英文原版对话1000个:649 Travel Tips For Japan

Todd: Keiko, my family is coming to Japan to see me and it's the first time they've been to Japan. What do you recommend¹? Like what should we see? They are going to be in Tokyo for one week.

Keiko: OK. Do they want to go outside of Tokyo or do they want to stay in Tokyo?

Todd: I think they would like to do one day, a one-day trip outside and then maybe spend the rest of the time in Tokyo.

Keiko: OK, I think, a lot of people say that Tokyo is not really Japan, you have to go outside of Tokyo to really see Japan because Tokyo is like New York in the states, but I don't think it's true because if you go to downtown in Tokyo you can see a lot of traditional old things for example if you go to places like Asakusa, but in the back streets you can see these old people who grew up in that area, you know doing their own thing in their own little ways and I think Tokyo's quite interesting because you can see, like example, places like Asakusa, you can see on the one side of the street, you can see cosmopolitan², you know, kind of buildings, new buildings and on the other side of the street you can see the old little traditional buildings or the cultures. You can kind of compare at the same time, so I recommend the places like the downtown in Tokyo, Asakusa.

Todd: How about, what city would you recommend besides Tokyo?

Keiko: Besides Tokyo, my favorite -- is it just a one-day trip?

Todd: Let's say two days.

Keiko: Two days. Well, if you really had a chance to go really far away, I recommend Shikoku because it's, it has a really nice nature.

Todd: Now is Shikoku, is that an actual city or an island or?

Keiko: It's a prefectural Shikoku area. It has four prefectures. That's why it's called Shikoku, four countries. It used to be four different countries and you can actually take a bus tour around the four prefectures and then you can see those little small reserved³ villages between the prefectures.

Todd: So Shikoku, huh?

Keiko: Shikoku is really nice but you have to fly there so if you only have two days, I recommend you go to maybe Kamakura. You can see the shrines⁴ and and temples and Buddha⁵.

Todd: So Kamakura. And how far is Kamakura from Tokyo?

Keiko: About 2 hours from on the train.

Todd: That's not too long.

Keiko: It's not too long and then you can down even further south to Hakone and you can go to a lot of different hot springs.

Todd: Actually, I'm thinking of taking family to Hakone to hot springs but I worry about the prices. How much would a ryookan, a Japanese hotel cost?

Keiko: About maybe 10,000 yen⁶ to 20,000 yen per person.

Todd: Oh really?

Keiko: Yeah.

Todd: So that's about between a hundred and two hundred U.S. dollars. That's not too much.

Keiko: No, but I mean it can go higher than 20,000 yen. It can always go higher.

Todd: Right. I got to be careful.

Keiko: Yeah, but you could also find a place between 10,000 yen and 20,000 yen range.

Todd: OK, and what -- if they could try three Japanese foods, what Japanese foods would you recommend?

Keiko: I recommend sashimi, the raw fish, and I recommend kani-miso, which is the brain of the crab⁷. That's a very kind of, very special kind of a treatment for the guests.

Todd: Kani-miso.

Keiko: Kani-miso. Because it's so tiny. The brain of the crab is so tiny, and you can't get so much out of one crab so it's quite expensive and you put that on the cracker⁸, so you put that on the rice.

Todd: Wow! Crab brains.

Keiko: Yeah, crab brains, and if you go to Hakone, it's by the sea so, it's close to the sea so you can get a lot of seafood⁹ and I also recommend natto just to see their reaction.

 

 

1 recommend   

vt.推荐，介绍；劝告，建议；使成为可取，使受欢迎

参考例句：

• Can you recommend me a good book?你能给我介绍一本好书吗？
• I can recommend this play to all lovers of good theatre.我把这个剧推荐给所有爱好优秀戏剧的人。

2 cosmopolitan   

adj.世界性的，全世界的，四海为家的，全球的

参考例句：

• New York is a highly cosmopolitan city.纽约是一个高度世界性的城市。
• She has a very cosmopolitan outlook on life.她有四海一家的人生观。

3 reserved   

adj.预订的；矜持的；储藏着的v.保留[储备]某物( reserve的过去式)

参考例句：

• The star has a ski slope reserved exclusively for her. 这位明星有一个专门留给她的滑雪场地。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He is very reserved. He does not say much. 他是个拘谨的人，不爱多说话。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4 shrines   

圣地，圣坛，神圣场所( shrine的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• All three structures dated to the third century and were tentatively identified as shrines. 这3座建筑都建于3 世纪，并且初步鉴定为神庙。
• Their palaces and their shrines are tombs. 它们的宫殿和神殿成了墓穴。

5 Buddha   

n.佛；佛像；佛陀

参考例句：

• Several women knelt down before the statue of Buddha and prayed.几个妇女跪在佛像前祈祷。
• He has kept the figure of Buddha for luck.为了图吉利他一直保存着这尊佛像。

6 yen   

n. 日元；热望

参考例句：

• He wanted to convert his dollars into Japanese yen.他想将美元换成日币。
• He has a yen to be alone in a boat.他渴望独自呆在一条船上。

7 crab   

n.螃蟹，偏航，脾气乖戾的人，酸苹果；vi.捕蟹，偏航，发牢骚；vt.使偏航，发脾气

参考例句：

• I can't remember when I last had crab.我不记得上次吃蟹是什么时候了。
• The skin on my face felt as hard as a crab's back.我脸上的皮仿佛僵硬了，就象螃蟹的壳似的。

8 cracker   

n.（无甜味的）薄脆饼干

参考例句：

• Buy me some peanuts and cracker.给我买一些花生和饼干。
• There was a cracker beside every place at the table.桌上每个位置旁都有彩包爆竹。

9 seafood   

n.海产食品，海味，海鲜

参考例句：

• There's an excellent seafood restaurant near here.离这儿不远有家非常不错的海鲜馆。
• Shrimps are a popular type of seafood.小虾是比较普遍的一种海味。