美語情景對話 第631期:Jewels, Gems, and Stones 珠寶和寶石

Todd: So, Adrienne, you are really into jewelry. You fix jewelry. Do you know a lot about gems and stones and things like that?

託德：埃德里安娜，你非常喜歡珠寶飾品。你可以修理珠寶。你是不是很瞭解寶石？

Adrienne: No, I don't know a lot, but I know what I like.

埃德里安娜：不瞭解，我知道的不多，但是我有喜歡的寶石。

Todd: So what kind of stuff do you like?

託德：你喜歡哪種寶石？

Adrienne: Well, I'm actually not a big fan of precious stones like diamonds, rubies, emeralds. I think they are very beautiful but for everyday wear I prefer, I think they are called semi-precious stones, but I'm not even sure if I'm right about that either.

埃德里安娜：我並不太熱衷於鑽石、紅寶石、綠寶石這樣的珍貴寶石。我認爲它們都很漂亮，但是要是日常佩戴的話，我更喜歡半寶石，不過我不確定我說的是不是對的。

Todd: So, what are some semi-precious stones?

託德：半寶石是什麼？

Adrienne: Well, I think either they fall into the semi-precious stone or the rock category. I'm not sure, but one example is I like Jade very much.

埃德里安娜：我想可以把它們歸類爲半寶石或者是寶石。我也不太確定，我非常喜歡玉。

Todd: Jade.

託德：玉。

Adrienne: Jade.

埃德里安娜：對，玉。

Todd: OK, what does Jade look like?

託德：玉是什麼樣的？

Adrienne: Jade is usually green, although you can find white and yellow and even pink Jade, maybe other colors too, but the most popular and the most common Jade you find is green and various shades of green. You have to be careful though when you buy Jade that that is hasn't been dyed by the jeweler because very often they will do... they still call it Jade but it's actually been injected with a color to make it greener than it would be naturally, and I don't care for that bright green color. I like the natural, natural green color of Jade, so and I just like, it's a little bit translucent. If you hold it up to light, you can see light coming through it. It's a really beautiful stone.

埃德里安娜：一般來說玉是綠色的，不過也有白色、黃色和粉色的玉，可能還有其他顏色的玉，不過最常見的是綠色的玉，深淺不一的綠色。你在買玉的時候要特別小心，不要買到被珠寶商染色的玉，因爲珠寶商經常會這麼做……他們說那是玉，但其實他們會給玉染色，讓顏色變得更綠，我不喜歡那種亮綠色。我喜歡那種自然綠色的玉，那種半透明的玉。如果你在燈底下看那種玉，你會看到穿過它的燈光。是非常漂亮的寶石。

Todd: What other rocks do you like? I don't know if they're rocks.

託德：你還喜歡什麼寶石？不知道是不是應該稱之爲寶石。

Adrienne: We don't know. I don't know. I wish I knew more about this now that you're asking me. Um, carnelian is another one that I like a lot. Carnelian is a red stone. It's got kind of an orange tint to it, so it's orangish-red color and it makes beautiful beads, so very often you will see necklaces and earrings made from carnelian beads, and it polishes very nicely as well.

埃德里安娜：我們都不清楚。我也不知道。你問我這個問題的時候，我要是瞭解的更多就好了。另一種我非常喜歡的寶石是光玉髓。光玉髓是紅色的寶石。上面還有一點桔色的色澤，所以準確地說應該是桔紅色，它可以做出非常漂亮的串珠，所以你可以看到好多用光玉髓做的項鍊和耳環，它的光澤非常美。

Todd: OK, so you like Jade and you like carnelian. Anything else?

託德：好，你喜歡玉和光玉髓，還有其它喜歡的嗎？

Adrienne: Yeah, actually, I like all other kinds of rocks, even quartz, crystals, all of those kinds of things that you can wear, but I don't like the shiny crystals, the ones that are trying to look like diamonds or cubic zirconia. Yeah, I don't like it to be shiny. I like very natural looking rock. So it should be matte, and also a little but rough on the edges so you can see that it really was a rock, that was maybe mined or pulled out the ground. I don't know. So those are my favorite kinds but I guess I wouldn't mind getting a diamond or two here and there.

埃德里安娜：有，我喜歡各種寶石，甚至是石英、水晶這種可以佩戴的寶石，不過我不喜歡閃亮的水晶，就是那種看起來像鑽石和立方氧化鋯的水晶。我不喜歡水晶太閃亮。我喜歡那種看上去自然的寶石。我喜歡那種亞光的寶石，邊緣有點粗糙，這樣可以看出來那確實是寶石，是從地裏開採出來的。我不太清楚。這些是我最喜歡的寶石種類，不過我並不介意偶爾買一兩顆鑽石。

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1. fall into 屬於；被劃分爲；
例句：The problems generally fall into two categories.
問題大致分成兩類。
2. care for 愛；喜愛；
例句：He wanted me to know that he still cared for me.
他想要我知道他仍愛着我。
3. wouldn't mind sth./doing sth. 很喜歡；很願意；
例句：Anne wouldn't mind going to Italy or France to live.
安妮很願意去意大利或法國定居。
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例句：He could only understand a word here and there.
他只能零星地聽懂一兩個單詞。