【英語宅急便】Space tourism? Come on, be realistic!

From: 臺大視聽教育館教育館英語學習報第033期

Annie: Honey...

Annie: 北鼻...

Wayne: Yes, babe? (Wayne is reading online news)

Wayen: 怎麼啦，寶貝？

Annie: How are we going to plan for the holiday?

Annie: 我們假期有什麼計劃啊？

Wayne: What holiday?

Wayne: 什麼假期？

Annie: The Moon Festival! Don't you remember that?

Annie: 中秋節啊！難道你忘了嗎？

Wayne: Oh..yeah..yeah. I remember. That's a four-day holiday this year. So then, what do you reckon? Any two cents to put in?

wayne: 哦..對噢，我想起來了。今年放四天假耶，對中秋節你有什麼意見嗎？

Annie: Just no more BBQ please. I'm really sick and tired of BBQ.

Annie: 就是不要再烤肉了，我已經厭倦了無止盡的烤肉。

Wayne: Why? That's a must for the Moon Festival. We always lap it up every year.

Wayne: 為什麼？烤肉是中秋節必備良藥耶，我們每年都要享受香噴噴的烤肉。

Annie: I know that's ripper. We can just have a laid back afternoon and have a hell lot of yummy tucker.

Annie: 我知道那不錯，可以在慵懶的午後享受一大堆美食。

Wayne: And get a slab all the time. Then I will be in my element.

Wayne: 還有喝酒，太爽了。

Annie: You drunkard.

Annie: 你這酒鬼。

Wayne: I'm not a drunkard. I just like being tipsy sometimes.

Wayne: 我才不是酒鬼，我只是有的時候想要來點微醺。

Annie: Yeah, you bet. (Annie gently smacks Wayne's head while saying this.)

Annie: 好吧，當然。（Annie溫柔的打一下Wayne的頭。）

Wayne: Ouch, what's that for?

Wayne: 傲歐，幹麻打我？

Annie: That's for waking you up and not looking at me when I'm talking to you.

Annie: 這是要打醒你，還有在我跟你講話的時候竟然不看著我。

Wayne: Ok, I'm sorry. (Wayne is still looking at the screen while saying this)...Hey, have a look at this news. They'd got another rich bloke rocketed up to the space.

Wayne: 好吧，對啟。（Wayne在講話時依然看著銀幕）...嘿，看看這則新聞，一群有錢的小子飛去外太空。

(Both of them are reading through the news)

（他們兩個一直在看那個新聞）

Wayne: Wooo, the damage to his bank account was surely enormous.

Wayne: ㄨˋ，他銀行的存款應該少了一大半吧。

Annie: I don't think so. That could be just the tip of the iceberg of his money.

Annie: 我不覺得，這筆錢對他來說應該只是冰山一角吧。

Wayne: That's really off the beaten track. What do you think we would do if we were up there, on the moon?

Wayne: 那真是一個杳無人煙的地方，妳覺得我們在月亮上會幹麻？

Annie: For the Moon Festival?

Annie: 妳說在中秋節的時候？

Wayne: Yeah.

Wayne: 是阿

Annie: What a mind-boggling idea. Well then, there won't be a full moon that night. That's for sure. But probably we can see a "full earth" instead.

Annie: 真是個特別的主意，但在哪裡是看不到滿月的，但我們可能可以看到“滿地球”。

Wayne: Yeah, do you think we can see Taiwan from there? Probably we can if they've got a really big Sky Lantern Festival in Pinghsi.

Wayne: 是啊，你覺得我們可以從那邊看到地球嗎？假如平溪那邊有放天燈的話搞不好可以。

Annie: Sky lantern? What are you on about? Do you wanna row a Dragon boat as well?

Annie: 天燈？妳在說什麼？我看妳乾脆連龍舟也一起看好了。

Wayne: Oh yeah, we don't have lanterns for the Moon Festival. So then we can mosey around with some fat-laden mooncakes in our bags, and probably hunt a couple of Jade Rabbits for BBQ!

Wayne: 噢，也對，中秋節沒人在放天燈的。那我想我們可以一邊吃著熱量很高的月餅一邊散散步，順便獵幾之玉兔來烤肉！

Annie: Yeah, you bet. Jade Rabbits. And it's gonna be even better with some local brewed lager, isn't it?

Annie: 玉兔，沒錯，順便來幾手啤酒是吧？

Wayne: Yeah, that'll be awesome.

Wayne: 對對對，那會更好。

Annie: You helpless drunkard!

Annie: 妳這無可就藥的酒鬼！

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Vabulary:

ripper	很棒的	bloke	=guy
yummy	=delicious	enormous	巨大的；龐大的
tucker	=food	mosey	隨意走走、晃晃；漫步
drunkard	酒鬼	Jade	玉
tipsy	微薰	brewed	釀造的
smack	拍；打	lager	啤酒的一種

Phrase:

any two cents to put in?	有什麼意見嗎?
sick and tired of	非常的厭煩
a must	一定要做的事
lap it up	很享受某件事情
laid back	悠閒、慵懶
a hell lot of	很多的；一大堆的
get a slab	拿著酒瓶啜飲
in my element	覺得自在舒服
the tip of the iceberg	冰山一角
off the beaten track	人跡罕至的地方
mind-boggling	令人感到驚奇的
What are you on about?	你在想什麼啊? or 你在說什麼啊?
fat-laden	脂肪或熱量很高的

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延伸閱讀：
(Reuters) Space Tourist Returns to Earth
(CBC News) Civilians in space FAQs
(ABC Science Online) Space tourism blasts off into legal mire