美語情景對話 第1043期:Mother Father Island 父島和母島
Sorie: So Mark, you and I are married and we've lived in —
索裏：馬克，你和我已經結婚了，我們生活在……Mark: We still are, aren't we?
馬克：我們結婚了，對吧？Sorie: We are married. I said we are married. And we've lived in several special places and I'd like to share our experience of Ogasawara.
索裏：我們結婚了。我剛說了我們已經結婚了。我們在一些特別的地方生活過，我想分享一下我們在小笠原羣島的經歷。
Mark: Ogasawara is amazing, isn't it?
馬克：小笠原羣島非常棒，不是嗎？Sorie: Yeah. Can you tell us the place, and where it is?
索裏：對。你能介紹一下這個地方的地理位置嗎？Mark: Ogasawara is a group of islands that's in the Pacific Ocean. And there's no airport there and if you want to go there, you got to take a boat that goes from Tokyo. And that boat takes 25 hours to get there, and it runs just once a week.
馬克：小笠原羣島是太平洋上的一個羣島。島上沒有機場，如果你想去旅行，你要從東京乘船過去。要坐25個小時的船才能到那裏，每週只有一班船。Sorie: That's right. It's 1,000 kilometers away from Tokyo.
索裏：沒錯。那裏距離東京有1000公里的距離。Mark: Yeah, directly south.
馬克：對，在東京的正南方。Sorie: Okay. And the population?
索裏：好。那人口呢？Mark: There's two inhabited islands in Ogasawara. One is called Chichi-jima and there's 2,000 people, roughly, there. And Haha-jima is about 400 people.
馬克：小笠原羣島有兩個島有人居住。其中一個島名爲父島，大約有2000人居住。另一座島是母島，人口約有400人。Sorie: Yeah. And Chichi-jima is Father Island and Haha-jima is Mother Island. And Father Island is a little bit bigger than Mother Island.
索裏：對。Chichi-jima是父島，而Haha-jima是母島。父島的面積比母島大一些。Mark: Yes. And we lived in Chichi-jima.
馬克：對。我們在父島生活過。Sorie: And we lived in Chichi-jima. That's right. And what kind of—we had an amazing lifestyle there. Do you remember how we ended up there and what we were doing?
索裏：我們住在父島。沒錯。我們在那裏的生活方式非常不可思議。你還記得我們是怎麼住到那裏的，我們在那裏做了什麼嗎？Mark: Well, our good friend Rio-san has a eco village in the mountain there. And he built the whole place on the side of a mountain with his bare hands basically, with wood and he built his home where he lives with his wife and two children. And he built loads of like cabins, as you might in Thailand or Philippines or somewhere like that, which is quite unusual in Japan. But he built these also with his own hand and he like connected them together with like wooden bridges. And yeah, that's where he lived and we really wanted to live so close to nature. So we saw Rio-san and found out that he had a little shack at a bit lower down from his house, and the girl that was living there was gonna move out. So we really wanted to move in there. So we asked him and we ended up living there.
馬克：我們有一個好朋友叫Rio-san，他在那裏的山上建立了一個生態村。他徒手用木頭在山旁建立了生態村，他把房子建在那裏，和妻子還有兩個孩子一起生活。他建了很多小木屋，就是大家在泰國和菲律賓經常看到的那種小木屋，不過這種小木屋在日本很罕見。他用自己的雙手建立了這些小木屋，然後用木橋把它們連接起來。他就生活在那裏，我們非常想住在靠近大自然的地方。我們發現在Rio-san的房子下面一點的地方有一個棚屋，住在那裏的女孩要搬走。我們想搬到那裏去住。所以我們跟Rio-san說了，然後我們就在那裏生活了。Sorie: Yeah. I remember the day we went to see that little shack. And it was extremely small, four-by-three. I would say, 4 meters by 3 meters.
索裏：對。我還記得我們去看棚屋的那天。那裏非常小，面積是4米乘3米。Mark: 4 centimeters by 3 centimeters.
馬克：4釐米乘3釐米。Sorie: It was really small.
索裏：那個棚屋非常小。Mark: That's how small it seemed.
馬克：我剛纔的意思是看上去就像那麼小。Sorie: And it was hanging on the side of the hill. Yeah, it was raised on a scaffolding, and because it's a very wet place, so it gets really humid and you don't want any contact with the building and the land. So we were hanging on the side of the hill.
索裏：棚屋位於小山旁邊。由棚架支撐，因爲那裏是一個非常溼的地方，會非常潮溼，你完全不想接觸房子和地面。所以我們懸掛在山的旁邊。Mark: And there's the ants. Do you remember the ants? They had to build it on the scaffolding because there was white ants. They called them termites, that can eat the wood.
馬克：那裏有螞蟻。你還記得那些螞蟻嗎？要建在棚架上是因爲那裏有白螞蟻。那些螞蟻的學名是白蟻，它們吃木頭。Sorie: That's right.
索裏：沒錯。Mark: Do you remember seeing those ants?
馬克：你記得看到那些螞蟻時的情景嗎？Sorie: I remember that. I remember how scared we were when the hurricane — the typhoons would come and the whole shack would shake. And we'd be like praying so that we wouldn't slide to the side of the hill.
索裏：我記得。我還記得颱風可能來襲的時候我們有多害怕，我們怕棚屋會晃動。我們一直在祈禱，希望我們不會順着山坡滑下去。Mark: Do you remember our chickens?
馬克：你還記得我們養的雞嗎？Sorie: Yeah, we had four chickens. What about our toilet, do you remember?
索裏：記得，我們養了四隻雞。那你記得我們的廁所嗎？Mark: I remember our toilet. Digging the toilet. I remember digging the toilet and making the compost and moving the toilet every now and then. I remember growing all the vegetables. I remember collecting the eggs.
馬克：我記得。我們要挖廁所。我記得我們挖廁所，製作堆肥，還要不時移動下廁所。我還記得我們種了各種蔬菜，還有收集雞蛋。Sorie: Yeah. One of the hardest things was the showers. We had this solar panel-run showers, and when it was cloudy, in the middle of the winter, I would suffer. It was so hard to take cold showers.
索裏：對。其中一件最困難的事情就是洗澡。我們有太陽能沐浴器，可是陰天還有冬天，我就會很痛苦。因爲洗冷水澡太痛苦了。Mark: Yeah. It wasn't like very cold was it really compared to mainland Japan but it really, really did feel cold with the wind there. Like you say, when the cloud came across because there was no hot water—yeah, it was tough. But did you remember next to the showers, every two weeks or so in the winter, Rio-san would light up the—make a fire, like wood-burning fire which heated up the outdoor pool?
馬克：對。同日本內陸相比，那裏不是很冷，可是颳風的時候會非常冷。在多雲的天氣，我們沒有熱水洗澡，所以很痛苦。你記得冬天的時候，每隔兩週左右Rio-san會在沐浴器旁邊生火嗎？用木頭生火使室外泳池的溫度上升。Sorie: That's right.
索裏：沒錯。Mark: And there's no hot springs on the island but we got to sit in the pool, under the stars in the evening.
馬克：島上沒有溫泉，不過晚上的時候，我們會坐在泳池裏看星星。Sorie: Yeah. There were so many great experiences and to realize also that nature is so powerful. And if you want to live with it, you have to coexist and you have to be very strong to live in a place like that.
索裏：對。有很多美好的經歷，而且我們也意識到大自然非常強大。如果你想在那裏生活，你就要找到共存的方法，要想生活在那種地方一定要非常強大。Mark: Hmm.
馬克：嗯。Sorie: And do you remember also the community, how everyone was?
索裏：你記得那些鄰居嗎？他們人怎麼樣？Mark: Lovely community, wasn't it?
馬克：鄰居非常可愛，不是嗎？Sorie: Hmm, because it's such a small place.
索裏：嗯，因爲那裏非常小。Mark: Exactly. There had to be a strong community in the mountain. There's only 400 people in the mountain, wasn't there? Two thousand total. It was like a separate village from the other village.
馬克：沒錯。山區的社區一定要非常強大。那個山區只有400個人居住，不是嗎？人口一共是2000人。就像是脫離其他村莊的一個獨立村莊。Sorie: From the main town.
索裏：遠離主城區。Mark: Yeah, everyone looking out for each other and sharing. Do you remember the fisherman who used to share his fish?
馬克：對，大家都互相照顧，而且互相分享。你還記得那個漁民嗎？他經常和我們分享他釣到的魚。Sorie: Ah! He'd bring this big chunks of tuna, fresh tuna. It was so delicious.
索裏：啊！他給我們送過大塊的金槍魚，新鮮的金槍魚。非常美味。Mark: Such good memories there, wasn't it?
馬克：那裏有非常好的回憶，不是嗎？Sorie: Yeah, definitely.
索裏：當然是了。
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重點講解：
1. every now and then 不時；有時；偶爾；
例句：I still see her every now and then.
我仍偶爾能見到她。
2. in the middle of (某件事或某段時間的)中期；
例句：She came in the middle of the day.
她在中午的時候來了。
3. heat up 加熱；變熱；
例句：In the summer her mobile home heats up like an oven.
夏天一到，她的活動住房就變得像烤爐一樣熱。
4. look out for 考慮…的利益；關照；
例句：I'm just trying to look out for you.
我只是想要爲你着想。
