情景对话

Todd: Gloria, what are your plans for the summer?
托德：格洛丽亚，你暑假有什么计划？
Gloria: I'm going to Thailand for two weeks and then I'm going to England for three weeks and then back to the US.
格洛丽亚：我打算去泰国玩两周，然后我会去英国待三周的时间，之后回美国eP0AZNr+m6|xsswh.。
Todd: OK, wait, Thailand, you're going to Thailand?
托德：嗯，等等，泰国，你要去泰国？
Gloria: Yes.
格洛丽亚：对WZIZgNE(mqxXZcLL=VA|。
Todd: OK, what are the plans for Thailand?
托德：好的，在泰国的旅行计划是什么？
Gloria: I'm going with a friend of mine, Adrienne and we're going to go to the Bridge over the River Kwai and then we're going to go to the beaches and I hope to take a scuba diving course.
格洛丽亚：我和我的朋友埃德里安娜一起去，我们计划去桂河大桥，然后去海滩，我希望能参加轻潜水的课程G!#WTgk9qC!E。
Todd: OK, so you've never been Scuba diving before.
托德：好，所以你以前从来没试过轻潜水]r~,fHK~tx!o=。
Gloria: No, I've only been snorkeling.
格洛丽亚：没有，我只试过浮潜aB_lKP##.jA1eNGKr。
Todd: Oh, actually, you know what, I got trained in scuba diving in Thailand in Ko Tao.
托德：哦，实际上，你知道，我曾经在泰国龟岛参加过轻潜水的训练UD0MoASnElsYU=(xnmw。
Gloria: Ah, that's where I'm going.
格洛丽亚：哦，那就是我要去的地方NQtSV2NuBSA6hGE.。
Todd: Really!
托德：是吗？
Gloria: Yeah.
格洛丽亚：对|R_3!gC16td4_f0。
Todd: Oh, it's really good. It's pretty cheap too.
托德：哦，那很棒Izx*[]ts66A。而且非常便宜|Rb6cRIGOP。
Gloria: Yeah, yeah, I got the brochures from that.
格洛丽亚：对，对，我拿到了那边的宣传册)t(i)j,wou&%6r8U5ABD。
Todd: Oh, great. So who is this Adrienne person?
托德：嗯，很好z_vpV#,!Ly。那埃德里安娜是谁？
Gloria: She's another teacher, that for two semesters we lived, one semester next door, and another semester she lived upstairs from me and we've just become really, really good friends and then this semester even though we're not living near each other, somehow we still remained being friends and we love to go to flea markets and buy cheap kimono.
格洛丽亚：她也是一名老师，我们在一起住了两个学期，一个学期住隔壁，一个学期她住在我楼上，我们成为非常非常好的朋友，虽然这学期我们住得远了，不过我们仍然保持着朋友关系，我们喜欢去跳蚤市场买便宜的和服3&Q1%Es;KShc#k~_j0_G。
Todd: Cheap kimonos?
托德：便宜的和服？
Gloria: Yeah, we'll spend 500 or 1,000 yen maximum and find used antique flea market kimono.
格洛丽亚：对，我们最多会花500或是1000日元，在跳蚤市场买到二手的古代和服Z7Db;m=)R-!3a3。
Todd: Cool, how many have you bought so far?
托德：真酷，你目前已经买了多少件了？
Gloria: Dozens, probably.
格洛丽亚：大概几十件吧b5t^rNmM#V1-p5Z(J[H。

重点讲解

重点讲解：
1. even though
即使；尽管；纵然；
eg. Even though I'm supposed to be working by myself, there are other people who I can interact with.
即便是需要我一个人工作，我还是可以和别人进行交流的p;n7f;14dIs_yCRo。
eg. He always tries to hold his ground even though he is wrong.
即使错了，他也总是试图固执己见3Yi5)BaD)rSc=brsv。
2. love to do sth.
喜欢做某事；
eg. I love to hear the boys pipe up in church.
我爱听男孩们在教堂里歌唱[w@6#J4,wF。
eg. Children love to paddle at the beach.
孩子们喜欢在海滩嬉水vgSAt3)bnkY[43。
3. so far
迄今为止；到目前为止；
eg. It's been quiet so far.
到现在为止还算安静htQJH_&xK3F5。
So far, they have met with no success.
迄今为止，他们还从未成功过qqH%kV*1+[&2。