美语情景对话 第286期:Music 音乐

Todd: OK, Adrienne, let's talk about abilities. What are you good at?

托德：好的，埃德里安娜，我们谈谈能力吧。你擅长什么？

Adrienne: Um, I don't know.

埃德里安娜：嗯，我不清楚。

Todd: You don't know?

托德：你不清楚？

Adrienne: I really don't know!

埃德里安娜：我真的不知道！

Todd: Well, I was looking at your photos, and you can play the violin.

托德：嗯，好吧，我在看你的照片，你会拉小提琴。

Adrienne: That's true!

埃德里安娜：没错！

Todd: And you can sing very well.

托德：而且你歌也唱得非常好。

Adrienne: Ah, I can sing some.

埃德里安娜：嗯，我可以唱些歌。

Todd: OK, so, tell us about playing the violin.

托德：好，那跟我们谈谈小提琴的事情吧。

Adrienne: I really enjoy playing the violin. I've been playing for many, many years since I was a little girl and everyone in my family plays an instrument so it's part of what we do together as a family.

埃德里安娜：我非常喜欢拉小提琴。我已经练了很多年，从小时候开始练的，我家里所有人都会演奏一种乐器，所以这是我们一家人一起做的事情。

Todd: So when you were little you practiced every day?

托德：那你小时候每天都练习吗？

Adrienne: I did. My mom made me. I didn't have a choice. It's good for discipline though, or at least that's what she told me.

埃德里安娜：没错。我妈妈让我这样做。我没有选择。虽然这对训练有帮助，至少我妈妈是这么告诉我的。

Todd: So, how would you practice? Did you have a tutor come over to your house?

托德：那你怎么练习呢？你们请了指导老师去你家授课吗？

Adrienne: No, I had a violin teacher once a week and when I was really small I went to group lessons also, so it was once a week with a private and once a week with a group.

埃德里安娜：不，我有一个小提琴老师，每周上一次课，我很小的时候去上小班课程，所以当时是私人老师一周上一次课，小班课程一周上一次。

Todd: Wow! That's a lot. What did you think about the violin when you were little?

托德：哇！课很多啊。你小时候怎么看小提琴？

Adrienne: I don't remember thinking about it. I don't even remember learning how to play. I was only two so (so young) I know. I was still in diapers, but my mom said that when I had my first recital that I really wanted to play in the recital and she said I absolutely could not play on stage in a diaper so that's basically how she got me out of my diapers. So she says!

埃德里安娜：我不记得我怎么看它了。我甚至不记得学习演奏的情景。我当时只有两岁（好小啊），我知道。我当时还穿着尿布呢，不过我妈妈在我第一次参加演奏会时说，我非常想在演奏会中表演，而她说，我绝对不能裹着尿布在舞台上演奏，所以她说她就是那样让我摆脱尿布的。她就是那么说的！

Todd: When did you stop playing?

托德：你什么时候不再演奏小提琴了？

Adrienne: I haven't stopped.

埃德里安娜：我从没停过。

Todd: Oh, you still practice.

托德：哦，你仍在练习。

Adrienne: I still play although I don't have my violin here in Japan, right now. I'm kind of on a break I guess. I just don't like to carry it around overseas.

埃德里安娜：我仍在练习，不过目前我在日本并没有小提琴。我想这是种休息吧。我并不想带着它出国。

Todd: Is it hard to be away from your violin?

托德：离开你的小提琴很难吗？

Adrienne: It is sometimes. I miss it. I miss playing with my family too, cause we're kind of like the Van Trapp family, which you know from the movie The Sound of Music.

埃德里安娜：有时。我会想它。我很想念和家人一起演奏的感觉，因为我们有点像冯·特普一家，你知道就是电影《音乐之声》中的那个家庭。

Todd: No, no, I don't. I've never seen the movie.

托德：不，不，我不知道。我没看过那部电影。

Adrienne: Oh, you haven't? The Sound of Music is about a family in, I think it's Austria and they all play an instrument or sing and it's a World war II movie and that's how they escape the Nazis, from singing or something. It's kind of like that, except for without the war.

埃德里安娜：哦，你没看过吗？《音乐之声》是一个有关奥地利家庭的故事，他们所有人都会演奏乐器或者会唱歌，背景是第二次世界大战期间，讲的是他们如何通过唱歌逃离纳粹的故事。我们有点像那个家庭，当然我们并没有遇到战争。

Todd: Well, I have to see the movie so!

托德：嗯，我一定要看看这部电影！

Adrienne: Yeah, you should.

埃德里安娜：对，你应该看看。

Todd: So are you going to play the violin for me sometime?

托德：那你有时间可以为我演奏小提琴吗？

Adrienne: Sure! If you can find a violin I will.

埃德里安娜：当然！如果你能找到一部小提琴，我会演奏的。

重点讲解：
1. be good at
擅长的；精通的；能干的；
eg. A versatile person is often good at a number of different things.
多才多艺的人通常擅长许多种不同的事情。
eg. He is good at his job but he seems to lack confidence.
他工作不错，但似乎缺乏信心。
2. be good for
有利的；有益的；
eg. Rain water was once considered to be good for the complexion.
雨水曾一度被认为可以滋养皮肤。
eg. Eucalyptus oil is good for easing muscular aches and pains.
桉树油可以很好地缓解肌肉的疼痛。
3. come over
从远处来；顺便来访；
eg. You really must come over sometime and have dinner with us.
你确实应该找个时间过来，跟我们一起吃顿饭。
eg. She'll come over in a week or two.
她过一两个星期就来。
4. get out of
摆脱；逃避；
eg. It's amazing what people will do to get out of paying taxes.
人们为逃税而做出的种种事情令人吃惊。
eg. Some men would do anything to get out of the war.
一些人在为避免战争而奔波。
5. except for
除了；除…之外；唯有；
eg. The weather was good except for an occasional shower.
除下了一阵大雨外，天气还是很好的。
eg. Except for a small pang, her headache has gone.
除了偶有不适外，她的头痛已经好了。