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第 36 课:Expressing Time 表示时间 - 4

Conversation : On a University Campus 在大学校园里

CARA: Hello, Martin.你好,马丁。

MARTIN: Hello, When is the demonstration? I've been talking to some students. They don't know.你好。示威在什么时候?我一直在和一些学生交谈,他们不知道。

CARA: I talked to one student. The demonstration is now. This is the demonstration.我和一个学生谈过,示威就在现在,这就是示威。

MARTIN: What are you doing?你在干什么?

PETE: I'm demonstrating.我在示威。

MARTIN: What's that?那是什么?

PETE: It's a story. It's a story about pollution. It's a story about the river. 是一篇报导,是一篇有关污染的报导,是一篇有关河流的报导。 The river was clean. 那条河从前是清澈见底的。

MARTIN: When was the river clean?那条河什么时候是清澈的?
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PETE: Many years ago. Now the environment is polluted. Here, read the story.很多年以前,现在这儿的环境被污染了。这儿,读读这篇报导。

MARTIN: The river is polluted.这条河被污染了。

PETE: Of course. Our environment is polluted.当然。我们的环境被污染了。

MARTIN: What are you going to do?你们打算做什么?

PETE: We're going to clean it up.我们打算清理它?

MARTIN: You're going to clean up the river?你们打算清理这条河吗?