时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:英语访谈对话


英语课

   Todd: Miki, where did you go to university?


  Miki: I went to university in California, at a school called the University of California at Berkeley.
  Todd: And where is that in California?
  Miki: It's in the Bay Area, which is in the northern half of California, right across the bay from San Francisco.
  Todd: OK, and what did you study?
  Miki: I studied many things, but I majored in JapaneseTodd: Oh, really!
  Miki: I did.
  Todd: Oh, wow. Now you are of Japanese ancestry 1.
  Miki: My mother is. My father is from Kansas.
  Todd: Oh, really.
  Miki: His family is from the South, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas. My mother is from Japan. She grew up in Nagasaki and moved to Yokohama when she was young so most of my family is there, Yokohama and the South.
  Todd: Oh, wow! What a combo.
  Miki: Yeah, I guess so.
  Todd: Now were you already fluent in Japanese before you started university?
  Miki: I was but it wasn't a standard Japanese. It was very familial. It was Japanese that was spoken within the family, between parent and child, and so it was very casual, and conversational 2.
  Todd: OK. Is it difficult for you to comprehend 3 people sometimes in Japan or is it just like home?
  Miki: Oh, it's absolutely difficult because there, well first of all, they're dialects and then of course there are different levels of politeness and conversationalist, I guess, and especially once I get into a classroom with other professors, and other students, colleagues my age, it's quite difficult to follow the language, but if it's street talk it's much easier.
  Todd: Oh, really! OK, so at university, did you study just to learn Japanese as a language or did you study literature?
  Miki: I'll be honest. I studied to get an easy degree, and frankly 4 it was quite easy, but then I had a very good professor in classical Japanese and that's when my interest in literature and history actually was born and I ended up becoming a researcher in medieval 5 history, medieval literature.
  Todd: Wow, that must be really difficult though cause that's old, old style of language, it's anold text. (Yes) Like Shakespeare is difficult for me.
  Miki: That's actual, well, that's actually an interesting comparison cause Shakespeare is actually just a little bit easier for us modern Americans to comprehend than classical Japanese is for a modern Japanese person to comprehend because the language, actually, Shakespearean English is actually much closer to modern English than classical Japanese is to modern Japanese, butit's not spoken, so if one has a dictionary, then one can do research.
  Todd: Alright! Well, thanks a lot Miki.
  Miki: You're welcome.

n.祖先,家世
  • Their ancestry settled the land in 1856.他们的祖辈1856年在这块土地上定居下来。
  • He is an American of French ancestry.他是法国血统的美国人。
adj.对话的,会话的
  • The article is written in a conversational style.该文是以对话的形式写成的。
  • She values herself on her conversational powers.她常夸耀自己的能言善辩。
vt.了解,理解,领会
  • I did not comprehend his meaning.我不理解他的意思。
  • If you can use a word correctly and effectively,you comprehend it.你如果能正确和有效地使用一个字,你就了解它了。
adv.坦白地,直率地;坦率地说
  • To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说,我一点也不赞成这个主意。
  • Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说,我不反对改革。
adj.中世纪的,中古(时代)的
  • This is a medieval story.这是一个中世纪的故事。
  • The museum has a fine collection of medieval ivories.该博物馆收藏着一批精美的中世纪象牙制品。
学英语单词
abbreviated Doolittle method
agkistrodon acutus
allochthonous sediment
anticontractile
array mbiras
associate dean
at abroad
atmospheric diving suit
audio-gram
auxiliary fuel pump
basic indicator
bearded Milanese
bell rope
bilprotein
cantering
carbarsone
cardinalic
Carmo do Rio Claro
chorussing
coastal zone resources
coefficient of retardance
color graphic work station
Common Intermediate Format
compressor exhauster unit
consolido meter
constre
credit underwriting
deltaeta
egged
erythrogenic acid
exhaust conditioning box
finder adapter
fire suppression system
fix someone's little red wagon
Fourier modulus
french republics
fuel spray nozzle
game on-demand
ghost protocol
grottiness
heating tongs
heggies
HPWT
identification papers
inside gauge
International Consultative Committee
irrigation frequency
kralik
law of stream gradient
lie-down
london depositary receipt
lustre-coating agent
macrolevels
made the trial
MAPL
maximum working value
mcsween
methemalbuminemia
Mizoguchi Kenji
moments of truncated distribution
ninet
nonadic
nonmicrobial
oligozoospermias
organic insecticide
over-thoughtful
pahute mesa
paikoff
papait
PARRIDAE
phycobilin
piezoresistance transduction element
pince
pondexter
posterior intermediate sulcus
primitive spleen
pseudotrunks
punch operator
reduction of output
reductive genioplasty
sarcoma of penis
Schkeuditz
sequential memory mode
sermatech
share alike
sir sarvepalli radhakrishnans
solder clad copper
spels
split Abelian subgroup
spun-bonded non-woven fabric
subfactorials
system designing
telescopic star
temperature measuring element
textwar
tutorial subsystem
unpilled
unregardful
ventralizes
Walgaon
within measure
Xiaojun