Adrienne: Now, Vivian, do you mind me asking how old you are?

埃德里安娜：薇薇安，你介意我问你的年纪吗？

Todd: OK, Gabrielle, you are a vegetarian.

托德：加布里埃尔，你是一个素食主义者。

When I was in elementary school, in the 1980’s teacher’s used to use film projectors so they would put the, they’d put the film reels on the projector and it always took them a long time. It seems like there were always technical difficulties, just like people using powerpoint presentations today. It always takes, it always takes hours to set up, and it was always fun for us when we were in school because we would get a, get a break from studying, and we would get to watch a movie, but they would usually turn off all of the lights, and for us kids, having the lights off meant, meant bedtime, so I can remember, it was, even though it was exciting, it was always very hard to keep my eyes open and I would end up falling asleep before the end of the movie.

上世纪80年代，我上小学的时候，老师通常会用胶片投影机，所以他们会把胶片卷轴放在投影机上，而这个过程通常要花费他们很长的时间。看起来总是会有技术难题，就像人们现在用幻灯片进行演示一样。这总是会花费数个小时来进行，当然这对当时在学校上课的我们来说很有乐趣，因为我们可以暂时停止学习，休息一下，我们可以看个电影，但是通常老师会关掉所有的灯，而对我们孩子来说，关灯意味着到睡觉的时间了，所以我记得，当时虽然很兴奋，但是我的眼睛几乎睁不开，在电影结束之前我可能就睡着了。

Nicola: Hi, Cat, that looks like a lovely salad you got there.

尼科拉：你好，凯特，那看起来像是美味的沙拉。

Todd: OK, Kawabe, can you explain Pachinko? Foreigners don’t understand pachinko.

托德：川边，你能解释一下什么是弹珠机吗？外国人都不清楚弹珠机是什么。

Todd: Jose, what is Quito like?

托德：何塞，基多是什么样子的？

April 1st is an unofficial holiday in the United States called April Fool’s day. In the past, April 1st used to be celebrated as the New Year. And then in the year, I think, 1592, or something like that, the official New Year was changed to January 1st and some people never heard of this change so they continued to celebrate the New Year on the April 1st, but the people who knew of this change called them fools. A fool in English is someone who is not smart. We have many words for this in English: dumb, a dummy, stupid, imbecile, idiot, but you’re all nice people so you’ll never need to use those words so you can forget that. But the people who continued to celebrate the New Year’s on April 1st were called April fools. So a tradition started, that on April 1st people would try to make, would do pranks on other people.

4月1日是美国的一个非正式节日，称作愚人节。过去，4月1日曾经被当作新年来庆祝。我想大概是在1592年，新年正式更改为1月1日，可是有些人并没有听到更改的消息，所以他们继续在4月1日庆祝新年，而知道更改日子的民众便称那些人是愚人。英语中说的愚人就是那些不聪明的人。英语中有很多词来形容这个意思：愚蠢的，笨蛋，笨的，蠢货，白痴，但是你们都是善良的人，所以你们永远不需要使用这些词，所以你可以不去管那些。但是继续在4月1日庆祝新年的人被称作四月愚人。所以这就是这个节日传统的由来，在4月1日，人们会对其他人做恶作剧。

I had a really nice day today. It’s Sunday today, so obviously I got nothing to do so I went to meet my English friend Ben in a place called Harajuku in Tokyo, which is a great place to hang out in on Sundays anyway, but we found this amazing sushi restaurant that we used to go to together every time we meet up. Sundays usually our day for meeting up together cause he lives in Yokohama which is quite a long way away from me. So I don’t ever see him during the week. Anyway, this sushi restaurant we found is the best one I’ve eaten at in Tokyo. It’s one of those ones with all the sushi on a little conveyor belt, that goes along, but it doesn’t just do raw fish it does all the different meats. It does little hamburgers on rice, little bits of bacon on rice, melon, salad, and also loads of puddings. We ended up I think eating about 7 puddings between us today. Um, it’s, the pricing system really good. It’s done on, the, how many plates you eat, and each plate is different color and that’s a different price and it’s so cheap and you end up, just gorging yourself eating loads and loads, for really a very cheap price, so after that we were both stuffed, and left the restaurant, went to a, up to a place in Harajuku where all the crazy kids hang out wearing costume. Had a look around there. Took some pictures and then walked along the road together about 15 minutes to a place called Shibuya which is really one of the good sort of trendy young shopping, hanging out places in Tokyo, um, just so crowded all the time,

我今天过得非常愉快。今天是星期日，显然我没什么事情要做，所以我去东京名为原宿区的地方见了英国朋友本，那是一个可以在周日闲逛的好地方，而且我们在那里发现了一间非常棒的寿司店，每次我们见面都会在那里吃饭。我们通常都会在周日见面，因为他住在横滨，离我非常远。所以周中的时候我们一般不会见面。不管怎么说，我们发现的这间寿司店是我在东京吃过最好的。是那种把寿司放在传送带上的餐厅，传送带会一直运行，餐厅里不仅仅有生鱼片寿司，那里有各种各样的肉类寿司。有在米饭上放汉堡、在米饭上放培根的寿司，有甜瓜、沙拉，当然也有很多布丁。我想今天我们大概吃了7个布丁。嗯，那里的定价机制真的很好。价格是由吃完的盘子数量决定的，每个盘子的颜色不同，所以价格也不同，那很便宜，所以你会以一个非常便宜的价格吃到很多寿司，之后我们都吃饱以后离开了那家餐厅，去了原宿区，所有疯狂的孩子都穿着戏服在那里闲逛。我们在那里转了转，拍了几张照片，然后沿着路边走了15分钟前往涉谷，那里是时尚的年轻人在东京购物、闲逛的好地方，嗯，所以一直都非常拥挤。

Todd: OK, hello!

托德：你好！

Mark: Hey, Mike, what age do you have to be in Canada to drive?

马克：嘿，迈克，加拿大的法定驾驶年龄是多少岁？