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Todd: Tim, you want to talk about road trips! 蒂姆，你能谈谈自驾游吗？
Tim: Yeah, I wanna talk about road trips. Ah, me and my friends, when we were in high school we took a lot of road trips to lots of different places. 好的，我想谈谈自驾游。我和我的朋友在高中的时候自驾游去了很多地方。
Todd: OK. 好的。
Tim: We would go down to California1, ah, sometimes Mexico2. One time when I was living in Wyoming, in one weekend we drove3 from Wyoming, through Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico and back in the same weekend. 我们去过加利福尼亚州，有时会去墨西哥。在我还住在怀俄明州的时候，有一次我们在一个周末内开车从怀俄明州，穿过科罗拉多州，新墨西哥州，墨西哥再回到怀俄明州。
Todd: Wow! Well, actually for people who are not familiar4 with the United5 States how far is that? 哇！有些人可能并不了解美国，这条路有多远？
Tim: It's a long way. I don't know. It took, I don't know, it took probably about 15 hours one way. 这是一条很长的旅程。我不知道，大概单程花了15个小时。
Todd: Wow! 哇！
Tim: So, thirty hours all together. But it was fun. We drove down to Mexico, had a good night a good meal, a little bit of drinks and drove back the next day. 总共30小时的车程。但很有趣。我们开车到墨西哥，吃了顿好的，喝了点儿酒，睡了个好觉，第二天又开回来了。
Todd: So you went to Tijuana? 你们去了提华纳（墨西哥西北部城市）？
Tim: No, we went to, ah, Ciudad Warez. 不，我们去的是Ciudad Warez。
Todd: OK. Nice. 好的，很棒。
Tim: That was really fun and a lot of other trips we took, ah, when I lived in Oregon, when we'd go down to California, and we'd surf. 那次真的很好玩，除此之外，我们的其他行程也很有趣，我住在俄勒冈州的时候，我们自驾游去了加利福尼亚州，而且冲了浪。
Todd: Oh, really! 哦，真的！
Tim: Yeah! 真的！
Todd: Oh, you're a surfer? 你会冲浪？
Tim: A little bit, a little bit of surfer. 一点点，我会一点冲浪。
Todd: OK, What, what kind of car do you drive? What do you use for this road trip? 好的，你开的什么车？你们自驾游开的是什么车？
Tim: Well, typical6 American, uh a four-wheel drive vehicle7, big vehicle...lots of gas but a lot of fun. 典型的美国货，四轮驱动汽车，大型车，耗油量大，但是很好的车。
Todd: Oh man, you're from Oregon, you're supposed to be a tree-hugger! 老兄，你来自俄勒冈州，你本应该是个环境保护主义者！
Tim: I know. I know. But there're good. One rule we had on our road trips was any, any lake or big body of water we had to stop and swim in. It was a good thing to do. 我知道。但那车真的很好。自驾游有一条规则就是，遇到湖泊或是积水很深的地方我们一定会停车，在水里游一会儿。这么做感觉很棒。
Todd: Well, you live in Japan now. Do you ever do road trips in Japan? 你现在生活在日本。你在日本自驾游过吗？
Tim: I took a road trip from Niigata up around Hokkaido and back, so it was a long road trip actually. 我曾驾车从新泻（日本本州岛中北岸港市）出发，到达北海道折返，那实际上也是一次长途自驾游。
Todd: OK. Wow! What's the difference between a road trip in Japan and a road trip in America? 好的。哇！在日本自驾游和在美国自驾游的区别是什么？
Tim: Well, a road trip in Japan..it's a little bit more dificult to get around, it's a little bit more expensive, ah, in America road triping is sort8 of, something a lot of people do. 在日本自驾游行动有些不自如，我还需要更多的经验。在美国自驾游就很常见，因为很多人都这么做。
Todd: Yeah! 好的！
Tim: And in Japan, when we do that it is a little bit strange, a little bit different, not not very normal. 另外，在日本自驾游有一点奇怪，有一点不同，自驾游在日本还不是很常见。
Todd: Yeah, that's true. OK. Great, thanks a lot Tim. 是的，事实正是如此。好的，谢谢你蒂姆。
Tim: Alright. 好的。
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| n.加利福尼亚(美国) | |
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Mexico
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drove
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| vbl.驾驶，drive的过去式；n.畜群 | |
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familiar
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united
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| n.车辆，交通工具，运载工具；媒介，表现手段 | |
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