美語情景對話 第327期:Painting 繪畫

Todd: OK. Richard, do you like art?

託德：好，理查德，你喜歡藝術嗎？

Richard: I do. Very much. Yes.

理查德：我喜歡。非常喜歡。

Todd: OK. Um, what kind of art do you like?

託德：好。嗯，你喜歡哪種藝術？

Richard: OK. Well, I like all kinds of art.

理查德：我喜歡各種類型的藝術。

Todd: OK.

託德：好。

Richard: When I was young I used to enjoy painting.

理查德：我年輕的時候非常喜歡畫畫。

Todd: OK. What did you paint?

託德：那你都畫了些什麼？

Richard: OK. When I was a kid, I was in art class, so it was all fairly sort of basic standard stuff like country scenes.

理查德：我還是個孩子的時候，我上過藝術課，那個課程教授各種基礎標準的事情，比如鄉村風景畫。

Todd: Country scenes! So in a country scene, what can you see?

託德：鄉村風景畫！那鄉村風景畫中都有什麼？

Richard: OK, I can see a red house, with a chimney, billowing n fields , luscious green grass in England.

理查德：我可以看到一間有煙囪的紅色房子，煙囪冒出滾滾濃煙，還有綠色的田野，還有英國柔軟的青草。

Todd: Wow, so is your home like that in England?

託德：哇，那你在英國的家就是那個樣子的嗎？

Richard: Actually, no! No, It's not in 're in the suburbs of London, we're not really in the country.

理查德：實際上不是！它不是在……我們住在倫敦郊區，實際上我們並不住在鄉村。

Todd: Oh!

託德：哦！

Richard: And I used to paint sort of idyllic countryside scenes.

理查德：我以前會畫田園般的鄉村風景。

Todd: OK. Which do you prefer, the country of the city?

託德：好。那鄉村和城市你更喜歡哪個？

Richard: To paint or to live in?

理查德：是指繪畫還是生活？

Todd: paint.

託德：嗯，繪畫。

Richard: To paint! To paint I prefer the country.

理查德：繪畫！繪畫來說，我更喜歡鄉村。

Todd: OK. Great.

託德：好。很好。

Richard: To live in, I think it is more convenient being, being near a big city.

理查德：要是生活的話，我認爲住在大城市附近更方便。

Todd: OK. Great. Thanks.

託德：好。很好。謝謝。

重點講解：
1. all kinds of
各種類型的；五花八門的；
eg. onations came from all kinds of people.
捐贈來自於各界人士。
eg. All kinds of remarkable things began to happen.
開始發生各種不尋常的事。
2. used to do sth.
過去常常；過去曾做某事；
eg. Things ain't what they used to be.
現在情況不比從前了。
eg. I used to live in London.
我曾經在倫敦居住過。
3. enjoy doing sth.
享受；喜愛做某事；
eg. I enjoyed playing cricket.
我喜歡打板球。
eg. Children enjoy playing on the sands.
孩子們喜歡在沙灘上玩耍。