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Todd: OK, Adrienne, let's talk about abilities. What are you good at?
托德：好的，埃德里安娜，我們談談能力吧。你擅長什么？
Adrienne: Um, I don't know.
埃德里安娜：嗯，我不清楚。
Todd: You don't know?
托德：你不清楚？
Adrienne: I really don't know!
埃德里安娜：我真的不知道！
Todd: Well, I was looking at your photos, and you can play the violin.
托德：嗯，好吧，我在看你的照片，你會拉小提琴。
Adrienne: That's true!
埃德里安娜：沒錯！
Todd: And you can sing very well.
托德：而且你歌也唱得非常好。
Adrienne: Ah, I can sing some.
埃德里安娜：嗯，我可以唱些歌。
Todd: OK, so, tell us about playing the violin.
托德：好，那跟我們談談小提琴的事情吧。
Adrienne: I really enjoy playing the violin. I've been playing for many, many years since I was a little girl and everyone in my family plays an instrument so it's part of what we do together as a family.
埃德里安娜：我非常喜歡拉小提琴。我已經練了很多年，從小時候開始練的，我家里所有人都會演奏一種樂器，所以這是我們一家人一起做的事情。
Todd: So when you were little you practiced every day?
托德：那你小時候每天都練習嗎？
Adrienne: I did. My mom made me. I didn't have a choice. It's good for discipline though, or at least that's what she told me.
埃德里安娜：沒錯。我媽媽讓我這樣做。我沒有選擇。雖然這對訓練有幫助，至少我媽媽是這么告訴我的。
Todd: So, how would you practice? Did you have a tutor come over to your house?
托德：那你怎么練習呢？你們請了指導老師去你家授課嗎？
Adrienne: No, I had a violin teacher once a week and when I was really small I went to group lessons also, so it was once a week with a private and once a week with a group.
埃德里安娜：不，我有一個小提琴老師，每周上一次課，我很小的時候去上小班課程，所以當時是私人老師一周上一次課，小班課程一周上一次。
Todd: Wow! That's a lot. What did you think about the violin when you were little?
托德：哇！課很多啊。你小時候怎么看小提琴？
Adrienne: I don't remember thinking about it. I don't even remember learning how to play. I was only two so (so young) I know. I was still in diapers, but my mom said that when I had my first recital that I really wanted to play in the recital and she said I absolutely could not play on stage in a diaper so that's basically how she got me out of my diapers. So she says!
埃德里安娜：我不記得我怎么看它了。我甚至不記得學習演奏的情景。我當時只有兩歲（好小啊），我知道。我當時還穿著尿布呢，不過我媽媽在我第一次參加演奏會時說，我非常想在演奏會中表演，而她說，我絕對不能裹著尿布在舞臺上演奏，所以她說她就是那樣讓我擺脫尿布的。她就是那么說的！
Todd: When did you stop playing?
托德：你什么時候不再演奏小提琴了？
Adrienne: I haven't stopped.
埃德里安娜：我從沒停過。
Todd: Oh, you still practice.
托德：哦，你仍在練習。
Adrienne: I still play although I don't have my violin here in Japan, right now. I'm kind of on a break I guess. I just don't like to carry it around overseas.
埃德里安娜：我仍在練習，不過目前我在日本并沒有小提琴。我想這是種休息吧。我并不想帶著它出國。
Todd: Is it hard to be away from your violin?
托德：離開你的小提琴很難嗎？
Adrienne: It is sometimes. I miss it. I miss playing with my family too, cause we're kind of like the Van Trapp family, which you know from the movie The Sound of Music.
埃德里安娜：有時。我會想它。我很想念和家人一起演奏的感覺，因為我們有點像馮·特普一家，你知道就是電影《音樂之聲》中的那個家庭。
Todd: No, no, I don't. I've never seen the movie.
托德：不，不，我不知道。我沒看過那部電影。
Adrienne: Oh, you haven't? The Sound of Music is about a family in, I think it's Austria and they all play an instrument or sing and it's a World War II movie and that's how they escape the Nazis, from singing or something. It's kind of like that, except for without the war.
埃德里安娜：哦，你沒看過嗎？《音樂之聲》是一個有關奧地利家庭的故事，他們所有人都會演奏樂器或者會唱歌，背景是第二次世界大戰期間，講的是他們如何通過唱歌逃離納粹的故事。我們有點像那個家庭，當然我們并沒有遇到戰爭。
Todd: Well, I have to see the movie so!
托德：嗯，我一定要看看這部電影！
Adrienne: Yeah, you should.
埃德里安娜：對，你應該看看。
Todd: So are you going to play the violin for me sometime?
托德：那你有時間可以為我演奏小提琴嗎？
Adrienne: Sure! If you can find a violin I will.
埃德里安娜：當然！如果你能找到一部小提琴，我會演奏的。
