美語情景對話 第57期:加拿大 Canada

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Todd: OK. Hello!
    你好!
    Jamie: Hi!
    你好!
    Todd: Hi! Can you introduce yourself please?
    你能介紹一下自己嗎?
    Jamie: My name is Jamie. I'm living here in Japan, and I'm from Canada.
    我的名字叫杰米。我現(xiàn)在住在日本,我來自加拿大。
    Todd: OK. Where are you from in Canada?
    你來自加拿大的哪里?
    Jamie: Vancouver, Canada, British Columbia.
    我來自加拿大不列顛哥倫比亞省的溫哥華。
    Todd: Oh, nice. Were you born there?
    真棒。你出生在那里嗎?
    Jamie: I was born in British Columbia, in Victoria.
    我出生在不列顛哥倫比亞省的維多利亞。
    Todd: OK.
    好的。
    Jamie: But I spent my adult working life in Vancouver and Japan.
    但我成年后一直在溫哥華和日本工作生活。
    Todd: OK. How long have you been in Japan?
    你在日本待了多久了?
    Jamie: Let's see, four years right now, and a grand total of six years.
    我想想,這次待了4年了,總共有六年了。
    Todd: Wow. How much longer do you plan to stay in Japan?
    你打算在日本待多久?
    Jamie: That's a good question. I ask myself that on a daily basis.
    問得好。這也是我每天都要問自己的問題。
    Todd: Yeah. Yeah. Me, too. OK. So we'll go ahead and pass on that one.... What do you think about Cananda?
    我也是。那我們繼續(xù)下面的,忽略這個問題。你覺得加拿大怎么樣?
    Jamie: Canada is a great place. It's a..you know being Canadian of course. I'm pretty, fairly nationalistic about it, but it's not a perfect place, obviously. A lot of high taxes. Not always the job that you want is available but ultimately it's , you know, it's a pretty good place.
    加拿大是個很棒的地方。在加拿大生活很棒,對于這點我是個堅定的民族主義者。但加拿大也不是那么完美,那里稅收很高。就業(yè)機會有限,你很可能做不了自己想做的工作,但加拿大還是個不錯的地方。
    Todd: OK. So when you get gray and old, is Canada the place you'll settle down in?
    那么等你老了,你會選擇加拿大養(yǎng)老嗎?
    Jamie: Settle down, that's kind of a hard call as well, but I certainly think of Canada as being a place I'd like to, I'd like to take it easy on a regular basis.
    穩(wěn)定下來對我來說還很困難,但加拿大絕對是我喜歡的地方之一。我想輕松一些看待這個問題,但我會定期去加拿大。
    Todd: OK. Great. Thanks a lot Jamie.
    很棒。十分感謝你,杰米。
    Jamie: OK. My Pleasure.
    我的榮幸。