美语情景对话【美语情景对话,第226期:Japan,and,England,日本和英格兰】
Todd: OK, Sarah, how long have you been in Japan?
托德：萨拉，你来日本多长时间了？
Sarah: I"ve been in Japan for two months. I came in April.
萨拉：我来日本两个月了。我是四月份来的。
Todd: Again, when did you come to Japan?
托德：再说一遍，你是什么时候来日本的？
Sarah: Two months ago.
萨拉：两个月以前。
Todd: OK, and what do you think about Japan?
托德：好，你觉得日本怎么样？
Sarah: It"s a very interesting country. I expected a very big culture shock when I first came here because I"ve never been to Asia. I"ve always taught in Europe and I"ve been to America but they were all places that weren"t particularly different from England, like Japan, but I didn"t have any culture shock and I don"t know if it"s just because I was in an environment with other English speaking people and I was in a company where it"s very secure and safe so there was not need to have that kind of shock but I think the differences here are just unbelievable. It"s very difficult to explain it to somebody who"s never been to Japan before, so talking on the phone about being here, talking to someone back in England is very difficult to explain to them how different it is here.
萨拉：日本是一个非常有意思的国家。我刚来这里的时候，我本来以为会遇到非常大的文化冲击，因为我从来没有来过亚洲。我一直在欧洲教学，我去过美国，不过这些地方与英格兰没有什么不同，不过在日本我并没有遇到文化冲击，不知道是不是因为我与一些说英语的人一起工作，我所在的公司很安全，所以我没有遇到那种冲击，不过我认为差异还是不可避免的。对从来没来过日本的人解释起来有些难度，很难打电话给在英格兰的朋友解释在这里生活的困难。
Todd: Yeah, what do you think about the food?
托德：嗯，那你觉得食物怎么样？
Sarah: I like the food because I like fish so I was lucky, so the food, I"ve tried some different things, tried to be adventurous.
萨拉：我喜欢这里的食物，因为我喜欢吃鱼，所以我很幸运，我尝试了一些不同的食物，冒险尝试了一下。
Todd: And the people?
托德：那这里的人呢？
Sarah: Ah, the people are nice, very nice, first quite difficult to, when teaching, very very different than teaching Europeans, particularly the Austrian people from my experience are very loud and forthcoming, and at first they were very, very quite, and we"ve seen quite a difference now that they"ve got to know us, and they"ve opened up quite a lot and it"s easier, but g