日常生活情景對話：外號和音樂

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　　日常生活情景對話：外號

　　Todd: Hello!

　　你好!

　　David: Hello, Seattle!

　　你好，西雅圖!

　　Todd: Hello, Seattle! OK, well, how about could you introduce yourself to the listener?

　　你好，西雅圖!好的，你能向聽眾介紹一下自己嗎?

　　David: Oh, hi, I'm David. I'm from Tennessee. The home of Jack Daniel's whiskey and Elvis Presley.

　　你好，我是大衛(wèi)。我來自田納西州。杰克丹尼威士忌和埃維斯·普里斯利的故鄉(xiāng)。

　　Todd: Do you like Elvis?

　　你喜歡埃維斯?

　　David: He's OK.

　　他很好。

　　Todd: Yeah! Cool!

　　酷!

　　David: Never met the guy, but.

　　但我從來沒見過真人。

　　Todd: Your name is David.

　　你的名字叫大衛(wèi)。

　　David: Yes, that is correct.

　　是的，沒錯。

　　Todd: But what does everyone call you here?

　　這里的人都怎么稱呼你?

　　David: Tennessee

　　田納西。

　　Todd: OK. Why does everyone call you Tennessee?

　　為什么所有人都叫你田納西?

　　David: Two reasons. One, I'm from Tennessee, the most obvious reason and the third is because usually there is two to three, one time there was four

　　Davids here.

　　有兩個(gè)原因。第一，我來自田納西州，這是最明顯的原因。另外，就是因?yàn)橥ǔ瑫r(shí)有兩個(gè)或三個(gè)，有時(shí)候甚至是四個(gè)人都叫大衛(wèi)。

　　Todd: Oh, I see.

　　我明白了。

　　David: And to keep us from getting confused they just started calling me Tennessee.

　　為了不叫混了，大家就開始叫我田納西。

　　Todd: Oh, nice. Great. Well it was nice to meet you, David.

　　好的，太棒了。很高興認(rèn)識你，大衛(wèi)。

　　David: Nice to meet you too, Todd.

　　很高興認(rèn)識你，托德。

　　日常生活情景對話：音樂

　　Todd: OK. Matt, we're back. We're gonna talk about music. What is your favorite kind of music?

　　馬特，我們一起討論討論音樂。你最喜歡的音樂類型是什么?

　　Matt: My favorite kind of music is alternativemusic. But generally I like all types of music, apart from country music.

　　我最喜歡的音樂類型是非主流音樂。不過總的來說，我喜歡各種類型的音樂，除了鄉(xiāng)村音樂。

　　Todd: I'm the same way. I hate country, except for Johny Cash.

　　我也是。我討厭鄉(xiāng)村音樂，除了Johny Cash的。

　　Matt: Yeah, yeah. The older country is good. But the newer, I don't like the newer stuff.

　　是的。老的鄉(xiāng)村音樂很棒。但我不喜歡現(xiàn)在的鄉(xiāng)村音樂。

　　Todd: Yeah, how expensive are CD's in your country?

　　好的，在你的國家CD賣多少錢?

　　Matt: Well, a brand new CD is probably between about 15 and 20 dollars, yeah, but you can find used CD's from anything to a dollar to, you know, 20 dollars, I guess, depending, depending on the CD. So you can find cheap CD's.

　　全新的品牌CD可能賣15到20美元，但你可以找到各種二手CD，價(jià)格從1到20美元不等，具體價(jià)格要看是什么CD。也就是說你可以找到便宜CD。

　　Todd: Wow, that's pretty cheap. Do you play a musical instrument?

　　那真是便宜。你會演奏樂器嗎?

　　Matt: No, I don't, although when I was a kid I played the piano and a little bit of the quitar, but I've long since forgotten all of that.

　　不，雖然我小時(shí)候彈鋼琴，有時(shí)也彈吉他，但那太久遠(yuǎn)了，我都忘光了。

　　Todd: Usually, you pick up the guitar and you don't stop playing it.

　　通常一個(gè)人拿起吉他就會一直彈下去。

　　Matt: There was no talent.

　　我沒什么天分。

　　Todd: Do you go to concerts?

　　你聽音樂會嗎?

　　Matt: I go, I really enjoy going to concerts, but I like to go to small venues. Small shows. I don't like those big stadium shows where you need binoculars just to see the stage.

　　我很喜歡音樂會，但我喜歡小型演奏，小型表演。我不喜歡要用望遠(yuǎn)鏡才能看到舞臺的大型表演。

　　Todd: Yeah, I agree. And the last question, most importantly, do you sing in the shower?

　　我同意。最后一個(gè)問題，也是最重要的問題，你洗澡的時(shí)候唱歌嗎?

　　Matt: Of course I do, yeah! Every chance I get.

　　當(dāng)然!每次洗澡的時(shí)候我都唱。

　　Todd: Wow, what kind of songs do you sing?

　　哇，你都唱什么類型的歌?

　　Matt: Oh, wow! I guess anything that's in my head, the last thing I heard I guess.

　　哇!我想是我聽到過的各種歌，也許是我洗澡前聽到的最后一首。

　　Todd: Can you sing something right now?

　　你現(xiàn)在能唱兩句嗎?

　　Matt: I don't think so. This isn't a shower.

　　我不這么認(rèn)為?，F(xiàn)在并不是在洗澡。

　　Todd: Yeah, yeah. warning to the listeners, this is not a shower.

　　是的，要提醒聽眾的是，他沒在洗澡。