原版英语对话1000个:033 Road Trip

Todd: Tim, you want to talk about road trips!

Tim: Yeah, I wanna talk about road trips. Ah, me and my friends, when we were in high school we took a lot of road trips to lots of different places.

Todd: OK.

Tim: We would go down to California¹, ah, sometimes Mexico². One time when I was living in Wyoming, in one weekend we drove³ from Wyoming, through Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico and back in the same weekend.

Todd: Wow! Well, actually for people who are not familiar⁴ with the United⁵ States how far is that?

Tim: It's a long way. I don't know. It took, I don't know, it took probably about 15 hours one way.

Todd: Wow!

Tim: So, thirty hours all together. But it was fun. We drove down to Mexico, had a good night, a good meal, a little bit of drinks and drove back the next day.

Todd: So you went to Tijuana?

Tim: No, we went to, ah, Ciudad Juarez.

Todd: OK. Nice.

Tim: That was really fun and a lot of other trips we took, ah, when I lived in Oregon, when we'd go down to California, and we'd surf.

Todd: Oh, really!

Tim: Yeah!

Todd: Oh, you're a surfer?

Tim: A little bit, a little bit of surfer.

Todd: OK, What, what kind of car do you drive? What do you use for this road trip?

Tim: Well, typical⁶ American, uh, a four-wheel drive vehicle⁷, big vehicle...lots of gas but a lot of fun.

Todd: Oh man, you're from Oregon, you're supposed to be a tree hugger!

Tim: I know. I know. But there're good. One rule we had on our road trips was any lake or big body of water we had to stop and swim in. It was a good thing to do.

Todd: Well, you live in Japan now. Do you ever do road trips in Japan?

Tim: I took a road trip from Niigata up around Hokkaido and back, so it was a long road trip actually.

Todd: OK. Wow! What's the difference between a road trip in Japan and a road trip in America?

Tim: Well, a road trip in Japan...it's a little bit more dificult to get around, it's a little bit more expensive, uh, in America road tripping is sort⁸ of, something a lot of people do.

Todd: Yeah!

Tim: And in Japan, when we do that it is a little bit strange, a little bit different, not not very normal.

Todd: Yeah, that's true. OK. Great, thanks a lot Tim.

Tim: Alright.

 

1 California   

n.加利福尼亚(美国)

参考例句：

• He was elected governor of the state of California.他当选为加州州长。
• We were driving on a California freeway.我们正沿着加利福尼亚的一条快车道驾车行驶。

2 Mexico   

n.墨西哥

参考例句：

• They took me to Mexico.他们把我带到墨西哥。
• Mexico is a beautiful country.墨西哥是个美丽的国家。

3 drove   

vbl.驾驶，drive的过去式；n.畜群

参考例句：

• He drove at a speed of sixty miles per hour.他以每小时60英里的速度开车。
• They drove foreign goods out of the market.他们把外国货驱逐出市场。

4 familiar   

adj.熟悉的，常见的，亲密的；n.熟友，常客

参考例句：

• I've only just come here.I'm still not familiar with the work.刚到这里，工作很生。
• The man seemed familiar,but I could not quite place him.这人很面熟，但是我记不清在哪儿见过他。

5 united   

adj.和谐的；团结的；联合的，统一的

参考例句：

• The whole nation is closely united.全国人民紧密团结。
• The two men were united by community of interests.共同的利益使两个人结合在一起。

6 typical   

adj.典型的，象征的，有代表性的

参考例句：

• This is typical Chinese English.这是典型的中式英语。
• It is a typical Persian garden.这是个典型的波斯式花园。

7 vehicle   

n.车辆，交通工具，运载工具；媒介，表现手段

参考例句：

• Air is the vehicle of sound.空气是声音传播的媒介。
• The power plant burns used vehicle tyres as fuel.这家电厂用废弃轮胎作燃料。

8 sort   

v.排序，挑选，分拣；n.种类，类别，性质，程度

参考例句：

• She was a strange sort of person.她这个人有些古怪。
• I don't much care for that sort of man.我不太喜欢那种人。