第30课：问路 文本如下：
MR.YAMAMOT:Excuse me, sir.
先生请问您,
MR.YAMAMOT:Can you tell me where the Japanese Garden is?
能不能告诉我,日本花园在那里?
BILL: It's quite a long walk from here. Why don't you take the Fair bus? It stops right over there, in the Plaza of Nations. Between the statue and the fountain.
从这里走到那边相当远,您不妨搭乘博览会公车,它就停在那边,在广场里的雕像和喷水池之间.
MR.YAMAMOT:The statue? Excuse me, I don't see as well as I used to.
雕像啊?对不起,我不像以前看得那么清楚.
ALI: Hi, Mr. O'Neill.
嗨,欧尼尔先生.
BILL: Oh, hi, Ali.
哦,阿里你好,
BILL: Would you do me a favor?
你愿不愿意帮我一个忙?
ALI: Sure.
好.
BILL: Would you take this gentleman to the bus stop over there?
请你带这位先生到那边巴士站,好不好?
ALI: Sure. Hi. Where do you want to go?
好,嗨,你要去那里?
BILL: The gentleman wants to go to the bus stop, Ali.
这位先生要到巴士站,阿里.
ALI: But where are you going after that?
然后你要去那里呢?
BILL: He asks a lot of questions.
他问了许多问题.
ALI: My father says I shouldn't ask so many questions.
我爸爸说我不该问这么多问题,
ALI: He says it's not polite. So I'm sorry. But I still want to know.
他说这样不礼貌.所以我道歉,但是我还是想知道.
BILL: Ali, the next bus will be here any minute.
阿里,下一班车随时会来.
MR.YAMAMOT:I'm going to the Japanese Garden.
我要到日本花园去.
ALI: Are you Japanese? I'm from Iran.
你是不是日本人?我是伊朗人.
MR.YAMAMOT:I was born in Japan.
我在日本出生.
ALI: I went to the Japanese Garden last week.
我上个礼拜到日本花园去过.
MR.YAMAMOT:Did you?
噢,你去过啦?
ALI: Yes, it's very pretty. My mother liked it very much. I think it's too quiet there,
是的,非常漂亮,我妈妈很喜欢.我觉得那边太安静了,
ALI: but I'll go with you if you want.
不过,如果你要去的话,我就陪你去.
MR.YAMAMOT:Thank you. But if you come with me, your parents won't know where you are.
谢谢.不过,你如果陪我去,你父母就会不知道你到那里去了.
ALI: If you wait, I'll tell my parents where I'm going.
你若能等我一下,我就告诉我爸爸妈妈我要去那里.
MR.YAMAMOT:You are a good boy.
你真乖.
MR.YAMAMOT:Maybe some other time.
或许,改天吧.
ALI: Do you come here a lot? I'm here every afternoon. My father works in that bank. That's my friend, Mr. O'Neill, the ice cream man.
你常常来这里吗?我每天下午都在这里.我爸爸就在那个银行里上班,那位是我的朋友,欧尼尔先生,冰淇淋摊贩.
MR.YAMAMOT:Here's the bus. Good-bye, Ali. And thank you.
巴士来了,再见,阿里,谢谢你!
