美語情景對話 第238期:Great Fruit 豐富的水果
Todd: Hey, Lois, why don't you have a plum!
託德：嗨，洛伊絲，來個李子吃吧！Lois: Oh, thank you very much. Lovely!
洛伊絲：哦，非常謝謝你。好吃！Todd: You like plums?
託德：你喜歡吃李子？
Lois: I love all fruits, but plums especially.
洛伊絲：所有的水果我都愛吃，不過特別喜歡李子。Todd: Oh, there goes the water.
託德：哦，它們富含水分。Lois: It's very juicy.
洛伊絲：有很多果汁。Todd: It is juicy. How does it taste?
託德：有很多果汁。味道怎麼樣？Lois: Mm, it tastes sweet, very refreshing.
洛伊絲：嗯，是甜的，非常清新的味道。Todd: Mm, I love plums.
託德：嗯，我喜歡李子。Lois: Yeah, me too.
洛伊絲：我也喜歡。Todd: Guess how much this box cost?
託德：你猜這盒李子要多少錢？Lois: I'm thinking it's probably quite expensive, so in yen, maybe 1,000 yen.
洛伊絲：我想可能會非常貴，大概1000日元吧。Todd: Ah, yeah, pretty close. It cost 900 yen for 8 plums.
託德：對，差不多。這8個李子就要900日元。Lois: Very expensive in Japan.
洛伊絲：日本的價格真的很貴。Todd: I know it's crazy. In America you can get this for like maybe 200 yen. Not even that, maybe 100 yen.
託德：我知道，這很讓人抓狂。在美國的話，這些大概200日元就能買到。可能都不用，100日元就能買到。Lois: In England it's cheap but probably not as cheap as in America. I think maybe because we have to import everything. It's slightly more expensive.
洛伊絲：在英國李子很便宜，不過不像美國那麼便宜。我想，可能是因爲我們所有的東西都要靠進口。所以會有些貴。Todd: Actually, that's a good question. What fruits do you grow in England?
託德：實際上，這是個很好的問題。英國種植什麼水果？Lois: Apples and Apples and maybe pears and...
洛伊絲：蘋果，可能還有梨……Todd: No coconuts?
託德：沒有椰子嗎？Lois: No coconuts. No bananas. and maybe we grow plums. I don't know.
洛伊絲：沒有椰子。沒有香蕉。可能我們種李子，我不清楚。Todd: It looks like a very English fruit.
託德：那看上去像英國的代表水果。Lois: But definitely apples.
洛伊絲：那絕對是蘋果。Todd: Or strawberries?
託德：或者草莓？Lois: Strawberries, oh yeah. Lots of strawberries and tomatoes but maybe they're a vegetable some people say fruit. Some people say vegetable. But lots of tomatoes. And I'm sure lots of other things but, I just know about apples.
洛伊絲：草莓，對，沒錯。英國種植很多草莓和土豆，不過可能它們屬於蔬菜，有些人說它們是水果，有些人說是蔬菜。不過英國種植大量的土豆。我確定還種植大量的其他作物，不過我只知道蘋果。Todd: What's your favorite fruit?
託德：你最喜歡的水果是什麼？Lois: My favorite fruit! I really like pineapples, and I also like strawberries. Strawberries and cream. It's one of my favorite desserts.
洛伊絲：我最喜歡的水果！我非常喜歡菠蘿，我還喜歡草莓。草莓奶油是我最喜歡的甜點之一。Todd: Yeah, so have you ever been to Wimbleton and had strawberries and cream?
託德：嗯，你去溫布登吃過草莓奶油嗎？Lois: I haven't. I'd love to go. But strawberries and cream at Wimbleton are so expensive. I don't know how much but really, really expensive.
洛伊絲：沒有。我很想去。不過溫布登的草莓奶油非常貴。我不清楚具體的價格，不過真的很貴。
重點講解：
1. Why
問句中與 not 連用表示建議，爲什麼不……
eg. Why not give Claire a call?
爲什麼不給克萊爾打個電話？
eg. Why don't you come home with me until you sort things out?
你何不先和我一起回家，等事情解決了再走？
eg. Why don't we talk it through?
爲什麼我們不把這事談開呢？
2.
像…一樣；
eg. I never went through a final exam that was as difficult as that one.
我從來沒有碰到過像那次那麼難的期末考試。
eg. There was no obvious reason why this could not be as good a film as the original.
找不出明顯的理由來解釋爲什麼這部片子拍得不如原先的好。
3. would love to do sth.
樂於；很願意做某事；
eg. I would love to play for England again.
我很樂意再次爲英格蘭隊效力。
eg. His wife would love him to give up his job.
他妻子很樂意他辭去工作。
