留學英語口語 第3期:去教堂
RYAN: I am kind of nervous.
雷恩：我有點緊張。SARAH: Nervous? Why?
莎拉：緊張？爲什麼？RYAN: I don't know. I never went to a church before.I was not raised as a Christian, so I don't know what to do.
雷恩：我不知道。我從來沒有去過教堂。我並不是在基督教的教導下成長的，所以我不知道該如何做。
SARAH: Don't worry. You don't have to do you have to do is listen. You will enjoy it.
莎拉：別擔心。你不必做任何事情。你只需要聆聽就可以了。你一定會喜愛的。RYAN: Maybe. I know I agreed to go with you, but now I don't feel right about it.
雷恩：或許吧。我知道我同意跟你一起去，但現在我感覺有些不對。SARAH: Listen, olics welcome people who aren't Catholics to visit the don't have to pretend to be Catholic. It's okay if you just come to listen.
莎拉：聽着，雷恩。天主教歡迎不是基督徒的人來參觀教堂。你不需要裝作是天主教徒。你來聆聽是沒有問題的。RYAN: Really?
雷恩：真的嗎？SARAH: Yes. We are kind and welcoming is not a secret society or something like that.
莎拉：是的。我們是很親切而且歡迎民衆的。不是一個祕密社會或着其他的組織。RYAN: Alright. But will we sing?
雷恩：好吧。但是我們會唱歌嗎？SARAH: Yes, but you don't even have to sing. If you want to sing along, you can.
莎拉：是的，但你不一定要唱。如果你想要一起唱的話，你也可以。RYAN: I don't know the words.
雷恩：我不知道歌詞。SARAH: There is a songbook. All the words are in the people have to read the words.
莎拉：是有歌本的。所有的歌詞都在歌本里。很多人都是要看歌詞的。RYAN: And will I go up to the front to have the bread and wine?
雷恩：我要到前面去領麪餅及酒嗎？SARAH: No. That is something only true Catholics if you come to the church as a visitor, you only listen to the you shouldn't go up to the altar for the bread and after someone joins the church, then they go up for the Eucharist.
莎拉：不用。那是真正的天主教徒做的。如果你到教堂是一個參觀者的身份，你只需要聆聽彌撒就可以了。但是你不可以到祭臺前去領麪餅及酒。只有加入教會的人，他們纔可以去領聖體。RYAN: Eu-char-ist? What is that?
雷恩：聖--體？那是什麼？SARAH: That is the special word for the ritual of the bread and Catholics call it the Eucharist.
莎拉：那是一個特殊的字用來稱呼在儀式上的麪餅及酒。天主教稱爲聖體。RYAN: It doesn't sound like an English word.
雷恩：聽起來不像是英文。SARAH: It's not. It's an ancient Greek word. It means "gratitude."
莎拉：不是。它是一個古老的希臘文。意思是“感恩”。RYAN: Alright. Well, I feel more comfortable I understand I am welcome as a visitor.
雷恩：好的。嗯，我現在感覺舒緩多了。我現在知道我是受歡迎的參觀者。SARAH: Of course you are. I wouldn't ask you otherwise.
莎拉：你當然是呀。要不然我怎麼會邀請你。知識點講解：
1. kind of 有點兒；有幾分
例：I was kind of mortified to be told that I was too old to join.
當被告知由於我年齡過大而不能加入時，我有點感到受了屈辱。
2. feel right about sth. 感覺對，覺得合適
例：I don't feel right about it.
我覺得那樣不合適。我認爲那樣做不對。
olics 天主教徒（Catholic的名詞複數）
Catholicism 天主教
Eucharist 聖餐，（經過祝聖的）聖餐麪包（及酒）
天主教是基督宗教的三大宗派之一，其正式名稱爲“羅馬天主教會”或“羅馬公教會”，即由羅馬教宗領導的教會。天主教一詞用於指信奉羅馬天主教理論體系，包括道德、聖餐儀式以及教條，並完全服從聖座的基督宗教信徒，在基督宗教的所有教會之中，天主教會的人數最爲龐大，全世界人數約有11.3億，佔世界總人口17%，目前天主教會也是所有基督宗教的教會中最爲龐大的教會。根據信理神學（dogmatic theology）的論證闡述，天主教會是耶穌基督親手建立的、唯一、至聖、至公、從宗徒傳下來的教會。天主教首任教宗爲耶穌十二門徒之首聖伯多祿。
