英文原版对话1000个:633 First Meeting

Tom: Are you a teacher here?

Martin: No I'm not, I'm actually a graduate student.

Tom: Oh right.

Martin: My name is Martin.

Tom: Hi.

Martin: Hi how are you?

Tom: I'm Tom.

Martin: Nice to meet you Tom.

Tom: Where are you from Martin?

Martin: I'm from Seattle, Washington¹ in the US.

Tom: Is that in the Northeast? Northwest?

Martin: Northwest. Right near Canada.

Tom: Is it cold up there?

Martin: It's wetter than it is cold.

Tom: How long have you been in Japan.

Martin: I've been in Japan for about 6 months.

Tom: And what are you studying?

Martin: I'm studying international cooperation and economics² and nationalism in Northeast Asia.

Tom: Is that a master's level or a Ph.D.?

Martin: Master's level.

Tom: Right. How long is the course?

Martin: Oh, it's about 2 years so I'll be done in another year.

Tom: So you're fairly³ settled⁴ here then?

Martin: By and large, yes.

Martin: How about you?

Tom: I'm from the UK. Actually I'm a teacher here. I'm not studying.

Martin: Oh, how long have you been a teacher here?

Tom: I just started this semester⁵ about 2 months ago.

Martin: Oh 2 months --very, very recent. How do you find Japan?
Tom: It's brilliant. I really like it.

Martin: Have you been in Japan a long time or...?

Tom: I was in Japan 4 years ago for 2 years. I've been trying to come back since I left.

Martin: I find Japan very, very, very nice. The environment is very nice.

Tom: I mean this is quite a small city...

Martin: I lived in Seoul for about 3 and a half or 4 years and it's nice to have a smaller cleaner city that's a little more laid-back, not so rush rush.

Tom: So tell me about your day. What do you do in a day?

Martin: Generally pretty standard, you know, come up to campus⁶ in the morning, study, have class, and then read a little bit, go to the library, and then go back home and go off to work in Oita.

Tom: You work?

Martin: Yeah, just in Oita for one or two days a week.

Tom: OK. Oh that sounds like a nice schedule.

Martin: Yeah, how about you? You're here for how long a day?

Tom: Oh. I get the first bus up in the morning. It gets me here at about 8 o'clock. I have only 3 classes in a day so it's only, what, about four and half hours of teaching⁷. The rest of the time is preparing the lessons, marking the homework, surfing the internet, using the library as well. And then I head home about 6 o'clock.

Martin: Doesn't sound...well, a little busier but...

Tom: It's quite a relaxing schedule, not too intense⁸. And getting home at 6 or 7, I've still got time for a swim or to cook something in the evening.

Martin: Do you go to the club down there or...?

Tom: The public swimming pool next to the park.

Martin: Ah, OK.

Tom: Have you been there?

Martin: No I haven't. But I've walked by there.

Tom: Do you live in that part of Beppu?

Martin: I live in Kamagawa so quite far away from everywhere else but it's nice and very, very quiet.

Tom: That seems like it's important to you.

Martin: As I get older, it gets more important, so.

 

1 Washington   

n.华盛顿特区(是美国首都)

参考例句：

• His birthplace is Washington,but he lives in San Francisco.他出生于华盛顿，但住在旧金山。
• They, together with my father,have gone to Washington.他们和我父亲一起去华盛顿了。

2 economics   

n.经济学，经济情况

参考例句：

• He is studying economics,which subject is very important.他正在学习经济学，该学科是很重要的。
• One can't separate politics from economics.不能把政治与经济割裂开来。

3 fairly   

adv.公正地，正当地；相当；完全，简直

参考例句：

• I think I was quite fairly treated by the police.我认为警察对我非常公正。
• It fairly destroyed the machine.它将那部机器完全毁了。

4 settled   

a.固定的；稳定的

参考例句：

• The dispute was settled without acrimony. 没有唇枪舌剑，这场纠纷就解决了。
• a settled way of life 安定的生活方式

5 semester   

n.一学期，半学年，六个月的时间

参考例句：

• A student will probably attend four or five courses during each semester.每个学生一学期可能要修四五门课程。
• I had an especially rough time during my first semester.我第一个学期的日子难受极了。

6 campus   

n.大学校园，学校校园；大学　

参考例句：

• They spoke of the old days on the campus.他们谈起昔日的校园生活。
• The campus covers an area of twenty square kilometres.这个校园占地二十平方公里。

7 teaching   

n.教学，执教，任教，讲授；(复数)教诲

参考例句：

• We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
• He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。

8 intense   

adj.认真的，专注的；强烈的；紧张的；热情的

参考例句：

• Susan was an intense young lady.苏珊是一个热情的年轻姑娘。
• The quarrel caused her intense unhappiness.争吵令她极其不快。