美语情景对话,第238期:Great,Fruit,丰富的水果:美语情景对话
Todd: Hey, Lois, why don"t you have a plum!
托德：嗨，洛伊丝，来个李子吃吧！ Lois: Oh, thank you very much. Lovely! 洛伊丝：哦，非常谢谢你。好吃！ Todd: You like plums? 托德：你喜欢吃李子？ Lois: I love all fruits, but plums especially. 洛伊丝：所有的水果我都爱吃，不过特别喜欢李子。 Todd: Oh, there goes the water. 托德：哦，它们富含水分。 Lois: It"s very juicy. 洛伊丝：有很多果汁。 Todd: It is juicy. How does it taste? 托德：有很多果汁。味道怎么样？ Lois: Mm, it tastes sweet, very refreshing. 洛伊丝：嗯，是甜的，非常清新的味道。 Todd: Mm, I love plums. 托德：嗯，我喜欢李子。 Lois: Yeah, me too. 洛伊丝：我也喜欢。 Todd: Guess how much this box cost? 托德：你猜这盒李子要多少钱？ Lois: I"m thinking it"s probably quite expensive, so in yen, maybe 1,000 yen. 洛伊丝：我想可能会非常贵，大概1000日元吧。 Todd: Ah, yeah, pretty close. It cost 900 yen for 8 plums. 托德：对，差不多。这8个李子就要900日元。 Lois: Very expensive in Japan. 洛伊丝：日本的价格真的很贵。 Todd: I know it"s crazy. In America you can get this for like maybe 200 yen. Not even that, maybe 100 yen. 托德：我知道，这很让人抓狂。在美国的话，这些大概200日元就能买到。可能都不用，100日元就能买到。 Lois: In England it"s cheap but probably not as cheap as in America. I think maybe because we have to import everything. It"s slightly more expensive. 洛伊丝：在英国李子很便宜，不过不像美国那么便宜。我想，可能是因为我们所有的东西都要靠进口。所以会有些贵。 Todd: Actually, that"s a good question. What fruits do you grow in England? 托德：实际上，这是个很好的问题。英国种植什么水果？ Lois: Apples and Apples and maybe pears and... 洛伊丝：苹果，可能还有梨…… Todd: No coconuts? 托德：没有椰子吗？ Lois: No coconuts. No bananas. and maybe we grow plums. I don"t know. 洛伊丝：没有椰子。没有香蕉。可能我们种李子，我不清楚。 Todd: It looks like a very English fruit. 托德：那看上去像英国的代表水果。 Lois: But definitely apples. 洛伊丝：那绝对是苹果。 Todd: Or strawberries? 托德：或者草莓？ Lois: Strawberries, oh yeah. Lots of strawberries and tomatoes but maybe they"re a vegetable some people say fruit. Some people say vegetable. But lots of tomatoes. And I"m sure lots of other things but, I just know about apples. 洛伊丝：草莓，对，没错。英国种植很多草莓和土豆，不过可能它们属于蔬菜，有些人说它们是水果，有些人说是蔬菜。不过英国种植大量的土豆。我确定还种植大量的其他作物，不过我只知道苹果。 Todd: What"s your favorite fruit? 托德：你最喜欢的水果是什么？ Lois: My favorite fruit! I really like pineapples, and I also like strawberrie