英语访谈对话 261 Trip to Argentina

 　　Todd: Hey, Jessica, what are your plans for the summer?

　　Jessica: This summer! I think I'm going to go on a trip with my brother to Argentina. Uh, we are still making the plans to go but I think we're going to go for two weeks. And we're probably going to go from Chicago, because that's where he lives, to Buenos Aires and then go north to the city of Cordoba, which is the second largest city in Argentina, so, and then from there I'd really like to go and see some gauchos¹, which are Argentine cowboys, so I think that that would be really cool, and have some barbeque and see everything that we can, so..

　　Todd: Cool! Are you going to work your way down to the southern tip?

　　Jessica: I don't think we're going to just because I have a buddy² of mine that lives in the north, in Cordoba, and I think it's so far from the north to the south, just cause it's such a long country that he said by bus it would take something like some ungodly amount of hours and so, I don't know, in two weeks, I think that would be a little bit ambitious³, to try to cover it all so.

　　Todd: OK, do you know anybody in Argentina?

　　Jessica: Yeah, yeah, my one friend who lives there. I definitely want to go there and visit him. Oh, so your friend already lives there.

1 gauchos   

n.南美牧人( gaucho的名词复数 )

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2 buddy   

n.（美口）密友，伙伴

参考例句：

• Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气，老兄。有什么麻烦吗？
• Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了，你这家伙！

3 ambitious   

adj.有雄心的，劲头十足的，有野心的

参考例句：

• One may be poor but never ceases to be ambitious.人穷志不穷。
• He is an ambitious young man full of enthusiasm and vitality.他是个充满热情与活力的有远大抱负的青年。