A: How about you? Have you ever been in an accident?
你呢?你出过车祸吗?
B: Not a car accident. I was in a bicycle accident.
我没出过车祸,但是我发生过自行车事故。
A: Yeah?
嗯?
B: I laugh now but at the time, it was pretty bad.
虽然我现在在笑,但是当时情况非常糟糕。
A: What happened?
发生了什么?
B: It was dark and it was Christmas day. And I was on my bicycle going down aquite steep slope and my telephone rang. And I looked at my mobile phone and Itook it out of my pocket whilst riding my bike. And looked at it and noticed itwas my dad and he was ringing to wish me a happy Christmas. So I felt sort ofcompelled to answer the phone. So answering the phone, still going down thehill, probably gathering speed. It's dark and I'm trying to get my dad off thephone as soon as I can. And before I knew it, I drove straight into the back ofa parked black car.
B: Yeah. But it could have been a lot worse, you know.
对,不过本来可能会更糟糕的。
A: Hmm, that's true.
嗯,这倒是。
B: Yeah. I could have broken my neck.
是啊,我没准会摔断脖子。
A: So how long did it take you to recover?
那你恢复健康花了多长时间?
B: It took me about probably six weeks, I suppose.
我想我大概用了六周的时间。
A: Hmm.
嗯。
B: Yeah, because then—actually, in the following —it happened on Christmasday, so three months later in the March, I was lucky enough to win a place inthe Tokyo marathon. And I really wanted to do it because it's quite difficult toget. It's like a lottery now. There's so many people who apply to get aposition. So I wasn't going to let this accident stop me from running the Tokyomarathon. So I was trying to rush it, really and I shouldn't have. But I did.I've run there.
A: Congratulations. But how were you? That must have really hindered yourrecovery.
祝贺你?可是完赛以后你感觉怎么样?这一定阻碍了你的康复。
B: It hindered my training period for the marathon, yeah, so.
骨折影响了我的马拉松训练期。
A: But you finished it though.
不过你还是跑完了马拉松。
B: I finished it, yeah.
我跑完了,没错。
A: Well done.
做得好。
B: I wouldn't do it again. Marathons are miserable things to be. Really. Whyput yourselves through that pain? I still like running so maybe in the future,I'd do a half marathon or something, yeah. But a full marathon—my marathon daysare over, I think. Yeah.