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Marion: So you lived in Dublin for awhile, didn't you Mauve? What's life like in Dublin?
瑪麗恩：你在都柏林住過一段時間，對吧，莫夫？都柏林的生活怎么樣？
Mauve: I think life in Dublin is very different from everywhere else in the country. It's the biggest city in Ireland. It's got a population of about a million I think, even though the population of Ireland is only 4 million, so most people...
莫夫：我認為都柏林的生活與愛爾蘭其他地方的生活非常不同。都柏林是愛爾蘭最大的城市。擁有1百萬人口，而愛爾蘭的人口才4百萬，所以大部分人……
Marion: So it's a quarter of the whole population.
瑪麗恩：所以都柏林的人口占到全國人口的四分之一。
Mauve: Exactly. It's a very young population, I think, the Dublin population, I suppose like all cities there's plenty to do, in terms of cinemas, theatres, I don't know, you know whatever else, comedy club and all that kind of, plenty of night clubs, loads of restaurants. It's very international now, at the moment I suppose, like there's Japanese restaurants, and well there's always Indian and Chinese, and there's like, I don't know, French and Spanish, and every type of restaurant.
莫夫：沒錯。我認為都柏林的人口非常年輕化，就像所有城市一樣，那里有許多可以做的事情，有電影院，劇院，還有什么，哦，還有喜劇俱樂部，諸如此類的地方，當然也有許多夜店和餐廳。愛爾蘭現在非常國際化，因為那里有日本餐廳，印度餐廳，中國餐廳，當然也有法國餐廳和西班牙餐廳，各種類型的餐廳。
Marion: So it's kind of a cosmopolitan city.
瑪麗恩：就像國際大都市一樣。
Mauve: Yeah, exactly.
莫夫：對，沒錯。
Marion: Or big by Irish standards, I suppose. Yeah, it's probably like a village for other people.
瑪麗恩：可能以愛爾蘭的標準來看算大都市。也許其他人會認為那里像鄉村。
Mauve: I know. Even though when I went to New York then, in June, it wasn't such a culture shock, cause even though, there are high rise buildings and every thing but it wasn't that different though. You know, I think that Dublin has come on a lot and it's by no means rural anymore, you know, in comparison to other cities in Ireland, like Cork and Gaul, we're very rural, but, I don't think Dublin is.
莫夫：我知道。我六月份去了紐約，那時我并沒有遭遇文化沖擊，那里有高樓大廈，不過與都柏林并沒有太大的不同。你知道，我認為都柏林取得了很大的進步，再也沒有鄉村的面貌了，你知道，與愛爾蘭的鄉村科克和高爾相比，都柏林并不是鄉村。
Marion: Yeah, I think Dublin is like an international city, and it can stand on it's own.
瑪麗恩：對，我想都柏林就像一個國際化城市，可以獨立存在。
Mauve: Definitely, yeah, you can compare to London or, you know, New York.
莫夫：完全正確，你可以拿它和倫敦，甚至是紐約相比。
Marion: And the standard of, like the cost of living, is very high in Dublin, though, isn't it.
瑪麗恩：都柏林的生活費用非常高昂，對吧？
Mauve: Yeah, it is. Rents are much higher there. It's more expensive to eat out and I suppose to do everything really. You need a good salary to live in Dublin I think.
莫夫：對，的確是這樣。租金非常貴。而且外出吃飯的花銷也很大，我想那里的所有事情都很貴。要在都柏林生活你要有高收入。
Marion: Yeah, yeah!
瑪麗恩：對，對！
Mauve: Big bucks!
莫夫：需要很多錢！
