实战口语情景对话 第716期:UAE 阿联酋

Todd: So, Greg you taught in the Middle East.
托德：格雷格，你在中东地区当过老师。

Greg: Yeah, I lived in the United Arab Emirates for awhile.
格雷格：对，我在阿联酋生活过一段时间。

Todd: Wow, that's a lot different than most places.
托德：哇，那里和大部分地方都不一样。

Greg: Ah, it's very different. I'm glad I went to experience another culture, another way of life.
格雷格：对，那里非常不同。我很高兴我体验过另一种文化，另一种生活方式。

Todd: Yeah, what do you remember about it?
托德：嗯，你现在能回忆起什么？

Greg: Well, one thing that's so unique about the United Arab Emirates is that actually there are people from all over the world there.
格雷格：阿联酋有一件事非常独特，那里生活着世界各地的人。

Todd: No kidding.
托德：开玩笑吧。

Greg: The native population is maybe 30% of the population.
格雷格：本国人口可能占阿联酋总人口的30%。

Todd: 30%.
托德：30%。

Greg: And the rest are foreigners who have come in to work in various ways.
格雷格：其余是通过不同方式来到阿联酋工作的外国人。

Todd: Where do these foreigners come from?
托德：这些外国人都来自哪里？

Greg: From all over the world. You know, you have a lot of English teachers from the U.S. and England and Australia and New Zealand and Britain, and so on. You have a lot of Philippinos working as shopping, in shops, in stores, and you have people from India coming and working in construction. People from all over the world, and actually it's very cosmopolitan.
格雷格：来自世界各地。有很多美国人、英国人、澳大利亚人、新西兰人在阿联酋当英语老师。有很多菲律宾人在阿联酋的商场和商店里工作，印度人则在阿联酋从事建筑工作。阿联酋生活着来自世界各地的人，就像大都会一样。

Todd: Oh, what's the biggest city in UAE?
托德：哦，阿联酋最大的城市是哪里？

Greg: Ah, it's probably Dubai.
格雷格：应该是迪拜。

Todd: What's Dubai like?
托德：迪拜怎么样？

Greg: Actually, I never spent that much time in Dubai because I lived in Abu Dhab. I just went to the airport in Dubai. Abu Dhabi though, I tell you, it's really amazing. The architecture is really beautiful. The Arabic architecture is just amazing. The mosques. The marble on the building, really, beautiful.
格雷格：我住在阿布扎比，在迪拜度过的时间不多。我只是去过迪拜机场。不过我可以告诉你阿布扎比非常棒。那里的建筑非常美。阿拉伯式建筑非常壮美。还有清真寺和建筑用的大理石，都非常非常漂亮。

Todd: In Abu Dhabi though, did you live in a house, or did you live in an apartment?
托德：你在阿布扎比生活的时候，是住在房子里还是公寓里？

Greg: I lived in an apartment on the 14th floor.
格雷格：我住在14层高的公寓里。

Todd: The 14th floor.
托德：14层。

Greg: The 14th floor. Oh, it's, Abu Dhabi is amazing. You know, maybe 50 years ago, there were just some small villages, but after oil was discovered, and the country became rich, there was like an explosion in the population and new buildings were going up every day. They're growing like mushrooms. I could see the ocean, though from my apartment. I remember how beautiful the ocean was.
格雷格：对，14层。哦，阿布扎比简直太好了。你知道，50年以前那里还只是小乡村，可是在发现石油后，整个国家开始富有起来，那里的人口呈爆炸式增长，几乎每天都有新建筑出现。新建筑就像蘑菇一样出现。我住的公寓可以看到大海。我还记得那片海有多美。

Todd: Hey, what's the cuisine like?
托德：嘿，那里的食物怎么样？

Greg: Ah, the food is amazing. Because you have people from all over the world, you have food from all over the world.
格雷格：啊，食物非常美味。那里生活着来自世界各地的人，所以那里有世界各地的美食。

Todd: What's the local food? Is it rice based?
托德：那当地代表食物是什么？是以稻米为主吗？

Greg: Oh, they eat rice, and a lot of, camel meat, camel meat is unusual and the cheeses are really salty.
格雷格：哦，他们吃米饭，而且还吃骆驼肉，骆驼肉很特别，而且那里的奶酪非常咸。

Todd: OK, camel mea, cheese, and rice.
托德：骆驼肉，奶酪和米饭。

Greg: And a lot of Mediterranean foods too. Dates, the dates were fantastic.
格雷格：还有很多地中海美食。那里的椰枣非常好吃。

Todd: Really.
托德：是吗？

Greg: I never liked dates before I went there, and the olives. The olives are also wonderful. Out of this world.
格雷格：我去那里以前并不喜欢吃椰枣。还有橄榄。那里的橄榄也很好吃，非常好吃。

Todd: You're making me hungry. Thanks, Greg.
托德：你说得我都饿了。谢谢你，格雷格。