美语情景对话 第618期:Wedding Prep 婚礼准备
Wendi: So, yeah, I wanna talk about wedding experiences and one of the best wedding.
温迪：我想请你谈谈你参加过的婚礼，你参加过的最棒的一个婚礼。Rachel: The best wedding I've ever gone to was probably my friend, well, OK, wait, hold on, pause it for a second.
蕾切尔：我参加过的最棒的婚礼应该是我朋友的婚礼，嗯，等一下，请等一下。Wendi: No worries because.
温迪：没事。
Rachel: What is our scale of best? Like Most fun? Most emotional?
蕾切尔：怎么来界定最棒的？是最有意思的？还是最感人的？Wendi: That's a good question. I guess what ever was the most kind of rewarding wedding you've ever attended. And I guess you have to chose that based on your scale.
温迪：这是个好问题。我想你可以谈谈你参加过的最有意义的一场婚礼，你可以按照你自己的想法来说。Rachel: What are the questions going to be so I can think of how to break it down.
蕾切尔：你会问些什么问题，这样我就知道我要如何分配内容。Wendi: Anything. It's totally random usually.
温迪：各种问题，通常我会随机问问题。Rachel: Oh, OK.
蕾切尔：哦，好。Wendi: It's totally random. And actually, it's even good for the listener's for the people that are going to be listening to hear you thinking in your mind, like, "Ah," I don't really know. Just total natural conversation.
温迪：问题完全是随机的。实际上，对听众来说听你说出脑海中想的话可能会更好，比如“啊”这种即时的反应。我也说不清楚。就是完全自然的谈话。Rachel: No cause like there are three weddings where I can think of: The Wiccan wedding. My friend Amanda's wedding which was just massive. There as like 13 bridesmaids and thirteen and the other one that was on a ship.
蕾切尔：嗯，我想到了三场婚礼，首先是威卡教徒的婚礼。还有我朋友阿曼达的婚礼，那场婚礼的规模非常大。他们邀请了13位伴娘和13位伴郎，另外一场婚礼是在船上举行的婚礼。Wendi: Wow. Was it like on a cruise boat kind of thing, or?
温迪：哇，是那种游艇吗？Rachel: Not a cruise boat. It was a smaller kind of like sail boat, sailing around the Netherlands.
蕾切尔：不是游艇。是一种小型的帆船，婚礼举行时帆船就沿着荷兰航行。Wendi: That sounds crazy. Was it like a super quaint wedding kind of thing?
温迪：听起来太疯狂了。那是一场古怪的婚礼吗？Rachel: No, it was kind of like a metal wedding.
蕾切尔：不是，是一场重金属婚礼。Wendi: A metal wedding?
温迪：重金属婚礼？Rachel: Yeah.
蕾切尔：对。Wendi: What do you mean?
温迪：你是什么意思？Rachel: Well, it was a whole bunch of metal heads on a boat...
蕾切尔：船上有许多重金属摇滚乐迷。Wendi: Seriously?
温迪：真的吗？Rachel: Eating vegetarian food.
蕾切尔：对，他们吃素食。Wendi: That sounds crazy.
温迪：听上去真疯狂。Rachel: Yeah it was pretty brilliant.
蕾切尔：对，婚礼非常精彩。Wendi: Wow. So out of all of the weddings you've been ever experienced in your whole life does anyone kind of ring out to you at all as that's the wedding I want to have.
温迪：哇。在你参加过的所有婚礼中，有没有哪场婚礼是你想举行的那种婚礼？Rachel: No.
蕾切尔：没有。Wendi: No.
温迪：没有吗？Rachel: First off, I think I would elope.
蕾切尔：首先，我可能会私奔。Wendi: OK.
温迪：嗯。Rachel: And then just throw kind of like big parties all over the world because I have a feeling that my wedding would pretty much be international.
蕾切尔：然后在全世界举办大型的派对，因为我希望我的婚礼是国际性的。Wendi: Right.
温迪：好。Rachel: I think that, well the ceremony, I don't even know what kind of a traditional per se ceremony that I would want.
蕾切尔：至于婚礼仪式，我甚至都不清楚自己要办哪种传统的仪式。Wendi: Yeah.
温迪：嗯。Rachel: Yeah, I think I'd rather it just be a private more intimate thing between me and whoever I'd be marrying.
蕾切尔：我更喜欢私人的仪式，就只有我和我的新郎在场的那种仪式。Wendi: Right.
温迪：好。Rachel: And then just have a party for everybody to celebrate it with afterwards.
蕾切尔：然后开派对和大家一起庆祝。Wendi: Yeah, cool.
温迪：太酷了。
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重点讲解：
1. hold on 稍等；等一下；
例句：Hold on for a minute, I've just got to put on my makeup.
等一会儿，我得化装一下。
2. break down 分解；将…分成若干部分；
例句：The report breaks down the results region by region.
报告将调查结果按地区分成若干部分。
3. out of （表示比例）每…中；
例句：This is but one instance out of many．
那只不过是许多例子中的一个而已。
4. all over 到处； 遍及；
例句：I don't want all those people trampling about all over my flower beds.
我可不能让那些人都在我的花坛里到处乱踩。
