Dialogue 1
Jingjing: Mark, I know you like hiking. Have you ever gone long-distance hiking?
京晶：馬克，我知道你喜歡徒步，你長距離遠足過嗎？
Mark: I've done a few hikes that were three or four days, mostly with a base camp. My parents did long hikes.
馬克：我做過幾次為期三四天的徒步旅行，大多都是有大本營的那種。我父母有過長途遠足。
Jingjing: Why didn't you go with them?
京晶：為何不和他們一起去呢？
Mark: I had school some of the time. Also, I had to stay home and mail out the packages.
馬克：我有時還得上學。并且，我還得待在家里，給他們寄包裹什么的。
Jingjing: Oh, that's right. Hikers have to carry lots of dried food. They must have been planning their trip for quite some time.
京晶：噢，對。徒步者必須帶很多脫水干糧。他們一定用了很長時間計劃他們的旅行。
Mark: Yeah, it took several months of planning, almost as long as the trip itself. As for me, I didn't want to be hungry all the time.
馬克：是的，計劃了好幾個月，幾乎和行程本身一樣長了。至于我，我可不想一直餓著。
Jingjing: I'm sure hikers use up lots of energy.
京晶：我敢肯定旅行者會消耗很多能量。
Mark: Yeah. Every six days or so, when they got into a town, they each would eat enough for three people.
馬克：是，每六天左右，當他們進城后，他們每個人都能吃三個人的量。
Jingjing: But you went on a long bike trip, didn't you?
京晶：但是你做過長途自行車騎行，不是嗎？
Mark: 58 days. And, breakfast, lunch and dinner I could eat like crazy and still be slim enough to walk along the bottom of a swimming pool.
馬克：58天。并且，早中晚餐我都可以瘋狂的吃，我仍然足夠苗條，可以沿著游泳池底邊走。
Jingjing: What about the time you spent on the road. It must have taken the whole day to cover what a motorcycle could do in an hour. Didn't you worry about getting hit by a car?
京晶：路上的時間是怎么樣的，你一定得花費一整天的時間去弄騎完摩托車一小時內就能走完的路。你難道不擔心被車撞嗎？
Mark: The shoulder was pretty wide. Also, I could hear a car coming from a long way off, and could tell if it was a heavy vehicle, like a log truck. That gave me plenty of time to pull off to the side.
馬克：路肩挺寬的。并且，我還能聽到一輛車從很遠的地方開過來，還能分辨出它是不是一輛重型車，像一輛原木卡車。這讓我有足夠的時間靠邊停車。
Jingjing: Weren't your parents worried about you?
京晶：你父母不擔心你嗎？
Mark: Sure. But these are the same parents who went on their own trip for seven months, through wilderness areas.
馬克：當然。但他們可是通過荒山野嶺自己旅行了七個月的父母。
Jingjing: Well, those sound like some great adventures!
京晶：嗯，那聽起來像了不起的冒險！

New words : 習語短語
base camp 基地營，大本營
a place to drop off heavy supplies, halfway up a mountain
shoulder 路肩
the side of a road, where cars can stop or bikes can go
a long way off far away 距離很遠
wilderness area 荒山野嶺
a large area of land which has no roads, power lines or buildings, usually run by the government to protect wildlife and natural scenery

Dialogue 2
Jingjing: Mark, can you guess what my biggest adventure was?
京晶：馬克，你能猜到我最大的冒險是什么嗎？
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Mark: Well, I know you went on that trip to Europe. Would you count that?
馬克：嗯，我知道你去歐洲旅行了。那算嗎？
Jingjing: I travel to relax. So, even though I saw a lot of famous buildings and natural scenery, I don't think of it as an adventure.
京晶：我旅行是為了放松。所以，盡管我看到了許多著名的建筑和自然風光，但我不認為這是一次冒險。
Mark: Ok, Jingjing, you'll have to give me a clue.
馬克：好吧，京晶。你得給我個線索。
Jingjing: It has something to do with business. Does that help?
京晶：這跟生意有關系。有幫助嗎？
Mark: Did you start your own business?
馬克：你是自己創業嗎？
Jingjing: Whoa! You got it!
京晶：哇！你說對了！
Mark: I've always thought well of people who have their own companies, no matter how small. What were you doing?
馬克：我一直羨慕那些有自己公司的人，不管公司有多小。你在做什么？
Jingjing: It was a media sharing company, combined with a coffee shop.
京晶：那是一家媒體共享公司，和一家咖啡店結合在一起。
Mark: A coffee shop I understand. Tell me about the media sharing part.
馬克：咖啡店這個我理解。媒體共享部分怎么回事跟我說說吧。
Jingjing: Ok, so people who came in to the coffee shop could borrow books and DVDs.
京晶：好的，所以來咖啡店的人可以借閱圖書和DVD.
Mark: DVDs, I remember those things!
馬克：DVD，我還記得那些東西！
Jingjing: Yeah, as media started to move onto more and more electronic formats, we would lend out thumb drives with movies and e-books on them.
京晶：是的，隨著媒體開始轉向越來越多的電子格式，我們會把裝有電影和電子書的拇指驅動器（U盤）借給他們。
Mark: That sounds like a good thing to offer people. Did people pay much for it?
馬克：把這些提供給人們聽起來真不錯，需要花高價獲得嗎？
Jingjing: It didn't cost us much to operate. It was kind of touch and go. But the media sharing side kept people coming in to the coffee shop.
京晶：運營成本不高，有一定風險。但是媒體共享這一面能讓人們不停地來咖啡店。
Mark: So, what happened in the end?
馬克：那么，最后結果如何？
Jingjing: Actually, the coffee shop's still there. I'll take you there sometime. I still have 10% ownership, and get a 10% discount.
京晶：事實上，咖啡店還在。我什么時候帶你去。我仍然有10%的股權，而且可以打九折哦。
Mark: Well, it sounds like the risk you took to start a business has paid off!
馬克：好呀。聽起來你的冒險去創業最終還是成功的，值得的。

New words : 習語短語
think well of (someone) admire someone 羨慕（某人）
touch and go 冒險的，有風險的
risky, not always reliable
pay off (no object) 最終還是值得的
be worthwhile in the end