美語情景對話 第709期:Running 跑步

Todd: Now, Shona, you said that you jog.

託德：夏娜，你說過你有慢跑的習慣。

Shona: Yeah, I do.

夏娜：對，沒錯。

Todd: I'm a jogger too.

託德：我也喜歡慢跑。

Shona: Oh, are you? Fantastic. How often do you do it?

夏娜：哦，是嗎？太好了。你多久慢跑一次？

Todd: Well, actually try to go every day.

託德：我努力做到每天都慢跑。

Shona: Oh, OK. How long for?

夏娜：好。那慢跑多長時間？

Todd: Between thirty minutes and an hour, depending on the day. And you?

託德：30分鐘到1個小時之間，這要取決於當天的情況。你呢？

Shona: It depends on the day as well. Today it was only like half an hour, but I try to get out for an hour, maybe like four or five times a week, but I used to be like a lot fitter and I just realized today that I'm not as fit as I used to be, so I'm probably gonna pump it up a little bit and do a little bit more, but yeah.

夏娜：我也是要看當天的情況而定。今天我只跑了半個小時，不過我會盡量跑1個小時，每週大概慢跑四五次，我想我以前要健康的多，我今天才發現我不像以前那麼健康了，所以我可能會加量，加強鍛鍊。

Todd: So you said you're not fit. What happened? Did you stop running?

託德：你剛說你健康狀況不太好。你怎麼了？你要停止跑步嗎？

Shona: Yeah, I guess like I've not been doing as much as I used to recently cause I used to do more than just jogging. I went to the gym as well. I did yoga. You know it was like more of a varied workout, but when you just stick to like one exercise alone, like, it tends to kind of make your fitness, like, drop a little bit if you are used to doing like a lot more sports.

夏娜：對，我最近的運動沒有以前那麼多，以前我除了慢跑以外，還會去健身房，也會做瑜伽。以前我會做多種運動，不過在只做一種運動以後，你會發現健康狀況會有點下降，因爲你已經習慣了做更多運動。

Todd: Right.

託德：對。

Shona: So I need to vary it a little more.

夏娜：所以我會增加運動方式。

Todd: Well, actually, where do you run? Do you run on the river?

託德：你一般去哪裏慢跑？沿着河慢跑嗎？

Shona: Yeah, I run down the river. Just along it, to the right-hand side. Just as far as, like fifteen or twenty minutes, and then back.

夏娜：對，我會沿着河跑步。我一般只沿着河的右側慢跑，大概跑15或20分鐘以後就掉頭再往回跑。

Todd: Actually, there's a really nice park near here that has a really nice running trail.

託德：我知道有個公園有條適合跑步的路線。

Shona: Oh, really.

夏娜：哦，真的嗎？

Todd: That I highly recommend. Yeah. But you got to take the train, and it's, you know, a little... it's four stops. You have to pay a little money, but it's worth it.

託德：我強烈推薦那裏。不過要坐火車過去，有點……要坐四站地。要花些錢，不過很值得。

Shona: Oh, wow. Cool. You'll have to tell me where it is.

夏娜：哦，哇，真酷。你一定要告訴我在哪裏。

Todd: Sure. I can draw you a map.

託德：當然。我可以畫張地圖給你。

Shona: Oh, OK, cool.

夏娜：哦，好，太酷了。

Todd: How about, when you run, do you have an ipod? Do you listen to music?

託德：你跑步的時候會帶着ipod嗎？你會一邊聽音樂一邊跑步嗎？

Shona: Yeah. Of course, I take my MP3 players, and it's like, I could not, like, jog without music. On ocassion, I've went out the door, like to go for a jog, and I've just like, I've not been able to. Like I can't. I need music. Otherwise it's just so boring, and to be honest, you know, like it depends if it's a scenic route, like I can cope without music, like I enjoy listening to the birds or whatever, like it's beautiful or what, but if it's like, in the city, or you know, like... I need my music.

夏娜：當然了。我會帶着MP3跑步，要是不聽音樂我沒法跑步。有時我出門跑步的時候會感覺，我無法跑步，因爲我需要音樂。沒有音樂太無聊了，說實話，這也要取決於跑步的路線，如果有鳥鳴的聲音或者那條路線特別美，那我可以不聽音樂，但是如果在城市裏跑步，那我就需要音樂。

Todd: Oh, I totally agree. I don't know what I would do without my ipod. —Um, what kind of music to you listen to when you jog?

託德：哦，我完全同意你的話。要是不帶着ipod我也沒法跑步。一般你慢跑時都聽哪種類型的音樂？

Shona: When I jog actually, it's different music than I listen to normally cause I like with a heavy beat, so I listen to dance music, or some kind of sixties music or something with lots of melody, and I tend to like longer songs as well because it keeps me going longer. If it's shorter songs then it stops. It keeps stopping. I seem to like lose my pace or something, so I like kind of steady, long beats.

夏娜：我慢跑的時候會聽不同類型的音樂，我喜歡重節拍音樂，所以我會聽舞曲、六十年代的音樂還有旋律明顯的音樂，另外我喜歡時間長些的歌曲，這樣我可以跑的時間更長些。如果歌曲時長太短，那就會經常有停頓，這樣我的節奏就會被打亂，所以我喜歡平穩、節奏長的音樂。

Todd: Oh, cool, well I'll be sure to get that map to you. You definitely should go jogging in that park. Cool.

託德：哦，真酷，我一定要把地圖給你。你一定要去那個公園跑步。很酷。

Shona: Cool. What music do you listen to when you go jogging?

夏娜：太好了。你慢跑時會聽哪種音樂？

Todd: Actually, I listen to also music I normally don't listen to. I listen to more hip-hop. I'm older, you know, I'm 37, but it definitely keeps me going when I run.

託德：我會聽我一般不會聽的音樂類型。慢跑時我會聽嘻哈音樂，你知道我已經37歲了，不是那麼年輕，不過嘻哈音樂會讓我跑步時更有動力。

Shona: Yeah, it's to do with the beat, yeah.

夏娜：對，和節拍有關。

Todd: Right, right. especially when I start. Like I need a couple of good songs to keep me going.

託德：對，沒錯，尤其是剛開始的時候。我需要一些節拍強的音樂幫助我堅持下去。

Shona: Totally, so, not yeah.

夏娜：是的。

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重點講解：
1. stick to 堅持不變；
例句：I tend tostick tofresh fruit for pudding.
我一直堅持用新鮮水果做甜點。
2. used to do sth. 過去常常；過去曾；
例句：The Irishused tolive on a diet of potatoes.
愛爾蘭人過去用馬鈴薯作爲主食。
3. be used to sth./doing sth. 習慣於；
例句：Heis used totaking notes of everything he did.
他習慣把他所做的一切事情都記下來。
4. on ocassion 偶爾；間或；有時；
例句：He treated them seriously and,on occasion, entertained them hilariously.
他對待他們嚴肅認真，偶爾又逗得他們捧腹不已。
5. or something （表示對說的話不能肯定）或別的什麼，或諸如此類；
例句：Mr. Green is a shopkeeperor something.
格林先生大概是店主之類的人。