实战口语情景对话 第235期:Mexico 墨西哥

 Todd: So, Adrienne, you said you lived in Mexico for awhile? 

托德：艾德丽安，你说你曾在墨西哥住过一段时间？

Adrienne: Mm, I studied there. 

艾德丽安：嗯，我在那儿学习。

Todd: Really! You studied in Mexico? 

托德：真的吗！你在墨西哥学习？

Adrienne: I did. I studied Spanish. 

艾德丽安：对。在那里学习西班牙语。

Todd: Wow, so what was it like being a student in Mexico? 

托德：哇，那在墨西哥上学感觉怎么样？

Adrienne: Ah, it was interesting. The weather was really hot the entire time I was there. Um, and it was very confusing, cause I didn't know the language very well when I first arrived but I learned¹ quickly because I was living in the situation every day where I had to use language so that was really helpful in the end. 

艾德丽安：嗯，很有趣。我在那儿的时候，那的天气一直都很炎热。嗯，其实当时很困惑，因为我刚到那里的时候西班牙语不好，不过我学得很快，毕竟我生活在西班牙语的环境中，每天都要用到，所以对学习语言非常有帮助。

Todd: So, what were the people like? What was the city like? 

托德：那里的人怎么样？城市怎么样？

Adrienne: The city was small. 1 million people, and that's pretty small. The architecture is very colonial² style. It's interesting. Very beautiful, old, a lot of wood and stone and the food was great. Very spicy³. 

艾德丽安：城市非常小。有1百万人口，非常小。那里的建筑是典型的殖民地风格。这很有趣。建筑是老式的，非常漂亮，是用木石筑成的，那里的食物非常棒。特别辣。

Todd: Mexican food's the best. 

托德：墨西哥食物非常好。

Adrienne: I think so too. 

艾德丽安：我也喜欢那里的食物。

Todd: Yeah, and the people? 

托德：那那里的人呢？

Adrienne: The people are really friendly, really, really friendly. Big families and they're always inviting⁴ you over for dinner, lunch and breakfast, and tea and coffee and chocolate and it's really, it's really a very familial environment.

艾德丽安：人们非常友善，真的非常友善。他们家庭成员众多，而且他们会经常邀请你过去吃晚餐，午餐、早餐，还有喝茶、喝咖啡、享用巧克力，家庭氛围非常浓厚。

Todd: What was your favorite place in Mexico? 

托德：墨西哥你最喜欢的地方是哪里？

Adrienne: My favorite place, still, is a town called Cholula. It's a very small town. That has a pyramid, and Aztec pyramid with a cathedral on top of it and it has views of the mountains, the volcano⁵ and, um, just beautiful landscape all around. It's a great place to watch the sunset. 

艾德丽安：我最喜欢的地方是叫作乔卢拉的小镇。那是一座非常小的城镇。那里有金字塔，阿兹特克金字塔，顶部有一座天主教教堂，那里能看到山脉，火山，周围的景色非常漂亮。那是一个看日落的好地方。

Todd: What volcano? 

托德：什么火山？

Adrienne: Po! They call it Popo, but the full name I think is Popocatepetl. It's an Aztec name. 

艾德丽安：波！他们称之为波波，我想全名应该是波波卡特佩特火山。是一个阿兹特克名字。

Todd: Oh, sounds like a nice place. 

托德：哦，听上去是个不错的地方。

Adrienne: It's beautiful. 

艾德丽安：非常美。

Todd: Any plans to go back to Mexico soon? 

托德：你有回墨西哥的计划吗？

Adrienne: Of course. I always want to go back but whether I actually make it in the next year or two, I don't know. 

艾德丽安：当然了。我一直想回去，不知道我明年或者后年能否做到。 

1 learned   

adj.有学问的，博学的；learn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
• In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里，他被视为有学问的人。

2 colonial   

adj.殖民地的，关于殖民的；n.殖民地，居民

参考例句：

• The natives were unwilling to be bent by colonial power.土著居民不愿受殖民势力的摆布。
• The people of Africa have successfully fought against colonial rule.非洲人民成功地反抗了殖民统治。

3 spicy   

adj.加香料的；辛辣的，有风味的

参考例句：

• The soup tasted mildly spicy.汤尝起来略有点辣。
• Very spicy food doesn't suit her stomach.太辣的东西她吃了胃不舒服。

4 inviting   

adj.诱人的，引人注目的

参考例句：

• An inviting smell of coffee wafted into the room.一股诱人的咖啡香味飘进了房间。
• The kitchen smelled warm and inviting and blessedly familiar.这间厨房的味道温暖诱人，使人感到亲切温馨。

5 volcano   

n.火山

参考例句：

• The volcano unexpectedly blew up early in the morning.火山一早突然爆发了。
• It is most risky to go and examine an active volcano.去探察活火山是非常危险的。