Feifei: 大家好，歡迎收聽地道英語節目，我是馮菲菲。

William: And I'm William.

Feifei: William, how much do you know about China?

William: Er... Not much. Why are you asking?

Feifei: 我今天讀報紙的時候，看到一個有關中國的小測驗。

William: Oh no, not quizzes, I'm rubbish at quizzes.
不要測驗，我不擅長做測驗。

Feifei: Let's see. Here is the first one – 中國的首都是哪兒？

William: Ah, well. That's easy, Beijing.

Feifei: 回答正確！中國哪里的菜肴是以麻辣出名的？

William: Em, I think Sichuan food is quite spicy.
我認為川菜很辣。

Feifei: See, you are doing well! How about this one – 漢字里一共有多少個字？這道題有點難度。

William: Em, 5,000?

Feifei: No. Try again.

William: 7,000?

Feifei: No. Roughly 42,000.

William: Wow, that's amazing. I didn't know it was that many. How can people possibly learn them all? I just think that's totally mind-boggling!
太讓人吃驚了。我不知道漢字有這么多。人們怎么能學會這么多字呢？那讓人感到驚奇。

Feifei: Mind-boggling, 這個短語是什么意思？

William: Mind-boggling means something overwhelming and amazing, like really impressive numbers or facts.

Feifei: 知道了，mind-boggling 就是說一件令人吃驚的、非常難以置信的事情。比方說一個巨大的數字。

William: It's made up of two words: mind and to boggle. Let's hear an example.
它由2個詞構成：mind（思想）和boggle（使驚奇）,我們來聽下例子。
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Example

Woman 1: I took my son to the Science Museum on Sunday.
周日我帶兒子去科學館了。

Woman 2: Did you go to the space mission area?
你去太空任務區了嗎？

Woman 1: Oh yes. There were rockets, space suits, even parts from a satellite - so many mind-boggling things to see.
去了。那里有火箭，宇航服，還有衛星上的部件——有很多讓人驚奇的事物可看。

Feifei: 我對宇宙一向都很感興趣，不過里面的學問真的是太深奧了。

William: Well, astronomy, the study of stars, has lots of mind-boggling theories.
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Example

Man: I was at a physics workshop last month in Munich. There were seminars on black holes and antimatter. It was totally mind-boggling stuff; I think I might have understood about five percent of what was discussed.
上個月我參加了慕尼黑的物理學研討會。有關于黑洞和反物質的研討會。那真讓人感到驚奇——我想我只理解了所討論內容的百分之五。

Feifei: 我想大家現在知道 mind-boggling 這個短語的意思和用法了吧。其實就是用來形容那些令人難以置信的事實。And here is one final mind-boggling question – How many stars are in there in the Milky Way?

William: Er, is it 42,000 again?

Feifei: No, no! Some people say there are over 200 billion stars in the Milky Way but no one knows for sure.
感謝收聽今天的《地道英語》節目，下次節目再會。

William: Bye.