美語情景對話 第189期:蝙蝠 Bats

Todd: I usually get home from work at about 6:30 and when I get home the first thing I like to do is go jogging. Fortunately, my apartment is near a river and I go jogging on the river at night. It's really beautiful. It's really green. There's lots of trees and fields along the river and it's quite beautiful. The worst thing about my jog though are the dogs. There are river dogs that live along the river and they don't have a home and they're a little bit dangerous. Sometimes they threaten to chase you or bite you and when you jog by they often growl. Sometimes I have to keep a bottle of water to throw on them or maybe a stick so they don't attack, but so far nothing's happened. The best thing about the jog are the bats. When you jog at night there are bats that fly and they eat insects. This is right at sunset, as the sun goes down, and it's really, really beautiful to see them, and when you jog amazingly they'll fly at the same pace as you, I think because the insects maybe are attracted to the joggers body heat, but the bats will not get too close to the jogger, to me, they will only get about 4 or 5 feet from me, but they fly at the same pace. As I jog I can see them and it's really, really beautiful to see them when I run.

託德：一般我下班到家的時間是6點半，我到家以後喜歡做的第一件事就是慢跑。幸運地是，我的公寓附近有條河，我晚上會沿着河慢跑。風景特別美。周圍都是綠色的景物。河邊有許多樹木和田地，非常漂亮。最糟糕的事情是我慢跑的路上有狗。那些是河狗，就是住在河邊的狗，它們沒有家，這些狗有些危險。有時它們會威脅你，追着你或咬你，你跑過它們旁邊的時候他們經常咆哮。有時我不得不拿瓶水扔向它們，或是用棍子扔它們，這樣它們就不會發動攻擊，不過到目前爲止並沒有發生什麼事。慢跑過程中最棒的事情就是蝙蝠。你在夜裏慢跑的時候會看到蝙蝠飛來飛去，吃昆蟲。這是在馬上就要日落的時候，太陽落山時，它們看起來非常非常美，最神奇的是，你慢跑的時候，它們會和你用一樣的速度飛翔，我想可能是因爲昆蟲被慢跑者的體溫吸引了，不過蝙蝠不會離慢跑者太近，對我來說，它們會和我保持4或5英尺的距離，不過它們會和我用相同的速度飛舞。我慢跑的時候可以看到它們，我在跑步的時候能看到它們真的很美好。

重點講解：
1. threaten to do sth.
威脅；恐嚇做某事；
eg. He said army officers had threatened to destroy the town.
他說陸軍軍官們曾威脅要摧毀那座小鎮。
eg. He can even threaten to call the deal off.
他甚至還可以威脅要取消這筆交易。
2. go down
（太陽）落下；
We sat and watched the sun go down.
我們坐着觀看日落。
As the sun went down the whole sky became suffused with a red glow.
當太陽西沉時，整個天空佈滿了一片紅色晚霞。
3. be attracted to
吸引住；被誘惑；
eg. In spite of her hostility, she was attracted to him.
儘管自己心存敵意，她還是爲他所吸引。
eg. He was nice looking, but I wasn't deeply attracted to him.
他長得很帥，可我對他不是很有感覺。