美語情景對話 第847期:Island Dangers 島上可能遇到的危險

Nick: Is there any natural disasters which happen?

尼克：有沒有發生過自然災難？

Cheryl: Yeah, there's plenty of natural disasters. Guam is actually right on the coast of a reef formation called the Mariana's trench and underneath, in this trench is the lowest part of the world, the deepest part of the world.

謝麗爾：有，發生過很多自然災難。關島位於珊瑚礁海岸上，臨近馬裏亞納海溝，這個海溝是世界上最深的地方。

Nick: Wow!

尼克：哇！

Cheryl: Yeah, so we joke about it. We joke that Guam's highest mountain, Mt. Lan Lan is actually the highest mountain in the world if you count off from its base which is in the Marianas trench, the lowest part of the world.

謝麗爾：對，我們經常會開玩笑。我們會開玩笑說，如果從世界最低的馬裏亞納海溝底部開始算，那關島最高峯蘭蘭山就是世界最高峯了。

Nick: Wow, that's amazing! So there must be good diving if you talk about barrier reefs.

尼克：哇，那太不可思議了！你剛纔說有珊瑚礁，那一定適合潛水。

Cheryl: Yeah, there's plenty of good diving. It's got really great diving like you would find in Hawaii or in the Great Barrier Reef. And many, many tourists from all over Asia come to Guam to scuba dive because of their great spots. It's the closest US soil they can get to.

謝麗爾：對，有很多適合潛水的地方。你會發現像夏威夷和大堡礁那樣的潛水聖地。有許多亞洲遊客因爲優美的風景而來到關島體驗水肺潛水。那裏是他們可以去的最近的美國領土。

Nick: Ah, I see. But in Australia in the Great Barrier Reefs, there's lots of dangerous animals. Is that the case in Guam as well?

尼克：哦，我知道了。不過澳大利亞大堡礁有很多危險動物。關島也有嗎？

Cheryl: Well, actually that's funny you should ask, there has been a recent article about a guy in Guam, a very young guy who was scuba diving, and he got stung by a lion fish, but that is the extent of the dangerous animals of Guam. You'd have to go out into the deep sea to find more dangerous animals. But I think the most dangerous ones we have are quite small — things like the lion fish which I just mentioned, he just got stung, but it wasn't anything terrible. We do have reef sharks, but they are not great white sharks so they are quite small and smaller poisonous things like trigger fish, those you just have to be careful about whenever you are scuba diving, but other than that there's not much dangers in the sea.

謝麗爾：你這個問題讓我想起了一件有趣的事，最近有報道稱一個年輕小夥子在關島體驗水肺潛水時被獅子魚刺傷了，不過關島的危險動物基本就是這種。深海有更多的危險動物。不過我認爲最危險的動物都是那些小型動物，比如我剛剛提到的獅子魚，那名年輕人只是被刺了，並不嚴重。關島有礁鯊，不是那種大白鯊，礁鯊個頭很小，還有像炮彈魚這種毒性很小的動物，這些都是你在關島進行水肺潛水時需要注意的動物，不過除此之外，關島海域沒有太多危險。

Nick: Great.

尼克：不錯。

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重點講解：
1. plenty of （尤指足夠的或超出需要的）豐富，充足，大量；
例句：We have plenty of time to finish the job.
我們有充裕的時間完成這項工作。
2. all over 到處；遍及；
例句：He left his clothes lying all over the floor.
他把衣服扔得滿地都是。
3. be careful about 當心的；
例句：You must be careful about your behavioour.
你必須小心你的行爲。
4. other than （用於否定陳述後）除了…以外；
例句：This relation does not hold for systems other than those mentioned.
除上述系統外，對於其他系統，這種關係不適用。