两人英语口语对话

A: I thought I was speaking English fairly well. Now I'm not so sure.

B: What did you say?

A: I said I thought I spoke pretty good English, but people keep asking me to repeat what I've said, so maybe I'm not doing so well after all.

B: There's nothing wrong with your English. It's just that no one can hear what you're saying.

A: Is that what's wrong? But I think it's impolite to talk loudly.

B: You don't have to shout, but you do have to make yourself heard. Maybe Americans talk louder than other people. If so, you'll just have to speak louder,too.

A：我本以为自己的英语说得不错。现在我又不那么有把握了。

B：你说什么?

A：我说我以为自己英语说得不错，但人们老是要我重复我说过的话。或许我说的并不那么好。

B：你的英语没有问题。只是没有人听得见你在说什么。

A：毛病就在这里吗?可是我觉得大声说话是不礼貌的。

B：你不一定要大声喊叫，但你应该让别人听得见你的话。也许美国人说话声音比别的人要响。如果这样，你说话声音也大一些就是了。

A: To speak a language, one must know its grammar almost completely, not just its vocabulary or its sounds, not even sets of rules for constructing sentences. But one can't learn a language by studying only its grammar. If you do this,you may learn only the grammar and not the language. Instead, by memorizing how to use them, one can learn both the grammar of the language and the language.

A：为了能说一种语言，一个人不仅要掌握词汇和发音，以及一系列造句的规则，还应对语法做到差不多融汇贯通。但是仅仅学习语法，还不能掌握一种语法。如果只做到这点，那你学会的可能只是语法，而不是语言。相反，记住大量句子并学会使用这些句子，就能既学会语法，又学会语言。

A: People always say that Chinese and English are very hard to learn. Sometimes I wish I were learning French or Japanese. Maybe they'd be easier.

B: Maybe, but maybe not too. It all depends on what language you already speak.

A: Why should that be? What diffrence does it make?

B: Well, languages are more or less equally difficult. Most of the things one language says must be said by every language in some way.

A: You mean I could learn Chinese easily?

B: No, because your native language is Spanish. But Italian might be easy. It has a lot of words that are similar to words in Spanish. Even the sound systems are more similar than that of Chinese is to Spanish. How difficult a languageis to learn depends mostly on how much it resembles your own language.

A：人们常说汉语和英语是很难学的。有的时候我想要是我学法语或日语就好了。也许这两种语言容易些。

B：可能，不过也可能不太容易。这要看你原来是说什么语言的。

A：为什么呢?这有什么关系?

B：哦，语言大体上都是同样地难学。一种语言中所说的绝大部分东西，在别的语言中差不多都有。

A：你的意思是说我学汉语会很容易?

B：不，因为你的母语是西班牙语。所以意大利语可能容易些。它有很多词同西班牙语相似。连它的语音体系也比汉语更接近西班牙语。一种语言是否难学，主要看它在多大程度上同自己的语言相近。

A: You were certainly lucky to get tickets for this play. We had to have our reservations in weeks ago.

B: Tom picked them up this afternoon. Someone had just phoned in a last minute cancellation.

A: Where are you sitting?

B: Way up in the first balcony. We can see and hear fine, though. Isn't it a wonderful performance?

A: Oh, yes, the acting's good, but don't you think that the star's a little old for her part? From where we are in the orchestra, you can see every wrinkle on her face.

B: That's why I like balcony seats. You don't lose the illusion.

A: Oh, there's the buzzer. I'll see you after the show.

A：你能弄到这场演出的票子真是幸运。我们不得不在几星期前预订座位。

B：今天下午汤姆弄到的票。在最后一分钟刚好有人打电话来退票。

A：你们坐在哪儿?

B：在第一楼厅的上面一点。但我们看和听都很清楚。这真是一场精彩的演出，对吗?

A：哦，对，演技很好，但你不觉得演员本人比她所扮演的角色略老了些吗?从我们所在的正厅位子上，你能看到她脸上的每根皱纹。

B：这就是为什么我喜欢楼厅的位子。你不会失去幻想。

A：啊，铃响了。演出结束后再见。