美語情景對話 第196期:溫泉 Onsens

Steve: Hi, this is Steve. I'm going to talk about Japanese Onsen. Onsen is like a public bath, where men go, or women, in separate areas of course, and enjoy very hot baths. I like it very much because it's very relaxing and it's very healthy. They have different kinds of baths with different sort of flavors, you might say. Some baths have minerals like sulfur, or radium, or even camphor in them and they have different health benefits. After bathing in an onsen, for an hour or two you take a shower, shave, and wash your body and then afterwards, you feel really, really good. I like to go for sushi after onsen.

史蒂夫：嗨，我是史蒂夫。我要談談日本溫泉。溫泉就像公共浴室，男性會去的地方，女性也會去，當然男女是分開的，人們會在溫泉享受熱水浴。我非常喜歡溫泉，因爲那令人放鬆，而且也有利於健康。日本溫泉有許多不同的種類，也可以說有不同的特色。一些溫泉含有硫磺、鐳或是樟腦這類礦物質，這些都對人們的身體有益，但益處各不相同。泡完溫泉一兩個小時以後去沐浴，刮鬍子，沖洗身體，之後，你會感覺非常非常好。我喜歡在泡完溫泉後去吃壽司。

重點講解：
1. sort of
種類；類別；品種；
eg. There are so many different sorts of mushrooms available these days.
現在可以買到許許多多不同種類的蘑菇。
A dozen trees of various sorts were planted.
一共種了12 棵不同種類的樹。
2. have/take a shower
淋浴；
eg. I think I'll have a shower before dinner.
我想晚餐前洗個淋浴。
eg. She took two showers a day.
她每天洗兩次淋浴。