美語情景對話 第882期:Long Distance Relationships 遠距離戀愛
Alex: So how do you feel about long distance relationships?
亞歷克斯：你怎麼看遠距離戀愛？Maria: Not that good. I had two relationships by now and both of them ended after me going somewhere. First time I was in Denmark but like I lived on a school in another city and while I was there for four months like I think two months after I went home to him and broke up and then came back to the school and just didn't really care. And then the second time I went traveling and I missed him so much and I came back and realized that there was nothing left. I'd lost everything while I was away so I don't, after one month, after two months, I think it just doesn't work for me if it's not really special.
瑪麗亞：不太好。我談過兩次戀愛，這兩次戀情都是在我搬到其他地方以後結束的。第一次戀情，當時我在丹麥，我住在另一座城市的學校裏，我在那裏待了四個月的時間，我記得應該是兩個月以後，我回家去和他分手，然後回到學校繼續學習，當時我並沒有那麼在乎。第二次，我在旅行的時候非常想他，我回來以後發現什麼都沒留下。我離開的時候失去了一切，我認爲，在一兩個月以後，如果不是那麼在乎我，那就不適合我。Alex: Yeah, I guess you're kind of like me. I have to see the person.
亞歷克斯：對，我想你和我一樣。我必須要見到那個人。
Maria: Exactly.
瑪麗亞：沒錯。Alex: Almost, you know, daily.
亞歷克斯：而且差不多每天都要見。Maria: Exactly and you can have conversations online and on the phone but if there's no, I don't know, it doesn't have to be much, just like be close, see each other in the eye.
瑪麗亞：沒錯，雖然可以在網上聊天或者打電話，可是那沒有親眼見到那個人那樣親密。Alex: It's a big difference, yeah. I did a month when I went home to Australia away...
亞歷克斯：有很大的區別。我回澳大利亞的時候和她分開了一個月。Maria: This summer?
瑪麗亞：今年夏天嗎？Alex: Yeah, this recent summer and like Skype is just not enough. Do you know what I mean? You can see the person, you can talk to them, you know you can kiss the camera if you want but it's not...
亞歷克斯：對，就是夏天，用Skype視頻通話根本不夠。你懂我的意思嗎？你可以見到那個人，你們可以聊天，如果你想你也可以親吻鏡頭，可是……Maria: If you want.
瑪麗亞：如果你想。Alex: You know it's not the same but that's not to say I don't think, some people can do it.
亞歷克斯：你知道那並不一樣，不過我知道，有人可以做到。Maria: I figure if it's a very, like if the relationship is very, it's very passionate or you've been going on for a long time because both of my relationships were under one year I think. The first one was one year and the second one was half a year. So if we're used to staying together then I think you can work it out. I'm just too impatient.
瑪麗亞：我想，如果一段戀愛充滿激情，而且戀愛關係維持了很長時間，是可以做到的，不過我的兩段戀情都沒有超過一年就結束了。第一段戀情維持了一年，第二段只維持了半年。如果我們習慣於待在一起，那是可以堅持下去的。我太沒有耐心了。Alex: Yeah, I guess under a year you haven't really learned to depend on the other person all the time.
亞歷克斯：對，我想不到一年的時間，你們還沒有學會要一直互相依靠。Maria: Exactly.
瑪麗亞：沒錯。Alex: Or...
亞歷克斯：或者……Maria: Still going by the passion and if you can't see the person every day or like whenever you want, then the passion just slowly fades.
瑪麗亞：至於熱情，如果你們不能每天都見面，或者不能隨時見面，那熱情也會漸漸消退的。Alex: Yeah, agreed.
亞歷克斯：沒錯，我同意。Maria: But this is your first relationship right?
瑪麗亞：這是你的初戀，對吧？Alex: Yes it is and I did one month when I went home away from the person and it was just...
亞歷克斯：沒錯，我回家的時候和她分開了一個月的時間……Maria: And that was the first time you ever went away from the person?
瑪麗亞：這是你們第一次分開嗎？Alex: Yeah and it was just aah horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible.
亞歷克斯：對，感覺非常糟糕，非常可怕，非常不好。Maria: I remember the first time I like traveled while my boyfriend was still at home and it was a week and I was devastated so it's, if it's passionate it's...
瑪麗亞：我記得我第一次外出旅行而男朋友留在家裏的那一星期，我感覺極度不安，如果熱情……Alex: Well I did Christmas away from them when I went to Christmas, I did India for Christmas last year.
亞歷克斯：我聖誕節的時候有和女朋友分開過，我去年去印度過的聖誕節。Maria: OK.
瑪麗亞：好。Alex: And two weeks was bad enough and then a month and I was just pulling my hair out, do you know? So.
亞歷克斯：當時我們分開了兩個星期，那已經夠糟糕了，而這次分開了一個月，我簡直要抓狂了，你懂那種感覺嗎？Maria: Yeah, it's hard.
瑪麗亞：對，非常難。Alex: It, yeah, it certainly is.
亞歷克斯：對，當然很難了。Maria: Yeah.
瑪麗亞：對。
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重點講解：
1. break up （戀人）分手；（夫妻）結束關係；
例句：Colin and Sarah are so badly matched, they should break up.
柯林和薩拉太不般配了，他們應該分手纔對。
2. on the phone 通話；
例句：I love to schmooze on the phone with my friends.
我很喜歡跟朋友在電話上閒談。
3. work out (如期）發生；進展(順利)；
例句：Office romances hardly ever work out.
和同事談戀愛很少成功。
4. depend on 取決(於)；有賴(於)；
例句：It would depend on your life today.
那要看你現在的生活怎麼樣。
