美語情景對話 第753期:City vs Country 城市還是鄉村

Joel: So, Michele, you said you are from Canada.

喬爾：米歇爾，你說過你來自加拿大。

Michele: Yeah.

米歇爾：對。

Joel: What part of Canada?

喬爾：你來自加拿大哪裏？

Michele: I lived in Ontario in a small town called Beaverton.

米歇爾：我住在安大略省一個叫做比弗頓的小鎮。

Joel: Beaverton. And so how big is the town?

喬爾：比弗頓。這個城鎮有多大？

Michele: It was pretty small, about seven or eight thousand people I think.

米歇爾：比弗頓非常小，我想人口大概只有七八千人。

Joel: Wow, that's pretty small.

喬爾：哇，那真的非常小。

Michele: Yeah.

米歇爾：對。

Joel: Did you like that?

喬爾：你喜歡那裏嗎？

Michele: I think when I was really little I liked it. It was nice to play outside with your friends and we always felt really safe. When I got older as a teenager, sometimes I thought it was pretty boring being in such a small town, but I think overall it was good to live in a small town.

米歇爾：我小的時候非常喜歡那裏。在室外和朋友們一起玩非常美好，而且我們一直有安全感。我漸漸長大進入青少年時期以後，有時我會認爲生活在這麼小的一個城鎮非常無聊，不過總體來說，我覺得生活在一個小城鎮很好。

Joel: What would you do for fun when you were a teenager?

喬爾：你青少年時期有什麼休閒活動？

Michele: Well, there was actually a movie theater in our small town so sometimes we'd go to the theater but it wasn't a great one. We usually went outside of the town into the city to go shopping or see a movie.

米歇爾：嗯，我們那個小城鎮有一家電影院，有時我們會去看電影，不過不是太好。通常我們會去城市裏購物、看電影。

Joel: And so since then have you lived in any big cities?

喬爾：那你之後在大城市生活過嗎？

Michele: I've lived near Tokyo in Japan, so that's a pretty big city. Yeah.

米歇爾：我在日本東京生活過，東京是個非常大的城市。

Joel: So I guess you prefer that then... to your hometown?

喬爾：我猜，相比你的家鄉，你更喜歡東京是嗎？

Michele: Well, actually I felt that Tokyo was too big of a city.

米歇爾：嗯，實際上我感覺東京這座城市太大了。

Joel: OK.

喬爾：好。

Michele: Yeah, so..

米歇爾：所以……

Joel: It's the opposite extreme.

喬爾：這是兩個對立的極端。

Michele: Yeah, it's so crowded and the people aren't as friendly so...

米歇爾：對，東京非常擁擠，人們也不那麼友好，所以……

Joel: That's probably a big difference between a small town and a big town, huh? Like you know practically everyone.

喬爾：這可能是小城鎮和大城市的最大不同，對嗎？在小城鎮，你幾乎認識所有人。

Michele: Yeah.

米歇爾：對。

Joel: So, you walk into a store. You walk down the street, you can say 'hi' to almost everyone.

喬爾：比如走進一家商店，或是在街頭漫步，你幾乎可以和所有人打招呼。

Michele: Yeah, well, actually, I've also lived in a really small town in Japan too and I prefered the small town in Japan to the big city like Tokyo. The people in the small town knew my name and were very friendly. If I needed any help then because it's a small town, everybody knows everything about the things in the town so if I needed to find a place or if I wanted to join a club I could easily get the information in a small town, whereas in a big city people don't know the things as well, so.

米歇爾：對，我也在日本的一個小城鎮生活過，相比大城市東京，我更喜歡日本的小城鎮。小城鎮裏的人們知道我的名字，而且非常友好。在小城鎮基本上所有人對各方面情況都很瞭解，如果我需要幫助，如果我要找一個地址或是我想加入一個俱樂部，我可以很容易地得到信息，可是在大城市人們就不是那麼瞭解了。

Joel: You also have to be careful what you do because everyone will talk.

喬爾：你要小心你的行爲，因爲人們什麼都會說。

Michele: That's true.

米歇爾：沒錯。

Joel: You can't hide.

喬爾：你不能隱藏。

Michele: In a small town, you don't have as much privacy but I think the friendliness outweighs the privacy issues.

米歇爾：小城鎮沒有太多隱私，不過我認爲友好比隱私重要。

Joel: OK, thanks Michele.

喬爾：好，謝謝你，米歇爾。

Michele: You're welcome.

米歇爾：不客氣。

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