美語情景對話 第932期:Dancing in Chile 智利舞蹈

Daniel: And while we drink this, we dance cueca.

丹尼爾：我們通常一邊喝酒一邊跳奎卡舞。

Olga: What is cueca?

奧爾嘉：什麼是奎卡舞？

Daniel: Cueca is our national dance.

丹尼爾：奎卡舞是智利國舞。

Olga: How do you, how can you explain it?

奧爾嘉：你能介紹一下嗎？

Daniel: It's about, OK, it's the Chilean cowboy dancing in order to flirt with the girl.

丹尼爾：好，這是智利牛仔爲了和女孩調情而跳的舞。

Olga: Do you wear any kind of special dress?

奧爾嘉：那要穿特別的服裝嗎？

Daniel: Yes. The girl is wearing a long dress.

丹尼爾：對。女生要穿長裙。

Olga: Yes.

奧爾嘉：好。

Daniel: And the guy is wearing sombrero.

丹尼爾：男生要戴闊邊帽。

Olga: Yeah.

奧爾嘉：好。

Daniel: It's not like, it's not as big as Mexican sombrero but it's smaller and a small poncho.

丹尼爾：不是墨西哥的那種大闊邊帽，比那個要小一些，男生還要穿龐喬斗篷。

Olga: Oh yeah, I think I've seen it before. Yeah, like the small poncho is like almost like every time it's brown and with like kind of like colorful lines?

奧爾嘉：哦，好，我以前看到過。是那種小的龐喬斗篷，通常是棕色底彩色條紋的，對吧？

Daniel: Yes.

丹尼爾：對。

Olga: Oh yeah, I've seen it before, yeah.

奧爾嘉：哦好，我以前看到過。

Daniel: And we also wear boots and spurs which makes it really, really difficult to dance.

丹尼爾：我們還要穿靴子，靴子上要配靴刺，這使跳舞變得很難。

Olga: Have you danced it before?

奧爾嘉：你以前跳過這種舞嗎？

Daniel: I have but I don't think I succeeded.

丹尼爾：我跳過，不過我想我沒有成功。

Olga: Oh, I see. And what do you mean it's kind of romantic dance?

奧爾嘉：哦，我明白了。你爲什麼說這是種浪漫的舞蹈？

Daniel: It is a romantic dance.

丹尼爾：這是浪漫舞蹈。

Olga: How?

奧爾嘉：爲什麼？

Daniel: Because you have to flirt with the girl.

丹尼爾：因爲是用來和女孩調情的。

Olga: Oh, I see.

奧爾嘉：哦，我明白了。

Daniel: That's the point of the dance.

丹尼爾：這是這種舞蹈的精髓。

Olga: And is it, does it mean anything? Does it have any meaning?

奧爾嘉：這有什麼意義嗎？有意義嗎？

Daniel: It's related to how, because we use a handkerchief so it's how, it symbolizes a rope so you can, you have to catch the girl with your rope.

丹尼爾：這與……因爲我們要跳舞時要用手帕，這象徵着繩子，代表你可以用繩子套住那個女孩。

Olga: Oh, I see, that's pretty cute.

奧爾嘉：哦，我明白了，這太可愛了。

Daniel: Yeah, it is.

丹尼爾：對，沒錯。

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重點講解：
1. in order to 爲了；以便；目的在於；
例句：They hurried up their work in order to go home.
他們趕快做完工作以便回家。
2. flirt with (和…)調情；(和…)打情罵俏；
例句：Dad's flirting with all the ladies, or they're all flirting with him, as usual.
和平常一樣，爸爸在和所有的女士調情，或者說所有的女士都在和他調情。
3. kind of 稍微；有幾分；有點兒；
例句：That girl is kind of shy.
那個女孩有點兒害羞。
4. be related to 相關的；有聯繫的；
例句：From the perspective of economic and ethic mechanism, the imperfection of economic system is closely related to that of the ethic mechanism.
從經濟和道德運行機制來看，經濟運行機制的不完善性與道德運行機制的不完善性密切相關。