美语情景对话 第186期:第二个家 Second Family
Jessica: About three years ago I went and I lived in Madrid for a year and I stayed with a host family, and there was three boys: one was my age, one was two years younger, and one was, at the time he 9 years old, and it was one of the best experiences of my life. I stayed in a city outside of Madrid, it's called Alcola de Hernades, and it's about a 30 minute train ride from Madrid, from downtown Madrid. In, I also went to school Monday to Friday. I went to a Spanish International language school, and so I went to class with Brazilians, French, German, Turkish, and so that was really good for my Spanish just because I was able to practice without having the ability to speak English, so my Spanish greatly improved, just from my friends, having to communicate to properly with them. My host family like I said was really wonderful. I would take the little one, Javi, my little brother, out a lot, we would go on what we called our citas, which is dates, so I would ask him where he wanted to go for our date and he would tell me, you know, like, in Madrid he wanted to see, one time we went to a wax museum, so he was able to vist the city which he did not have a lot of opportunity to do before that, so with the help of Javi and his host Mom, I was able to like thoroughly enjoy my Spanish experience and improve my Spanish as well.
杰西卡:大约三年前,我去马德里住了一年,我和一个接待家庭住在一起,那家有三个儿子:一个和我年纪一样,一个比我小两岁,还有一个当时只有9岁,这是我人生中最棒的经历之一。我住在马德里外部一个叫做Alcola de Hernades的城市,从那里坐火车到马德里市中心要大约30分钟的时间。我每周一至周五去学校上课。我在西班牙国际语言学校上课,所以和我一起上课的同学有巴西人、法国人、德国人和土耳其人,这对我学习西班牙语非常有帮助,因为我可以在不用讲英语的环境下练习西班牙语,所以我的西班牙语进步很大,我可以和朋友们正常沟通。就像我所说的,我的接待家庭非常好。我会经常带小弟弟贾维外出,我们称之为去约会,我会问他想去哪里约会,他会回答我在马德里想去的地方,有一次我们一起去了蜡像馆,这样他就能去好好游览一下这个城市,以前他没有什么机会这么做,在贾维和他妈妈的帮助下,我可以尽情地享受在西班牙的经历,同时提高西班牙语的能力。重点讲解:
1. have the ability to do sth.
有能力做某事;
eg. He has the ability to bring out the best in others.
他能做到扬人之长。
eg. She has the ability to keep calm in an emergency.
她有处变不惊的本事。
2. be able to do sth.
能做到…的;可以…的,能够…的;
eg. The company say they're able to keep pricing competitive.
该公司说他们能够使定价保持竞争力。
eg. You'll be able to read in peace.
你就能安心地读书了。
3. have the opportunity to do sth.
有机会做某事;
eg. I had an opportunity to go to New York and study.
我曾经有一个去纽约学习的机会。
eg. I'm very glad to have the opportunity to meet you.
我很高兴有机会同您见面。
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