【话匣子英语】阿里和欧西的世界旅行

当你经历了长大，学习，毕业工作之后，你是否在25岁感到迷茫，是继续迷茫下去，随波逐流。还是给自己放空，让自己清楚得知道自己想要的是什么？看看这两个主人公是怎么做的？

Alethe: Yes, I am Australian however my name is French. My mum’s sister was living in Switzerland when I was born so my name is Swiss French.

 

Maura: Oh, OK. Yeah, that’s an interesting point because our accents are a little bit different. If you listen to this podcast regularly you usually hear Canadian, North American accents but you do not have a Canadian accent.

 

Alethe: No, I have no Canadian in me. I was born in Australia, and have always lived in Australia. However I like to take little side kicks everywhere I go.

 

Maura: So you’re from Australia but you’re in Canada. So, how did you end up here?

 

Alethe: Well, I had a mid-life crisis¹ at 25 and decided² I wanted to go and travel the world.

 

Maura: OK, yeah, I think a lot of Australians travel.

 

Alethe: Yes.

 

Maura: They’re everywhere around the world.

 

Alethe: Yes. It’s a very common thing for Australians. We finish high school, we go to university, we work for a couple of years and then we travel.

 

Maura: It’s almost like a rite³ of passage.

 

Alethe: Yes.

 

Maura: OK cool. So, you did that. You went to school, you worked and then you decided that you wanted to do a trip around the world, right? You are doing a trip right now around the world, right?

 

Alethe: Yes, of course.

 

Maura: That sounds awesome⁴ and long.

 

Alethe: Yes, both of the above.

1 crisis   

n.危机，危急关头，决定性时刻，关键阶段

参考例句：

• He had proved that he could be relied on in a crisis.他已表明，在紧要关头他是可以信赖的。
• The topic today centers about the crisis in the Middle East.今天课题的中心是中东危机。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 rite   

n.典礼，惯例，习俗

参考例句：

• This festival descends from a religious rite.这个节日起源于宗教仪式。
• Most traditional societies have transition rites at puberty.大多数传统社会都为青春期的孩子举行成人礼。

4 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.