标准北美英语口语情景对话和阅读文献-41 DAVID: What got you interested in Rober Service, FU? 浮，是什么让你对罗伯特·塞维斯感兴趣？ FU: I came across one of his poems in an anthology. 我有一次在一本诗文选上看到了他的一首诗。 CHUN: Which one?
标准北美英语口语情景对话和阅读文献-41
DAVID: What got you interested in Rober Service, FU?
浮，是什么让你对罗伯特·塞维斯感兴趣？
FU: I came across one of his poems in an anthology.
我有一次在一本诗文选上看到了他的一首诗。
CHUN: Which one?
哪一首？
FU: Which poem? Dangerious Dan McGrew.
哪一首诗？“危险的丹·麦克格鲁”。
CHUN: Even I've heard of Dangerious Dan McGrew,
就连我也听说过“危险的丹·麦克格鲁”
DAVID:That's probably one of his best known works.
那首可能是他最著名的诗篇之一。
FU: Were all those stories true?
那些故事是真的吗？
DAVID: The stories?
故事？
FU: About the gold rush up here in the Yukon.
关于育空地区淘金热的故事。
DAVID:Oh, sure, Thousands of people came up here to Dawson to get rich.
噢，是真的，成千上万的人来这里，来到道森准备发财。
LING: When was that?
那是什么时候？
DAVID:Around the turn of last century, It began in 1896, Seven years later it was all over.
上个世纪初，1896年开始，7年之后全部结束。
FU:Did anyone get rich?
有人发财了吗？
DAVID: A few people did, But not many.
少数人确实发了财，但多数人没有。
FU:Wasn't there any gold?
是没有多少金子吗？
DAVID:Yes, a lot of it. But most of the fortune seekers left here worse off than when they arrived.
不是，有很多金子，但是，大多数想致富的人们离开这里的时候比他们刚来时反而更穷了。
FU: What happened?
发生了什么？
DAVID: Mostly high prices and bad luck,
主要原因是成本高和运气差。
FU: I suppose the gold rush didn't do much for the development of the North.
我想淘金热并没有给北方地区的发展带来多少好处吧。
DAVID: It certianly didn't.
