【英语趣味课堂】去阿根廷旅行-Trip to Argentina

Todd: Hey, Jessica, what are your plans for the summer?
 
Jessica: This summer! I think I'm going to go on a trip with my brother to Argentina. Uh, we are still making the plans to go but I think we're going to go for two weeks. And we're probably going to go from Chicago, because that's where he lives, to Buenos Aires and then go north to the city of Cordoba, which is the second largest city in Argentina, so, and then from there I'd really like to go and see some gauchos 1, which are Argentine cowboys 2, so I think that that would be really cool, and have some barbeque and see everything that we can, so..
 
Todd: Cool! Are you going to work your way down to the southern tip?
 
Jessica: I don't think we're going to just because I have a buddy 3 of mine that lives in the north, in Cordoba, and I think it's so far from the north to the south, just cause it's such a long country that he said by bus it would take something like some ungodly amount of hours and so, I don't know, in two weeks, I think that would be a little bit ambitious 4, to try to cover it all so.
 
Todd: OK, do you know anybody in Argentina?
 
Jessica: Yeah, yeah, my one friend who lives there. I definitely 5 want to go there and visit him. Oh, so your friend already lives there.
 
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work your way down
 
Are you going to work your way down to the southern tip?
 
Used like this 'work your way down' refers to traveling slowly in a southern direction, stopping to see things along the way. Notice the following:
 
How long do you have to work your way down to Chile?
We are going to work our way down to the southern part of the country and then drive along the coast.
buddy
 
I have a buddy of mine that lives in the north.
 
'Buddy' is an informal 6 way of saying friend.  This is used more commonly to refer to men. Notice the following:
 
Have you met my buddy John?
He went camping with some buddies 7 this weekend.
ungodly
 
He said it would take some ungodly number of hours by bus.
 
An 'ungodly' number of hours is a lot. Too many hours for the average person to handle.  It is similar in meaning to outrageous 8 or intolerable. Notice the following:
 
My professor give us an ungodly amount of homework.
During the summer he works 9 an ungodly number of hours in the hot sun.
ambitious
 
I think it would be a little bit ambitious to do that.
 
If you have an 'ambitious' goal it is diffult to achieve without a lot of hard work. Notice the following:
 
I think finishing this project in two weeks is a little too ambitious.
He has very ambitious goals for the company.
cover it all
 
I'm not sure if we can cover it all in two weeks.
 
Used to refer to traveling 'cover all of it' means 10 to travel through all of the different parts that you want to see. Notice the following:
 
He covered the whole city in a day on a bicycle.
We want to cover all the area we can in the month that we have to travel.