美語情景對話 第30期:潛水 Scuba Diving
Todd: Nicola, you were talking to us the other day that you went diving in Australia.
妮可拉，你要向我們講講前幾天你在澳大利亞潛水的事兒？Nicola: That's right I did.
是的，沒錯。Todd: Wow, so what was it like?
哇，潛水怎麼樣？
Nicola: Well, actually it was quite scary to be honest. When I first started I did an introductory course, which was just maybe like two days. And so they just sent you out with all of the equipment, put you in the sea, and guided you, but then when I did the real course we started in the swimming pool, which was fine and it was all great fun, although there were two men on my course who completely freaked out and had to leave.
實際上，老實說很嚇人。我第一次潛水前，先聽了基礎入門課程，大約只有兩天的課程。然後他們就給了我很多器材，帶我下海，有教練指導我，在我們在游泳池實際演練的時候，一切正常而且很有趣，但我的班上有兩名男學員嚇壞了，他們最後只得退出。Todd: Oh!
哦！Nicola: Yeah! so that was fine but then they took us out to sea which was a bit different. Yeah, because they made us set up our own equipment, I mean they still checked us and everything so we didn't die, but we had to put on our own equipment. We had a diving buddy who I was with, and I was with my friend Graham, who I was traveling with anyway, and we went down into the sea. We went down maybe fifteen meters. And they always say like Don't Panic just keep breathing normally and everything. But I did kind of panic a bit.
是的！這些還好，但接下來教練帶着我們下海就有些不同了。因爲他們要求我們自己穿戴器材，他們仍然會檢查我們的器材和其他所有事物，以確保我們不會死於非命，但我們需要自己穿戴調試器材，然後下海。我有一個潛水夥伴，我的朋友Graham，我當時正和他一起旅行，我們兩個一起下海。我們下潛了15米。教練會說“不要害怕，保持正常呼吸”。但我還是有一點害怕。Todd: Oh, no!
哦，不！Nicola: So then I rose to the surface really quickly, which you know, you're not supposed to do in diving. So I went up really quickly. Luckily we weren't deep enough to do any damage but my diving buddy Graham was having a great time down there looking at shipwrecks and didn't even notice that I was missing.
下海後我很快就浮上來了，這對於潛水來說不是個好現象。好在我很快又潛下去了。幸運的是我們潛得不深不會受傷，但我的潛水夥伴Graham潛下去探險沉船廢墟，他甚至沒發現我已經不見了。Todd: What a terrible guy!
真是個差勁的夥伴！Nicola: Yeah, I know. so, then...
是的，我知道，接下來……Todd: Wow! Did they fail him? I hope he failed the course?
哇！教練給他掛科了嗎？我認爲他這門課不合格。Nicola: No, he passed. He paid enough money. He passed. But it meant that I couldn't go diving for the rest of the day cause I had gone down quite deep, so that was a shame, but.
沒有，他通過了。他交夠了錢。他通過了。但這意味着我那天不能再下海潛水了，因爲我已經潛得太深了，很遺憾。Todd: That's terrible. But you didn't hurt yourself, you didn't come up to fast?
這太糟糕了。但你沒有傷害到你自己，你沒有很快就浮上來？Nicola: No, I was fine in the end, but it was a shame because that was the end of my diving day. But we had a few more days to do it.
沒有，我後來表現很好，但那是我當天最後一次下水了。好在我們還有幾天時間可以下海潛水。Todd: So now you are comfortable diving. You don't freak out anymore?
所以說，你現在能自如地潛水。你不再害怕了？Nicola: I don't freak out anymore, but I couldn't go diving now on my own because it has been so long. Yeah!
我不再害怕了，但我現在不能自己潛水，因爲已經時隔很久了。注：譯文屬原創，未經允許，請勿轉載。
