美語情景對話 第246期:Trip to Argentina 去阿根廷旅行
Todd: Hey, Jessica, what are your plans for the summer?
託德：嗨，傑西卡，你暑假有什麼計劃？Jessica: This summer! I think I'm going to go on a trip with my brother to Argentina. Uh, we are still making the plans to go but I think we're going to go for two weeks. And we're probably going to go from Chicago, because that's where he lives, to Buenos Aires and then go north to the city of Cordoba, which is the second largest city in Argentina, so, and then from there I'd really like to go and see some gauchos, which are Argentine cowboys, so I think that would be really cool, and have some barbeque and see everything that we can, so..
傑西卡：今年暑假！我想我會和我哥哥去阿根廷旅行。嗯，我們仍在計劃中，不過我想我們會在那裏旅行兩週。我們可能會從芝加哥出發，因爲他住在那裏，我們會去布宜諾斯艾利斯，之後去北部城市科爾多瓦，那裏是阿根廷第二大城市，之後我想去看看南美牛仔，就是阿根廷的牛仔，我認爲那會很棒，我們可以燒烤，四處遊覽，所以……Todd: Cool! Are you going to work your way down to the southern tip?
託德：真棒！你打算去南部看看嗎？
Jessica: I don't think we're going to just because I have a buddy of mine that lives in the north, in Cordoba, and I think it's so far from the north to the south, just cause it's such a long country that he said by bus it would take something like some ungodly amount of hours and so, I don't know, in two weeks, I think that would be a little bit ambitious, to try to cover it all so.
傑西卡：我想我們不會去，因爲我有個朋友住在北部城市科爾多瓦，我想從北部去南部太遠了，因爲阿根廷南北距離太長，我朋友說坐公交要花好長時間，所以我也不太清楚，兩週時間，我想要是都去的話時間太趕了。Todd: OK, do you know anybody in Argentina?
託德：好，你在阿根廷有認識的人嗎？Jessica: Yeah, yeah, my one friend who lives there. I definitely want to go there and visit him.
傑西卡：有，有的，我的一個朋友住在那裏。我一定要去那裏看他。Todd: Oh, so your friend already lives there.
託德：哦，你朋友就住那裏啊。
重點講解：
1. be going to do sth.
想要做某事；決定做某事；
eg. I'm going to go to bed.
我要睡覺了。
eg. He announced that he's going to resign.
他宣佈他即將辭職。
eg. I was not going to compromise.
我決不妥協。
2. amount of
總數；總額；
eg. He needs that amount of money to survive.
他需要那樣一筆錢以生存下去。
eg. I still do a certain amount of work for them.
我仍然爲他們做一些工作。
eg. An abnormal amount of snow fell here last week.
上週這裏下了異常大的雪。
