美語情景對話 第146期:冬季運動 Winter Sports
Todd: So, Christian, you.#39;re into skiing. What is it about skiing that you like?
Christian，你喜歡滑雪。那你爲什麼喜歡滑雪呢？
Christian: It's just fun to go out with your friends, enjoy a day and have fun cause you can do so many things when you're out there on the slopes. You can go jumping and just cruise down and, there's just so many things you can do. Just the fact that you can hang out with your friends all day. It's just fun, it's just a relaxed atmosphere.
就是跟朋友出去會很開心，那一天過得都會很快樂。因爲在斜坡上的時候你可以做很多項運動。可以跳起來，可以衝上去，反正就是你可以做很多你想做的事兒。其實事實就是你可以整天都跟朋友呆在外面。這就很有意思，而且氛圍很輕鬆。
Todd: Now do you go skiing in Japan?
現在你在日本滑雪嗎？
Christian: I haven't yet but I want to go. I mean, Nagano prefecture has, as far as I know, a lot of good places because of the Olympics and everything so. I would like to go and check it out but so far, I haven't had the chance, no.
我還沒在日本滑過雪呢但我挺想去的。我聽說，日本的長野縣有很多滑雪的地方，因爲那兒開過奧林匹克運動會，所以我挺想去看看的，但就是一直都沒有機會。
Todd: What do you need to know to be a good skier? See, actually I don't ski, so I went one time and it didn't work out to well, so.
要成爲一個好的滑雪者需要了解些什麼呢？像我，我就不會滑雪，我就去過一次，滑的也不是很好。
Christian: Well, you know, practice makes perfect, right! So it's all about practicing. You go out there, you go someone who knows the game and they'll teach you. Spend a couple of days and you'll be a full-blown skier.
嗯，你知道的，熟能生巧！所以多練練就好了。你和會滑雪的朋友一起去，他們會教你的。滑上幾天就能完全掌握要領了。
Todd: Have you ever trained somebody how to ski?
你教過別人怎麼滑雪嗎？
Christian: Actually, I went skiing once when I was in Australia, that was in 2002, and I had a friend with me from Singapore and he'd never seen snow before, so we went out. I was snow boarding and he was actually downhill skiing, and it was a fun experience for him because he didn't know what was going on, so I taught him a bit but, yeah, he didn't really learn that much. Maybe I was, I don't know if I was a bad teacher or he was a bad skier, maybe a combination of both.
事實上，2002年，在澳大利亞滑雪的那次，我是和一位來自新加坡的朋友一起去的，之前他從未見過雪。所以我們就去了。我在高速滑雪而他是速降滑雪。而對於他來說那是一份很有趣的經歷，因爲他不知道接下來會發生什麼，所以我就一點點地教他，但他卻沒有學到多少東西。也許我是個很糟糕的老師，也許他是個很糟糕的滑雪者，其實我也說不好，也許兩者都有吧。
語言點
hang out with 與…出去玩；與…閒逛
as far as I know 我聽說
practice makes perfect 熟能生巧
