美语情景对话 第897期:Camboida Road Trip Part 3 柬埔寨之旅(3)

Todd: So what was the hardest thing about the trip?

托德：你们这次骑行之旅中最难的事情是什么？

Julia: The hardest thing was seeing this country which is so beautiful with such amazing people but struggling in so many different ways with so many different things. You know, historically the legacy of Pol Pot on the country and this huge discrepancy between the rich and the poor. So as we're cycling along these unpaved roads beside farmers on carts that are being pulled by water buffalo, there's these huge four by fours screaming through not paying any attention to anybody. There's no law, there's no road law, so they could drive whatever speeds they wanted, tearing up the earth, causing accidents. I witnessed an accident and that was particularly hard to deal with. The car that caused the accident didn't stop and the guy that was left in the dust didn't have much chance. You know the locals I guess tried to get him to a hospital or whatever but the medical conditions, there's not much going on in terms of rural hospitals. People are still dying from poor sanitation, water, malaria, these kind of things that we should be able to eradicate, you know, instantly. We have the knowledge and the know how to do but still struggling with that. And, you know, being aware that education is so important and that people aren't getting it.

朱莉娅：最难的就是看到这个风景如此漂亮、居民如此友好的国家，却因为很多事情苦苦挣扎。你知道，从历史上看，贫富差距悬殊是波尔布特留给这个国家的遗产。我们沿着土路骑行时，看到有农民坐着水牛拉的四轮车，这辆四轮车一直发出刺耳的声音，可是没有人在意。因为没有道路法，所以他们可以想开多快就开多快，然后会扰乱道路，引发交通事故。我目睹过一场很难应对的交通事故。肇事车辆撞人以后没有停车，被撞的人躺在泥土里，没有多少活命的机会。当地人有试图送伤者去医院，可是由于医疗条件有限，乡村医院没能救活那个人。那里的人们会因为恶劣的卫生条件、污水、疟疾而死亡，而这些都是我们可以根除的问题。我们有知识有技能，可是仍因为这些事情挣扎痛苦。虽然知道教育有多重要，可是人们无法接受教育。

Todd: Yeah. What was the best thing about the journey?

托德：对。那旅行中最棒的事情是什么？

Julia: The best thing about the journey was going to this place that was so, that seemed so exotic and getting to see, you know, how people lived there and how they smile at everybody. You know, everybody in Cambodia was so friendly and so peaceful and so, I don't know, welcoming. It made me realize like how privileged I really am in life and things that I take for granted. You know my education and the choices I have and things like that. And the beauty and mystery of Angkor Wat is, I mean it's an incredibly, it's one of the world's, it's one of the seven wonders of the world I think these temples, these incredible temples, getting to go there and we took some of the kids from the school there. These kids who live in the area who never actually ever been there. We went on a school trip with them and took them and they got to go through, going through these temples and the jungle with these young kids and it was really awesome.

朱莉娅： 这次骑行中最棒的就是能去那些充满异国情调的地方看看，了解那里人们的生活，他们会对所有人微笑。柬埔寨所有人都非常友好、非常安静，而且很热情。这让我意识到我的生活中有多少特权，还有我认为是理所当然的那些事。我接受了教育，我有选择权。吴哥窟的美和神秘非常不可思议，吴哥窟是世界七大奇迹之一，我认为那些寺庙非常神奇，我们带当地学校的一些孩子去了吴哥窟。这些孩子虽然生活在那里，却并没有去过吴哥窟。我们和这些孩子一起去了几所学校，还带他们去了那些寺庙，和孩子们一起旅行，感觉真是太棒了。

Todd: That's a great experience.

托德：这真是愉快的经历。

Julia: Yeah.

朱莉娅：没错。

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重点讲解：
1. pay attention to 关心；注意；
例句：I hope you will pay attention to this problem.
希望你对这一问题予以关注。
2. tear up 摧毁，拆毁，毁坏；
例句：These words may tear up an employee's confidence and thus influence their work performance later on.
这些话会毁掉一位员工的信心，从而影响其在今后工作中的表现。
3. deal with 处理；应付；与…打交道；
例句：The meeting will deal with these problems.
本次会议将就这些问题作出处理。
4. die from 死于；
例句：Many people died from the smallpox epidemic.
很多人死于天花流行病。
5. take sth. for granted 认为…是理所当然的；
例句：I take it for granted that he will succeed.
我认为他会成功是理所当然的。