美語情景對話 第361期:Aussie Animals 澳洲動物
There are many dangerous animals in Australia like the crocodile for example. When I was in Australia I saw many crocodiles when I was in the north and they did look very scary with their big jaws and lots of teeth. It was quite scary. We saw them from a boat, so I felt quite safe.
澳大利亞有許多危險的動物，比如鱷魚。我在澳大利亞北部的時候看到過很多鱷魚，它們的頜部非常大，還有很多牙齒，看上去真的很可怕。非常可怕。我們當時是在船上看到的鱷魚，所以我覺得很完全。Another animal that exists in Australia is the spider. There are lots of different kinds of spiders, and lots of different colors. While I was there I saw red spiders, green spiders, yellow spiders, white spiders and also the ordinary brown and black spiders. They were very colorful in Australia.
澳大利亞另一個危險的動物是蜘蛛。那裏有許多不同種類、不同顏色的蜘蛛。我在那裏的時候看到過紅色蜘蛛、綠色蜘蛛、黃色蜘蛛、白色蜘蛛，還有普通的棕黑色蜘蛛。澳大利亞的蜘蛛是五顏六色的。So there are lots of dangerous animals, but the ones I prefer are the cute animals, like the kangaroo. You see kangaroos all over Australia. There are many, many kangaroos, almost everywhere you go, except for the cities of course. You can see big kangaroos, called red kangaroos, and they are very tall, taller than a person and brown kangaroos and grey kangaroos and then quite small kangaroos which might be brown with black legs for example. They're very cute.
那裏還有很多危險動物，而我則更偏愛可愛的動物，比如袋鼠。澳大利亞各處都能看到袋鼠。那裏有非常多的袋鼠，幾乎你去哪裏都可以看到，當然城市除外。你會看到大袋鼠，它們是紅袋鼠，它們非常非常高，比人還高，當然也會看到棕色袋鼠、灰色袋鼠，還有非常小的袋鼠，這些小袋鼠可能是棕色的，而腿的顏色是黑色。它們非常可愛。
My favorite Australian animal, though, is the koala. The koala only eats leaves from the eucalyptus tree. That's all the koala eats all day, so it doesn't have very much energy, as you can imagine, because it only eats leaves. So most of the times you see a koala, they are very quiet and they look a bit lazy, but I think they're really, really cute and one time when I was in Australia I had the chance to hold a koala, so that was a great experience for me and the koala feels quite soft but its hair is quite hard at the same time but my little koala was really, really cute.
不過我最喜歡的澳大利亞動物是考拉。考拉只吃桉樹葉。那就是考拉吃的所有食物，所以你可以想象，考拉並沒有多少能量，因爲它們只吃樹葉。所以大部分時間你都會看到考拉非常安靜地待着，看上去有點慵懶，不過我認爲它們真的非常非常可愛，我在澳大利亞的時候，曾經有一個機會抱考拉，那對我來說真是次非常棒的經歷，考拉非常柔軟，不過它的毛髮有點硬，可是我最喜歡的考拉真的非常非常可愛。
重點講解：
1. for example
例如；比如；
eg. For example, third parties often affect discussions.
比如，第三方常常會對談判產生影響。
eg. For example, economists often use the term utility to describe how much pleasure or satisfaction a person gets from a particular situation.
例如，經濟學家們經常使用效用一詞，來描述人們在某種情況下所得到的愉悅或者滿足的程度。
2. except for
除了；除…之外；唯有；
eg. Everyone was late, except for Richard.
除了理查德，其他所有人都遲到了。
eg. On a follow up visit, she was doing well except for occasional headaches.
在一次跟蹤走訪中，她表示除偶爾頭痛外，身體狀況很好。
3. at the same time
同時；
eg. At the same time, infrastructure investment is growing.
與此同時，基礎設施的投資也在增加。
eg. Different things are happening in these two worlds at the same time.
兩個不同的世界卻在同一時刻發生著不同的事。
