英文原版对话1000个:1198 Alternative Exercise

 　　Todd: Hey Julia.

 

　　Julia: Hey Todd, how are you doing?

 

　　Todd: Good, good. Now Julia, you are really fit and also you are a yoga instructor¹ and a runner so you are the perfect person to talk about extreme exercise.

 

　　Julia: Extreme. I wouldn't say I'm an extremist, but go on.

 

　　Todd: OK. So first of all I thought I would ask about this yoga that you do in like really hot rooms or something like that.

 

　　Julia: Yeah, the bikram yoga it's called.

 

　　Todd: Yeah.

 

　　Julia: Yeah, actually I've never tried it myself. I know it's kind of a growing craze, maybe Madonna made it really popular. As far as I know you do it in a sauna but it can't possibly be a sauna.

 

　　Todd: Not a real sauna, right?

 

　　Julia: I don't know what the temperature is but I think the philosophy behind it is to try to recreate the same climate as you'd find in India where yoga originates.

 

　　Todd: Right, so you want it to be really hot.

 

　　Julia: And humid, yeah.

 

　　Todd: Wow.

 

　　Julia: And also people who like to get the kind of the stretch value but also like to sweat at the same time. If you want a sweat yoga then it's a crank up the temperature is going to help you.

 

　　Todd: Wow, that's intense.

 

　　Julia: It is.

 

　　Todd: What about, have you heard about cross fit?

 

　　Julia: Cross fit? No.

 

　　Todd: Yeah. Cross fit's the big rage in America.

 

　　Julia: Cross fit, no I haven't heard of that.

 

　　Todd: Cross fit is like people do all of these really old-school exercises, like push ups or pull ups. They do like jumping jacks², they do really weird³ things like dead lifts, stuff like that but they do it one after the other in really short time intervals⁴ and like the work out only takes twelve minutes.

 

　　Julia: Wow.

 

　　Todd: But if you do it right, I think some people actually get so fatigued⁵ they throw up so like you really push your body to the limit.

 

　　Julia: That is extreme, yes.

 

　　Todd: It is extreme, although I'm probably saying it wrong.

 

　　Julia: Good for weight loss.

 

　　Todd: Yeah, so it's actually a big craze where people do more natural body movements and you never do the same thing twice. You're not supposed to get into a routine. You always do things different.

 

　　Julia: You do it like spontaneously or you set yourself a program?

 

　　Todd: There's a whole website, you go to the cross fit website and they explain it all but it looks pretty cool. It's like not your typical gym type workout.

 

　　Julia: Cross fit sounds like something you do on a BMX or something.

 

　　Todd: Right, right, exactly.

1 instructor   

n.指导者，教员，教练

参考例句：

• The college jumped him from instructor to full professor.大学突然把他从讲师提升为正教授。
• The skiing instructor was a tall,sunburnt man.滑雪教练是一个高高个子晒得黑黑的男子。

2 jacks   

n.抓子游戏；千斤顶( jack的名词复数 )；（电）插孔；[电子学]插座；放弃

参考例句：

• Hydraulic jacks under the machine produce the movement. 是机器下面的液压千斤顶造成的移动。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The front end is equipped with hydraulic jacks used for grade adjustment. 前瑞安装有液压千斤顶用来调整坡度。 来自辞典例句

3 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

4 intervals   

n.[军事]间隔( interval的名词复数 )；间隔时间；[数学]区间；（戏剧、电影或音乐会的）幕间休息

参考例句：

• The forecast said there would be sunny intervals and showers. 预报间晴，有阵雨。
• Meetings take place at fortnightly intervals. 每两周开一次会。

5 fatigued   

adj. 疲乏的

参考例句：

• The exercises fatigued her. 操练使她感到很疲乏。
• The President smiled, with fatigued tolerance for a minor person's naivety. 总统笑了笑，疲惫地表现出对一个下级人员的天真想法的宽容。