实战口语情景对话 第14期:童年生活

 Todd: OK. Hello! 你好！

Kevin: Hi! How you doing? 嗨！你好吗？

Todd: I'm doing pretty good. 我很好。

Kevin: Good. 好的

Todd: What's your name? 你叫什么？

Kevin: My name is Kevin. 我叫凯文。

Todd: Kevin. And where are you from? 凯文。你来自哪？

Kevin: I'm from Pheonix, Arizona. 亚利桑那州的凤凰城。

Todd: OK. Nice. 好的，很棒。

Kevin: In the United¹ States. 美国的凤凰城。

Todd: Wow, were you born in Pheonix? 哇，你出生在凤凰城？

Kevin: Actually, no. I was actually born in New York, because my parents happened to be living in New York at that time. My father was a Major League² Baseball player, and the year I was born, 1971, he was playing with the Mets in New York City, and my birthday is in May, May 25th, to be precise³, and so my mother happened to be with my father in New York cause it was baseball season, so I was actually born in New York, but I grew up in Pheonix. so Phoenix⁴ is what I consider to be my home town. 事实上，不是的。我出生在纽约，因为我父母那段时间正好住在纽约。我父亲是职业棒球大联盟的运动员，我出生的那年——1971年，他正在纽约和Met队比赛，精确地说，我的生日是5月25日，我母亲正和我父亲一起在纽约，因为那正是棒球赛季，所以我在纽约出生，但我在凤凰城长大。因此，我认为凤凰城是我的故乡。

Todd: Wow! That's Amazing! Do you remember anything about New York? 哇！这真棒！你对纽约还有印象吗？

Kevin: Yes, actually, I do have a few memories because we spent probably three years there from the time I was born, obviously⁵, until I was about two and a half or three years, we spent summers, or the baseball season in, in New York, and we rented a condominium on the second floor, and I remember, it was right across the street from La Guardia Airport, and so of course, when I was a little kid, one, one and two years old, I used⁶ to love sitting by the kitchen windows, and I even remember it was a bay⁷ window, the kind where you can roll the window open, and I used to roll the window open, and just watch the airplanes take off and land all day. 是的，我还对纽约有点儿印象，因为自我出生，我们在那里大约度过了大约三年的时光，直到我两岁半或是三岁。夏天和棒球赛季我们都住在纽约，我记得我们租了一栋二层公寓，就在拉瓜迪亚机场对面，当然，当我还是个小孩儿，一两岁大的时候，我喜欢坐在厨房窗户边，我甚至记得那是一扇向外凸的窗户，是那种可以摇开的窗户，我经常会摇开窗户，整天看着飞机起飞降落。

Todd: Wow! That's cool. 哇，真酷!

Kevin: And another memory I have is the people, the couple that lived below us was an elderly⁸ couple and they acted pretty much like our grandparents, so I actually called them Grandma and Grandpa, and, uh, Grandma Stevenson used to give me a bath in the, in her, in her kitchen sink⁹, cause I was so small, that she would actually give me a bath in her kitchen sink, and I remember that as well. 我还记得我们楼下住着一对老夫妇，他们就像我的祖父母一样，所以我就称呼他们为祖父祖母，祖母史蒂文森经常在她家厨房的水槽里给我洗澡，因为我当时个子很小，我还记得她在厨房水槽给我洗澡。

Todd: Wow, those are good memories. 哇，这些都是很美好的会议。

1 united   

adj.和谐的；团结的；联合的，统一的

参考例句：

• The whole nation is closely united.全国人民紧密团结。
• The two men were united by community of interests.共同的利益使两个人结合在一起。

2 league   

n.同盟，联盟，社团，联合会

参考例句：

• I'll never forget the day when I joined the Youth League.我永远不会忘记我入团的那一天。
• Half of the students in our class are League members.我们班有一半学生是团员。

3 precise   

adj.精确的，恰好的，极清楚的

参考例句：

• At that precise moment, Miss Pulteney came into the office.就在那时，普尔特尼小姐走进了办公室。
• A scientist must be precise in making tests.科学家做试验必须精确。

4 phoenix   

n.凤凰，长生(不死)鸟；引申为重生

参考例句：

• The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
• The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。

5 obviously   

adv.显然；明白地

参考例句：

• Obviously they were putting him to a severe test.显然他们是在给他以严峻的考验。
• Obviously he was lying.显然他是在撒谎。

6 used   

adj.用旧了的，旧的；习惯于…；过去惯/经常

参考例句：

• I used to work until nearly 6:00 o'clock each day.我过去常常工作到6:00左右。
• He used to walk anywhere from two to five miles an hour.他过去经常一小时走二至五英里。

7 bay   

n.海湾，狗吠声，月桂；vt.吠，使走投无路；vi.吠

参考例句：

• I enjoy the view of the bay in the starlight.我喜欢星光下的海湾风景。
• Dogs sometimes bay at the moon.狗有时会朝着月亮吠叫。

8 elderly   

adj.年老的；年龄相当大的

参考例句：

• He is getting elderly.他逐渐变老了。
• The elderly man is quite energetic.这位上了年纪的老人仍精力充沛。

9 sink   

n.接收端，沟渠，污水槽；v.下沉，使...低落，陷于

参考例句：

• During the journey, their boat began to sink.途中他们的小船开始下沉。
• Wood does not sink in water.木头在水中不会沉没。