美語情景對話 第967期:Big Plans 大計劃

Vella: OK, Daniel, I know you're still really young but I know you must be thinking about what you're going to do in the future so my question would be what do you want to achieve in your life?

維拉：丹尼爾，我知道你還很年輕，不過我想你一定有考慮未來要做的事情，所以我想問的是，你想在人生中實現什麼？

Daniel: Well, there are definitely three things I want to do. For example, I want to do before I die, at least three things. The first one is I want to visit every continent in the earth. I'm still young but I want to do it in the next couple of years. I've never been to Africa, for example, that's a continent, that's a part of the world I'm very interested in.

丹尼爾：我有三件很想做的事。我在死之前至少有三件想做的事。第一件事是我想去地球上的每個大洲遊覽。我還很年輕，我想在未來幾年實現這個計劃。我從來沒去過非洲。那是我感興趣的一個大洲，也是世界上我想去遊覽的其中一個地方。

The second one is that I want to see things from a different perspective. For example, I want to climb a really, really high mountain. I don't know, Everest would be amazing but I know like you need the special training and stuff like that. Or do paragliding, I would love to have the feeling that I'm flying. That's something that really, really calls my attention to see, you know, to see something from a different perspective. It can give you not only the experience but also it can help you think in a very different way for, I don't know, many things in the future.

第二件事是我想從不同的角度看世界。我想去爬高山。珠穆朗瑪峯很棒，可是我知道，要爬珠穆朗瑪峯需要經過特殊的訓練。我還想嘗試滑翔傘，我想體驗一下飛翔的感覺。從不同的角度看世界是我非常想體驗的事情。這不僅是一種經歷，還可以幫助你未來用不同的想法來看待事情。

And the third one is definitely to raise my children. I don't have any yet but, I don't know, I would love to have that feeling that I've done my job and I've finished it so, I don't know, to have my children, to raise them properly and to see that they succeed in what they do. Those are the three things I would love to do, I don't know, before I die.

第三件事是養育孩子。雖然我現在還沒有孩子，不過我想體驗那種感覺，在做完工作以後，正確地養育孩子，看着他們獲得成功。這三件事是我想在死前做的事情。

Vella: That is sweet. But earlier you told me like you were afraid of heights. Do you still want to do this thing?

維拉：真好。不過你之前跟我說過，你恐高。那你還想做這件事？

Daniel: I am a little bit but that's a thing that I mean at least once even though you are afraid you have to do it at least once. I'm not going to do it every week, the paragliding thing, but at least once I wouldn't mind.

丹尼爾：我是有點兒恐高，不過我認爲即使恐高，那也是你至少應該嘗試一次的事情。我不是每週都去玩滑翔傘，就一次我覺得沒問題。

Vella: And do you have anything specific that you want to do in Africa?

維拉：如果去非洲，你有沒有特別想做的事？

Daniel: No, it's just, there are so many, I think, myths about Africa. People tell you different stories. How they live, what they do, what the conditions are that I want to see it by myself. I know Africa it's really different because it's really big. It's really different among the countries but it has so many cultures that I really want to go and see it by myself.

丹尼爾：沒有，我認爲非洲非常神祕。我經常聽到別人說到不同的故事。我想自己親眼去看看那裏的人們怎麼生活，他們會做些什麼，那裏的條件怎麼樣。我知道非洲與衆不同，因爲那裏非常大。那裏每個國家都不同，有很多種文化，我想親自去體驗一下。

Vella: Good. I hope you get the chance to do those three things before you die.

維拉：好。我希望你在去世之前有機會做這三件事。

Daniel: Thanks.

丹尼爾：謝謝。

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重點講解：
1. be interested in 感興趣的；有興趣的；關心的；
例句：Physicists are still interested in magnetism.
物理學家對磁力仍有興趣。
2. would love to do sth. 樂於；很願意；
例句：I'm sure that he would love to come.
我肯定他會願意來。
3. succeed in 達到目的；成功做成；辦到；
例句：Hard graft is the only way to succeed in business.
艱苦奮鬥是在事業上成功的唯一途徑。
4. be afraid of 害怕的；恐懼的；
例句：The little girl is intensely afraid of thunder.
這小女孩非常害怕打雷。