英文原版对话1000个:1199 Other Means

 　　Todd: Have you heard about planking?

 

　　Julia: Planking?

 

　　Todd: Yeah, planking.

 

　　Julia: No, I haven't heard of planking.

 

　　Todd: Planking is like where people, they, they are really stiff like a board.

 

　　Julia: Uh-uh.

 

　　Todd: And they, I don't know how it works, so...

 

　　Julia: This is exercise?

 

　　Todd: Yeah, there's a whole movement where they, you know, you just keep your body...

 

　　Julia: Moving like (00:17)?

 

　　Todd: Really stiff and you move, you know, yeah like your body is like a board.

 

　　Julia: When people walk on you?

 

　　Todd: No, I don't know. I'm sure there's like if you were to do like go to YouTube, I'm sure like there's loads of...

 

　　Julia: Planking?

 

　　Todd: Planking. But it's also similar to, have you seen, what's the French martial¹ art where they run around and they like jump and they do flips³ and stuff like that?

 

　　Julia: Oh, a bit like cap vueras and things?

 

　　Man: I think it's called a...

 

　　Todd: That's going to drive me nuts. It's like a French word parcour - never mind. That's kind of like the French exercise or craze parcour, have you seen parcour?

 

　　Julia: Parkour? No.

 

　　Todd: Yeah. Parkour's pretty cool. Parkour's like these guys they run and they like run against walls and they'll do flips or they'll jump over stairs and...

 

　　Julia: Ah, does it, does it have another name like urban something? It's used in the opening scene of some movies.

 

　　Todd: Yes.

 

　　Julia: Like in the James Bond movie?

 

　　Todd: Yes, exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah.

 

　　Julia: Where they're running over the building and over the roofs. Yeah, I know it by another name, yeah it's really cool.

 

　　Todd: But that's what...

 

　　Julia: That would be really cool, wouldn't it running around the rooftops and...

 

　　Todd: Right. So those, those are, the guys that do parcour remind me of the guys on the infomercials in the States where they'll have some machine and they'll like if you buy the, you know, the muscle flex⁴ you'll get muscles just like this guy but only the guy in the commercial that already has those muscles can look like that and I think like the guys for parcour like you already have to be this amazing athlete I think to do it.

 

　　Julia: To do it I guess and I guess you must have to have some kind of mental agility⁵ or faculty⁶ that makes you push yourself in very dangerous situations.

 

　　Todd: Yeah.

 

　　Julia: Like having the desire to leap from one rooftop to another or run up a wall or...

 

　　Todd: I know, I can't imagine the adrenaline.

 

　　Julia: Having that idea no.

 

　　Todd: Like it's if you make a mistake you're pretty much doomed⁷.

 

　　Julia: Yeah, you don't have so many margins⁸ for error or learning in one of those sports.

 

　　Todd: Exactly. So, would you be interested in trying any of them? Cross fit, planking, parcour?

 

　　Julia: I, one thing I have seen recently was an extreme trampolining which is kind of...

 

　　Todd: Oh, wow.

 

　　Julia: Combining a wall, like you had a wall with a ledge⁹, a high up ledge, very narrow ledge high up this wall and then underneath¹⁰ it a trampoline and so I saw the guys jumping from the ledge down and then they did that thing where they kind of ran up the walls, flip² back over and went back down on the trampoline and some of them had two walls adjacent to the trampoline and would jump from one wall down on to the trampoline and then twist and come up on to the other ledge on the other wall and that was pretty cool.

 

　　Todd: Wow.

 

　　Julia: And I guess maybe that's how you would start out with a trampoline or a net or something and then you could, I could imagine doing some trampolining or leaping around like that but I'd quite like a safety rope.

 

　　Todd: Yeah, I think so.

 

　　Julia: So if I didn't quite make it, someone could just pull me up. I have done some rock climbing. I'm pretty, I used to do a lot of rock climbing and I enjoyed the adrenaline of that.

 

　　Todd: Oh, what, you would actually go up real cliffs?

 

　　Julia: Yeah, yeah.

 

　　Todd: Not like just the thing in the gym?

 

　　Julia: I started out in the gym, got some basic skills, footwork skills and, you know, got the feel of what it's like to balance on a small ledge and pinch a small outcrop of rock and hang and repel¹¹ back down once you get to the top as well you have to get back down again so learning the equipment, the harness, the ropes and that kind of stuff. But, yeah, I've done it outside as well.

 

　　Todd: You weren't scared of falling?

 

　　Julia: Very, very scared, very, very scared but that's something that you have, if you wanna conquer an extreme sport you have to be willing to face your fears and get a kick out of facing your fear.

1 martial   

adj.战争的，军事的，尚武的，威武的

参考例句：

• The sound of martial music is always inspiring.军乐声总是鼓舞人心的。
• The officer was convicted of desertion at a court martial.这名军官在军事法庭上被判犯了擅离职守罪。

2 flip   

vt.快速翻动；轻抛；轻拍；n.轻抛；adj.轻浮的

参考例句：

• I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
• Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。

3 flips   

轻弹( flip的第三人称单数 )； 按（开关）； 快速翻转； 急挥

参考例句：

• Larry flips on the TV while he is on vacation in Budapest. 赖瑞在布达佩斯渡假时，打开电视收看节目。
• He flips through a book before making a decision. 他在决定买下一本书前总要先草草翻阅一下。

4 flex   

n.皮线，花线；vt.弯曲或伸展

参考例句：

• We wound off a couple of yards of wire for a new lamp flex.我们解开几码电线作为新的电灯花线。
• He gave his biceps a flex to impress the ladies.他收缩他的肱二头肌以吸引那些女士们的目光。

5 agility   

n.敏捷，活泼

参考例句：

• The boy came upstairs with agility.那男孩敏捷地走上楼来。
• His intellect and mental agility have never been in doubt.他的才智和机敏从未受到怀疑。

6 faculty   

n.才能；学院，系；(学院或系的)全体教学人员

参考例句：

• He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
• He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。

7 doomed   

命定的

参考例句：

• The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment. 法庭判处被告长期监禁。
• A country ruled by an iron hand is doomed to suffer. 被铁腕人物统治的国家定会遭受不幸的。

8 margins   

边( margin的名词复数 )； 利润； 页边空白； 差数

参考例句：

• They have always had to make do with relatively small profit margins. 他们不得不经常设法应付较少的利润额。
• To create more space between the navigation items, add left and right margins to the links. 在每个项目间留更多的空隙，加左或者右的margins来定义链接。

9 ledge   

n.壁架，架状突出物；岩架，岩礁

参考例句：

• They paid out the line to lower him to the ledge.他们放出绳子使他降到那块岩石的突出部分。
• Suddenly he struck his toe on a rocky ledge and fell.突然他的脚趾绊在一块突出的岩石上，摔倒了。

10 underneath   

adj.在...下面，在...底下；adv.在下面

参考例句：

• Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
• She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣，里面套着一条连衣裙。

11 repel   

v.击退，抵制，拒绝，排斥

参考例句：

• A country must have the will to repel any invader.一个国家得有决心击退任何入侵者。
• Particles with similar electric charges repel each other.电荷同性的分子互相排斥。