實(shí)戰(zhàn)口語(yǔ)情景對(duì)話(huà)：Olympics 奧運(yùn)會(huì)

Todd: So Travis, this summer we have the Olympics. Are you going to watch the Olympics on TV?

托德：特拉維斯，今年夏天有奧運(yùn)會(huì)。你會(huì)收看奧運(yùn)會(huì)的電視轉(zhuǎn)播嗎?

Travis: I will probably get suckered into watching the olympics I'm sure. It will be on every channel. It will only be on one channel but it will be on the whole day I'm sure.

特拉維斯：我確定我會(huì)看電視轉(zhuǎn)播的。每個(gè)頻道都會(huì)有轉(zhuǎn)播。也許只是一個(gè)頻道轉(zhuǎn)播，不過(guò)會(huì)播一天。

Todd: Yeah, they kind of go overboard. It's on too much.

托德：對(duì)，有點(diǎn)過(guò)分了。播的太多了。

Travis: Well, I think it was the last winter Olympics, where, I don't know which channel in the Unites States was covering it but whatever channel was covering it most of the olympics was just people's background and personal stories and profiles and a lot of America got really fed up with it, and I don't know if you were still here in Japan or if you were in the Unites States at the time of the last olympics, but people didn't watch the last olympics in the states. They just tuned out completely. The reason that they tuned out is because the coverage was so poor. The station that was covering it was basically just doing profile after profile of athletes, about how they had to overcome hardship, how they had to eat one meal every two weeks , and you know run five hundred miles back and forth, you know, some school in Russia and those sort of profiles, stories drown out the actual events, and it was covered very poorly, but maybe this year will be different, maybe there will be a backlash against that sort of poor coverage, and we'll get to see more of the actual olympics this time. This is the summer olympics right. (Yeah, exactly) It shows how little I know about the olympics. I'm not sure if it's the winter of the summer.

特拉維斯：嗯，我想是上屆冬奧會(huì)吧，我不太清楚美國(guó)是哪個(gè)頻道轉(zhuǎn)播了上屆冬奧會(huì)，不過(guò)進(jìn)行轉(zhuǎn)播的那個(gè)頻道不停地在放運(yùn)動(dòng)員的背景資料、個(gè)人故事和簡(jiǎn)介，許多美國(guó)人都對(duì)此感到厭煩，我不知道上屆冬奧會(huì)的時(shí)候你已經(jīng)來(lái)到日本了還是還在美國(guó)，不過(guò)美國(guó)人都沒(méi)有看上屆冬奧會(huì)。他們完全沒(méi)有關(guān)注，原因是報(bào)道太差了。電視臺(tái)只是在報(bào)道運(yùn)動(dòng)員的簡(jiǎn)介，報(bào)道他們是如何克服困難的，他們不得不每?jī)芍艹砸活D飯，還要進(jìn)行500英里往返跑，你知道，還有俄羅斯的一些學(xué)校，都是這類(lèi)的簡(jiǎn)介，這種報(bào)道淹沒(méi)了實(shí)際的比賽報(bào)道，太糟糕了，不過(guò)也許今年會(huì)有所不同，也許對(duì)那種糟糕的報(bào)道會(huì)有抵觸情緒，這次我們可能會(huì)看到更多比賽的報(bào)道。今年是夏季奧運(yùn)會(huì)。這說(shuō)明了我對(duì)奧運(yùn)會(huì)知道的太少。我連是冬奧會(huì)還是夏奧會(huì)都不確定。

Todd: Well, of the Olympics, what's your favorite event?

托德：嗯，說(shuō)到奧運(yùn)會(huì)，你最喜歡的運(yùn)動(dòng)項(xiàng)目是什么?

Travis: Running.

特拉維斯：跑步。

Todd: Running

托德：跑步。

Travis: Just straight running. It seems like a very pure athletic event. There's no guess work in it. There's not five judge panel trying to decide who won, and then the Canadian judge and the France judge get in a fight and they have to decide. Nothing like that happens. It's just run, clock, stop and whoever got through the finish line the fastest wins. It seems very pure athleticism, so I like running: 100 meter dash,200 meter dash, all of that, and long runs too. I used to run when I was in high school so that helps a little bit. Not short distances. I used to run cross country, three and five miles.

特拉維斯：就只是跑步。這是一場(chǎng)純粹的體育賽事。沒(méi)有猜測(cè)。不會(huì)出現(xiàn)五名裁判來(lái)決定誰(shuí)贏，然后加拿大裁判和法國(guó)裁判會(huì)爭(zhēng)吵，而他們還必須要做出決定。不會(huì)有這樣的情況出現(xiàn)。就只是跑步，計(jì)時(shí)，停止，最先沖過(guò)終點(diǎn)線的就是贏者。這就是非常純粹的運(yùn)動(dòng)，所以我喜歡跑步比賽，比如100米跑，200米跑，所有的跑步比賽，當(dāng)然還有長(zhǎng)跑。我在高中的時(shí)候會(huì)去跑步，這多少會(huì)有所幫助。并不是短距離跑。我過(guò)去會(huì)進(jìn)行越野長(zhǎng)跑，3英里和5英里的。

Todd: Ooh, that's a long ways. Are you still a runner?

托德：哇，那真是很長(zhǎng)的距離了。你現(xiàn)在還跑步嗎?

Travis: Well I went running tonight but I don't consider myself to be much of a runner. No, I only say that some day I am going to train and run a marathon but I have yet to train and run a marathon. Maybe someday. Yeah, I did it when I was in Bangkok and it about killed me. Yeah, running in Bangkok, running a marathon in Bangkok was not the smartest thing. It was terrible because they had, they have pollution right, Bangkok's a great city but they have a lot of pollution right. They have to have marathon at 4 o'clock in the morning before the cars start running, and then when you're running the marathon some of the policeman that are officiating have to wear like masks because of the pollution in the air, so when you're running a marathon through that it's not that fun.

特拉維斯：嗯，我今晚去跑步了，不過(guò)我認(rèn)為我自己并不是跑步選手。不，我只是說(shuō)有一天我會(huì)去練習(xí)跑馬拉松，我還沒(méi)有開(kāi)始。也許某一天。嗯，我在曼谷的時(shí)候有跑過(guò)馬拉松，差點(diǎn)累死我。對(duì)，在曼谷跑馬拉松不是明智的做法。那簡(jiǎn)直很糟糕，因?yàn)槟抢镉形廴?，曼谷是一個(gè)很棒的城市，不過(guò)那里的污染很?chē)?yán)重。他們會(huì)在凌晨四點(diǎn)辦馬拉松比賽，要在汽車(chē)上馬路以前，之后馬拉松開(kāi)始以后，一些維持秩序的警察就不得不戴上口罩，因?yàn)榭諝馕廴?，而在那種情況下跑馬拉松可沒(méi)那么有趣。

Todd: But anyway, you should do it. You should run a marathon.

托德：不過(guò)不管怎么樣，你應(yīng)該做。你應(yīng)該去跑馬拉松。

Travis: I think maybe I will but perhaps after I finish school this year.

特拉維斯：我想也許我今年畢業(yè)后會(huì)參加馬拉松。