美語情景對話 第757期:Hotel Costs 酒店費用
Todd: So, Mini, your country, Sri Lanka, is a very popular tourist destination. Can you talk a little about costs? Like how much does it cost to have a nice vacation in Sri Lanka?
託德:米妮,你的祖國斯里蘭卡是旅遊勝地。你能說說費用問題嗎?去斯里蘭卡度假需要多少錢?Mini: It's a very cheap place to have a vacation, so for example if you have... your budget is around 50,000 yen in terms of rupees around 45,000 rupees, you can have a good vacation. You can have a good hotel. You can have good food. You can shop as well — by clothes and all the stuff and go around the country as well.
米妮:去斯里蘭卡度假很便宜,5萬日元左右的預算,也就是4.5萬盧比左右,你就可以度過一個愉快的假期。你可以住好酒店,吃美味的食物。當然還可以去購物,買衣服和其他東西,還有在斯里蘭卡觀光。Todd: That's pretty cool. So, how much is a nice hotel, like a five-star hotel?
託德:那太酷了。那五星級酒店的價格大概是多少?
Mini: For one day, it's around 10,000 yen. Around 9,500 rupees.
米妮:一天大概1萬日元,也就是9500盧比。Todd: Right. So 10,000 yen. OK, so that's pretty cheap. That's about 100 dollars I think. Right? One hundred U.S. dollars? So, a five-star hotel, you're talking about beautiful room, nice swimming pool, nice facilities, everything.
託德:好。1萬日元。真的很便宜。大概是100美元,對吧?100美元?五星級酒店,你說的是有漂亮的房間,游泳池、完備設施的那種吧?Mini: Everything is there, and it's near the beach as well.
米妮:裏面什麼都有,而且附近還有海灘。Todd: Oh, man, that's great. So, what if you want something cheaper. What if you just want a small room, very basic, just a bed, a bathroom, no swimming pool, nothing nice. How much would a hotel like that cost?
託德:天哪,那太棒了。如果想要便宜的房間呢?如果說是那種小房間、只有牀和浴室等基本設施,沒有游泳池,也不是那麼完備的房間,這種酒店要多少錢?Mini: OK, for that, you can pay around a thousand yen. Around nine hundred rupees.
米妮:這種大概是1000日元,900盧比左右。Todd: A thousand yen.
託德:1000日元。Mini: A thousand yen. A thousand, five hundred yen.
米妮:1000日元,或者是1500日元。Todd: Ten dollars.
託德:10美元。Mini: Mm-hm. That's cheap.
米妮:嗯,很便宜。Todd: For one night?
託德:一晚上的價格?Mini: Yeah.
米妮:對。Todd: Really.
託德:真的嗎?Mini: Mm-hm.
米妮:嗯。Todd: I wanna go.
託德:我想去。Mini: I'm sure.
米妮:我確定。Todd: That is really, really cheap.
託德:那真是太便宜了。Mini: Yeah, it's very cheap.
米妮:對,是非常便宜。Todd: OK, what about things like internet access? So can you get high-speed internet access?
託德:那有網嗎?有高速網絡接口嗎?Mini: If you want to stay in a hotel like that, no, you can't get internet access from those kind of hotels, but if you stay in four-star hotel, maybe three-star hotel you can get high-speed internet access.
米妮:沒有,這種酒店裏沒有網絡接口,但是四星級酒店裏有,可能三星級酒店也有高速網絡接口。Todd: OK.
託德:好。Mini: But you have like centers, internet media centers, kind of stuff. You can pay like fifty rupees and access to the internet. You can do it anytime.
米妮:斯里蘭卡有網絡媒體中心。花50盧比就可以接入網絡。隨時都可以。Todd: Right. OK. And just lastly, what about meals? How much do meals cost?
託德:好。最後一個問題,食物呢?食物的價格呢?Mini: If you want to go for a nice buffet, maybe around two thousand yen, a thousand, five hundred rupees around.
米妮:一頓豐盛的飯菜大概要花2000日元左右,約1500盧比左右。Todd: Oh, that's actually kind of expensive, isn't it. Two thousand yen.
託德:哦,那有點兒貴,是吧?2000日元。Mini: But you have everything there. It's really nice. I love it.
米妮:但是這頓飯裏什麼都有,非常棒,我很喜歡。Todd: OK. Well, it sounds like a great place to go. Thanks Mini.
託德:好,聽起來斯里蘭卡是個好去處。謝謝你,米妮。Mini: You're welcome.
米妮:不客氣。
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