美語情景對話 第1032期:Surving the Wild 野外生存

Sorie: OK, so Mark, you were telling us that you were in the wilderness for three days with no food. Can you tell us how you felt, what your emotions were?

索裏：馬克，你之前說過你在荒野生活時有三天沒有吃東西。你能說說你的感受嗎，你當時是什麼心情？

Mark: The first day was really interesting. We set off in the morning to find our spot, and we'd been out into the space the previous day to kind of locate a suitable spot, and to make sure we were in a space where there was no other people cause there was eleven people doing the quest, so we didn't want them... we wanted to make sure we didn't bump into these people when we were on this quest so anyway, I chose my spot and we had the previous day taken our supply of water to last three days. That was the only thing we had, and I walked out from the communal camp, and I left the forest, and it was kind of like big open space, quite mountainous and I saw my spot where I'd chosen and I thought, no I don't want to be there anymore. I don't want to stay there for three days, and I kind of felt myself pulled to a different place.

馬克：第一天非常有意思。我們早上出發去尋找地點，前一天我們去尋找合適的地點，以確保沒有其他人進入，因爲有11個人進行探索，我們不想……我們要確保在探索期間不碰上其他人，我選好了地點，把可持續三天的水帶過去。我們只能帶水，我走出公共營地，離開森林，那是一片非常大的開闊區域，相當於山區，我看到了我選擇的地點，當時我想的是，我可不想待在這裏。我不想在這裏待三天，我感覺我自己被拉去了一個不同的地方。

Sorie: And what was this place like?

索裏：那個地方什麼樣？

Mark: It was kind of on a slope, but I started walking up this slope, quite a steep bank, towards these set of trees, and when I got there, I found like a flat, flattish space, and I thought "Hmm, maybe I can put my tent here" and I decided I wanted to stay but it wasn't quite flat enough and it was pretty small in the flat space on the side of this mountainous slope so... I don't know what I got. I got some stick or some stones... NO, I had a little trawl cause I and taken a trawl which you take so you can use the toilet, kind of ecologically. So I used my trawl and made it flatter and then I put my tent up on that little flat spot and it was east facing, but it was like across the valley so it was going to take quite awhile for the sun to rise in the morning. That was my only worry.

馬克：在一個斜坡上，我爬上去以後發現那是一個非常陡的坡，迎向一些樹，我到那裏的時候以爲那是一片平地，是比較平的地方，我當時還想“嗯，我可以把我的帳篷放在這裏”，而且我決定要待在那裏，可是後來我發現那裏不夠平，而且是山坡上一個特別小塊兒的平地，我不知道我選了個什麼地方。那裏有一些樹枝和石頭。我帶了個小的拖網，帶這個就可以用廁所了，這是生態環保。我把拖網拉平，然後把帳篷放在那小塊兒平地上，帳篷朝東，但是因爲在河谷對面，所以早上太陽升起來會花一些時間。這是我唯一的擔心。

Sorie: What about the nights?

索裏：晚上什麼情況？

Mark: It was freezing.

馬克：非常冷。

Sorie: Freezing at night and you were cold. Did you make a fire?

索裏：晚上很冷。你有生火嗎？

Mark: I couldn't make fire because there was a fire ban cause it was mid-summer, which we were very lucky in the vision quest because there was an evacuation order on the very last day and had it happened before we would have evacuated prematurely from the quest.

馬克：我不能生火，因爲有禁火令，因爲那是仲夏，我們能進行這次視覺探索非常幸運，因爲最後一天發佈了撤離令，如果要是在之前發佈的話，那我們就要提前離開不能進行探索了。

Sorie: Very scary.

索裏：真可怕。

Mark: So no fire, no fire unfortunately.

馬克：所以不幸的是，不能生火。

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重點講解：
1. set off 動身；出發；啓程；
例句：The sun was on the horizon when we set off.
我們出發時，太陽正在地平線上。
2. bump into 偶然遇見；意外碰到；
例句：I often bump into him at the restaurant.
我經常在餐館和他偶遇。
3. kind of 稍微；有幾分；有點兒；
例句：She kind of hoped to be invited.
她有點兒希望能受到邀請。
4. what about (用於引出與之前內容相關的新的話題或觀點)那麼…怎麼樣；
例句：They are very splendid. What about the price?
這些非常不錯。價格怎麼樣呢?