住在加拿大鄉(xiāng)村和大城市分別是什么體驗

 
住在加拿大鄉(xiāng)村和大城市分別是什么體驗
 
來聽今天的講解:
 
A: So, Rina, where are you from?
 
麗娜，你來自哪里？
 
B: I am from Davidson, Saskatchewan, and it's a small town in Saskatchewan, about 1,000 people, and I grew up there.
 
我來自薩克其萬省戴維森鎮(zhèn)，那里是薩克其萬省的一個小城鎮(zhèn)，人口只有約1000人，我在那里長大。
 
A: Now, Saskatchewan, that's a part of Canada that doesn't have a lot of people, right?
 
薩克其萬省，那是加拿大的一個省，而且人口不多，對吧？
 
B: There's, in the whole province, there's a million people.
 
整個省有一百萬人口。
 
A: That's it.
 
對。
 
B: In all of Canada there is only 33 million, so yeah.
 
加拿大的人口也僅有3300萬。
 
A: And you only have one?
 
你的家鄉(xiāng)只有1百萬人？
 
B: One. There's 33 million.
 
對。加拿大有3300百萬人。
 
A: Yeah, actually, is there any major Canadian cities in Saskatchewan?
 
好，薩克其萬省有沒有重要的加拿大城市？
 
B: Well, the capital is Regina. (Really) Yeah, if you've heard of that.
 
薩克其萬省首府是雷吉納。（是嗎）對，不知道你聽說過沒有。
 
A: No.
 
沒聽過說。
 
B: But I live in, right now my parents live in Saskatoon.
 
我生活在……現(xiàn)在我的父母生活在薩斯卡通市。
 
A: Oh, OK.
 
哦，好。
 
B: And that's, my town is between Regina and Saskatoon, called the midway town.
 
我成長的城鎮(zhèn)位于雷吉納和薩斯卡通之間，被稱為中間鎮(zhèn)。
 
A: What's it like growing up in a very small rural setting?
 
在小鄉(xiāng)村長大是什么感覺？
 
B: It was awesome. My parents, because they immigrated from Lebanon were very strict with me so I really wasn't allowed to do very much until I was about in grade 11, when my brother was old enough to come with me, but it was, once I was able to start going out and going to dances and things like that I loved it.
 
棒極了。因為我父母是從黎巴嫩移民來的，所以他們對我非常嚴厲，在我上11年級以前他們不允許我做很多事情，我11年級時我哥哥的年紀足以照顧我，所以那時我可以外出，可以去跳舞，去做一些我喜歡的事情。
 
A: Oh, really, even in your small town?
 
真的嗎？即使在你們的小城鎮(zhèn)里？
 
B: In my small town, yeah. Cause I had it, I was very close with a lot of, like a very small class, very very close with a lot of people there, yeah.
 
對，在我們的小城鎮(zhèn)里。因為我和那里的許多人都很親近，就像一個小型群體一樣。
 
A: Sounds good. So, in all of Canada, like when you go back and you settle down and you live in Canada, do you want to live in Saskatchewan?
 
聽起來不錯。那如果你回到加拿大定居，你想住在薩克其萬省嗎？
 
B: No.
 
不想。
 
A: No.
 
不想嗎？
 
B: No, it's not, it's, I've developed a lot more since I was that age and it's just not the same anymore. I'd like a bigger center, preferably Vancouver, or Montreal, on one of the coasts. Yeah. So.
 
不想，我離開以后成長了很多，已經(jīng)與以前大不相同。我喜歡大一點的城市，我更傾向于在溫哥華或蒙特利爾這樣的海岸城市生活。
 
A: Not Toronto?
 
你不考慮多倫多嗎？
 
B: No, I'm not a big fan of Toronto.
 
不，我不太喜歡多倫多。
 
A: Ah, why?
 
為什么？
 
B: Because I'm a little jaded. When I was, in 94, we went to Niagara Falls, and we drove through Toronto and it was just so, it looked so busy and smoggy and just crazy, and so I never really liked it since then. I have that image in my head still of that.
 
因為我有些厭倦那里。94年的時候，我們?nèi)ツ醽喖永俨悸眯?，當時我們開車經(jīng)過多倫多，那里看上去又繁忙又煙霧彌漫，非常瘋狂，那以后我就不太喜歡多倫多了。我現(xiàn)在還記得當時看到的情景。
 
A: Yeah, well, that's how I feel about L. A.
 
嗯，那正是我對洛杉磯的感覺。
 
B: Yeah.
 
對。
 
A: Yeah. I don't like Los Angeles. OK, well thanks.
 
嗯，我也不喜歡洛杉磯。好，謝謝你。