实战口语情景对话 第321期:Holiday Hobbies 假日爱好

Simon: Hi! What's your name?
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：你想跟我们谈谈你的爱好吗？

Lesie: Sure, I'll tell you about my hobbies.
蕾希：好的。我会跟你谈谈我的爱好。

Simon: OK. What are they?
西蒙：好。你都有什么爱好？

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：我第一个爱好是去健身。我每周去三次健身房。我会做自由体操、有氧运动、游泳，我也做举重练习。

Simon: Of all those things, what are your favorites? What's your favorite? What's your favorite thing to do?
西蒙：在这些运动中，你最喜欢的是什么？你最喜欢哪项运动？你最喜欢做的事情是什么？

Lesie: My favorite thing to do is either swimming or what they call aqua-aerobics.
蕾希：我最喜欢的是游泳，也有人称为水中有氧运动。

Simon: Aqua-aerobics? What's that?
西蒙：水中有氧运动？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，实际上，水中有氧运动有不同的种类。与有氧运动类似，不过是在游泳池里进行的，这样在你上下跳动的时候不会对关节造成压力。

Simon: Ah, cool! Any other hobbies?
西蒙：啊，真酷！你还有其他的爱好吗？

Lesie: Yeah, um, because it's going to be Christmas soon, I'll be able to enjoy my hobby of baking.
蕾希：有，马上就要到圣诞节了，所以我可以享受烘焙的乐趣。

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，有时我会烤馅饼，比如南瓜派或是核桃派。我来自佛罗里达州，那里的核桃派非常有名，因为我们那里有核桃树，有时我也烘焙蛋糕，我会做配料丰富的蛋糕，比如红丝绒蛋糕或是胡萝卜蛋糕，不过今年我打算烤饼干。

Simon: Cookies! What kind of cookies, Leslie?
西蒙：饼干！蕾希，你要做哪种饼干？

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，我想今年我会做传统的圣诞节甜饼干，这是一种大饼干，形状与圣诞节有关，可以是圣诞树形状或是有糖霜的圣诞老人形状，也可以是一些彩色糖的形状，这种饼干非常好吃，可以用红色和绿色的M&M彩虹糖来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！听起来真有趣！好，我有个问题，我想问你件事。形容一下你的饼干是什么味道？用三个你最喜欢的形容词来描述？

Lesie: Three favorite adjectives? Soft, moist, and sweet!
蕾希：三个最喜欢的形容词？那就是柔软、润泽和甜！