美语情景对话 第1375期:Talent Wish 希望拥有的才能(1)

Gyri: What are some talents you wish you had?

格里：你希望拥有哪些才能？

Viyasan: I would say this talent spreads a long time back and it's always something I'm very envious about. I don't have the best memory and so I really wish that my talent was to remember a lot easier or even have photographic memory. I think that would be very useful, especially as a student during exams where we're able to read quite a bit and remember all of it. I think that talent would be interesting to have because I wouldn't always be forgetting daily things, like my keys to my apartment.

维亚森：有一种才能我一直想要拥有，而且我一直很羡慕拥有这种才能的人。我记忆力不太好，我非常希望我拥有能轻松记住大量信息的才能或是过目不忘的记忆力。我认为这种才能非常有用，尤其对学生来说，在准备考试时能复习大量知识并全部记住。我认为拥有这种才能很重要，因为这样我就不会总忘记日常事务了，可以避免忘带公寓钥匙之类的事情。

Gyri: Right.

格里：对。

Viyasan: Or for example, my water bottle every single time I leave for class. I think memory is very important and it's very good to remember certain conversations with people. For example, sometimes I might have a conversation with someone and completely forget that I talked about that topic and then just be reminded of it when I talk to that person the next time.

维亚森：比如，我每次都把水瓶忘在教室。我认为记忆力非常重要，记住和他人的特定对话非常有必要。举例来说，有时我可能在和他人交流后完全忘掉刚才的话题，下次再和那个人聊天时才会想起来。

Gyri: Yeah.

格里：嗯。

Viyasan: I think having a better memory or photographic memory would be great for those situations.

维亚森：我认为对这些情况来说，拥有较好的记忆力或是过目不忘的记忆力非常重要。

Gyri: Yeah, definitely.

格里：对，绝对是。

Viyasan: And yourself? What are some talents that you wish you had?

维亚森：你呢？你希望拥有哪些才能？

Gyri: I wish that I could dance. I have no rhythm at all.

格里：我希望我能跳舞。我完全没有节奏感。

Viyasan: Yeah.

维亚森：嗯。

Gyri: I feel so stupid when like if we go out or we listen to music, I just look really goofy when I try to dance, but I feel like dancing so I still try, but it just looks horrible. Yeah, I wish I had more rhythm and the ability to learn dance moves, I guess.

格里：我感觉自己很笨拙，我们出去玩或听音乐时，我在尝试跳舞时看上去非常滑稽，可是我喜欢跳舞，所以我仍会尝试，可是看上去很糟糕。我希望我能有更多节奏感，拥有学习舞蹈动作的能力。

Viyasan: Yeah, I would say that dancing is definitely a talent that some people have. Likewise, I do not have any rhythm so I'll join you on that same dance floor.

维亚森：嗯，跳舞绝对是有些人拥有的才能。我也没有节奏感，我可以和你在同一个舞池跳舞。嗯。

Gyri: Yeah.

格里：嗯。

Viyasan: Even though I like to dance, I don't dance very well.

维亚森：虽然我喜欢跳舞，但是我跳得不太好。

Gyri: Yeah. Yeah, I wish that I was better at sports as well. I really like downhill skiing, for example, but I never skied a lot, like my dad, he skied professionally when he was young, and I'm kind of bitter that he didn't take me up to the hills more than he did because if I had started at a young age I could be really good right now, but I didn't, so I'm a casual skier but I really wish that I could be like better than average in something, especially a sport.

格里：嗯。好，我还希望我能更擅长体育运动。举例来说，我非常喜欢高山滑雪，可是我没有经常去滑雪，我爸爸年轻时是职业滑雪运动员，他没有经常带我去山上滑雪这点令我感到不满，因为如果我也从小练滑雪，那我现在可能会滑得非常好，可是我并没有，现在我是业余滑雪选手，我非常希望我能在某件事上高于平均水平，尤其是运动方面。

Viyasan: Got it, got it.

维亚森：我明白，我明白。

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重点讲解：
1. be able to do sth. 可以…的，能够…的；
He may be able to leave hospital early next week.
他下周初也许就可以出院了。
2. go out 外出交际；外出娱乐；
The children have stayed at home for a whole day, just let them go out for fun.
孩子门一天没出门了，让他们出去去玩一会吧。
3. even though 即使；尽管；纵然；
You can keep your word even though this may not always be easy to do.
你应该做到言出必行，尽管这很不容易做到。
4. as well 也；还；
The sea water was as blue as the sky , and it was very clean as well.
海水的颜色是如同天一般的蓝色，也十分的透明。