我们讲的英语第213期:Mind-blowing 令人惊奇

Learn a phrase to describe amazing things while Feifei and Harry discuss the most amazing place Harry has ever travelled to.
菲菲和哈里在讨论哈里旅行过的最神奇的地方，请通过对话来学习描述神奇事情的短语。

Feifei: Hello and welcome to The English We Speak. I'm Feifei and joining me is Harry.
菲菲：大家好，欢迎收听地道英语节目。我是菲菲，今天和我一起主持节目的是哈里。

Harry: Hello there! And the expression we are going to look at in this programme is 'mind-blowing', or, 'to blow your mind'.
哈里：大家好！

Feifei: To blow your mind! We'll look at what it means and when you can use it. So anyway, Harry, I've heard you really like travelling.
菲菲：我们要让你们大吃一惊！我们将解释这个短语的意思和如何应用。哈里，我听说你非常喜欢旅行。

Harry: Me? Yeah, I love travelling, to be free. Yeah, I've travelled.
哈里：我吗？对，我喜欢旅行，自由行。我去过很多地方。

Feifei: Where have you been?
菲菲：你都去了哪里？

Harry: All over: Europe, South East Asia, North Africa, Central America.
哈里：世界各地：欧洲、东南亚、北非和中美洲。

Feifei: So, which was the best trip?
菲菲：哪个是最棒的旅行？

Harry: Hard to say, they were all great in their own way, but I think my trip to Cambodia really stands out.
哈里：很难说，所有旅行都有美好的地方，不过我认为柬埔寨的那次旅行真的与众不同。

Feifei: Why's that?
菲菲：为什么？

Harry: Well, it's got scenery, beaches, nice food and all that stuff, but the temples at Angkor Wat — well, they just blew my mind.
哈里：美景、海滩、美食，所有的一切都很美好，吴哥窟的那些寺庙真的令我感到惊奇。

Feifei: They blew your mind?!
菲菲：令你感到惊奇？！

Harry: Yeah, it's an amazing place. It's got incredible statues, roads, waterways all abandoned in the forest. Truly mind-blowing.
哈里：对，那是个不可思议的地方。森林里都是被遗弃的令人难以置信的雕塑、道路和水道。真的令人感到惊奇。

Feifei: But what does it mean — mind blowing; it blew your mind?
菲菲：可是mind blowing是什么意思？吹了你的思想？

Harry: Oh right. Well, when something is so incredible, so surprising that we stop and wonder about how amazing it is, we can say it's mind-blowing, or that it blew our minds, as though our brains have broken down because they are so overwhelmed.
哈里：哦，如果某件事如此不可思议、如此令人惊讶，以至于我们会停下来想那是多么神奇，我们就可以用mind-blowing来形容，或者也可以说blew our minds，因为它们太令人惊奇了，就像我们的大脑已经失灵了一样。

Feifei: I see. So what else can be mind-blowing?
菲菲：我明白了。那还有什么事情可以用mind-blowing来形容？

Harry: Anything amazing: a painting, a film, a story.
哈里：任何惊奇的事情：一幅画、一部电影或是一个故事。

Feifei: And what about nature — the ocean, the planets, the insect world?
菲菲：那海洋、星球、昆虫世界等自然事物呢？

Harry: Yes, the unexplored ocean depths, the size of the other planets, the huge number and variety of insects — those things are all totally mind-blowing if you stop and think about them.
哈里：当然可以，未探索的海洋深处、其他星球的体积、巨大的昆虫数量和种类——如果你停下来思考，这些都可以用完全令人惊奇来形容。

Feifei: Here are some more examples.
菲菲：下面再来看一些例句。

Examples
例句

The latest tablet computer has an incredible camera and loads of other mind-blowing features.
最新款的平板电脑配有令人难以置信的相机和大量令人惊奇的配件。

One of the most mind-blowing things about the universe is the distance between the planets.
宇宙最令人惊奇的事情之一就是星球之间的距离。

The battle scenes in the film were amazing. They just blew my mind.
电影中的战争场面太震撼了。太令我震惊了。

Harry: So, to finish off, I thought I'd give you a mind-blowing fact about space and the universe — Something that will really blow your mind.
哈里：好，作为结束，我想我要告诉你一个有关太空和宇宙的惊人事实——这是一定会让你大为震惊的事情。

Feifei: OK, let's hear it.
菲菲：好，我们来听听看。

Harry: Did you know that every hour, the universe expands by a billion miles in all directions?
哈里：你知道宇宙以每小时10亿英里的速度在不断向各个方向扩张吗？

Feifei: It gets bigger by one billion miles in all directions?! That is mind-blowing.
菲菲：宇宙向各个方向扩张10亿英里？那真是太令人震惊了。

Harry: I know — just mind-blowing.
哈里：我知道，令人震惊。

Feifei: I've got a very different one for you about insects — cockroaches.
菲菲：我有一个关于蟑螂这种昆虫的事情要告诉你。

Harry: Cockroaches? Yuck! What is it?
哈里：蟑螂？好恶心！是什么？

Feifei: Well, Cockroaches can live for several weeks without their heads.
菲菲：蟑螂在没有头部的情况下还可以存活数个星期。

Harry: They can live without their heads?! Well, that's just blown my mind. Join us again for more mind-blowing English on The English We Speak.
哈里：它们没有头也能活着？那真是太出乎我的意料了。请大家记得收听我们下期更令人惊奇的地道英语节目。

Feifei: Bye!
菲菲：再见！

Harry: Bye!
哈里：再见！