西蒙:你好!你叫什么名字?
Lesie: My name is Lesie Gregory.
蕾希:我叫蕾希·格利高里。
Simon: And do you want to tell us about your hobbies?
西蒙:你想跟我們談?wù)勀愕膼?ài)好嗎?
Lesie: Sure, I'll tell you about my hobbies.
蕾希:好的。我會(huì)跟你談?wù)勎业膼?ài)好。
Simon: OK. What are they?
西蒙:好。你都有什么愛(ài)好?
Lesie: My first hobby is going to the gym. I go to the gym three times a week. I do floor execises, aerobics classes, swimming and I do weight training.
蕾希:我第一個(gè)愛(ài)好是去健身。我每周去三次健身房。我會(huì)做自由體操、有氧運(yùn)動(dòng)、游泳,我也做舉重練習(xí)。
Simon: Of all those things, what are your favorites? What's your favorite? What's your favorite thing to do?
西蒙:在這些運(yùn)動(dòng)中,你最喜歡的是什么?你最喜歡哪項(xiàng)運(yùn)動(dòng)?你最喜歡做的事情是什么?
Lesie: My favorite thing to do is either swimming or what they call aqua-aerobics.
蕾希:我最喜歡的是游泳,也有人稱(chēng)為水中有氧運(yùn)動(dòng)。
Simon: Aqua-aerobics? What's that?
西蒙:水中有氧運(yùn)動(dòng)?那是什么?
Lesie: Well, actually, there's different kinds of aqua-aerobics. It's just like an aerobics class but it's in a swimming pool, so there's, so you're not putting pressure on your joints when you're jumping up and down.
蕾希:嗯,實(shí)際上,水中有氧運(yùn)動(dòng)有不同的種類(lèi)。與有氧運(yùn)動(dòng)類(lèi)似,不過(guò)是在游泳池里進(jìn)行的,這樣在你上下跳動(dòng)的時(shí)候不會(huì)對(duì)關(guān)節(jié)造成壓力。
Simon: Ah, cool! Any other hobbies?
西蒙:啊,真酷!你還有其他的愛(ài)好嗎?
Lesie: Yeah, um, because it's going to be Christmas soon, I'll be able to enjoy my hobby of baking.
蕾希:有,馬上就要到圣誕節(jié)了,所以我可以享受烘焙的樂(lè)趣。
Simon: So what kind of things do you bake?
西蒙:那你通常都烘焙什么呢?
Lesie: Oh, well, sometimes I bake pies, like pumpkin pies or pecan pie. Pecan pies are very famous where I come from in Florida because we have pecan trees and then sometimes I do cakes, like really rich cakes like red velvet cakes, or carrot cakes, but this year I'm going to be baking cookies.
蕾希:嗯,有時(shí)我會(huì)烤餡餅,比如南瓜派或是核桃派。我來(lái)自佛羅里達(dá)州,那里的核桃派非常有名,因?yàn)槲覀兡抢镉泻颂覙?shù),有時(shí)我也烘焙蛋糕,我會(huì)做配料豐富的蛋糕,比如紅絲絨蛋糕或是胡蘿卜蛋糕,不過(guò)今年我打算烤餅干。
Simon: Cookies! What kind of cookies, Leslie?
西蒙:餅干!蕾希,你要做哪種餅干?
Lesie: Ah, let's see this year's cookies are going to be the traditional Christmas sugar cookie, which is a big cookie in a kind of a Christmas shape, like a Christmas tree or Santa Claus with icing or some colored sugar, very yummy, and some M&M cookies with red a green M&M's.
蕾希:嗯,我想今年我會(huì)做傳統(tǒng)的圣誕節(jié)甜餅干,這是一種大餅干,形狀與圣誕節(jié)有關(guān),可以是圣誕樹(shù)形狀或是有糖霜的圣誕老人形狀,也可以是一些彩色糖的形狀,這種餅干非常好吃,可以用紅色和綠色的M&M彩虹糖來(lái)做彩虹巧克力豆曲奇。
Simon: Oh, wow! Sounds interesting! OK. I've got a question, or I've got something to ask you.Describe how your cookies taste? Use your three favorite adjectives?
西蒙:哇!聽(tīng)起來(lái)真有趣!好,我有個(gè)問(wèn)題,我想問(wèn)你件事。形容一下你的餅干是什么味道?用三個(gè)你最喜歡的形容詞來(lái)描述?
Lesie: Three favorite adjectives? Soft, moist, and sweet!
蕾希:三個(gè)最喜歡的形容詞?那就是柔軟、潤(rùn)澤和甜!