美語情景對話 第546期:White Water Ride 激流之旅

Tom: I don't know what to do for my next holiday. Have you ever tried rafting?

湯姆：我不知道下一個假期要做什麼。你玩過漂流嗎？

Joel: Yeah, actually. I was a camp counselor one time for this high school program and we did a week long rafting trip in Utah. I can't remember the name of the river, but there was about 20 kids, and we carried all of our food and camping equipment on the raft, so we would pack, all the students would help pack up everything onto the rafts. We would go down the river for about three or four hours a day then we would stop at a camp stop. We would have to take all of the food, all of the camping equipment off and then the students would have different roles, so some students that day were in charge of cooking food for example, and they had prepared a menu, all the ingredients for that day. Other students were in charge of setting up all of the campground, you know, the tents. Other students were in charge of like building the fire.

喬爾：玩過。我曾做過高中露營活動的輔導員，我們曾在猶他州進行過爲期一週的漂流旅行。我記不清那條河流的名字了，我只記得大約有20名學生，我們帶着所有的食物和露營裝備坐上了橡皮艇，所有學生都要幫忙打包行李，然後裝上橡皮艇。一天中我們大概沿着河流漂流三或四個小時，然後我們會停下來露營。我們要把所有食物和露營裝備拿下來，然後學生們會進行分工，一些學生負責做飯，他們要準備菜單還有那天要用的所有材料。一些學生負責搭帳篷，其他學生則要去生火。

Tom: Sounds like the students were doing a lot of work. What did you do?

湯姆：聽起來學生們要做很多工作。那你做什麼？

Joel: We were organizing; making sure they were all on their roles.

喬爾：我們負責組織，確保學生們完成他們的工作。

Tom: Organizing!

湯姆：組織！

Joel: Cracking the whip.

喬爾：我們是鞭策他們的。

Tom: So you stayed in a different place each night.

湯姆：所以你們每晚都住在不同的地方。

Joel: Yeah, so we were, you know, camping. We had to carry every supply that we needed for an entire week and carry it all on the rafts.

喬爾：對，每晚就在不同的地方露營。那一週的時間我們在漂流時儘量帶上所有需要的供給。

Tom: Did anything go wrong?

湯姆：那出過什麼差錯嗎？

Joel: Yeah, it got very cold for a few days, and a couple of students, actually, we went through rapids, so I don't know, do you call it the same (yeah) in British English? It's exciting but it was a very cold day and it's very rough so a few students fell in.

喬爾：有，有幾天非常冷，我們穿過急流時……英式英語中是不是也這麼說？（對）雖然很興奮，可是那是寒冷的一天，而且浪很大，所以一些學生掉進河裏了。

Tom: What happened?

湯姆：發生了什麼？

Joel: It's very dangerous. You know, everyone wears a life vest, so I think they were all able to swim anyway, but you have to wear a life vest, and they teach you to try to face your feet down stream because there are many rocks and things like that.

喬爾：其實這很危險。你知道，所有人都穿着救生衣，雖然我想他們所有人都會游泳，但是也必須要穿救生衣，而且向下遊的時候要儘量面對你的腳，因爲河流中有許多岩石。

Tom: Oh, so you don't hit your..

湯姆：哦，這樣你就不會撞到……

Joel: That's right. If you're going head first, then you could, the water's moving quickly so you could hit a rock or something, so you try to go feet first, and then, everyone has a paddle, so we try to paddle the raft over to them as quickly as we can, pull them back in, but you know, we're still maybe an hour and a half from where we are camping so being completely wet like that, you know, you're so cold until we get back.

喬爾：沒錯。如果你的頭在前，因爲河水非常湍急，你可能會撞到岩石或其他東西，所以你要儘量使腳在前面，而且每個人都有船槳，所以我們要儘快把橡皮艇劃到他們旁邊，把他們拉上來，不過離我們到露營地還有一個半小時的時間，可是我們全都溼透了，所以我們回到露營地之前一直都非常冷。

Tom: It sounds like an incredible holiday. Did anyone take a camera?

湯姆：聽起來那是一個難以置信的假期。有人帶相機嗎？

Joel: Oh, of course. There's tons of pictures on it, but what I find most about trips like that, like sometimes when you're so cold and everything like that. You feel terrible. You feel miserable, but it's such a group experience, like you really get close to everyone, and you feel like, you feel so much closer to everyone after you've gone through a challenging experience like that.

喬爾：當然。我們拍了很多照片，不過我在那次旅行中感受最多的是，在那種非常寒冷的情況下，你會感覺又糟糕又痛苦，不過這是一次團隊體驗，你可以和所有人熟悉起來，在經歷了這種充滿挑戰性的經歷後，你會感覺到大家都親近起來。

Tom: To have to pull your friend out of the water.

湯姆：必須要把你的朋友從水裏救出來。

Joel: That's right.

喬爾：沒錯。

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重點講解：
1. pack up
打點（行裝）；
例句：I'll be packing up my thing then.
那時候我在收拾行李。
例句：He was told to pack up all of his letters and personal belongings.
他被告知收拾好自己所有的信件和私人物品。
2. in charge of
主管；全面負責；統領；
例句：He's the chief, in charge of the whole show.
他是主管，負責全盤工作。
例句：Pilfering has stopped entirely since they put Angus in charge of the stores.
自從他們讓安格斯掌管商店以來，小偷小摸就杜絕了。
3. tons of
大量的，很多的；
例句：The movie star received tons of fan mail.
那位影星收到了許許多多影迷的來信。
例句：There's always tons of scrap paper in Dad's office.
爸爸的辦公室裏總有大量的廢紙。