美语情景对话 第1340期:Burgers and Baseball 汉堡和棒球(1)

Todd: So I'm here with Shantel, and we both are from the United States. And we both are teachers in Japan. So I thought we would talk a little bit about some of the stereotypes that people might have in other countries, for example Japan, or other countries about Americans. So first, we're going to talk about hamburgers.

托德：今天和我香黛儿来聊一聊，我们两人都来自美国。现在都在日本当老师。我认为我们应该谈谈日本等其他国家的人对美国人的刻板印象。首先，我们来聊聊汉堡。

Shantel: Okay.

香黛儿：好。

Todd: Okay, so hamburgers. How often do you actually eat a hamburger?

托德：汉堡。你多久吃一次汉堡？

Shantel: Uh, hamburgers. I would say, it's actually not that often, although I love hamburgers. I love them very much, but maybe only a couple times a month or so.

香黛儿：嗯，汉堡。我要说的是，虽然我喜欢汉堡，但实际上我并不常吃。我非常喜欢吃汉堡，但是可能大概一个月只会吃几次。

Todd: Yeah, I agree. I think hamburgers is the one thing that does not meet the stereotype, that we don't eat them that often. Like, I never have hamburgers in America.

托德：嗯，我也是。我认为汉堡是其中一个不符合刻板印象的东西，因为我们并不常吃汉堡。比如，我在美国从来不吃汉堡。

Shantel: Ah, okay.

香黛儿：哦，好。

Todd: Pretty much never. Like, I'll have them if somebody's barbecuing it, maybe for a picnic, or something. Um, yeah. And if I do eat fast food it's usually not a hamburger.

托德：基本上不吃。如果有人烧烤，比如野餐之类的，我会吃汉堡。嗯，不过一般吃快餐的话，我不会选择汉堡。

Shantel: Oh.

香黛儿：哦。

Todd: I eat something else. Like, I eat tacos or burritos, right.

托德：我会吃其他快餐。比如墨西哥炸玉米卷或墨西哥卷饼。

Shantel: Yeah.

香黛儿：好。

Todd: I don't eat hamburgers. So that's one. I think hamburgers don't really match the stereotype myth.

托德：我不吃汉堡。这是其一，我认为汉堡不符合其他人的刻板印象。

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重点讲解：
1. for example 例如；比如；
例句：For example, studies have been done on windbreaks in parts of West Africa.
例如，研究小组已经完成对西非部分地区防风林的研究。
2. how often （用于询问或说明某事发生的频率）（多）常；
例句：How often do you water these trees?
你多久给这些树浇一次水？
3. or so …左右；…上下；
例句：There were a hundred or so hotels in the vicinity of the railway station.
在火车站附近大约有100家旅馆。