美語情景對話 第267期:India 印度(2)

Indians are great people. I love Indians. They are very happy and very fun, and very welcoming people even though Indians are poor, many Indians are poor, they're still very nice, and when you go to Indian, India, the Indians welcome you there, and they're very happy that you're in their country, and you feel this happiness and it makes you happy, and it's a great place.

印度民衆都非常棒。我喜歡印度人。他們幸福又快樂，而且也很熱情，雖然他們很貧窮，大部分印度人都很窮，但是他們人非常好，當你前往印度的時候，印度民衆會熱情的歡迎你，他們很開心你們來到他們的國家，而你會感受到這種幸福，這會使你很高興，那裏是個很棒的地方。

India is full of surprises. When you are in India you see many things that are very shocking and very strange to your culture. For example, the cow is a very holy animal there. It's part of the religion so you don't eat meat in India, and the cows are allowed to go free and go wherever they want, so maybe when you are driving down the street there will be a cow standing in the middle of the road and you have to drive around him, so this is very, very strange sight. You'll never see a cow in New York city, but you will see a cow in the middle of New Delhi city and it's very surprising at first, and maybe another strange site are the holy men, the Indian Sadus or Indian holy men. They give up everything. They give up their family, they give up all their belongings. They give up their car, their money, and they just wonder around the country, from religious site to religious site, and they beg for their food and they beg for money to take the bus, and they all wear orange, orange robes and many of them have big long beards and long hair, and they are very distinctive looking, and their very wonderful people, very kind and very nice, and they're very, their inner strength for their religion and for life is very strong and you learn a lot from these people, and you learn a lot from India.

印度充滿了驚喜。你在印度時會看到事情，這些事情以你們的文化看來可能震驚又奇怪。舉例來說，牛在印度是非常神聖的動物。這是宗教的一部分，所以在印度不能吃肉，而且印度允許牛類自由前往它們想去的任何地方，所以，當你沿街開車時，你可能會看到有隻牛站在路中間，而你必須要繞過它，這是非常非常奇怪的景象。你永遠不會在紐約市看到牛，可你會在新德里市中心看到牛，剛開始這種情況非常令人驚訝，而另一個奇怪的事情就是聖人，印度聖人。他們放棄了一切。他們放棄了他們的家人，放棄了他們的財產，放棄了他們的車、錢財，他們只是在印度各地遊走，從一個宗教場所到另一個宗教場所，他們乞討食物和錢財來支付公車費用，他們都身着橘色長袍，他們中的許多人都留着長長的鬍子和長髮，他們的相貌很獨特，他們是非常了不起的人，和藹可親，他們對所信奉宗教和生活的內在力量很強大，你會從這些人身上學到許多東西，你也會從印度民衆身上學到很多東西。

重點講解：
1. even though
即使；儘管；縱然；
eg. Even though I'm supposed to be working by myself, there are other people who I can interact with.
即便是需要我一個人工作，我還是可以和別人進行交流的。
eg. It's a thrilling movie even though it lacks subtlety.
這部電影雖說不算精巧，但還是扣人心絃的。
2. be full of
有大量…的；滿是…的；充滿；
eg. The streets are still full of debris from two nights of rioting.
街道上仍到處可見連續兩晚的騷亂留下的殘跡。
eg. Mom's face was full of pain.
媽媽的臉上寫滿了痛苦。
3. at first
最初；起初；開始時；
eg. The drugs work well at first but gradually lose their effectiveness.
這些藥的效果起初非常好，但後來逐漸失效。
eg. Driving on the left is strange at first but you get used to it.
沿著路的左側駕駛剛開始時有些彆扭，可是習慣了就好了。
4. give up
放棄；戒除；
eg. Coastguards had given up all hope of finding the two divers alive.
海岸警衛隊對兩位潛水員生還已完全不抱希望。
eg. He was not prepared to give up that easily.
他可不是個善罷甘休的人。
5. beg for
討（食物、錢等）；懇求，乞求；
eg. In those years they were forced to beg for a living.
那些年他們被迫乞討維生。
eg. We are not going to beg for help any more.
我們不會再乞求幫助。