美語情景對話 第266期:India 印度(1)

My name is Jeff Eagar. I'm from Canada but I just spent six months in India and I love India. I think India is my favorite country in the whole world. India is very interesting. It's real life. It's the good and the bad, and the rich and the poor, and the happy and the struggling, all together in one country, and when you.go to India, you feel a lot of emotion, you feel a lot of sadness and happiness and joy and that's why India is my favorite country.

我的名字是傑夫·伊格。我來自加拿大，我只在印度生活了六個月的時間，可是我愛印度。我認爲印度是全世界我最喜愛的國家。印度非常有意思。那裏的生活很真實。有好的方面，也有不好的方面，有富人，有窮人，有快樂，也有掙扎，那個國家有所有的這些因素，你去到印度時，會感覺到多種情感，你會感到很傷心，也會感到幸福和快樂，這就是我最喜歡的原因。

India is a very interesting culture, and it's a very old culture. It takes a little bit of time for you to get used to India when you go there. They go things differently from other countries. I was eating with my hands in India. You eat with your hand and your left hand acts as toilet paper, because they don't have toilet paper in India, and they are mostly Hindu and they believe in the Hindi, Hindu religion, and it's a very old religion. A very beautiful religion, they have many gods and many deities, and it's very colorful and they do lots, lots of religions ceremonies with fire and with bells, and with holy priests, and it's very visually, for your eyes, it's an interesting place, a very interesting thing to see.

印度的文化很有意思，那裏的文化很古老。你前往印度時，要花些時間才能習慣那裏的生活。他們的生活與其他的國家完全不同。在印度我要用手吃飯。你用手吃飯，而你的左手則用作衛生紙，因爲印度沒有廁紙，大部分印度人都是印度教徒，他們信奉印度教，這是一個非常古老的宗教。也是一個非常美的宗教，印度教神祗衆多，豐富多彩，他們會用燃火和鈴鐺進行宗教儀式，當然神父也會參加，這在視覺上非常享受，印度是一個有趣的地方，是一個可以看到有趣事情的地方。

重點講解：
1. a little bit
少許；一點兒；
eg. I'm certainly going, but I'll be a little bit late.
我去是去，可是得晚一點兒。
eg. Helen sing a little bit worse.
海倫唱得稍微差一點。
2. believe in
相信；
eg. I don't believe in ghosts.
我不相信有鬼。
eg. It's no use citing the Bible to somebody who doesn't believe in God.
對不信上帝的人引用聖經的話是沒用的。
3. act as
起作用；充當；
eg. He acted both as the ship's surgeon and as chaplain for the men.
他在船上爲水手們兼作外科醫生和牧師。
eg. Hopefully his punishment will act as a deterrent to others.
對他的懲罰但願能起到殺一儆百的作用。
eg. Maybe I can act as a messenger for you.
也許我能給你當信差。