美語情景對話 第513期:Water 水

Todd: So, Al, we're going to talk about water. How much water do you drink every day?

託德：艾爾，我們來談談水吧。你每天喝多少天？

Al: I guess about three liters, so six of those 500 millileter, five or six of those 500 millileter bottles.

艾爾：我想大概三升吧，這種500毫升的瓶裝水，我大概每天喝五六瓶。

Todd: Yeah, that's a lot. That's about what I drink. Yeah, I think I'm addicted to water.

託德：好，那很多啊。我大概也喝這麼多水。我想我對水上癮。

Al: I definitely am.

艾爾：我肯定也是。

Todd: Yeah, it's my security blanket. I must always have a bottle of water nearby to drink.

託德：嗯，水就像我的保護傘。我周圍一定要放一瓶水方便我隨時喝。

Al: And you have a theory to about why I always feel like I get thirstier the more water I drink, and you have a theory about that don't you?

艾爾：我一直覺得我喝的水越多我越渴，你有沒有這種感覺？

Todd: Yeah, that's right. I think that the water bottle people somehow put a special chemical that always make you want to drink more water.

託德：對，沒錯。我覺得人們在瓶裝水裏放入了一種特殊的化學物質，讓你總是想喝水。

Al: I agree.

艾爾：我同意。

Todd: Yeah, cause haven't you noticed that if you drink water from a tap, from the sink, you have a glass of water, you're not thirsty after you finish the glass, but when you finish a bottle of water, you're still thirsty.

託德：你有沒有意識到，如果你從水龍頭或從水池裏接一杯水，你把這杯水喝完後就不會覺得渴了，可是你在喝完一瓶瓶裝水後還是會覺得渴。

Al: One bottle is not enough. Yeah, definitely. A glass of tap water I would rarely finish the glass, but a bottle of bottled water, I need more, and like you said I need to know there is more close to me or I get upset.

艾爾：一瓶水完全不夠。絕對是這樣。我可能都喝不完一杯自來水，但是一瓶瓶裝水完全不夠，我還要喝更多，就像你剛纔說的，我要確保我身邊有放瓶裝水，不然我就會不安。

Todd: Well, do you still drink tap water?

託德：你現在還會喝自來水嗎？

Al: No, never.

艾爾：不，我從不喝。

Todd: Never?

託德：從不喝？

Al: I cook with it but I don't drink it.

艾爾：我用自來水做飯，但是我不喝。

Todd: Why?

託德：爲什麼？

Al: Ah, it tastes like crap.

艾爾：味道很難聞。

Todd: Yeah, it does taste pretty bad. Well, we both live in Japan, how is the water in England?

託德：對，味道的確很糟糕。我們都生活在日本，英國的水質量怎麼樣？

Al: It's about the same. It's kind of, it's drinkable in theory but it has this weird processed taste to it and doesn't smell all that good, so it's supposed to be safe to drink but I don't really believe that, for a minute.

艾爾：差不多一樣。可以說理論上可以飲用，但是有加工過的奇怪的味道，而且聞起來也不好，雖然說可以安全飲用，但是我完全不相信這種說法。

Todd: Actually the water where I'm from in Norhtern California is pretty good.

託德：我來自北加州，實際上那裏的水質量非常好。

Al: Is it?

艾爾：是嗎？

Todd: Yeah. Ah, that's the one thing you can drink from the tap but people still drink bottled water. Actually, I think the next time there's a huge, massive world war, it might be over water.

託德：對。可以直接飲用自來水，不過人們還是堅持喝瓶裝水。實際上，我認爲如果下一次再爆發大規模的世界戰爭，很可能是因爲飲用水。

Al: Yes.

艾爾：對。

Todd: It's kind of scary.

託德：這有點可怕。

Al: It's like we live on this planet that is mostly water and we can't manage it properly. There isn't enough for everybody.

艾爾：我們生活在這個大部分由水組成的星球上，可是我們卻不能妥善管理水資源。人均水資源缺乏。

Todd: Yeah, no kidding, so anyway, for all you people out there, remember, be thankful for your water.

託德：對，不是開玩笑，這是認真的，大家記住，要對你能喝到的水心懷感激。

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重點講解：
1. be addicted to
成癮的，上癮的；
eg. The children are addicted to computer games.
孩子們對計算機遊戲上了癮。
eg. After about three months, I was no longer addicted to nicotine.
大約3個月後，我就不再對尼古丁上癮了。
2. in theory
從理論上說；照理說；
eg. A school dental service exists in theory, but in practice, there are few dentists to work in them.
照理說，學校也有牙醫診所，可實際上，裏面的牙醫寥寥無幾。
eg. It seems good in theory, but it doesn't work in practice.
理論上它似乎很不錯,但實際上卻行不通。
3. no kidding
（強調所說的是真實的或是認真的）真的，不是開玩笑；
eg. I'm scared. No kidding, really.
我很害怕。不是開玩笑，真的。
eg. No, no kidding. I am serious.
沒有開玩笑，我很嚴肅。