美語情景對話 第446期:Kiwi Summers 新西蘭的夏天

Todd: So, Mark, what do Kiwis like to do in the summer?

託德：馬克，新西蘭人在夏天喜歡做什麼？

Mark: Yeah, I think the first thing for some people to realise is that Christmas is midsummer in New Zealand.

馬克：我想一些人應該首先意識到聖誕節正值新西蘭的盛夏時節。

Todd: Oh nice!

託德：哦真好！

Mark: So Kiwis combine Christmas holiday and New Year holiday with a summer vacation as well. I can remember when I was small, we'd have family Christmases and then the next day, which is Boxing Day, we'd go to the beach or we'd travel somewhere and rent a small house on the beach. They call them 'batches' in the north of the island or 'cribs' in the south island. And you just spend 4, 5 days, maybe a week, 2 weeks, just swimming in the sea, playing in the sand dunes, walks in the forest: just a really relaxing time with family and family friends.

馬克：所以新西蘭人把聖誕假期、元旦假期和夏日假期結合到一起。我記得我小的時候，我們會一家人一起過聖誕節，聖誕節後就是節禮日，我們會去海灘或者去其他地方旅行，然後在海灘上租間小房子。島嶼北部的人稱房屋爲batches，而南部的人稱之爲cribs。你可以在那裏度過四五天，甚至是一兩週的時間，可以在海里游泳，在沙丘上玩耍，在森林裏散步；和家人和朋友享受休閒時光。

Todd: That sounds nice, so you know in Australia they're really big on surfing. Do a lot of people surf in New Zealand?

託德：聽起來不錯，你知道澳大利亞人非常熱衷於衝浪。新西蘭喜歡衝浪運動的人多嗎？

Mark: There is a surfing population. I think the Australian beaches are probably much larger and maybe they have better waves, I don't know, but several of my friends used to go on surfing holidays in summer as well.

馬克：有喜歡衝浪的人。我認爲澳大利亞的海灘要大得多，而且可能那裏的海浪也更適合衝浪，我不清楚，不過我的一些朋友在夏日假期也經常去衝浪。

Todd: And what foods do people like to eat when they get together for the summer?

託德：那人們一起過夏日假期時喜歡吃什麼食物？

Mark: Barbecue is almost the national obsession in summertime, you know, you'd just throw a sausage on the barbie or friends would ring up and say 'hey, it's a nice night, let's have a barbie!'. I think all my friends have their own barbecue set.

馬克：新西蘭人在夏天最喜歡的是燒烤，你可能剛剛開始烤香腸，你的朋友就會打電話來說“嗨，這是個美好的夜晚，我們去燒烤吧！”我覺得我所有的朋友都有燒烤裝備。

Todd: What meats do people barbecue?

託德：人們喜歡烤什麼肉吃？

Mark: Again, New Zealand foods used to very much sort of be the lamb or beef, but now it's getting a lot more varied, you can grill a nice fish on the barbecue, you can still have sausage, chicken, pork, beef, lamb, whatever you want.

馬克：我要再說一次，新西蘭食物以前基本以羊肉和牛肉爲主，不過現在種類就很多了，燒烤時可以烤新鮮的魚類，也可以烤香腸、雞肉、豬肉、牛肉、羊肉等等，任何你喜歡的食物都可以烤。

Todd: Yeah, it sounds good. OK, well thanks, Mark.

託德：好，聽起來真不錯。謝謝，馬克。

Mark: OK.

馬克：好的。

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重點講解：
1. combine with
（使）結合；（使）組合；（使）綜合；
eg. I am partial to desserts that combine fresh fruit with fine pastry.
我偏愛加有新鮮水果的精緻油酥甜點。
eg. The furniture managed to combine practicality with elegance.
那些傢俱將實用和典雅完美結合。
2. be big on sth.
熱衷於；
eg. That engineer is big on research.
那個工程師熱衷於研究工作。
eg. I'm not very big on eating raw meat.
我並不喜歡吃生肉。
3. ring up
給…打電話；
eg. You can ring us up anytime.
你隨時都可以給我們打電話。
eg. John rang up and invited himself over for dinner.
約翰打電話來，主動要求過來吃晚飯。