实战口语情景对话 第968期:Big Picture 大方向

Daniel: Hey, Vella. Well we're talking about things, big things you want to achieve in your life, so how about you? What do want to do?
丹尼尔：嘿，维拉。我们在谈论人生中想实现的大事，那你呢？你想做什么？

Vella: Well, one of my biggest dreams is to become an actress.
维拉：嗯，我最大的梦想之一是成为演员。

Daniel: Uh-uh.
丹尼尔：嗯。

Vella: Because I really love acting and, you know, it would be fun to act in a movie and to play, you know, as a different character than who you really are.
维拉：因为我非常喜欢表演，出演电影，扮演与自己不同的角色会很有趣。

Daniel: Uh-uh. What kind of movies especially, do you have any preferences?
丹尼尔：嗯。你喜欢哪类电影？

Vella: I would love to try all characters. You know, maybe play in a horror movie or comedy or romance, anything.
维拉：我想尝试各种角色。可能是恐怖电影、喜剧或是浪漫电影，任何角色。

Daniel: Where do you want to do this? Back in Indonesia, in the States?
丹尼尔：你想在哪里实现这个梦想？回到印尼，还是在美国？

Vella: Well, I would love to become a Hollywood actress, but it might be too impossible so I would just try in Indonesia first, and maybe if I can go international, then that would be amazing.
维拉：我想成为好莱坞演员，不过这可能遥不可及，所以我想先在印尼尝试一下，也许我可以走向国际呢，要是那样就太棒了。

Daniel: OK, good. Do you have any, like do you want to do it within ten years or something?
丹尼尔：好，很好。你在未来10年有想做的事情吗？

Vella: Well, since I'm graduating pretty soon, I would love to try, you know, as soon as I get back to Indonesia.
维拉：我马上就要毕业了，我想回到印尼就开始准备。

Daniel: Uh-uh.
丹尼尔：嗯。

Vella: And, you know, start trying to go to agencies.
维拉：开始找经纪公司。

Daniel: Is there any other dream that you want to achieve?
丹尼尔：你还有其他想实现的梦想吗？

Vella: This might sound silly, but I love Ricky Martin.
维拉：这可能听起来有些傻，我非常喜欢瑞奇·马丁。

Daniel: Uh-uh.
丹尼尔：嗯。

Vella: And, you know, I really want to have the chance to meet him and maybe dance with him.
维拉：我非常希望有机会能见到他，我想和他一起跳舞。

Daniel: OK.
丹尼尔：好。

Vella: Because he's Latino and I'm really into Latin culture, and I know that dancing is really, you know, a big part of the culture.
维拉：他是拉丁裔，我非常喜欢拉丁文化，我知道舞蹈是拉丁文化中的重要部分。

Daniel: Oh, yeah, it is.
丹尼尔：哦，没错。

Vella: And it will be really amazing if I could just dance, you know, with Ricky Martin.
维拉：如果如果我能和瑞奇·马丁一起跳舞那就太棒了。

Daniel: He's a really good dancer.
丹尼尔：他是非常优秀的舞者。

Vella: And maybe I could be in his music video.
维拉：也许我还可以出演他的音乐录影带。

Daniel: That would be nice. That would be really, really nice.
丹尼尔：那很好。要是那样就太好了。

Vella: And the last thing is probably get married and start my own family.
维拉：我最后一个梦想可能是结婚，组建自己的家庭。

Daniel: Uh-uh. How is that going? Do you have any plans? Do you have a boyfriend, like do you have any...?
丹尼尔：嗯。这个进展如何？你有计划吗？你现在有男友吗，你有……？

Vella: Well, I'm in a relationship right now, so hopefully that goes well.
维拉：嗯，我现在有男友，希望一切进展顺利。

Daniel: Oh, good. So you want to start a family right?
丹尼尔：很好。你想组建自己的家庭？

Vella: Yes.
维拉：对。

Daniel: How many children would you like to have?
丹尼尔：你想生几个孩子？

Vella: Two to three, maximum three.
维拉：两个或三个，最多三个。

Daniel: Two to three, OK.
丹尼尔：两个或三个，好。

Vella: I would love to have twins.
维拉：我希望生双胞胎。

Daniel: Wow, why?
丹尼尔：哇哦，为什么？

Vella: A girl and a boy so ....
维拉：最好是一个女孩一个男孩……

Daniel: Why?
丹尼尔：为什么？

Vella: I don't know.
维拉：我也不知道。

Daniel: Oh, it sounds, it sounds really fun.
丹尼尔：哦，这听起来很有趣。

Vella: Because no one in my family, you know, has twins, so I think it would be cool to be the first one to have twins.
维拉：我家里没有人生双胞胎，所以我想如果第一胎能生双胞胎会很酷。

Daniel: But at the same time, it seems to me to be quite hard to raise like twins because everything comes double, you know.
丹尼尔：可是养双胞胎非常难，因为所有的东西都要准备双份。

Vella: It's the same thing as having like two or three children, you know, you just get them at the same time.
维拉：这和养两三个孩子一样，只不过双胞胎要同时买而已。

Daniel: That's why it's even harder because you have, I don't know, double expenses, double everything.
丹尼尔：所以会更难，因为这样花费也是双倍的，一切都是双倍的。

Vella: Yeah, well I'd just love to try having twins.
维拉：对，我们想尽量生双胞胎。

Daniel: No, great, that sounds like a good plan. Thanks.
丹尼尔：好，听起来是个不错的计划。谢谢你。