美语情景对话 第932期:Dancing in Chile 智利舞蹈

Daniel: And while we drink this, we dance cueca.

丹尼尔：我们通常一边喝酒一边跳奎卡舞。

Olga: What is cueca?

奥尔嘉：什么是奎卡舞？

Daniel: Cueca is our national dance.

丹尼尔：奎卡舞是智利国舞。

Olga: How do you, how can you explain it?

奥尔嘉：你能介绍一下吗？

Daniel: It's about, OK, it's the Chilean cowboy dancing in order to flirt with the girl.

丹尼尔：好，这是智利牛仔为了和女孩调情而跳的舞。

Olga: Do you wear any kind of special dress?

奥尔嘉：那要穿特别的服装吗？

Daniel: Yes. The girl is wearing a long dress.

丹尼尔：对。女生要穿长裙。

Olga: Yes.

奥尔嘉：好。

Daniel: And the guy is wearing sombrero.

丹尼尔：男生要戴阔边帽。

Olga: Yeah.

奥尔嘉：好。

Daniel: It's not like, it's not as big as Mexican sombrero but it's smaller and a small poncho.

丹尼尔：不是墨西哥的那种大阔边帽，比那个要小一些，男生还要穿庞乔斗篷。

Olga: Oh yeah, I think I've seen it before. Yeah, like the small poncho is like almost like every time it's brown and with like kind of like colorful lines?

奥尔嘉：哦，好，我以前看到过。是那种小的庞乔斗篷，通常是棕色底彩色条纹的，对吧？

Daniel: Yes.

丹尼尔：对。

Olga: Oh yeah, I've seen it before, yeah.

奥尔嘉：哦好，我以前看到过。

Daniel: And we also wear boots and spurs which makes it really, really difficult to dance.

丹尼尔：我们还要穿靴子，靴子上要配靴刺，这使跳舞变得很难。

Olga: Have you danced it before?

奥尔嘉：你以前跳过这种舞吗？

Daniel: I have but I don't think I succeeded.

丹尼尔：我跳过，不过我想我没有成功。

Olga: Oh, I see. And what do you mean it's kind of romantic dance?

奥尔嘉：哦，我明白了。你为什么说这是种浪漫的舞蹈？

Daniel: It is a romantic dance.

丹尼尔：这是浪漫舞蹈。

Olga: How?

奥尔嘉：为什么？

Daniel: Because you have to flirt with the girl.

丹尼尔：因为是用来和女孩调情的。

Olga: Oh, I see.

奥尔嘉：哦，我明白了。

Daniel: That's the point of the dance.

丹尼尔：这是这种舞蹈的精髓。

Olga: And is it, does it mean anything? Does it have any meaning?

奥尔嘉：这有什么意义吗？有意义吗？

Daniel: It's related to how, because we use a handkerchief so it's how, it symbolizes a rope so you can, you have to catch the girl with your rope.

丹尼尔：这与……因为我们要跳舞时要用手帕，这象征着绳子，代表你可以用绳子套住那个女孩。

Olga: Oh, I see, that's pretty cute.

奥尔嘉：哦，我明白了，这太可爱了。

Daniel: Yeah, it is.

丹尼尔：对，没错。

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重点讲解：
1. in order to 为了；以便；目的在于；
例句：They hurried up their work in order to go home.
他们赶快做完工作以便回家。
2. flirt with (和…)调情；(和…)打情骂俏；
例句：Dad's flirting with all the ladies, or they're all flirting with him, as usual.
和平常一样，爸爸在和所有的女士调情，或者说所有的女士都在和他调情。
3. kind of 稍微；有几分；有点儿；
例句：That girl is kind of shy.
那个女孩有点儿害羞。
4. be related to 相关的；有联系的；
例句：From the perspective of economic and ethic mechanism, the imperfection of economic system is closely related to that of the ethic mechanism.
从经济和道德运行机制来看，经济运行机制的不完善性与道德运行机制的不完善性密切相关。