英語初級口語對話 05：斯里蘭卡

　　英語初級口語對話正常語速05:Sri Lanka 斯里蘭卡(mp3)

　　Todd: Hello, Mini.

　　Todd：你好，Mini。

　　Mini: Hello.

　　Mini：你好。

　　Todd: Now, Mini, you are from Sri Lanka.

　　Todd：Mini，你是來自斯里蘭卡吧。

　　Mini: Yes.

　　MIni：是的。

　　Todd: If somebody is going to your country, can you recommend three things they should do or three things they should see?

　　Todd：如果有人去你國家，你能舉出哪三樣東西他們應該做和哪三個地方他們應該去看的嗎?

　　Mini: OK, the first thing is you can go and see the ancient things that all the Kings and Queens built, like castles. We have a castle called... it's called the Rock Castle. It's called Sigirya, so it's very beautiful.

　　Mini：好呀，首先你應該去看那些國王和王后們建造的古代建筑，比如城堡。我們有個城堡叫做石頭城堡，大名叫Sigirya，非常漂亮。

　　Todd: This is the Rock Castle.

　　Todd：石頭城堡。

　　Mini: Yeah, it's... the castle is on the rock itself, so you can see the ruins there. It's really beautiful, with pictures, paintings, arts and stuff.

　　MIni：Yeah，城堡在石頭上，你在那里可以看到遺跡呢，真的很漂亮哦，有圖畫，油畫，藝術一些東西。

　　Todd: Oh, really. That's really cool, so this rock castle, how old is it?

　　Todd：哦，真的。太棒了這個石頭城堡。它有多古老啊。

　　Mini: I'm not sure, but maybe around two thousand. I'm not sure. Sorry.

　　Mini：我不確定，也許有兩千年左右吧，很抱歉我不是很確定。

　　Todd: What else should people see?

　　Todd：人們還可以看些別的什么呢?

　　Mini: The second thing should be beaches. We have beautiful beaches all over the place, blue, clean. You can swim. You can surf. It's very beautiful. That's the second thing.

　　Mini：第二個玩的地方就是海灘了，海灘到處都是，藍色干凈的大海，你可以游泳，沖浪，非常美妙。

　　Todd: Surfing is popular in Sri Lanka?

　　Todd：沖浪在斯里蘭卡很受歡迎嗎?

　　Mini: M-hm. I mean, not popular amongst Sri Lankans but most of the... many tourists come, especially the Germans, they come to my country and surf because the hotels near the beaches are very cheap and it's very beautiful hotels and very cheap. Food is cheap. It's nice.

　　Mini：額，在斯里蘭卡不是很受歡迎，但是大部分游客，特別是來自的德國的游客常來我們國家沖浪，因為在海灘附近的旅館很便宜很精致，食物也價廉物美。

　　Todd: OK. So, we've got the Rock Castle, surfing on the beach. Anything else?

　　Todd：好啊，我們可以去石頭城堡看看，海灘上沖浪，還有呢?

　　Mini: And then a third thing should be the Tooth Temple. It's like the tooth of a Buddha, so we got it from I guess India, King Ashoka, so it's one of the things that you can see there. It's a really beautiful temple.

　　Mini：第三件事就是這個牙齒寺廟了，因像一個大佛的牙齒得名，我猜這可能來自印度國王Ashoka。你可以去那里看看，是個很漂亮的寺廟。

　　Todd: OK, I'm sorry. Can you say the name of that again?

　　Todd: 好的，不好意思，能再說一下那個寺廟的名字嗎?

　　Mini: Temple of Tooth Relic.

　　Mini：牙齒寺廟。

　　Todd: The Temple of Tooth Relic.

　　Todd：牙齒寺廟。

　　Mini: Yeah.

　　Mini: 是的。

　　Todd: OK.

　　Todd：好的。

　　Mini: It's in Kandy. A place called Kandy.

　　Mini：在Kandy，一個叫Kandy的地方。

　　Todd: Kandy. OK. Well, thanks for the tips Mini.

　　Todd：Kandy，好的，Mini，謝謝你的建議。