【英语趣味课堂】国民偶像-National Icons

Fanny: Brian, my last question seems too serious.

Brian: It was. It was a very academic kind of question.

 

Fanny: Yeah.

 

Brian: You're testing me Fanny.

 

Fanny: Sorry for that. I would also like to ask you some funny questions.

 

Brian: OK, hit me.

 

Fanny: Have you ever seen a polar¹ bear?

 

Brian: Have I seen a polar bear? Unfortunately, I have not.

 

Fanny: No, really?

 

Brian: I think you need to go really far to the north.

 

Fanny: North. Yeah.

 

Brian: Like, up around, like the North Pole maybe because I think the polar bears live like only on the ice, and this is like really far from any kind of like, you know, city or civilization, and I've never been up to like such a remote kind of place.

 

Fanny: OK, I see.

 

Brian: Unfortunately no polar bears. I've seen other bears, but no polar bears.

 

Fanny: OK, me either.

 

Brian: No polar bears in China?

 

Fanny: I don't think so.

 

Brian: No.

 

Fanny: I don't think it's cold enough to have polar bear there.

 

Brian: How about Panda? I've heard there are some Pandas in China.

 

Fanny: Yeah, I saw Panda for several times.

 

Brian: In the wild or in a zoo?

 

Fanny: In the zoo.

 

Brian: Oh, OK.

 

Fanny: And on TV. I just joking. I just saw some pandas by myself in the zoos, but I don't think they are the, you know, how do you say, because I think in the wild we can see the Pandas. We can see their activities more.

 

Brian: Right.

 

Fanny: How should I put that?

 

Brian: It's more natural maybe.

 

Fanny: Natural, yeah. It's very natural, but in the, you know, in the zoos the pandas are always sleeping. They're... or they're just eating something.

 

Brian: Lazy animals.

 

Fanny: No, the cannot do some, you know, outdoor activities.

 

Brian: Right.

 

Fanny: Poor pandas.

 

Brian: It's a shame.

 

Fanny: Yeah, it is.

1 polar   

adj.两极的，极地的，南辕北辙的，南极的，北极的，极性的；n.极线，极面

参考例句：

• It's very cold in the polar regions.南北极地带是很寒冷的。
• Love and hatred are polar feelings.爱与恨是完全相反的感情。