你覺得小城鎮(zhèn)和大城市的最大不同是什么

今天的這段對話，在討論小城鎮(zhèn)和大城市，
 
每個人出生的地方都不一樣，你覺得小城鎮(zhèn)和大城市的最大不同是什么
 
來聽今天的講解:
 
A: So, Michele, you said you are from Canada.
 
米歇爾，你說過你來自加拿大。
 
B: Yeah.
 
對。
 
A: What part of Canada?
 
你來自加拿大哪里？
 
B: I lived in Ontario in a small town called Beaverton.
 
我住在安大略省一個叫做比弗頓的小鎮(zhèn)。
 
A: Beaverton. And so how big is the town?
 
比弗頓。這個城鎮(zhèn)有多大？
 
B: It was pretty small, about seven or eight thousand people I think.
 
比弗頓非常小，我想人口大概只有七八千人。
 
A: Wow, that's pretty small.
 
哇，那真的非常小。
 
B: Yeah.
 
對。
 
A: Did you like that?
 
你喜歡那里嗎？
 
B: I think when I was really little I liked it. It was nice to play outside with your friends and we always felt really safe. When I got older as a teenager, sometimes I thought it was pretty boring being in such a small town, but I think overall it was good to live in a small town.
 
我小的時候非常喜歡那里。在室外和朋友們一起玩非常美好，而且我們一直有安全感。我漸漸長大進入青少年時期以后，有時我會認為生活在這么小的一個城鎮(zhèn)非常無聊，不過總體來說，我覺得生活在一個小城鎮(zhèn)很好。
 
A: What would you do for fun when you were a teenager?
 
你青少年時期有什么休閑活動？
 
B: Well, there was actually a movie theater in our small town so sometimes we'd go to the theater but it wasn't a great one. We usually went outside of the town into the city to go shopping or see a movie.
 
嗯，我們那個小城鎮(zhèn)有一家電影院，有時我們會去看電影，不過不是太好。通常我們會去城市里購物、看電影。
 
A: And so since then have you lived in any big cities?
 
那你之后在大城市生活過嗎？
 
B: I've lived near Tokyo in Japan, so that's a pretty big city. Yeah.
 
我在日本東京生活過，東京是個非常大的城市。
 
A: So I guess you prefer that then... to your hometown?
 
我猜，相比你的家鄉(xiāng)，你更喜歡東京是嗎？
 
B: Well, actually I felt that Tokyo was too big of a city.
 
嗯，實際上我感覺東京這座城市太大了。
 
A: OK.
 
好。
 
B: Yeah, so..
 
所以……
 
A: It's the opposite extreme.
 
這是兩個對立的極端。
 
B: Yeah, it's so crowded and the people aren't as friendly so...
 
對，東京非常擁擠，人們也不那么友好，所以……
 
A: That's probably a big difference between a small town and a big town, huh? Like you know practically everyone.
 
這可能是小城鎮(zhèn)和大城市的最大不同，對嗎？在小城鎮(zhèn)，你幾乎認識所有人。
 
B: Yeah.
 
對。
 
A: So, you walk into a store. You walk down the street, you can say 'hi' to almost everyone.
 
比如走進一家商店，或是在街頭漫步，你幾乎可以和所有人打招呼。
 
B: Yeah, well, actually, I've also lived in a really small town in Japan too and I prefered the small town in Japan to the big city like Tokyo. The people in the small town knew my name and were very friendly. If I needed any help then because it's a small town, everybody knows everything about the things in the town so if I needed to find a place or if I wanted to join a club I could easily get the information in a small town, whereas in a big city people don't know the things as well, so.
 
對，我也在日本的一個小城鎮(zhèn)生活過，相比大城市東京，我更喜歡日本的小城鎮(zhèn)。小城鎮(zhèn)里的人們知道我的名字，而且非常友好。在小城鎮(zhèn)基本上所有人對各方面情況都很了解，如果我需要幫助，如果我要找一個地址或是我想加入一個俱樂部，我可以很容易地得到信息，可是在大城市人們就不是那么了解了。
 
A: You also have to be careful what you do because everyone will talk.
 
你要小心你的行為，因為人們什么都會說。
 
B: That's true.
 
沒錯。
 
A: You can't hide.
 
你不能隱藏。
 
B: In a small town, you don't have as much privacy but I think the friendliness outweighs the privacy issues.
 
小城鎮(zhèn)沒有太多隱私，不過我認為友好比隱私重要。
 
A: OK, thanks Michele.
 
好，謝謝你，米歇爾。
 
B: You're welcome.
 
不客氣。