英文原版对话1000个:1157 Gyms and Fitness

 　　Jules: Hey Nathan, do you go to the gym?

 

　　Nathan: Yes, Jules. I do try to but I'm a bit, I don't know what the word is.

 

　　Jules: Lazy?

 

　　Nathan: Inconsistent. No, thanks very much.

 

　　Jules: What do you do at the gym? What do you actually do?

 

　　Nathan: What do I do at the gym? I try to work on specific back and lower back muscles but it's quite difficult.

 

　　Jules: On a machine or?

 

　　Nathan: Well that's the unfortunate part is that the gym that I go to doesn't have a proper barbell so most of it's machine work or...

 

　　Jules: Bar bell, is that a thing you lift?

 

　　Nathan: Like the big long bar, all the muscle dudes kind of use.

 

　　Jules: I don't know much about that kind of stuff.

 

　　Nathan: But there's enough and then I usually do like forty five minutes of different lifts and then about an hour kind of stretching afterwards. But, yeah, I don't like the gyms so much, you know.

 

　　Jules: Why not? What don't you like about gyms?

 

　　Nathan: Number one, I get paranoid.

 

　　Jules: Do you?

 

　　Nathan: If there's like really muscly guys there or something. I'm like...

 

　　Jules: Paranoid or self conscious?

 

　　Nathan: Self-conscious maybe yeah. And then the other thing is I find that some gyms are not really gyms. They're just socializing places.

 

　　Jules: I guess that if that's the only function, you become a member, you hang out.

 

　　Nathan: You sit on a machine that everybody else wants to use and you talk for forty five minutes.

 

　　Jules: Ah, I see.

 

　　Nathan: And then...

 

　　Jules: You have some peeves¹ about the gym do you?

 

　　Nathan: Yeah, and then I'll go up to the guy or the girl who's sitting and just chatting and I say do you mind if I use this machine and then they start using it. I'm like arrrr.

 

　　Jules: Machine hogs²?

 

　　Nathan: Yeah. But the thing is you have to, you want to keep your muscles warm so you want to go in a kind of a set routine and if you skip, say you start off with your lower legs and you work up through your body, for example, you want to keep like the next set of muscles around it warm but you can't do that if the machines or the weights you want to use are hogged³.

 

　　Jules: You have to sit around and wait?

 

　　Nathan: Yeah and then you have to miss that out so that kind of drives me nuts.

 

　　Jules: I don't really understand machines. I've never really used a gym machine before.

 

　　Nathan: No?

 

　　Jules: No. If I go to a gym, I go to the studio and done some kind of workout.

 

　　Nathan: Yeah.

 

　　Jules: I like classes. I like classes to music where you can jump around and dance in front of a mirror.

 

　　Nathan: Yeah, aerobics⁴?

 

　　Jules: Yeah, those kind of things, yeah.

 

　　Nathan: But you're like a yoga teacher so...

 

　　Jules: I'm a yoga teacher, yeah. Actually I've never done yoga in a gym. I know that a lot of gyms now offer yoga classes because yoga classes are really, really popular.

 

　　Nathan: Yeah.

 

　　Jules: And I guess it's a good partnership⁵ with muscle work and stuff if you want to stretch out.

 

　　Nathan: Great.

 

　　Jules: But for me, yoga is much more philosophical⁶ and much more about relaxation⁷ and meditation⁸ and far more about your inner world, and the gyms don't seem like the right environment for me to practice yoga.

 

　　Nathan: Right.

1 peeves   

n.麻烦的事物，怨恨，触怒( peeve的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• It peeves me to be ordered out of my own house. 命令我从自己的家中出去，真太气人了。 来自辞典例句
• Write down two of your pet peeves about home or any other situation. 写下两个你厌烦的家务事或其他的情况。 来自超越目标英语 第3册

2 hogs   

n.（尤指喂肥供食用的）猪( hog的名词复数 )；（供食用的）阉公猪；彻底地做某事；自私的或贪婪的人

参考例句：

• 'sounds like -- like hogs grunting. “像——像是猪发出的声音。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
• I hate the way he hogs down his food. 我讨厌他那副狼吞虎咽的吃相。 来自辞典例句

3 hogged   

adj.（船）中拱的，（路）拱曲的

参考例句：

• The guy hogged the whole park bench. 那个人占着整张公园长椅。 来自辞典例句
• The cat hogged himself to attack a big dog. 那只猫拱起背向一条大狗发起了攻击。 来自互联网

4 aerobics   

n.健身操，健美操，韵律操

参考例句：

• Doing aerobics is a good way to improve one's health.做有氧健身操是改善健康状况的一个好方法。
• Aren't you going to the aerobics class this morning?今天上午你不是去上有氧运动课吗？

5 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

6 philosophical   

adj.哲学家的，哲学上的，达观的

参考例句：

• The teacher couldn't answer the philosophical problem.老师不能解答这个哲学问题。
• She is very philosophical about her bad luck.她对自己的不幸看得很开。

7 relaxation   

n.松弛，放松；休息；消遣；娱乐

参考例句：

• The minister has consistently opposed any relaxation in the law.部长一向反对法律上的任何放宽。
• She listens to classical music for relaxation.她听古典音乐放松。

8 meditation   

n.熟虑，（尤指宗教的）默想，沉思，（pl.）冥想录

参考例句：

• This peaceful garden lends itself to meditation.这个恬静的花园适于冥想。
• I'm sorry to interrupt your meditation.很抱歉，我打断了你的沉思。