美語情景對話 第186期:第二個家 Second Family

Jessica: About three years ago I went and I lived in Madrid for a year and I stayed with a host family, and there was three boys: one was my age, one was two years you.ger, and one was, at the time he 9 years old, and it was one of the best experiences of my life. I stayed in a city outside of Madrid, it's called Alcola de Hernades, and it's about a 30 minute train ride from Madrid, from downtown Madrid. In, I also went to school Monday to Friday. I went to a Spanish International language school, and so I went to class with Brazilians, French, German, Turkish, and so that was really good for my Spanish just because I was able to practice without having the ability to speak English, so my Spanish greatly improved, just from my friends, having to communicate to properly with them. My host family like I said was really wonderful. I would take the little one, Javi, my little brother, out a lot, we would go on what we called our citas, which is dates, so I would ask him where he wanted to go for our date and he would tell me, you know, like, in Madrid he wanted to see, one time we went to a wax museum, so he was able to vist the city which he did not have a lot of opportunity to do before that, so with the help of Javi and his host Mom, I was able to like thoroughly enjoy my Spanish experience and improve my Spanish as well.

傑西卡：大約三年前，我去馬德里住了一年，我和一個接待家庭住在一起，那家有三個兒子：一個和我年紀一樣，一個比我小兩歲，還有一個當時只有9歲，這是我人生中最棒的經歷之一。我住在馬德里外部一個叫做Alcola de Hernades的城市，從那裏坐火車到馬德里市中心要大約30分鐘的時間。我每週一至週五去學校上課。我在西班牙國際語言學校上課，所以和我一起上課的同學有巴西人、法國人、德國人和土耳其人，這對我學習西班牙語非常有幫助，因爲我可以在不用講英語的環境下練習西班牙語，所以我的西班牙語進步很大，我可以和朋友們正常溝通。就像我所說的，我的接待家庭非常好。我會經常帶小弟弟賈維外出，我們稱之爲去約會，我會問他想去哪裏約會，他會回答我在馬德里想去的地方，有一次我們一起去了蠟像館，這樣他就能去好好遊覽一下這個城市，以前他沒有什麼機會這麼做，在賈維和他媽媽的幫助下，我可以盡情地享受在西班牙的經歷，同時提高西班牙語的能力。

重點講解：
1. have the ability to do sth.
有能力做某事；
eg. He has the ability to bring out the best in others.
他能做到揚人之長。
eg. She has the ability to keep calm in an emergency.
她有處變不驚的本事。
2. be able to do sth.
能做到…的；可以…的，能夠…的；
eg. The company say they're able to keep pricing competitive.
該公司說他們能夠使定價保持競爭力。
eg. You'll be able to read in peace.
你就能安心地讀書了。
3. have the opportunity to do sth.
有機會做某事；
eg. I had an opportunity to go to New York and study.
我曾經有一個去紐約學習的機會。
eg. I'm very glad to have the opportunity to meet you.
我很高興有機會同您見面。