美語情景對話 第330期:On the Move 四處搬家

I am totally English but I spent my whole life basically living in other countries, well, my parents spent most of my life living in other countries. I've actually been at school in England for quite a while of it. Living away from you. own country is great. I guess it's really good when you're young you get to see different countries. I stopped off in Africa and Nigeria. I was actually born in England, but I went there fifteen days after I was born so, my first plane flight was 15 days old, and I can't really remember obviously that much of that but then we went to Holland for nine years, which is great and it's, you know, I'm very lucky to have grown up in a different culture, although very embarassingly I can's speak the language cause I always went to an Enlgish school, but it's kind of difficult cause you, wherever you go, you make friends. You get close to people and then suddenly you have to move, and move house, go on to somewhere else, and I found this to be the sort of hardest thing, when I was 8, I went off to boarding school in England cause my parents thought I'd get a better education that way than moving around to different schools all over the world, and this was you know, it was good it was fun, but something like I always envied was the way, all the other kids at school, there school friends were just their friends in term time, but their real friends were friends that, you know, they had known since they were little, since you know, since they had been born or, you know their early school friends and they still knew them and you know even when I was 18 years old, still, my friend's from school had their real friends at home who they'd known all there lives, and I've kind of always envied that because we've always been moving around and as I say, you know, I'm very lucky, we've been in Holland, Scotland, and Africa, and I've very lucky to have seen all of these places but it's kind of hard as well, not having a root, not having a place where you can actually call your home, somewhere to go back to at the end of the day and have all of your family and friends around you.

我是徹頭徹尾的英國人，可是我一生中幾乎都生活在其他國家，我的父母使我生活在外國的時間非常長。其實我在英國上學的時間算很長了。住在其他國家非常棒。我想在你年輕的時候去不同的國家看看很好。我在非洲和尼日利亞待過一段時間。實際上我是在英國出生的，但是我出生十五天以後就去了非洲，我在15天的時候第一次坐飛機，顯然我並不記得那次飛行的太多事情，之後我們在荷蘭生活了9年的時間，這非常好，你知道，能在不同的文化中成長我感覺很幸運，雖然我不能說那個國家的語言這件事令人非常尷尬，因爲我一直上的都是英語學校，不過困難的事情是，你去的每個地方都會交到朋友，你和人們變得親近之後，突然你不得不搬走，不得不搬家，再繼續去別的地方生活，我發現這是最難的事情，我8歲的時候回到英國上寄宿學校，因爲我的父母認爲，相比於在世界各地不同的學校上學，在英國讀寄宿學校我會接受更好的教育，而這很有趣，不過有些事是我一直都很羨慕的，那就是，學校裏其他孩子在學校裏的朋友就是他們在上學期間的朋友，而他們真正的朋友是他們從小就認識的朋友，可能是他們出生以後、學齡前的朋友，他們一直保持聯繫，我18歲的時候，我學校裏那些朋友，他們在家鄉的真正朋友是那些他們出生後就認識的朋友，我一直都很羨慕這一點，因爲我們總是在四處搬家，像我說過的我很幸運，我們去了荷蘭、蘇格蘭和非洲，我很幸運能去這些地方，但是同樣艱難的事情是，我沒有定所，沒有一個可以稱爲家的地方，那是在一天結束的時候可以回去的地方，可以和所有家人、朋友待在一起的地方。

重點講解：
1. on the move
在行進；在遷移；
eg. Jack never wanted to stay in one place for very long, so they were always on the move.
傑克從不想在一個地方呆太久，所以他們總在奔波輾轉。
eg. The Gypsies are a race constantly on the move.
吉普賽人不時在遷移流動。
2. stop off
中途逗留；
eg. The president stopped off in Poland on his way to Munich for the economic summit.
總統在赴慕尼黑參加經濟峯會的途中在波蘭作了短暫停留。
eg. Go right home at once, don't stop off anywhere on the way.
直接回家去，別在路上的什麼地方停下來。
3. as well
也；還；
eg. Water is not only colourless, but odourless as well.
水不僅沒有顏色，也沒有氣味。
eg. Andy's face paled with disappointment; perhaps with anger as well.
安迪的臉色由於失望而變得蒼白，也許還摻雜着氣憤。