今天的這段對話,在討論加拿大主要城市,
多倫多、蒙特利爾和溫哥華的態(tài)度和生活方式有什么不同
來聽今天的講解:
A: OK, Mike, you are from Canada.
邁克,你來自加拿大。
B: That's right.
沒錯。
A: So, actually I want to go to Canada for vacation. I've never been. What would you recommend for a Canadian vacation?
實際上,我想去加拿大度假。我從來沒去過那里。要是去加拿大度假,你有什么推薦嗎?
B: Well, it really just depends on the kind of holiday that you want to have. If you want to have a relaxing outdoors, kind of back to nature, kind of holiday, I'd recommend Vancouver. If you wanted to do a holiday that's maybe a little more culturally oriented. If you want experience, a different type of culture, Montreal, would be a city that I'd recommend, um, and if you wanted to go to a big multi-cultural city with a lot of nightlife and things to do with respect to entertainment, or sports, then I'd recommend Toronto.
這要取決于你想度過怎樣的假期。如果你想享受放松的室外假期,想回歸自然,這類假期我會推薦你去溫哥華。如果你想度過文化類假期,想體驗不同類型的文化,那我會推薦你去蒙特利爾,嗯,如果你想去多元文化的大型城市,感受那里的夜生活以及與娛樂和體育相關的事情,那我會推薦你去多倫多。
A: So, have you been to all three cities?
那這些城市你都去過嗎?
B: Yes. I actually have lived most of my life in Toronto and in Montreal and, but I have spent some time in Vancouver as well, so, all three are very different in attitude and lifestyle and in the way people live.
都去過。實際上我大部分時間都生活在多倫多和蒙特利爾,不過我也在溫哥華住過一段時間,這三個城市的態(tài)度和生活方式都非常不同。
A: How so? How is somebody from Toronto different than somebody from Vancouver?
怎么不同?來自多倫多的人和來自溫哥華的人有什么不同?
B: Well, somebody from Toronto I think is a little bit more high paced, maybe you could almost say, they're a little bit more stresses out, just because the pace of life in Toronto is a little bit faster. It's kind of the big economic center of Canada, so it tend to have a lot more of a business culture to it, where as Vancouver, is much more, like many West Coast cities in the United States, as well, it's a lot more relaxed, a lot more easy-going, so there's a difference in culture there,and Montreal has a strong French-Canadian influence, so in fact, it's mostly French-Canadian, so that just changes the dynamic of the city.
嗯,我認為來自多倫多的人生活節(jié)奏更快,你也可以說,他們有更多壓力,原因就是多倫多的生活節(jié)奏相對來說更快一些。那里是加拿大重要的經(jīng)濟中心,所以那里的商業(yè)文化非常濃郁,而溫哥華則和美國西海岸的大部分城市一樣,那里的生活相對來說更放松,更悠閑,所以那里的文化氛圍也不同,蒙特利爾則受到法裔加拿大人的嚴重影響,實際上,那里大部分人都是法裔加拿大人,所以這給這個城市帶來了活力。
A: OK, so if you were to live in any city, which one would you choose?
好,那如果你要住在這些城市里,那你會選擇住在哪里呢?
B: Of, those three? (Yeah) Personally I would think I would go for Montreal, just because I like the dynamic. The one bad point about Montreal is the weather.
這三個城市嗎?(對)個人來說,我會選擇蒙特利爾,因為我喜歡那種活力的感覺。不過蒙特利爾的缺點是天氣不太好。
A: What? It's very cold?
怎么?非常冷嗎?
B: Yes, it gets very, very cold and it has a very long winter. In fact, the joke is that in Montreal the seasons are nine month of winter and three months of bad-skating.
對,蒙特利爾的冬天非常長,而且也非常寒冷。實際上,有個玩笑說蒙特利爾的季節(jié)是九個月的冬季和另三個月不適合滑冰的季節(jié)。
A: OK, well, thanks, Mike.
好,謝謝你,邁克。