旅游
A:Do you like traveling?
你喜欢旅游吗?
B:Yes, I''ve just come back from Scotland.
是的,我刚从苏格兰回来。
A:Where did you visit?
你去参观了哪些地方?
B:I only had time to visit Edinburgh.
我只有时间去爱丁堡。
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A:How did you like it?
你喜欢那儿吗?
B:It''s fantastic.
那儿棒极了。
A:Why did you go there?
你为什么去那儿?
B:I went there on business.
我出差到那儿。
A:And do you have friends there?
你在那儿有朋友吗?
B:Yes, a lot of friends.
是的,很多。
A:You must have enjoyed yourself.
你一定玩的很开心。
B:Yes, and I took many pictures.
是的,我还照了好多照片。
教育
A:So, what’s your educational background?
那么,你的教育背景是什么?
B:I graduate from high school with a 4.0, graduated from university with a degree in English, and am currently in the middle of obtaining a master’s degree in Linguistics.
我以4.0 的成绩从高中毕业, 大学获得了英语学士学位,近来正在读语言学硕士学位。
A:What university did you go to ?
你在那所大学?
B:I went to UCB, the university of California, Berkeley.
UCB,加州伯克利大学。
A:Are you from California originally?
你是加州本地人么?
B:No, I’m from Colorado. I received a full scholarship to UCB, so I went.
不,我来自科罗拉州,我活得了UCB 全额奖学金,所以我去那里了。
A:That’s great. How did you like your classes there?
那太好了,你觉得那些课上得怎么样?
B:I like my professors a lot. They seemed to have a lot of passion for teaching. They weren’t the stuffy professors that I thought they’d be.。
我很喜欢我的教授。 他们似乎有很多教学热情。他们不是我想象的那种乏味的教授
A:How about the other students? Did you get along well with them?
其他同学怎么样?和他们相处的好吗?
B:The students were from all over the country. I found that most of my friends were people who were from the mid-west?
这里的学生来自全国各地,我发现我的大多数朋友来自中西部。
A:That’s interesting. Why do you think that is?
真有意思,为什么你这样认为?
B:I’m not sure. I lived in Iowa during middle school, so I guess we had that in common. Mid-westerners and people from the west coast have a different view of the world.
我搞不清,我初中住在衣阿华州,所以我猜我们有共同之处。中西部和来自西海岸的人有不同的世界观。
A:What do you mean?
你指什么?
B:It’s hard to explain. I guess people from the west coast come off as a bit snobby sometimes, especially if you aren’t come from the west coast。
很难解释清,我猜西海岸的人有点势利,尤其是对纳妾不是来自西海岸的人。
A:I see. Well, thanks for coming in for the interview. My secretary will get back to you within a week.
我懂了,奥,谢谢你接受这次面试,我的秘书会在一周内给你回电话的。
家庭
A:Tell me about your family, Simon. Are you from a big family?
西蒙,给我们讲讲你们家的事。你来自一个大家庭吗?
B:No, my immediate family is quite small. There are only five of us. My parents, my younger brother and my younger sister. But my parents both come from large families.
不,我们自己的直系家庭相当小,只有五口人,(包括)我的父母,弟弟和妹妹。但是我父母都来自大家庭。
A:How many people are in your extended family?
你的大家庭中有多少人呢?
B:There are too many to count. I suppose, well over 100 people.
太多了,数不过来。我想有一百多人吧。
A:Do you get to see your family often?
你常和家里人见过面吗?
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B:I see my immediate family every weekend, and I see my extended family about once or twice a year.We usually see each other for Christmas, Easter, and other big celebrations, like weddings.
我每个周末都和直系小家庭成员见面。我一年中能见到其他大家庭的成员一或俩次。我们经常在圣诞节,复活节和其他大的庆祝活动,如婚礼上见面。
A:Have you ever been to a family reunion?
你参加过家庭聚会吗。
B:Actually, I have been to one, but it wasn’t mine! It was one of my friends’. He didn’t want to be theonly boy there, so I went with him to keep him company. This was a long time ago, of course.
我倒是去过一次。但不是我自己家的聚会,是我的一个朋友家的聚会。他不想成为聚会上的唯一男孩,所以我去陪他。当然了,这也是很久以前的事了。
A:Are many of your relative divorced?
你的亲属中有很多人离婚吗?
B:Let me think. I believe it’s just my one uncle. He’s always been a rebel. My grandmother was very religious, so most of my relatives were too scared to get divorced!
让我想一下。我想只有我的一个叔叔离了婚。他一直是个叛逆者。我奶奶是个很虔诚的教徒,所以我的大多数亲属都不敢离婚!
A:Do you have any relatives who are single mothers?
你的亲属中有单身母亲吗?
B:I have just one-her father is the one who got divorced. Their family is sort of the black sheep of our extended family.
我只有一个亲属是单身母亲。她的父亲也离了婚。他们家是我们大家庭中的另类。
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