關(guān)于探險的英語對話(2)
關(guān)于探險的英語對話
探險英語對話3：Tales from the Lewis and Clark Expedition
ANNA: Hello and welcome to As It Isfrom VOA Learning English.
ANNA: I’m Anna Matteo in Washington, DC. And today we bring you a live Q&A for our listeners. For those who may have not heard that expression before, Q&A stands for “Questions” and “Answers.” I will be asking the questions, and my co-worker here atVOA, Kelly Jean Kelly, will be answering them.
Kelly has just returned from an exciting road trip, an expedition. And she’s going to tell us all about it. So, welcome to the studio, Kelly!
ANNA: Hi, Kelly. How are you?
KELLY: Great!
ANNA: And let’s just begin with our first question. What is an "expedition.” It’s a great word. Meriam-Webster dictionary defines it as a journey especially by a group of people for a specific purpose, such as to explore a distant place or to do research. But also the group of people who travel together are called an expedition. What was the purpose, Kelly, of your recent expedition?
KELLY: Well, we were actually reporting on another expedition! That expedition happened in 1805. It was led by two men. Their names are Lewis and Clark -- so, Americans sometimes call it the Lewis and Clark expedition.
KELLY: And Lewis and Clark were exploring the western United States. They traveled by boat and over land from St. Louis, Missouri. And you can picture a map of the United States … St. Louis is in the middle in today’s Midwest. And Lewis and Clark traveled from St. Louis all the way to the Pacific Ocean in what is now Oregon. So for our expedition we just traveled over the last part of their journey. We went to Montana and then on to the ocean in Oregon.
ANNA: For one thing that sounds fantastic, by the way. Tell us some of things you learned on this trip -- this expedition -- that made an impression on you. And that means, um, the things you remember because they were so different or so important.
KELLY: So, one of the things I learned was about the other people who traveled with Lewis and Clark. Lewis and Clark are pretty famous in U.S. history. But there was a whole group of people with them. And one of them was a young Native American woman. She was very young. She was maybe 15-, 16-, 17-years old. And she helped translate so Lewis and Clark could talk to the Native American tribe called the Shoshone in Montana. And the Shoshone were very important for Lewis and Clark because the Shoshone helped them get across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific.
KELLY: This young woman is usually called Sacagewea. But one of the things I learned on this trip is that her name was probably actually pronounced, Sah-caw-gah-wee-ah.
ANNA: That’s very different than we learned in school. What was she translating?
KELLY: So, it was interesting. She was translating the Shoshone language for Lewis and Clark. But she didn’t necessarily speak English. And that was the only language that Lewis and Clark spoke. But she spoke her own language. She spoke a different Native American language. And she spoke some French. And her husband was French. So, she probably heard the Shoshone language, translated it into French, her husband translated into English for Lewis and Clark. There might have been maybe one or two other people involved in that chain of communication. So, you can imagine that any basic conversation could take hours!
ANNA: And you think what could have been lost in translation or perhaps misunderstood going through so many different people.
KELLY: Exactly. Exactly.
ANNA: Don’t go away. When we return we will hear more about Kelly’s trip and more about the Lewis and Clark expedition. You are listening to the VOA Learning English programAs It Is.
ANNA: Welcome back. I’m Anna Matteo here in our Washington, D.C. studio with VOA reporter Kelly Jean Kelly. Kelly has just returned from a road trip, or more formally, an expedition, from the American West. But before we continue, I have a language question: How is an expedition different from a road trip or business trip?
KELLY: Oh, that’s a good question. Well, a road trip is usually just for fun. And a business trip is usually for a specific purpose related to your job. So you might go on a business trip to attend a meeting or a conference.
KELLY: But an expedition is really more like an adventure. It’s usually longer than a business trip. And it usually is more for the purpose of learning new information. And in fact, we’ve been talking about the Lewis and Clark expedition -- another name for the expedition is the “Corps of Discovery.”
ANNA: The phrase “Corps of Discovery”: Can you talk about the word “corps.” Our listeners might think it is spelled quite differently than they’re hearing.
KELLY: Oh sure, yeah. Corps is spelled C-O-R-P-S, in this case, like the French word for “body.” And it usually means an organized part of a military group. So, it’s a military word. And that actually makes sense for the Corps of Discovery because it was a military expedition. Lewis and Clark were both soldiers. And most of the men who traveled with them were also soldiers. And the U.S. government paid for the trip. So, you can imagine it like a Special Forces operation.
ANNA: They also had this woman, Sacagawea, whose name we now know is pronounced …
KELLY: Sa-CAH-ga-wea.
ANNA: And she was for part of the trip pregnant. Is that correct?
KELLY: Yes! And that was also something I didn’t realize. And that was particularly meaningful to me because I, actually, am also pregnant, if I can share that with our listeners.
ANNA: Please do. How far along are you?
KELLY: Like Sacagawea I’m six months pregnant. And she was six months pregnant when she joined up with Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery. And, in fact, Lewis and Clark actually helped deliver her baby. So for a good part of this trip she actually had an infant. And she carried him on her back over the Rocky Mountains and then along the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean.
ANNA: That is fascinating. I actually had no idea as well. It’s almost as if the two of you were sharing a parallel experience while you were on your expedition, although, you probably had a more comfortable of a time.
KELLY: Correct. I thought fondly of Sacagawea as I was traveling in our rental car.
ANNA: So, what can look forward to and our listeners, what can they expect?
KELLY: Oh, we’re going to have a lot of great stuff. We’re going to have a video that talks about the Lewis and Clark expedition. And we’re going to have a lot of pictures. We’re going to have a slide show, including a slide show about Sacagawea. And we’re going to have some different articles about other things that were happening in the time. So, you can imagine and really understand why the Lewis and Clark expedition is so important in American history. It’s a great adventure story. And it’s interesting. And it’s a good character study. But it also really fits into a bigger narrative about U.S. history. So, we’d like to give all of that information to you.
ANNA: Well, thank you Kelly for sharing details, and we look forward to the finished product.
KELLY: Thanks, everybody! It was great to be here. Thanks, Anna!
探險英語對話4：水上運動
Jana: So you mentioned hiking. I think South Africa must have a lot of outdoor activities, right?
嘉娜：你提到了徒步旅行。我想南非一定有很多戶外活動，對吧?
Peter: Hmm.
彼得：對。
Jana: Some extreme sports?
嘉娜：極限運動嗎?
Peter: Right, right. Yeah, it's, actually for a dry country it's interesting that it has so many water sports, people that really love water sports too especially on the eastern side of the country because it's tropical warm climate year round. The sea temperature is quite warm andat the same time it has a lot of really big waves so I think two of the world's biggest surfing events are held in South Africa yearly. The one is near Jeffreys Bay and the other one is near Durban and that's where all the world's surf champions come to surf and test their skills. But if you're not into surfing you can go wind surfing which actually on the eastern coast is really famous because of the strong winds over there and the relatively, not calm seas, but actually there's a lot of open plains to do wind surfing on so it's really famous for that. And then like skiing and water skiing of course really famous too. People really enjoy the water sports.
彼得：對，沒錯。一個干旱的國家有很多水上運動，這點很有意思，人們喜歡水上運動，南非東部地區(qū)的人們尤其喜歡水上運動，因為南非全年都是熱帶溫暖氣候。海水溫度非常溫暖，而且還有很多巨浪，所以世界兩大年度沖浪賽事選在南非舉行。其中一個賽事在杰佛瑞灣附近舉行，另一個在德班附近舉行，屆時世界沖浪冠軍都會來到這兩個地方?jīng)_浪，測試他們的技巧。但是如果你不喜歡沖浪，你可以去玩帆板，東海岸的帆板運動很出名，因為那里有強風(fēng)，海面相對不太平靜，不過有很多開闊的地帶可以進行帆板運動，那里非常出名。當然那里的滑冰和水上滑冰也很出名。人們非常喜歡水上運動。
Jana: Great. I also heard about diving.
嘉娜：太好了。我還聽說過潛水。
Peter: Ah, yeah.
彼得：啊，對。
Jana: Diving in South Africa.
嘉娜：在南非潛水。
Peter: Yeah, that's, one, two interesting things. One is shark cage diving that people are really, have in recent years become interested in.
彼得：對，有兩種有趣的潛水。其中之一是近年來越來越受歡迎的潛水觀鯊。
Jana: That sounds scary.
嘉娜：聽起來好可怕。
Peter: I think it is. One of the, actually the breeding colonies of the great white shark is in South Africa, I think the other one is in Australia, and people come there to go down in big steel cages to go and see some of these huge sharks and they dive with them and I think it's pretty dangerous but it's interesting for some people. Oh, the other thing that's really interesting diving in South Africa, also dangerous, is diving for treasure because of the ancient shipping route from Europe right past the Cape Point, the southern most shipping route in the world. There's a lot of ships that sank because of the terrible weather in centuries past, over the last, I guess, five hundred years ships have sunk around the tip of Africa and people, divers come there to dive and find out if they can get some, if they can get rich basically diving for treasure and you get a lot of historical excavation as well. It's pretty dangerous too because there are two converging sea...
彼得：我想是有點可怕。南非是大白鯊的其中一個繁殖地，另一個繁殖地應(yīng)該是在澳大利亞，人們?nèi)ツ抢餄撊胍粋€大鐵籠子，觀賞大白鯊，他們和鯊魚一起潛水，我想那非常危險，不過對有些人來說很有意思。南非另外一種非常有意思的潛水也很危險，就是潛水尋寶，因為古代從歐洲出發(fā)的航線要經(jīng)過好望角，那里是世界上航線的最南端。過去幾個世紀以來，我想大概是過去500多年來，有很多船只因為惡劣的天氣在非洲的南端沉沒，潛水者會去那里潛水，尋找寶藏，希望能變得富有，那里也有很多考古挖掘工作。其實那非常危險，因為那是兩個海洋匯集……
Jana: Currents.
嘉娜：水流。
Peter: Currents that meet and the one is warm and the one is cold so you have a really interesting combination of natural weather patterns at the same place so I guess a lot of ships sank because of all the storms in that area.
彼得：那是水流匯合的地方，其中一股水流是溫暖的，另一股是寒冷的，兩種氣候模式在同一個地方結(jié)合在一起，所以我認為那個地區(qū)的風(fēng)暴是造成大量船只沉沒的原因。
Jana: Wow, so treasure diving or wreck diving sounds more fun than shark diving.
嘉娜：哇哦，潛水尋寶和打撈潛水聽起來比潛水觀鯊更有趣。
Peter: I think so too but it depends on your interest I guess.
彼得：我也是這樣認為的，不過這要看你對哪個感興趣。
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