實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Canada's Main Cities 加拿大主要城市

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托德：邁克，你來自加拿大。

Mike: That's right.

邁克：沒錯。

Todd: So, actually I want to go to Canada for vacation. I've never been. What would you recommend for a Canadian vacation?

托德：實際上，我想去加拿大度假。我從來沒去過那里。要是去加拿大度假，你有什么推薦嗎?

Mike: Well, it really just depends on the kind of holiday that you want to have. If you want to have a relaxing outdoors, kind of back to nature, kind of holiday, I'd recommend Vancouver. If you wanted to do a holiday that's maybe a little more culturally oriented. If you want experience, a different type of culture, Montreal, would be a city that I'd recommend, um, and if you wanted to go to a big multi-cultural city with a lot of nightlife and things to do with respect to entertainment, or sports, then I'd recommend Toronto.

邁克：這要取決于你想度過怎樣的假期。如果你想享受放松的室外假期，想回歸自然，這類假期我會推薦你去溫哥華。如果你想度過文化類假期，想體驗不同類型的文化，那我會推薦你去蒙特利爾，嗯，如果你想去多元文化的大型城市，感受那里的夜生活以及與娛樂和體育相關(guān)的事情，那我會推薦你去多倫多。

Todd: So, have you been to all three cities?

托德：那這些城市你都去過嗎?

Mike: Yes. I actually have lived most of my life in Toronto and in Montreal and, but I have spent some time in Vancouver as well, so, all three are very different in attitude and lifestyle and in the way people live.

邁克：都去過。實際上我大部分時間都生活在多倫多和蒙特利爾，不過我也在溫哥華住過一段時間，這三個城市的態(tài)度和生活方式都非常不同。

Todd: How so? How is somebody from Toronto different than somebody from Vancouver?

托德：怎么不同?來自多倫多的人和來自溫哥華的人有什么不同?

Mike: Well, somebody from Toronto I think is a little bit more high paced, maybe you could almost say, they're a little bit more stresses out, just because the pace of life in Toronto is a little bit faster. It's kind of the big economic center of Canada, so it tend to have a lot more of a business culture to it, where as Vancouver, is much more, like many West Coast cities in the United States, as well, it's a lot more relaxed, a lot more easy-going, so there's a difference in culture there,and Montreal has a strong French-Canadian influence, so in fact, it's mostly French-Canadian, so that just changes the dynamic of the city.

邁克：嗯，我認(rèn)為來自多倫多的人生活節(jié)奏更快，你也可以說，他們有更多壓力，原因就是多倫多的生活節(jié)奏相對來說更快一些。那里是加拿大重要的經(jīng)濟(jì)中心，所以那里的商業(yè)文化非常濃郁，而溫哥華則和美國西海岸的大部分城市一樣，那里的生活相對來說更放松，更悠閑，所以那里的文化氛圍也不同，蒙特利爾則受到法裔加拿大人的嚴(yán)重影響，實際上，那里大部分人都是法裔加拿大人，所以這給這個城市帶來了活力。

Todd: OK, so if you were to live in any city, which one would you choose?

托德：好，那如果你要住在這些城市里，那你會選擇住在哪里呢?

Mike: Of, those three? (Yeah) Personally I would think I would go for Montreal, just because I like the dynamic. The one bad point about Montreal is the weather.

邁克：這三個城市嗎?(對)個人來說，我會選擇蒙特利爾，因為我喜歡那種活力的感覺。不過蒙特利爾的缺點是天氣不太好。

Todd: What? It's very cold?

托德：怎么?非常冷嗎?

Mike: Yes, it gets very, very cold and it has a very long winter. In fact, the joke is that in Montreal the seasons are nine month of winter and three months of bad-skating.

邁克：對，蒙特利爾的冬天非常長，而且也非常寒冷。實際上，有個玩笑說蒙特利爾的季節(jié)是九個月的冬季和另三個月不適合滑冰的季節(jié)。

Todd: OK, well, thanks, Mike.

托德：好，謝謝你，邁克。