人教版英语选修第二册 unit 4 Using Language 对话

Daiyu: Look there, Liu Qian! What a beautiful lake!

黛予：看那儿，刘倩！多美的湖泊！

Liu Qian: Oh, my goodness! That must be Lake Louise! It’s so beautiful! Words fail me.

刘倩：天哪！那一定是路易斯湖！太美了！难以用言语形容。

Anna: Yes, that’s Lake Louise.

安娜：没错，那就是路易斯湖。

Daiyu: It’s pretty!

黛予：真美！

Anna: It’s even prettier in winter, after the lake freezes over. People like to go skating on the ice.

安娜：冬天湖面封冻之后会更美。人们喜欢在冰面上滑冰。

Liu Qian: Does all of Canada get so cold in winter?

刘倩：加拿大全境冬天都这么冷吗？

Anna: A lot of it does.

安娜：大部分地区都是。

Daiyu: So then, Canada must have cool summers as well.

黛予：这么说来，加拿大的夏天一定也很凉爽。

Anna: That’s certainly true of many places. However, many areas of south Canada have a continental climate, with very hot summers and very cold winters, so some days it gets as hot as an oven.

安娜：很多地方确实如此。但加拿大南部许多地区属于大陆性气候，夏季酷热、冬季严寒，有些日子热得像烤箱。

Liu Qian: Is all of Canada full of mountains like here?

刘倩：加拿大到处都像这里一样群山遍布吗？

Anna: Oh, no. In fact, by the time we get to Edmonton, we’ll be in the Prairie.

安娜：并不是。事实上，等我们抵达埃德蒙顿，就进入大草原了。

This is as flat as a pancake and stretches for as far as the eye can see—more than 1,300 kilometres—until we reach Winnipeg.

那里地势极其平坦，一望无际，绵延1300多公里，一直到温尼伯。

After that, there are lakes and forests.

再往后，就是湖泊与森林。

Daiyu: What kind of place is Winnipeg?

黛予：温尼伯是个什么样的地方？

Anna: It’s a small city almost in the dead centre of North America, from east to west.

安娜：它是一座小城，几乎处在北美洲东西走向的正中心。

Liu Qian: What do you do to kill time there?

刘倩：在那里一般怎么打发时间？

Anna: Oh, you name it … skiing, hiking, camping. But also city things: movies or restaurants on the weekends, for example. So is this your first long train journey?

安娜：应有尽有……滑雪、徒步、露营。也有城市休闲项目，比如周末看电影、外出就餐。话说，这是你第一次长途火车旅行吗？

Daiyu: Oh, no. Last autumn, we travelled from Beijing to Moscow on the Trans-Siberian Railway through Mongolia.

黛予：不是。去年秋天，我们沿着西伯利亚大铁路，途经蒙古，从北京一路坐到莫斯科。

Anna: How interesting! What was it like?

安娜：太有意思了！旅途体验如何？

Liu Qian: Well, once you go north from Beijing, you pass through some low mountains and then enter the grasslands with its rolling hills.

刘倩：从北京向北出发，先途经一些低矮山地，随后进入起伏连绵的草原地带。

Anna: Do a lot of people live in that area?

安娜：那片区域人口密集吗？

Daiyu: Oh, not at all! There are a few small towns along the way, but the land is pretty empty. Sometimes you might see a few horses or sheep. It’s beautiful.

黛予：一点也不！沿途只有零星小镇，原野十分空旷。偶尔能看见几匹马或者羊群，景色很美。

Anna: Wow, that sounds incredible!

安娜：哇，听着太棒了！

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