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Rebecca: Hey, Diego.
Diego: Hey.
Rebecca: What are you going to do for summer break?
Diego: I'm thinking about going back home.
Rebecca: To Mexico?
Diego: Yeah. What about you?
Rebecca: I will go back to Australia, and I'll probably go the beach of course because Australia has such beautiful beaches.
Diego: Really?
Rebecca: Yes. Everybody knows that. On the East Coast. The best beaches. Does Mexico have any beaches?
Diego: Yeah, yeah. We have really, really nice beaches down by the Caribbean Ocean, like in Southern Mexico, there's this beautiful place called Cancun and the Ocean is really, really blue, like baby blue, and the sand is white so it looks like snow. It's a really amazing place.
Rebecca: Can you surf at the beach?
Diego: I'm sure you can surf in some places, yeah.
Rebecca: What about snorkeling?
Diego: Yeah, definitely1. It's the Caribbean Ocean so the water is transparent2 so it's amazing. It's like looking at the sky and it's together with the ocean, ...
Rebecca: Blue!
Diego: Yes.
Rebecca: Well, have you been to the Great Barrier Reef3?
Diego: I've heard about it, but I've heard that it's the biggest one in the world.
Rebecca: Hmm.
Diego: Well, we have the second biggest one in Mexico.
Rebecca: Aaahhhhh! This could be turned into a debate on who has the best beaches.
Diego: Maybe so. But what I like about this place called Cancun, is it has a lot of history. Have you ever heard about the Mayan civilization?
Rebecca: No.
Diego: It's an ancient civilization that was settled in Southern Mexico, so this is where the ruins are and they were very advanced people. They knew how to predict the eclipses4 for the next three hundred years, and they just vanished5. They just disappeared.
Rebecca: They disappeared?
Diego: Yeah! And there's a new movie directed by Mel Gibson, Apocolypto. It's about their civilization.
Rebecca: Oh, OK. No, I haven't seen that movie at all. Well, I suppose I could go and compare our beaches. Go to Mexico and check out this place. What was the name of it again?
Diego: Cancun.
Rebecca: Cancun.
Diego: Well, we could do a home exchange. You can go to Mexico and I can go to Australia.
Rebecca: OK, let's do that.
Diego: Yeah, let's do that.
Rebecca: Great.
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adv.一定地,肯定地;明确地,确切地 | |
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2 transparent | |
adj.明显的,无疑的;透明的 | |
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n.礁,礁石,暗礁 | |
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(日、月)食( eclipse的名词复数 ); 消失,黯然失色 | |
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adj.消失了的v.消失( vanish的过去式和过去分词 );突然不见;不复存在;绝迹 | |
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