英语访谈对话 33 Road Trip

 　　Tim: You gonna ask me questions or no?

　　Todd: Yeah, actually...I'm just gonna ask you random¹ stuff². OK. So, Tim, you want to talk about road trips!

　　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.

　　Todd: OK.

　　Tim: We would go down to California³, ah, sometimes Mexico. One time when I was living in Wyoming, in one weekend we drove⁴ from Wyoming, through Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico and back in the same weekend.

　　Todd: Wow! Well, actually for people who are not familiar with the United⁵ States how far is that?

　　Tim: It's a long way. I don't know. It took, I don't know, it took probably about 15 hours one way.

　　Todd: Wow!

　　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.

　　Todd: So you went to Tijuana?

　　Tim: No, we went to, ah, Ciudad Warez.

　　Todd: OK. Nice.

　　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.

　　Todd: Oh, really!

　　Tim: Yeah!

　　Todd: Oh, you're a surfer?

　　Tim: A little bit, a little bit of surfer.

　　Todd: OK, What, what kind of car do you drive? What do you use for this road trip?

　　Tim: Well, typical American, uh a four-wheel drive vehicle⁶, big vehicle...lots of gas but a lot of fun.

　　Todd: Oh man, you're from Oregon, you're supposed to be a tree-hugger!

　　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.

　　Todd: Well, you live in Japan now. Do you ever do road trips in Japan?

　　Tim: I took a road trip from Niigata up around Hokkaido and back, so it was a long road trip actually.

　　Todd: OK. Wow! What's the difference between a road trip in Japan and a road trip in America?

　　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 sort of, something a lot of people do.

　　Todd: Yeah!

　　Tim: And in Japan, when we do that it is a little bit strange, a little bit different, not not very normal.

　　Todd: Yeah, that's true. OK. Great, thanks a lot Tim.

　　Tim: Alright.

1 random   

adj.随机的；任意的；n.偶然的(或随便的)行动

参考例句：

• The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
• On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。

2 stuff   

n.原料，材料，东西；vt.填满；吃饱

参考例句：

• We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
• He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。

3 California   

n.加利福尼亚(美国)

参考例句：

• He was elected governor of the state of California.他当选为加州州长。
• We were driving on a California freeway.我们正沿着加利福尼亚的一条快车道驾车行驶。

4 drove   

vbl.驾驶，drive的过去式；n.畜群

参考例句：

• He drove at a speed of sixty miles per hour.他以每小时60英里的速度开车。
• They drove foreign goods out of the market.他们把外国货驱逐出市场。

5 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。

6 vehicle   

n.车辆，交通工具，运载工具；媒介，表现手段

参考例句：

• Air is the vehicle of sound.空气是声音传播的媒介。
• The power plant burns used vehicle tyres as fuel.这家电厂用废弃轮胎作燃料。