美语情景对话 第321期:Holiday Hobbies 假日爱好

Simon: Hi! What's your name?

西蒙：你好！你叫什么名字？

Lesie: My name is Lesie Gregory.

蕾希：我叫蕾希·格利高里。

Simon: And do you want to tell us about your hobbies?

西蒙：你想跟我们谈谈你的爱好吗？

Lesie: Sure, I'll tell you about my hobbies.

蕾希：好的。我会跟你谈谈我的爱好。

Simon: OK. What are they?

西蒙：好。你都有什么爱好？

Lesie: My first hobby is going to the gym. I go to the gym three times a week. I do floor execises, aerobics classes, swimming and I do weight training.

蕾希：我第一个爱好是去健身。我每周去三次健身房。我会做自由体操、有氧运动、游泳，我也做举重练习。

Simon: Of all those things, what are your favorites? What's your favorite? What's your favorite thing to do?

西蒙：在这些运动中，你最喜欢的是什么？你最喜欢哪项运动？你最喜欢做的事情是什么？

Lesie: My favorite thing to do is either swimming or what they call aqua-aerobics.

蕾希：我最喜欢的是游泳，也有人称为水中有氧运动。

Simon: Aqua-aerobics? What's that?

西蒙：水中有氧运动？那是什么？

Lesie: Well, actually, there's different kinds of aqua-aerobics. It's just like an aerobics class but it's in a swimming pool, so there's, so you're not putting pressure on your joints when you're jumping up and down.

蕾希：嗯，实际上，水中有氧运动有不同的种类。与有氧运动类似，不过是在游泳池里进行的，这样在你上下跳动的时候不会对关节造成压力。

Simon: Ah, cool! Any other hobbies?

西蒙：啊，真酷！你还有其他的爱好吗？

Lesie: Yeah, um, because it's going to be Christmas soon, I'll be able to enjoy my hobby of baking.

蕾希：有，马上就要到圣诞节了，所以我可以享受烘焙的乐趣。

Simon: So what kind of things do you bake?

西蒙：那你通常都烘焙什么呢？

Lesie: Oh, well, sometimes I bake pies, like pumpkin pies or pecan pie. Pecan pies are very famous where I come from in Florida because we have pecan trees and then sometimes I do cakes, like really rich cakes like red velvet cakes, or carrot cakes, but this year I'm going to be baking cookies.

蕾希：嗯，有时我会烤馅饼，比如南瓜派或是核桃派。我来自佛罗里达州，那里的核桃派非常有名，因为我们那里有核桃树，有时我也烘焙蛋糕，我会做配料丰富的蛋糕，比如红丝绒蛋糕或是胡萝卜蛋糕，不过今年我打算烤饼干。

Simon: Cookies! What kind of cookies, Leslie?

西蒙：饼干！蕾希，你要做哪种饼干？

Lesie: Ah, let's see this year's cookies are going to be the traditional Christmas sugar cookie, which is a big cookie in a kind of a Christmas shape, like a Christmas tree or Santa Claus with icing or some colored sugar, very yummy, and some M&M cookies with red a green M&M's.

蕾希：嗯，我想今年我会做传统的圣诞节甜饼干，这是一种大饼干，形状与圣诞节有关，可以是圣诞树形状或是有糖霜的圣诞老人形状，也可以是一些彩色糖的形状，这种饼干非常好吃，可以用红色和绿色的M&M彩虹糖来做彩虹巧克力豆曲奇。

Simon: Oh, wow! Sounds interesting! OK. I've got a question, or I've got something to ask ribe how your cookies taste? Use your three favorite adjectives?

西蒙：哇！听起来真有趣！好，我有个问题，我想问你件事。形容一下你的饼干是什么味道？用三个你最喜欢的形容词来描述？

Lesie: Three favorite adjectives? Soft, moist, and sweet!

蕾希：三个最喜欢的形容词？那就是柔软、润泽和甜！

重点讲解：
1. up and down
上上下下；来来回回；
eg. There's a lot of rushing up and down the gangways.
舷梯上许多人上上下下。
eg. He continued to jump up and down like a boy at a football match.
他不停地上蹿下跳，活像个足球赛中的男孩。
2. be able to do sth.
可以…的，能够做某事；
eg. Despite our disagreements, we have been able to find some common ground.
尽管我们存在分歧，但仍能找到一些共同点。
eg. Women seem to be able to multitask better than men.
女性似乎比男性更擅长同时做数件事情
3. be going to do sth.
将要，即将；
eg. I think it's going to be successful.
我认为这事会成功。
eg. I'm going to have to tell him the truth.
我得把真相告诉他。