美語情景對話 第286期:Music 音樂

Todd: OK, Adrienne, let's talk about abilities. What are you good at?

託德：好的，埃德里安娜，我們談談能力吧。你擅長什麼？

Adrienne: Um, I don't know.

埃德里安娜：嗯，我不清楚。

Todd: You don't know?

託德：你不清楚？

Adrienne: I really don't know!

埃德里安娜：我真的不知道！

Todd: Well, I was looking at your photos, and you can play the violin.

託德：嗯，好吧，我在看你的照片，你會拉小提琴。

Adrienne: That's true!

埃德里安娜：沒錯！

Todd: And you can sing very well.

託德：而且你歌也唱得非常好。

Adrienne: Ah, I can sing some.

埃德里安娜：嗯，我可以唱些歌。

Todd: OK, so, tell us about playing the violin.

託德：好，那跟我們談談小提琴的事情吧。

Adrienne: I really enjoy playing the violin. I've been playing for many, many years since I was a little girl and everyone in my family plays an instrument so it's part of what we do together as a family.

埃德里安娜：我非常喜歡拉小提琴。我已經練了很多年，從小時候開始練的，我家裏所有人都會演奏一種樂器，所以這是我們一家人一起做的事情。

Todd: So when you were little you practiced every day?

託德：那你小時候每天都練習嗎？

Adrienne: I did. My mom made me. I didn't have a choice. It's good for discipline though, or at least that's what she told me.

埃德里安娜：沒錯。我媽媽讓我這樣做。我沒有選擇。雖然這對訓練有幫助，至少我媽媽是這麼告訴我的。

Todd: So, how would you practice? Did you have a tutor come over to your house?

託德：那你怎麼練習呢？你們請了指導老師去你家授課嗎？

Adrienne: No, I had a violin teacher once a week and when I was really small I went to group lessons also, so it was once a week with a private and once a week with a group.

埃德里安娜：不，我有一個小提琴老師，每週上一次課，我很小的時候去上小班課程，所以當時是私人老師一週上一次課，小班課程一週上一次。

Todd: Wow! That's a lot. What did you think about the violin when you were little?

託德：哇！課很多啊。你小時候怎麼看小提琴？

Adrienne: I don't remember thinking about it. I don't even remember learning how to play. I was only two so (so young) I know. I was still in diapers, but my mom said that when I had my first recital that I really wanted to play in the recital and she said I absolutely could not play on stage in a diaper so that's basically how she got me out of my diapers. So she says!

埃德里安娜：我不記得我怎麼看它了。我甚至不記得學習演奏的情景。我當時只有兩歲（好小啊），我知道。我當時還穿着尿布呢，不過我媽媽在我第一次參加演奏會時說，我非常想在演奏會中表演，而她說，我絕對不能裹着尿布在舞臺上演奏，所以她說她就是那樣讓我擺脫尿布的。她就是那麼說的！

Todd: When did you stop playing?

託德：你什麼時候不再演奏小提琴了？

Adrienne: I haven't stopped.

埃德里安娜：我從沒停過。

Todd: Oh, you still practice.

託德：哦，你仍在練習。

Adrienne: I still play although I don't have my violin here in Japan, right now. I'm kind of on a break I guess. I just don't like to carry it around overseas.

埃德里安娜：我仍在練習，不過目前我在日本並沒有小提琴。我想這是種休息吧。我並不想帶着它出國。

Todd: Is it hard to be away from your violin?

託德：離開你的小提琴很難嗎？

Adrienne: It is sometimes. I miss it. I miss playing with my family too, cause we're kind of like the Van Trapp family, which you know from the movie The Sound of Music.

埃德里安娜：有時。我會想它。我很想念和家人一起演奏的感覺，因爲我們有點像馮·特普一家，你知道就是電影《音樂之聲》中的那個家庭。

Todd: No, no, I don't. I've never seen the movie.

託德：不，不，我不知道。我沒看過那部電影。

Adrienne: Oh, you haven't? The Sound of Music is about a family in, I think it's Austria and they all play an instrument or sing and it's a World War II movie and that's how they escape the Nazis, from singing or something. It's kind of like that, except for without the war.

埃德里安娜：哦，你沒看過嗎？《音樂之聲》是一個有關奧地利家庭的故事，他們所有人都會演奏樂器或者會唱歌，背景是第二次世界大戰期間，講的是他們如何通過唱歌逃離納粹的故事。我們有點像那個家庭，當然我們並沒有遇到戰爭。

Todd: Well, I have to see the movie so!

託德：嗯，我一定要看看這部電影！

Adrienne: Yeah, you should.

埃德里安娜：對，你應該看看。

Todd: So are you going to play the violin for me sometime?

託德：那你有時間可以爲我演奏小提琴嗎？

Adrienne: Sure! If you can find a violin I will.

埃德里安娜：當然！如果你能找到一部小提琴，我會演奏的。

重點講解：
1. be good at
擅長的；精通的；能幹的；
eg. A versatile person is often good at a number of different things.
多才多藝的人通常擅長許多種不同的事情。
eg. He is good at his job but he seems to lack confidence.
他工作不錯，但似乎缺乏信心。
2. be good for
有利的；有益的；
eg. Rain water was once considered to be good for the complexion.
雨水曾一度被認爲可以滋養皮膚。
eg. Eucalyptus oil is good for easing muscular aches and pains.
桉樹油可以很好地緩解肌肉的疼痛。
3. come over
從遠處來；順便來訪；
eg. You really must come over sometime and have dinner with us.
你確實應該找個時間過來，跟我們一起吃頓飯。
eg. She'll come over in a week or two.
她過一兩個星期就來。
4. get out of
擺脫；逃避；
eg. It's amazing what people will do to get out of paying taxes.
人們爲逃稅而做出的種種事情令人吃驚。
eg. Some men would do anything to get out of the war.
一些人在爲避免戰爭而奔波。
5. except for
除了；除…之外；唯有；
eg. The weather was good except for an occasional shower.
除下了一陣大雨外，天氣還是很好的。
eg. Except for a small pang, her headache has gone.
除了偶有不適外，她的頭痛已經好了。