美語情景對話 第940期:Water Adventures 水上冒險

Jana: So you mentioned hiking. I think South Africa must have a lot of outdoor activities, right?

嘉娜：你提到了徒步旅行。我想南非一定有很多戶外活動，對吧？

Peter: Hmm.

彼得：對。

Jana: Some extreme sports?

嘉娜：極限運動嗎？

Peter: Right, right. Yeah, it's, actually for a dry country it's interesting that it has so many water sports, people that really love water sports too especially on the eastern side of the country because it's tropical warm climate year round. The sea temperature is quite warm and at the same time it has a lot of really big waves so I think two of the world's biggest surfing events are held in South Africa yearly. The one is near Jeffreys Bay and the other one is near Durban and that's where all the world's surf champions come to surf and test their skills. But if you're not into surfing you can go wind surfing which actually on the eastern coast is really famous because of the strong winds over there and the relatively, not calm seas, but actually there's a lot of open plains to do wind surfing on so it's really famous for that. And then like skiing and water skiing of course really famous too. People really enjoy the water sports.

彼得：對，沒錯。一個乾旱的國家有很多水上運動，這點很有意思，人們喜歡水上運動，南非東部地區的人們尤其喜歡水上運動，因爲南非全年都是熱帶溫暖氣候。海水溫度非常溫暖，而且還有很多巨浪，所以世界兩大年度衝浪賽事選在南非舉行。其中一個賽事在傑佛瑞灣附近舉行，另一個在德班附近舉行，屆時世界衝浪冠軍都會來到這兩個地方衝浪，測試他們的技巧。但是如果你不喜歡衝浪，你可以去玩帆板，東海岸的帆板運動很出名，因爲那裏有強風，海面相對不太平靜，不過有很多開闊的地帶可以進行帆板運動，那裏非常出名。當然那裏的滑冰和水上滑冰也很出名。人們非常喜歡水上運動。

Jana: Great. I also heard about diving.

嘉娜：太好了。我還聽說過潛水。

Peter: Ah, yeah.

彼得：啊，對。

Jana: Diving in South Africa.

嘉娜：在南非潛水。

Peter: Yeah, that's, one, two interesting things. One is shark cage diving that people are really, have in recent years become interested in.

彼得：對，有兩種有趣的潛水。其中之一是近年來越來越受歡迎的潛水觀鯊。

Jana: That sounds scary.

嘉娜：聽起來好可怕。

Peter: I think it is. One of the, actually the breeding colonies of the great white shark is in South Africa, I think the other one is in Australia, and people come there to go down in big steel cages to go and see some of these huge sharks and they dive with them and I think it's pretty dangerous but it's interesting for some people. Oh, the other thing that's really interesting diving in South Africa, also dangerous, is diving for treasure because of the ancient shipping route from Europe right past the Cape Point, the southern most shipping route in the world. There's a lot of ships that sank because of the terrible weather in centuries past, over the last, I guess, five hundred years ships have sunk around the tip of Africa and people, divers come there to dive and find out if they can get some, if they can get rich basically diving for treasure and you get a lot of historical excavation as well. It's pretty dangerous too because there are two converging sea...

彼得：我想是有點可怕。南非是大白鯊的其中一個繁殖地，另一個繁殖地應該是在澳大利亞，人們去那裏潛入一個大鐵籠子，觀賞大白鯊，他們和鯊魚一起潛水，我想那非常危險，不過對有些人來說很有意思。南非另外一種非常有意思的潛水也很危險，就是潛水尋寶，因爲古代從歐洲出發的航線要經過好望角，那裏是世界上航線的最南端。過去幾個世紀以來，我想大概是過去500多年來，有很多船隻因爲惡劣的天氣在非洲的南端沉沒，潛水者會去那裏潛水，尋找寶藏，希望能變得富有，那裏也有很多考古挖掘工作。其實那非常危險，因爲那是兩個海洋彙集……

Jana: Currents.

嘉娜：水流。

Peter: Currents that meet and the one is warm and the one is cold so you have a really interesting combination of natural weather patterns at the same place so I guess a lot of ships sank because of all the storms in that area.

彼得：那是水流匯合的地方，其中一股水流是溫暖的，另一股是寒冷的，兩種氣候模式在同一個地方結合在一起，所以我認爲那個地區的風暴是造成大量船隻沉沒的原因。

Jana: Wow, so treasure diving or wreck diving sounds more fun than shark diving.

嘉娜：哇哦，潛水尋寶和打撈潛水聽起來比潛水觀鯊更有趣。

Peter: I think so too but it depends on your interest I guess.

彼得：我也是這樣認爲的，不過這要看你對哪個感興趣。

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重點講解：
1. at the same time 同時；
例句：He may be very rude sometimes but at the same time he is very kind.
有時候他可能很粗魯，然而他還是很善良。
2. because of 因爲；由於；
例句：The sea was choppy today because of the windstorm.
今天起了風暴，海上波濤洶涌。
3. find out (尤指特意通過努力)發現，找出，查明；
例句：My greatest dread is that my parents will find out.
我最擔心的就是父母會察覺出來。
4. depend on 取決(於)；有賴(於)；
例句：It would depend on what is on the list.
這要看列表內容。