原版英语对话1000个:178 Life Overseas
时间：2019-02-02 作者：英语课 分类：原版英语对话1000个
Todd: OK, Christian 1, you were just telling me that you lived in New Zealand as an exhange student!
Christian: That's right. In high school, yeah.
Todd: What was that like?
Christian: I mean, I was 17 years at the time and, you know, I was just leaving home for the first time and going abroad for a year without going home, and it was the first time to actually move out of my family and it was an intimidating 2 experience but at the same time it was extremely 3 enjoyable. I had a great time, traveled around, met a lot of great people, got introduced into Maori culture, and yeah it was fascinating 4, really fascinating.
Todd: What did you like the most about New Zealand?
Christian: The country itself, probably the nature and the wildlife. It's just so pure, so green. You got the big mountains, you got the fjords, the rivers. It's all such, it's a great eco-system, you can tell that it's non 5 polluted 6. It's just really nice. If you appreciate it, call it nature, you can walk around and soak 7 up the atmosphere. It's really good.
Todd: What was the hardest thing about living so far from home?
Christian: The fact that I could only communicate to my family through faxes in the beginning because calling was a bit expensive. The circumstances 8 didn't allow me to use the phone where I was living, so I had to use faxes and that is a bit strange.
Todd: Wow, so there's no e-mail or internet?
Christian: Well, at the time, e-mail wasn't used that much in New Zealand. There was one computer in my school that had an interntet connection. And I was allowed to use that because I was an exchange student, the only exchange student at my school. They said, well you can come in and use it every now and then, I used it maybe once a week, because I had never used e-mail before cause this was back in 97, so it's eight, like seven or eight years ago, and I guess, in New Zealand they didn't really have that many connections.
Todd: Wow, great story.
Christian: It was truly great, yeah.
- They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
- His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
- They were accused of intimidating people into voting for them. 他们被控胁迫选民投他们的票。
- This kind of questioning can be very intimidating to children. 这种问话的方式可能让孩子们非常害怕。
- The film is extremely good,I just cannot miss it.这部电影太精彩了，我非看不可。
- The old man was extremely difficult to get along with.这个老人极难相与。
- Your ideas are fascinating to me.你的这些主意对我来说是有吸引力的。
- The very style of the book is fascinating.这本书的风格本身就会引人入胜。
- Polluted air hangs over the city.城市上空被污染的空气所笼罩。
- The air was polluted by factory smoke.空气被工厂冒的烟污染了。
- Let the clothes soak for a few hours in soapy water.让衣服在肥皂水中泡几小时。
- The oil will soak into the wood.油会渗进木头里。
- The company reserves the right to cancel this agreement in certain circumstances. 本公司保留在一定条件下取消这项协议的权利。
- There were extenuating circumstances and the defendant did not receive a prison sentence. 因有可减轻罪行的情节被告未被判刑。