在安大略省一个叫做比弗顿的小镇。

Joel: Beaverton. And so how big is the town?

乔尔：比弗顿。这个城镇有多大?

Michele: It was pretty small, about seven or eight thousand people I think.

米歇尔：比弗顿非常小，我想人口大概只有七八千人。

Joel: Wow, that's pretty small.

乔尔：哇，那真的非常小。

Michele: Yeah.

米歇尔：对。

Joel: Did you like that?

乔尔：你喜欢那里吗?

Michele: I think when I was really little I liked it. It was nice to play outside with your friends and we always felt really safe. When I got older as a teenager, sometimes I thought it was pretty boring being in such a small town, but I think overall it was good to live in a small town.

米歇尔：我小的时候非常喜欢那里。在室外和朋友们一起玩非常美好，而且我们一直有安全感。我渐渐长大进入青少年时期以后，有时我会认为生活在这么小的一个城镇非常无聊，不过总体来说，我觉得生活在一个小城镇很好。

Joel: What would you do for fun when you were a teenager?

乔尔：你青少年时期有什么休闲活动?

Michele: Well, there was actually a movie theater in our small town so sometimes we'd go to the theater but it wasn't a great one. We usually went outside of the town into the city to go shopping or see a movie.

米歇尔：嗯，我们那个小城镇有一家电影院，有时我们会去看电影，不过不是太好。通常我们会去城市里购物、看电影。

Joel: And so since then have you lived in any big cities?

乔尔：那你之后在大城市生活过吗?

Michele: I've lived near Tokyo in Japan, so that's a pretty big city. Yeah.

米歇尔：我在日本东京生活过，东京是个非常大的城市。

Joel: So I guess you prefer that then... to your hometown?

乔尔：我猜，相比你的家乡，你更喜欢东京是吗?

Michele: Well, actually I felt that Tokyo was too big of a city.

米歇尔：嗯，实际上我感觉东京这座城市太大了。

Joel: OK.

乔尔：好。

Michele: Yeah, so..

米歇尔：所以……

Joel: It's the opposite extreme.

乔尔：这是两个对立的极端。

Michele: Yeah, it's so crowded and the people aren't as friendly so...

米歇尔：对，东京非常拥挤，人们也不那么友好，所以……

Joel: That's probably a big difference between a small town and a big town, huh? Like you know practically everyone.

乔尔：这可能是小城镇和大城市的最大不同，对吗?在小城镇，你几乎认识所有人。

Michele: Yeah.

米歇尔：对。

Joel: So, you walk into a store. You walk down the street, you can say 'hi' to almost everyone.

乔尔：比如走进一家商店，或是在街头漫步，你几乎可以和所有人打招呼。

Michele: Yeah, well, actually, I've also lived in a really small town in Japan too and I prefered the small town in Japan to the big city like Tokyo. The people in the small town knew my name and were very friendly. If I needed any help then because it's a small town, everybody knows everything about the things in the town so if I needed to find a place or if I wanted to join a club I could easily get the information in a small town, whereas in a big city people don't know the things as well, so.

米歇尔：对，我也在日本的一个小城镇生活过，相比大城市东京，我更喜欢日本的小城镇。小城镇里的人们知道我的名字，而且非常友好。在小城镇基本上所有人对各方面情况都很了解，如果我需要帮助，如果我要找一个地址或是我想加入一个俱乐部，我可以很容易地得到信息，可是在大城市人们就不是那么了解了。

Joel: You also have to be careful what you do because everyone will talk.

乔尔：你要小心你的行为，因为人们什么都会说。

Michele: That's true.

米歇尔：没错。

Joel: You can't hide.

乔尔：你不能隐藏。

Michele: In a small town, you don't have as much privacy but I think the friendliness outweighs the privacy issues.

米歇尔：小城镇没有太多隐私，不过我认为友好比隐私重要。

Joel: OK, thanks Michele.

乔尔：好，谢谢你，米歇尔。

Michele: You're welcome.

米歇尔：不客气。