Michael: Simon have you done much traveling?

迈克尔：西蒙，你经常旅游吗？

One of our dogs at home, he used to go walking with my granddad, and it was on these old country roads, so very quite really, not many cars would pass so the dog, Jonathan, used to run off in front of my granddad and my granddad’s hearing wasn’t too good at that time, he was already quite old, so he wouldn’t always hear cars coming, so every time a car was coming, the dog would, Jonathan would come running back to my granddad so that, and he did this every time a car came so my granddad knew that if Jonathan came running back towards him, he knew that he had to stand in closer to the edge of the road so that, you know, he wouldn’t be in danger of being knocked down by a car or anything because those old country roads, you know when I was younger, we used to walk in the middle of the road, or you know, not quite by the edge, cause there were so few cars, you didn’t really need to keep by the edge and there were no foot paths along the side, so you were just walking along the edge of the road,

我们家有一只狗经常和我爷爷一起去散步，他们散步的那条路是古老的乡村小路，非常非常安静，经过的汽车不多，所以这只名为乔纳森的狗经常跑在我爷爷的前面，那时我爷爷的听力已经不好了，他当时年纪已经很大了，所以他不是总能听到汽车经过的声音，每次有汽车来的时候，小狗乔纳森就会跑回来找我爷爷，而每次一有汽车它就这样跑回来，因此我爷爷就知道，如果乔纳森跑回来找他，那就意味着他要站在靠近路边的地方，这样他就不会有被车撞到的危险了，那些乡村小路你也知道，在我小的时候，我们常常走在路中间，或者不会靠路边走，因为那里汽车很少，你不用总是靠在路边，

Thailand is so different from where I used to live in America. First of all, in my neighborhood there are many stray dogs, dogs with no home. During the day, they lay around and sleep and at night they fight and make a lot of noise barking and howling. Sometimes they’re even dangerous, especially people who ride by on their bikes, sometimes can be bit by these dogs. In America, stray dogs, are sent to the pound. The pound, the dog pound, is like a jail for dogs. Um, also, in front of my house, in front of every house in my neighborhood, there’s a fence, or a gate with a lock on it. I don’t like it. I think it’s a hassle because I have to take out my key, unlock the lock, then drive the car out, stop the car, get out, close the gate and then put the lock on again. In America, it’s much more convenient. Usually there’s a garage or a closed car park and when you drive up you have a remote control, and it opens, the garage door opens automatically, and in America usually we don’t have fences or gates around our front yard. Often there’s a gate around the backyard, but nothing in the front. Some of the really expensive houses in Thailand too, around there fence they have broken pieces of glass around the top to keep people who want to climb in from getting in. In Thailand usually to buy food, you go to the outdoor market. It’s very different than the clean supermarkets in America because they are lots of different smells and lots of action. You can smell fish, meat, trash, fruit, smoke from the barbeques, curry. Sometimes the smells are not so good. People come there, cook fresh food every day and they’ll stay there till they sell all their food. It’s very cheap. You can eat for about 2 or 3 U.S. dollars. So it’s not as clean and it doesn’t smell as nice as a big supermarket in America but I think it’s a lot more interesting. It makes the supermarkets in America seem very boring.

泰国和我曾经生活过的美国非常不一样。首先，我家附近有很多流浪狗，无家可归的狗。白天，他们会四处闲逛、睡觉，晚上它们会打架，大声吠叫、嚎叫，制造出很多噪音。有时它们甚至会很危险，尤其是骑车从它们身边经过的人有时会被它们咬。在美国，流浪狗会被送去流浪狗收留所。流浪狗收留所就像狗狗们的监狱。嗯，我家前面，我附近所有人的家前面都有栅栏，或是带锁的大门。我很不喜欢这种东西。我认为那很麻烦，因为我必须要拿出钥匙，开锁以后把车开出来，然后停车、下车，把大门关上，再把锁锁上。而在美国，就要方便得多了。通常房子都会有停车库和非公开的停车场，你要把车开进去的时候就按下遥控器，然后车库的门就会自动打开，而我们美国一般房子不会带栅栏，前院也不会有大门。通常大门是在后院，但是前面什么也没有。泰国有些非常昂贵的房子也有栅栏，栅栏顶部有一些玻璃碎片，用来防止那些想爬进房子的人。在泰国，一般买食物要去露天市场。那里和美国整洁的超市非常不同，因为露天市场有很多种不同的味道，有很多活动。你会闻到鱼味、肉味、垃圾的味道、水果味、烧烤的烟味、还有咖喱的味道。有时那些味道并不是很好。人们每天在那里烹饪新鲜的食物，直到他们卖光所有的食物。那里的食物很便宜。两三美元就够用了。所以露天市场没有美国的大型超市干净，味道也不如大型超市，但是我认为那里的乐趣更多。那使得美国的超市看上去很无趣。

Adrienne: So, Mary, my battery has almost ran out. I’m so glad you had some but they’re cold.

埃德里安娜：玛丽，我的电池快没电了。我很高兴你有电池，不过它们太凉了。

I was browsing through a bookshop today and I picked up a book on food, which is quite usual for me cause I love food, em, but this book was a bit different, em, it tried to make the connection between the kind of food you eat and how it makes you feel so, for example, sometimes if I’m, if I’m a bit sad, we’ll say, I think to myself, oh, I’d love some chocolate and that will make me feel better, and sometimes it does, or it feels like it does anyway. I’m not sure if that really works, but the author of this book seemed to think that there’s a definite link between, what you, you know, what you eat and how you feel, or how it makes you feel. She talks about things like, em, yeah, things like chocolate and other sweet things. She says that it releases endorphins, so that, you know endorphins are chemicals, they kind of, they make you feel good, I think is the idea. They help you deal with stress as well as she says, so yeah, that seems to, that seems to work, I think. One of my friends told me recently that when she feels a bit, a bit sluggish as if she doesn’t have much energy, she’ll go to a restaurant or go home and cook some meat cause she feels that that gives her, gives her energy, so I was interested to read today that this author, she mentions how sometimes the body will feel a need to, I don’t know, to be more sharp, or to have energy and that sometimes that means that you need protein and protein obviously would comes from meat. It seems to work for my friend anyway, but I haven’t tried it myself anyway.

我今天去书店逛了逛，买了一本有关食物的书，这对我来说非常平常，因为我热爱食物，不过这本书有点不同，这本书试图将你吃的食物和它们给你的感觉联系起来，比如，有时我有点悲伤，我会对自己说，我想吃点巧克力。这会让我感觉好些，有时就会这样，就会有这样的感觉。我不太确定这是否会起作用，不过这本书的作者认为你吃的食物和你的感觉之间一定有某种联系。她谈到了巧克力和其他的甜食。她说甜食会释放脑啡肽，脑啡肽是一种生理反应，会让你感觉舒服，我想是想法的改变。它们会帮助你缓解压力，同时作者表示，那很有效果。我的一个朋友最近告诉我，她觉得低落或是没有什么精力的时候，她就会去餐厅或是回家做饭吃，因为她觉得那样能给她能量，所以我今天很想读读这本书，作者在书中提到，有时身体会需要更多灵感，会需要更多能量，这意味着你需要蛋白质，而蛋白质来自肉类。看起来这对我的朋友很有效，不过我自己还没有尝试过。

California is best known for its coastline and beaches. The state has nearly 2,000 km of coastline, so the state is known as a surfer’s paradise. From the tall cliffs that line the coast, you are almost always guaranteed a beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean, especially at sunset.

加利福尼亚州以海岸线和海滩出名。加州的海岸线近2千米长，所以加州有冲浪者的天堂之称。你可以在海岸边的悬崖上欣赏太平洋美丽的风景，日落时景色尤其美丽。

Todd: OK. I’m going to talk about movies. I love movies. I think many, many people around the world today love movies. I probably see one or two movies a week on DVD in my room. I watch the movies on my computer so I am a big, big fan of movies, and I watch them all the time, but I have three big complaints about movies, about Hollywood, my country, that I wish they would change. The first complaint is that movies have too many guns. This really bothers me. If you go into a video store and you look at the cover of all the movies, almost on 50% or more of the movie covers there is somebody holding a gun, and I think this is absolutely crazy. In my country, unfortunately there are many guns, but in reality, you never see guns. People have guns, but it’s not common to see a person with a gun and in movies, there’s always guns and shooting and killing and violence and blood and I just think it’s unnecessary, so I really wish that they would not have so many guns in movies and maybe not so much violence. My second complaint is that the stories of most of the movies today from Hollywood are terrible. They’re so bad that you can’t even watch the movie. I guess most movies now are geared towards special effects and visual effects so the story is often really bad and I think that’s just terrible.

托德：好，我要谈谈电影。我喜欢看电影。我想现在全世界许多许多人都喜欢看电影。我大概一周在家里看一两部影碟。我也在电脑上看电影，所以我是一个实足的电影迷，我会一直看电影，不过我对电影、对我的故乡好莱坞有三大不满的地方，我希望他们能有所改变。第一个不满是电影里出现了太多枪支。这真的令我很困扰。如果你走进一家音像店，你会看到所有电影的封面，几乎50%甚至更多的电影封面上都会有拿着枪的人，我认为这绝对是一件疯狂的事情。很不幸，我们国家有许多枪支，但是实际上，你可能从未看过枪支。人们持有枪支，但是拿枪的人却并不常见，可是在电影中，总是有许多枪支和射击、杀戮、暴力血腥的场面，我认为这没有必要，所以我真的希望电影中不要出现这么多枪支和这么多的暴力场景。我的第二个不满是现在好莱坞大部分电影的剧情都很糟糕。剧情太差了，以致于你甚至都不想看那部电影。我想现在大部分电影都会采用特效和视觉效果，所以剧情通常都很差，而我认为那非常糟糕。

Todd: OK, Adrienne, let’s talk about abilities. What are you good at?

托德：好的，埃德里安娜，我们谈谈能力吧。你擅长什么？

Todd: Gloria, what are your plans for the summer?

托德：格洛丽亚，你暑假有什么计划？

Todd: So, Simon, are you still planning to take trip to Southeast Asia?

托德：西蒙，你还在计划去东南亚旅行吗？