美語情景對話 第326期:California Guy 來自加州的男人
Todd: OK. Hello! Could you introduce yourself please?
託德：好。你好！請介紹一下自己好嗎？Conrad: Yes! I'm Conrad Matsumoto. I'm from California like you, Todd. And now I'm living in Japan. I've been here about seven years.
康拉德：好的！我叫康拉德·松本。託德，我和你一樣來自加利福尼亞。現在我住在日本。我來這裏有七年了。Todd: Wow! Seven years!
託德：哇！七年！
Conrad: Well, maybe six.
康拉德：嗯，也許是六年。Todd: Six.
託德：六年。Conrad: Yeah.
康拉德：對。Todd: It goes by fast, huh?
託德：時間過得真快，對吧？Conrad: It does, doesn't it?
康拉德：的確是，不是嗎？Todd: Yeah. Where are you from in California?
託德：是啊。你來自加州的哪裏？Conrad: Northern California. Uh, Stockton to be exact.
康拉德：我來自北加州，準確的說是斯托克頓市。Todd: Oh, wow!
託德：哦，哇！Conrad: Yeah!
康拉德：嗯！Todd: That's pretty hot.
託德：那裏非常熱。Conrad: Yeah, it gets very hot, but, um, it's more comfortable than Japan cause it's dry heat. Yeah, I know, I miss that dry heat.
康拉德：沒錯，那裏非常熱，不過，那裏還是比日本要舒服得多，因爲那裏是乾熱。沒錯，我想我很想念那種乾熱的感覺。Todd: Why don't you tell everyone about your family?
託德：你爲什麼不跟大家說說你的家庭呢？Conrad: OK. Well, let's see, my older brother and younger brother, they're both married back in California. My parents are still fine. Yeah, and I'm still single.
康拉德：好的。我想想啊，我有一個哥哥和一個弟弟，他們都已經在加州結婚了。我父母身體不錯。我還是單身。Todd: 're still single?
託德：你……你還是單身嗎？Conrad: Yeah, I am the only one.
康拉德：對，我是家裏唯一沒結婚的孩子。Todd: Yeah! Do you think you'll be single forever?
託德：嗯！你認爲你會永遠單身嗎？Conrad: Not forever. But I have no immediate plans to be married.
康拉德：不會永遠。不過我並沒有馬上結婚的計劃。Todd: Uh-huh. Yeah, I'm kind of on the same way.
託德：啊哈。我和你的情況差不多。Conrad: Yeah!
康拉德：嗯！Todd: We're poor English teachers. We don't have any money!
託德：我們都是貧窮的英語老師。我們都沒有錢！Conrad: That's right.
康拉德：沒錯。Todd: OK. Thanks a lot, Conrad.
託德：好。康拉德，非常謝謝你。Conrad: Sure.
康拉德：不客氣。
重點講解：
1. go by
（時間）流逝，過去；
eg. My grandmother was becoming more and more sad and frail as the years went by.
隨着時間的流逝，我的祖母變得日益傷感和虛弱。
eg. The excitement died down as time went by.
隨着時間的推移，激動的心情逐漸平靜下來。
2. back in
（表示描述場所的轉換）在曾提到過的地方；以前；過去；追溯至；
eg. Meanwhile, back in London, Palace Pictures was collapsing.
與此同時，倫敦的皇宮影業公司也正在分崩離析。
eg. The story starts back in 1950, when I was five.
故事可以追溯到1950年，那時我才5歲。
3. kind of
稍微；有幾分；有點兒；
eg. `Is she interested?' `Well, kind of.'
"她感興趣嗎？"“嗯，有點兒”
He was kind of a fool.
他有點兒傻。
