美語情景對話 第926期:Alternative Exercise 替代練習

Todd: Hey Julia.

託德：嗨，

Julia: Hey Todd, how are you doing?

朱莉婭：嗨，託德，你過得好嗎？

Todd: Good, good. Now Julia, you are really fit and also you are a yoga instructor and a runner so you are the perfect person to talk about extreme exercise.

託德：很好，我很好。朱莉婭，你非常健康，而且你是瑜伽教練又是跑步運動員，所以你應該是談論極限運動的最佳人選。

Julia: Extreme. I wouldn't say I'm an extremist, but go on.

朱莉婭：極限。我不會說我是極限分子，不過你可以繼續。

Todd: OK. So first of all I thought I would ask about this yoga that you do in like really hot rooms or something like that.

託德：好。第一個問題，我記得以前問過在高溫房間裏做瑜伽的情況。

Julia: Yeah, the bikram yoga it's called.

朱莉婭：對，那是比克若姆熱瑜伽。

Todd: Yeah.

託德：對。

Julia: Yeah, actually I've never tried it myself. I know it's kind of a growing craze, maybe Madonna made it really popular. As far as I know you do it in a sauna but it can't possibly be a sauna.

朱莉婭：嗯，其實我自己並沒有嘗試過。我知道高溫瑜伽非常流行，可能是麥當娜讓這種運動流行起來的。據我所知是在桑拿房裏做瑜伽，但並不是像蒸桑拿一樣。

Todd: Not a real sauna, right?

託德：不是真正的桑拿，對嗎？

Julia: I don't know what the temperature is but I think the philosophy behind it is to try to recreate the same climate as you'd find in India where yoga originates.

朱莉婭：我不知道高溫瑜伽的溫度要求，不過我認爲背後的理念是，重建瑜伽起源地印度的氣候。

Todd: Right, so you want it to be really hot.

託德：好，所以溫度要很高。

Julia: And humid, yeah.

朱莉婭：還要潮溼。

Todd: Wow.

託德：哇。

Julia: And also people who like to get the kind of the stretch value but also like to sweat at the same time. If you want a sweat yoga then it's a crank up the temperature is going to help you.

朱莉婭：人們既想拉伸身體又想出汗。如果你希望做瑜伽時出汗，那就要提高溫度。

Todd: Wow, that's intense.

託德：哇，很強烈。

Julia: It is.

朱莉婭：對。

Todd: What about, have you heard about cross fit?

託德：你聽說過混合健身嗎？

Julia: Cross fit? No.

朱莉婭：混合健身？沒有。

Todd: Yeah. Cross fit's the big rage in America.

託德：嗯，混合健身現在在美國非常流行。

Julia: Cross fit, no I haven't heard of that.

朱莉婭：混合健身，我沒有聽說過。

Todd: Cross fit is like people do all of these really old-school exercises, like push ups or pull ups. They do like jumping jacks, they do really weird things like dead lifts, stuff like that but they do it one after the other in really short time intervals and like the work out only takes twelve minutes.

託德：混合健身就是把俯臥撐和引體向上等所有的傳統運動做一遍。混合健身要做的運動還包括開合跳，還有硬舉等奇怪的動作，要在很短的時間間隔內交替做這些動作，整個過程只用12分鐘。

Julia: Wow.

朱莉婭：哇。

Todd: But if you do it right, I think some people actually get so fatigued they throw up so like you really push your body to the limit.

託德：如果動作到位，有些人最後會精疲力竭，有些人會嘔吐，因爲要讓身體達到極限。

Julia: That is extreme, yes.

朱莉婭：這就是極限。

Todd: It is extreme, although I'm probably saying it wrong.

託德：對，極限，雖然我可能會說那錯了。

Julia: Good for weight loss.

朱莉婭：很適合減輕體重。

Todd: Yeah, so it's actually a big craze where people do more natural body movements and you never do the same thing twice. You're not supposed to get into a routine. You always do things different.

託德：對，所以這種健身非常流行，人們要做更多的自然身體運動，但動作不會重複。不會成爲例行公事。而是一直在做不同的動作。

Julia: You do it like spontaneously or you set yourself a program?

朱莉婭：是自發地做，還是給自己制定個計劃？

Todd: There's a whole website, you go to the cross fit website and they explain it all but it looks pretty cool. It's like not your typical gym type workout.

託德：有一個相關網站，你可以去混合健身網站，上面有詳細的說明，看起來非常酷。和傳統的健身房鍛鍊不同。

Julia: Cross fit sounds like something you do on a BMX or something.

朱莉婭：混合健身聽起來像在小輪車比賽中會做的動作。

Todd: Right, right, exactly.

託德：對，對，沒錯。

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重點講解：
1. go on 繼續說下去；
例句：Meer cleared his throat several times before he went on.
梅爾清了幾次嗓子，又接着往下說。
2. first of all 首先；第一；
例句：First of all ,let us see how much it will cost.
首先，讓我們看看它要花多少錢。
3. crank up 開大，調高；
例句：The manger wants us to crank up the production line.
管理人員希望我們提高生產線的作業速度。
4. throw up 嘔吐；嘔出；
例句：She said she had thrown up after reading reports of the trial.
她說，她看完審判報告後都吐了。