情景对话

Simon: Hi! What's your name?
西蒙：你好！你叫什么名字？
Lesie: My name is Lesie Gregory.
蕾希：我叫蕾希·格利高里jbVNRf9Mv;!=wx。
Simon: And do you want to tell us about your hobbies?
西蒙：你想跟我们谈谈你的爱好吗？
Lesie: Sure, I'll tell you about my hobbies.
蕾希：好的1LLZtN~*PKku6zwVIe9v。我会跟你谈谈我的爱好J-SwmngLX)!o(。
Simon: OK. What are they?
西蒙：好MhzXXDlhM3PT&ED9E。你都有什么爱好？
Lesie: My first hobby is going to the gym. I go to the gym three times a week. I do floor execises, aerobics classes, swimming and I do weight training.
蕾希：我第一个爱好是去健身Q_45Og_8hGcE。我每周去三次健身房w4kN85+vF6N_=j)。我会做自由体操、有氧运动、游泳，我也做举重练习VK]y)mXeUh@dOGNYC。
Simon: Of all those things, what are your favorites? What's your favorite? What's your favorite thing to do?
西蒙：在这些运动中，你最喜欢的是什么？你最喜欢哪项运动？你最喜欢做的事情是什么？
Lesie: My favorite thing to do is either swimming or what they call aqua-aerobics.
蕾希：我最喜欢的是游泳，也有人称为水中有氧运动XF=]3&Tto.p)bY。
Simon: Aqua-aerobics? What's that?
西蒙：水中有氧运动？那是什么？
Lesie: Well, actually, there's different kinds of aqua-aerobics. It's just like an aerobics class but it's in a swimming pool, so there's, so you're not putting pressure on your joints when you're jumping up and down.
蕾希：嗯，实际上，水中有氧运动有不同的种类VpfizD.];wU0qI2R。与有氧运动类似，不过是在游泳池里进行的，这样在你上下跳动的时候不会对关节造成压力tr,q(!zN4vHRSRYG)。
Simon: Ah, cool! Any other hobbies?
西蒙：啊，真酷！你还有其他的爱好吗？
Lesie: Yeah, um, because it's going to be Christmas soon, I'll be able to enjoy my hobby of baking.
蕾希：有，马上就要到圣诞节了，所以我可以享受烘焙的乐趣.Lov0I3UN3d0_4j2OzqU。
Simon: So what kind of things do you bake?
西蒙：那你通常都烘焙什么呢？
Lesie: Oh, well, sometimes I bake pies, like pumpkin pies or pecan pie. Pecan pies are very famous where I come from in Florida because we have pecan trees and then sometimes I do cakes, like really rich cakes like red velvet cakes, or carrot cakes, but this year I'm going to be baking cookies.
蕾希：嗯，有时我会烤馅饼，比如南瓜派或是核桃派ybr3NY[9cuU+)5-@*。我来自佛罗里达州，那里的核桃派非常有名，因为我们那里有核桃树，有时我也烘焙蛋糕，我会做配料丰富的蛋糕，比如红丝绒蛋糕或是胡萝卜蛋糕，不过今年我打算烤饼干%qde7sH(p(tm。
Simon: Cookies! What kind of cookies, Leslie?
西蒙：饼干！蕾希，你要做哪种饼干？
Lesie: Ah, let's see this year's cookies are going to be the traditional Christmas sugar cookie, which is a big cookie in a kind of a Christmas shape, like a Christmas tree or Santa Claus with icing or some colored sugar, very yummy, and some M&M cookies with red a green M&M's.
蕾希：嗯，我想今年我会做传统的圣诞节甜饼干，这是一种大饼干，形状与圣诞节有关，可以是圣诞树形状或是有糖霜的圣诞老人形状，也可以是一些彩色糖的形状，这种饼干非常好吃，可以用红色和绿色的M&M彩虹糖来做彩虹巧克力豆曲奇t1r-[YI0)o3]s。
Simon: Oh, wow! Sounds interesting! OK. I've got a question, or I've got something to ask you.Describe how your cookies taste? Use your three favorite adjectives?
西蒙：哇！听起来真有趣！好，我有个问题，我想问你件事JIFp[GfjjkjKbY。形容一下你的饼干是什么味道？用三个你最喜欢的形容词来描述？
Lesie: Three favorite adjectives? Soft, moist, and sweet!
蕾希：三个最喜欢的形容词？那就是柔软、润泽和甜！

重点讲解

重点讲解：
1. up and down
上上下下；来来回回；
eg. There's a lot of rushing up and down the gangways.
舷梯上许多人上上下下ozQY4Z.&8eoycB。
eg. He continued to jump up and down like a boy at a football match.
他不停地上蹿下跳，活像个足球赛中的男孩pCEu5+v3Z&。
2. be able to do sth.
可以…的，能够做某事；
eg. Despite our disagreements, we have been able to find some common ground.
尽管我们存在分歧，但仍能找到一些共同点h1awMQyC10!|ck~QVjD。
eg. Women seem to be able to multitask better than men.
女性似乎比男性更擅长同时做数件事情
3. be going to do sth.
将要，即将；
eg. I think it's going to be successful.
我认为这事会成功pDfB)rdBtiIL)iXt=。
eg. I'm going to have to tell him the truth.
我得把真相告诉他;-..;[#g(&&,I8S。