美語情景對話 第1101期:Bucket List 遺願清單

Sarah: So Adam, we're talking about bucket lists, so things that you would like to do before you die. So what's your number one thing on your bucket list?

薩拉：亞當，我們來談談遺願清單，就是你在去世之前想完成的事情。你遺願清單上的第一條會寫什麼？

Adam: Oh, difficult question. Number one, I'd probably have to say, oh, skydiving maybe. I've wanted to do it for a long time. And I went bungee jumping in New Zealand. That was fun but I still have not yet been sky-diving. And jumping out of the plane just sounds like an awesome idea to me.

亞當：哦，這個問題很難回答。第一條，我可能會寫高空跳傘。這件事我想做很長時間了。我在新西蘭玩過蹦極。那很有意思，不過我還沒嘗試過高空跳傘。對我來說，從飛機上跳下去聽起來非常棒。

Sarah: What other kind of adventure sports have you done?

薩拉：你還嘗試過其他冒險運動嗎？

Adam: This summer, I was – what did I do? Sand boarding in Peru. That was fun. When I was younger I did a lot of snowboarding and skateboarding. And yeah, I really enjoy extreme sports. I ride a motorcycle currently. If I could I'd love to race cars professionally, although I don't know how good I'd be at it. But it just looks like so much fun.

亞當：今年夏天，我做了什麼來着？我去祕魯玩滑沙了。那非常好玩。我年輕時還玩過單板滑雪和滑板。我非常喜歡極限運動。現在我騎摩托車。如果可以，我想參加職業賽車比賽，雖然我不知道我的水平怎麼樣。不過賽車比賽看起來很好玩。

Sarah: Yeah. Well, it's never too late to start something you want to do, so you should add that to your bucket list. So tell me what else is on your bucket list?

薩拉：好。開始做你想做的事，永遠都不會晚，你應該把賽車加到你的遺願清單上。那你的遺願清單上還會有什麼內容？

Adam: I really want to write a book. Be the author of a novel. I'm always in the process of writing something down but it never seems to come to complete book type end result. But maybe eventually, all of these little things that I have written down will come into a book form and I can publish it and complete my goal.

亞當：我很想寫一本書。我想成爲小說作家。我一直在堅持寫作，不過我從來沒完成過一本書。也許總有一天，我隨手寫下的小文章能組成一本書，然後我可以發表這本書，完成我的目標。

Sarah: What kind of things do you write? Like what kind of genre or is that kind of all the same or do you write many different styles?

薩拉：你寫的是哪種類型的文章？哪種體裁？你寫的文章都是一個類型的還是不同類型的？

Adam: I wrote a lot of different things. One thing that I write is travel stories from my travels abroad or anecdotes that I come across when I'm traveling. Recently, I've been writing jokes. I really enjoy watching stand-up comedy and have got kind of inspired from them to write some stuff down, although I've never really presented it. And I also write, I guess, fantasy stories as well. I have a few short stories but it's been difficult for me to try to put them into book, like a longer version of them. The details are tricky to write down.

亞當：我寫了很多不同的文章。其中一篇我記述了我在國外旅行時發生的趣事。最近我在寫笑話。我非常喜歡看脫口秀，我從脫口秀節目中得到了一些靈感，所以我把靈感寫了下來，雖然我從來沒有發表過。我也寫一些奇幻故事。我寫過幾篇小故事，不過對我來說把它們編成書很難，因爲要寫長篇故事。可是細節很難描寫。

Sarah: Wow! That's really interesting. Hopefully, one day, we'll be able to read a book written by you.

薩拉：哇哦！那太有意思了。希望有一天我們能看到你寫的書。

Adam: Yeah. That'd be great.

亞當：好。那就太好了。

Sarah: Yeah. So tell me what else is on your list?

薩拉：嗯。你還會在遺願清單上寫什麼？

Adam: The other things would be traveling to Europe, which I plan to do hopefully next summer, so I can cross that one off the list. I've always wanted to go to Europe especially Italy and Spain. So I'm excited to get that one done. And I'd also really like to go to Africa and go on a safari and see, you know, lions, tigers in the wild, in their natural habitat. I've also heard that you could see sharks, Great White sharks in South Africa on the coast. I had some friends that went and sat in a cage in the water and had Great White swim by. That sounds like a terrifying and once-in-a-lifetime experience. I'm terrified of sharks but it would be quite amazing to see.

亞當：另外一件我想做的事是去歐洲旅行，我計劃明年夏天完成這個目標，所以我可以把這個目標從清單上劃掉了。我一直很想去歐洲，特別是意大利和西班牙。能完成這個目標讓我非常興奮。我也很想去非洲，想參加遊獵旅行，我想看看野生獅子和老虎，看看他們的自然棲息地。我聽說在南非海岸還能看到大白鯊。我有朋友去南非時，在海邊坐在籠子裏觀賞大白鯊游來游去。那聽起來很可怕，但同時也是千載難逢的經歷。我很怕鯊魚，不過我想觀賞鯊魚一定很美妙。

Sarah: Yeah. I am terrified of sharks as well, so I probably will not be adding that to my bucket list. But yeah, I hope you get to do everything that's on your list there.

薩拉：對。我也害怕鯊魚，所以我可能不會把觀賞鯊魚加到我的遺願清單中。我希望你能完成你的遺願清單。

Adam: Thanks. Me too!

亞當：謝謝。我也是這麼希望的！

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重點講解：
1. come across 偶然發現；偶然遇見；
例句：I came across an old friend yesterday.
我昨天碰見一位老朋友。
2. write down 寫下；記下；
例句：Only by writing things down could I bring some sort of order to the confusion.
只有把東西記下來，我才能從混亂中理出些頭緒來。
3. cross off (從名單上)畫掉，刪掉 ；
例句：I checked the chart and found I had crossed off the wrong thing.
我檢查了一下圖表，結果發現我錯刪了東西。
4. once in a lifetime 終生難遇的；千載難逢的；
例句：It's a once in a lifetime chance.
這是一生難得的機會。