美語情景對話 第211期:健身房 Gym

Jessica: Kate, how do you normally spend your evenings?

傑西卡：凱特，你通常怎麼度過晚上的時光？

Kate: I've joined the gym here, so I go and exercise and go for a swim.

凱特：我加入了這裏的健身俱樂部，所以我會去鍛鍊，游泳。

Jessica: Swim. How long do you stay each time?

傑西卡：游泳。你每次鍛鍊多長時間？

Kate: About 2 hours.

凱特：大約兩個小時。

Jessica: Wow. So what do you do during those two hours.

傑西卡：哇。那這兩個小時裏你都做什麼呢？

Kate: So we go to the gym for about an hour and then have a swim for half an hour and then sauna for about ten minutes and then finish off with a massage.

凱特：我們在健身房運動一個小時，然後游泳半個小時，之後蒸桑拿10分鐘，最後去按摩。

Jessica: Really, a massaging chair?

傑西卡：是按摩椅嗎？

Kate: A massaging chair!

凱特：對，是按摩椅！

Jessica: Wonderful, and so who do you go with?

傑西卡：真好，那你和誰一起去呢？

Kate: I go with Nicola.

凱特：我和尼科拉一起去。

Jessica: And Nicola is?

傑西卡：尼科拉是誰？

Kate: She's another teacher and she's who I live with, so.

凱特：她也是老師，她和我一起住。

Jessica: Alright, good, good, good, good. Now when you're in the gym, do you do weights? Do you do cardio? Aerobics? Running? Walking?

傑西卡：哦，真好，真好，太好了。那你們在健身房會做力量練習嗎？你們做有氧運動嗎？健美操？跑步？健步走？

Kate: We do everything really. Aerobics and weights.

凱特：其實我們什麼都會做。有健美操和力量練習。

Jessica: Aerobics and weights are the best.

傑西卡：健美操和力量練習是最好的運動。

Kate: The gyms here are much better than back home.

凱特：這裏的健身房比我們家鄉的好太多了。

Jessica: Oh, yeah. What's the biggest difference?

傑西卡：哦，這樣啊。最大的區別是什麼？

Kate: They have games on the machines so if you're cycling, you're also playing a game where you have to blow up the other cyclists so it makes it a bit more interesting than just exercising.

凱特：他們的健身器材上有遊戲，你在騎單車的同時也在玩遊戲，你必須要擊敗其他的自行車手，這種遊戲比只做運動要有意思。

Jessica: Uh-huh! So it passes the time by. Yeah, lot quicker. And then why are you exercising? Do you have a certain reason, a goal in mind?

傑西卡：啊哈！這樣時間過得很快。嗯，快很多。那你爲什麼要健身呢？你是有特定的理由，還是有想達成的目標？

Kate: Yeah, because I put on a lot of weight when I was in Australia because I was eating too much pizza and, good breakfast, and drinking far too much beer.

凱特：對，因爲我在澳大利亞的時候體重增加了很多，我吃了太多的批薩，早餐吃得很豐盛，還喝了過多的啤酒。

Jessica: So you just want to shed those extra pounds.

傑西卡：所以你是想減去多餘的體重。

Kate: Yeah, that I put on and get back to the original weight that I was.

凱特：沒錯，就是我增加的那些體重，我要恢復我原來的身材。

Jessica: Well, good luck to you.

傑西卡：嗯，祝你好運。

Kate: Thank you.

凱特：謝謝你。

重點講解：
1. finish off
結束；完成；<非正>殺死；毀掉；吃光（某物）
eg. He began to tidy up his desk and finish off the week's work.
他開始整理書桌，結束一週的工作。
eg. He has to finish off three players to get the prize.
他得拼掉三個選手後才能獲獎。
2. blow up
引爆；（使）炸燬；（使）爆炸；
eg. He was jailed for 45 years for trying to blow up a plane.
他因爲企圖炸燬一架飛機而被判入獄 45年。
eg. Their boat blew up as they slept.
他們睡覺的時候船爆炸了。
3. put on weight
體重增加；
eg. I'm lucky really as I never put on weight.
我很幸運，因爲我的體重從來沒有增加過。
eg. You have put on weight.
你發福了。