英语每日一听 | 每天少于5分钟

Thanksgiving Farms is 57 acres. We like to grow a little bit of the odd and unusual. So, we grow pretty much everything.
感恩节农场占地57英亩。我们喜欢种植一些稀奇古怪的作物。我们基本上什么都种。

The only thing we do not grow is corn. We're ladies. Corn is heavy and we're not picking it. I run the garden center part.
我们唯一不种的就是玉米。我们是女士。玉米太重了，我们收不起来。我负责经营园艺中心的部分。

I have 20 grow houses full of plants right now. I grow everything from petunias to Calibrachoas to tropical plants.
我现在有20个种满植物的大棚。我种植矮牵牛花、百万铃、热带植物等植物。

I plant them at a certain time so that they get ready by Mother's Day. Mother's Day is our Christmas in the greenhouse industry.
我在特定时间种植它们，以便它们在母亲节前上市。母亲节相当于温室花卉行业的圣诞节。

That's when everybody brings their mom out. They get flowers.
那时每个人都带着他们的妈妈出来买花。

In normal years,we have half of it sold by May 10, and then you sell the rest of it at the end of May and two weeks into June.
正常年景时，我们到5月10日会售出一半，然后在五月底和六月的头两周内卖出剩余部分。

On a glorious sunny Saturday afternoon in May, we have 75 to 100 cars in our parking lot.
五月一个晴朗的星期六下午，我们停车场里有75到100辆车。

When I heard about the coronavirus, I went and I turned all my greenhouses down 10 degrees, just to try to get my plants in a holding pattern, because I don't know when I'm going to be able to sell them.
当我听说冠状病毒时，我去把所有温室的温度调低了10度，只是想让我的植物生长放缓，因为我不知道什么时候才能把它们卖出去。

In danger of losing, besides my sanity and the lining of my stomach. That is a horrible, horrible thing to think about.
有失去一切的危险，我吃不下去饭。一想到这个，就觉得可怕极了。
I want to be optimistic, but at the end of the day I know realistically a monetary amount, I don't know, a lot. Hundreds of thousands of dollars, a lot.
我想保持乐观，但说到底，我只知道开支很大，具体多少我不清楚，反正很多，几十万美元。

This gets me through the day. My stomach, that is where my stress went. It went into my stomach. So, I'm living on Coke Zero and Tums right now.
我熬过了一天。我从心底感到了压力，胃很难受。我现在就靠零度可乐和抗胃酸咀嚼钙片活着。

You do what you got to do. It is a very rare bird that wants to one day go, oh, I want to farm. Pretty sure you have to be born into it.
你得做你该做的事。会有人某天突然说“我想务农”可是少之又少。肯定是生来就是农民。

To be a farmer, you have to be optimistic. You have to be a gambler. Sometimes, you have a thunderstorm that will wipe your seeds.
作为一个农民，你必须乐观。你必须赌上一把。有时候，一场雷暴就会把种子毁于一旦。

Sometimes, you get it all the way down and you're two weeks from harvesting your field, and you get a 15-minute hailstorm that totally disintegrates everything.
有时，你必须在两周内收割完毕，15分钟的冰雹会把所有东西都毁掉。

You just have to go, oh, OK, well let's start over. That's what you got to do or else you will never make it. One day at a time. Yep, that's all you can do.
你只能说，我们重新开始。那是你必须做的，否则你永远都做不成。一天一天慢慢来。这就是你能做的全部。

Nobody has ever prepared you for a pandemic, ever. So, I'm going to dig in deep.
从来没有人让你为疫情做好准备。我要深入挖掘。

I'm going to probably stay up many nights trying to figure out how to get through this. But, we will. I will find a way.
我可能要熬很多个晚上想办法渡过难关。但是，我们会挺过去的。我会找到办法的。

I'm not going to let this take away my identity of something that I have worked on my entire life. I've been in this business since I was five.
我不会让这件事夺走我为之奋斗一生的身份。我从五岁就开始做这行了。

I am not going to give it up to COVID-19. Believe me. That is not going to take us out. We will find a way. Just getting there is going to be the hard part.
我不会向新冠病毒屈服。相信我，它击不垮我们。我们会找到解决办法的。只是通往成功的道路将充满艰辛。

Virtual reality's immersive experience is a sensation for the eyes and ears.
虚拟现实带来的沉浸式体验是一种全新的视听体验。

Now Aerobanquets RMX will target your taste buds.
现在，Aerobanquets RMX将瞄准了人的味觉。

It's one of the first experiments where we are mixing VR and food.
这是我们首次将虚拟现实与食物相结合的实验之一。

At the James Beard House in New York, Mattia Casalegno has created a VR dining experience that lets guests taste food in a new way.
在纽约的詹姆斯·比尔德餐厅，马蒂亚·卡萨雷诺打造了一种虚拟现实用餐体验，让宾客以全新的方式品尝食物。

We are so much used to eat with our own eyes, of course. I start to have expectations.
当然，我们非常习惯用眼睛去判断食物。看到之后就会产生期待。

With this VR experience, guests should expect the unexpected.
有了这次虚拟现实体验，客人们将能够预料到以前那些想不到的方面。

In virtual reality, the quote unquote food is represented by abstract 3D shapes that correspond to real-life bites prepared on site.
在虚拟现实中，所谓的“食物”由抽象的3D形状来呈现，这些形状与现场准备的真实食物相对应。

Guests can interact with these virtual shapes and forms, and then literally eat them.
客人可以与这些虚拟的形式互动，然后真的把它们吃掉。

I think it tastes like the whistle that the wind makes blowing through a door lock on a cold autumn afternoon.
我觉得它的味道就像在一个寒冷的秋日午后，风穿过门锁时发出的呼啸声。

Actions in the physical world correspond with those in VR via motion tracking cameras in the headset.
头戴设备中的运动追踪摄像头使物理世界中的动作与虚拟现实中的动作相对应。

We are able to bridge the gap between the virtual world and the real world, and what impact it has when you introduce food into this experience all of a sudden, the virtual world no longer, it felt less virtual.
我们能够弥合虚拟世界和现实世界之间的差距，而当你突然将食物引入这种体验时，带来的影响就是，突然之间，虚拟世界给人的感觉不再那么不真实了。

Having that like disconnection, but reconnection with food through this digital representation of it, made you kind of like think about flavor and texture and sensation in a different way. A feast for all of the senses.
拥有那种类似断联的感觉，但通过食物的数字呈现与食物重新连接，让你以不同的方式思考味道、口感和感受。一场感官的盛宴。

Julie Kent, formerly a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, recalls her last role as Juliet after announcing in 2015 she would no longer perform on stage.
朱莉·肯特曾是美国芭蕾舞剧院的首席舞者，她回忆起自己在2015年宣布不再登台表演后出演的最后一个角色——朱丽叶。

Thousands came to see the last performance at New York's Lincoln Center.
数千人前来观看在纽约林肯中心的最后一场演出。

It was the most heartbreaking and beautiful experience that I had to date.
这是我到目前为止经历过的最令人心碎却又最美好的体验。

It was a huge sense of loss of life that I had known for three decades.
在我芭蕾舞事业的三十年历程中，这件事给我带来了巨大的失落感。

American Ballet Theater is considered to be one of the best dance companies in the country.
美国芭蕾舞剧院被认为是美国最好的舞蹈团之一。

Julie Kent has been part of it longer than anyone else, 29 years, and 23 of those 29 years, she was a prima ballerina.
朱莉·肯特参与其中的时间比任何人都长，有29年，在这29年里，有23年她都是首席芭蕾舞演员。

But despite a live in the stage as a dancer, Kent came back to it, if only in a slightly different role.
但尽管肯特曾以舞者的身份活跃于舞台，她还是回到了这个领域，即便只是扮演一个略有不同的角色。

In 2016, she came back to DC where she grew up and where she first fell in love with ballet.
2016年，她回到了华盛顿特区，那里是她长大的地方，也是她最初爱上芭蕾舞的地方。

She became artistic director of the Washington Ballet in the nation's capital.
她成为了美国首都华盛顿芭蕾舞团的艺术总监。

And her husband Victor Barbie, formerly the American Ballet Theatre principal dancer, helped her in this job as the associate artistic director.
她的丈夫维克多·芭比曾是美国芭蕾舞剧院的首席舞者，作为副艺术总监协助她完成这项工作。

With Kent at the helm, Washington Ballet has thrived. The number of sold tickets grew and so did the number of sponsors.
在肯特的领导下，华盛顿芭蕾舞团蓬勃发展。售出的门票数量增加了，赞助商的数量也增加了。

But despite her success, Kent doesn't like to compare Washington Ballet to other dance companies.
但尽管取得了成功，肯特并不喜欢将华盛顿芭蕾舞团与其他舞蹈团相提并论。

My name is Eric Morris and I am an avid hunter and outdoorsman.
我叫埃里克·莫里斯，是一名狂热的猎人兼户外运动爱好者。

I like to hunt because it releases a primal urge that I've always had since I was a child to go out and pursue something.
我喜欢打猎，因为它能释放一种我从小就有的原始冲动，即走出去追逐某些东西。

Hunting reconnects you with nature and reconnects you with how life used to be back in the day. A lot of people now have got a little softer.
狩猎让你与大自然重新建立联系，也让你重新感受过去的生活方式。如今许多人已经变得有些软弱了。

They are less independent, less self-sufficient. But hunting allows you to go out and do the things that our ancestors have done for centuries.
他们不那么独立，更不能自给自足。但狩猎能让你走出家门，去做我们的祖先几个世纪以来一直在做的事情。

We just turned off into paradise. There's not many things better than roaming through the woods, looking with something to hunt.
我们刚刚拐进了一片乐土。没有什么比在树林里漫步、寻觅猎物更美妙的事情了。

But here we are. And it's just nice being out there. It's relaxing. A lot of times you can get your thoughts together while you're out there hunting.
我们到了。在户外感觉真是太好了。它让人放松。很多时候，你可以在外出狩猎时整理思绪。

We're gonna park right here. It's already shooting light. We're going to try to see what we can do. There's a process to hunting.
我们要把车停在这里。天已经开始亮了。我们要看看能做点什么。打猎是有一套流程的。

You just don't go out in the woods and find, you know, the animals and shoot them, you know.
你不会直接就在树林里找到动物，然后射杀它们。

You have to get up, make sure your gear's prepared, and with me, I look forward to it.
你必须站起身来，确保装备准备妥当，我对此充满期待。

Hunting does allow you to provide food for yourself, your family, allows you to learn how to survive in the event that you had to.
狩猎确实能让你为自己和家人提供食物，还能让你学会在必要时如何生存。

Who knows what I may have to fall back on one day? I've got some doe pee in here somewhere that I'm going to use. I may have covered it up.
谁知道有一天我可能要依靠什么呢？我这里有一些雌鹿尿，我要用一下，我可能把它们埋起来了。

Here we go. That smells nice and rank. The bucks, they love that. They take this from the doe when the doe is in heat and they bottled it.
走吧。闻起来又香又臭。雄鹿喜欢这个味道。这是从发情的雌鹿身上提取的，然后被装瓶保存。

So, this represents a doe that's ready to breed. We're gonna put this out there to hopefully entice Mr. Big Buck to come in.
这个气味就代表着一只准备繁殖的雌鹿。我们要把这个放出来，希望能引诱雄鹿上钩。

If we don't take Mr. Big Buck, we'll take Mrs. Big Doe. So, we'll see. I forgot my pistol and a spare mag, just in case.
如果无法引诱雄鹿上钩，我们就设法引诱雌鹿。让我们拭目以待。我忘了带手枪和备用弹夹，这是为了以防万一。

Whenever you go into the woods, you got to be prepared. You never know what you might run into.
无论何时走进树林，你都要做好准备。你永远不会知道你可能会遇到什么状况。

Best to have it and not need it than need it and not have it. If one is good, then two is better.
有备无患总好过临渴掘井。准备一个是好的，准备两个则更佳。

It's written in Positive Psychology and Tourism that recreational travel is essential for our happiness, well-being and quality of life. It may also increase creativity by giving people permission to break free of ordinary patterns, helping them to conceptualise new ideas, as studied by American psychologist, JP Guilford. According to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, those who travel, even more so, travel abroad, tend to be more open, aware and emotionally stable.
《积极心理学和旅游》中写道，休闲旅行对于我们的幸福、福祉和生活质量至关重要。 美国心理学家 JP 吉尔福德 (JP Guilford) 的研究表明，它还可以通过允许人们打破常规模式来帮助他们构思新想法，从而提高创造力。 根据《人格与社会心理学杂志》的研究，那些旅行过的人，尤其是出国旅行的人，往往更加开放、有意识、情绪稳定。

But for some, summer is a project. A mood board. A glowing expectation that hangs over the few months making it something to live up to. It can carry a pressure to be optimised and remembered. A Holiday Mental Health Report from 2025 found that nearly 69% of Americans feel pressure to appear happier than they actually are, with many describing events as obligations rather than genuine enjoyment. It was seen that millennials and Gen Z respondents experience a high degree of pressure. So, why is this?
但对某些人来说，夏天是一个项目。 情绪板。 几个月来，人们一直怀着强烈的期望，这使得它成为值得实现的事情。 它可能会带来被优化和记住的压力。 一份 2025 年节日心理健康报告发现，近 69% 的美国人感到压力，要表现得比实际更快乐，许多人将这些活动描述为义务，而不是真正的享受。 可以看出，千禧一代和 Z 世代受访者承受着很大的压力。 那么，这是为什么呢？

Increasingly, social media plays a role in what we expect summer to be and how we choose to experience it. A study named The Impact of Social Media on the Travel and Tourism Industry shows that social media can shape how we plan our holidays. Statistics taken from a 2023 online survey of around 3,000 travellers from different countries shows that 75% of people were inspired by social media to travel to a specific destination. 57% were likely to capture content for their social media accounts, and the top motivation for 49% of respondents was to have their holiday in a place that will look great in photos and videos.
社交媒体越来越多地影响着我们对夏天的期待以及我们选择如何体验夏天。 一项名为“社交媒体对旅行和旅游业的影响”的研究表明，社交媒体可以影响我们计划假期的方式。 2023 年对来自不同国家的约 3,000 名旅行者进行的在线调查统计显示，75% 的人受到社交媒体的启发前往特定目的地旅行。 57% 的受访者可能会为其社交媒体帐户捕获内容，49% 的受访者的首要动机是在照片和视频中看起来很棒的地方度假。

Social media can make travel feel more accessible, especially for people who rely on recommendations rather than traditional travel guides or word-of-mouth. But there is a down-side to this. It's written in How the Intention to Share Can Undermine Enjoyment: Photo-Taking Goals and Evaluation of Experiences, that people who take photos just to share them enjoy experiences less. Their holidays are imagined, curated, and shaped in advance. Sometimes moments are even enhanced or staged. This is due to the pressure to present in a certain way. And, as explained in the same article, we're more likely to feel underwhelmed or even downright disappointed if our reality feels different to how we imagined it photographed through a lens.
社交媒体可以让旅行变得更容易，尤其是对于那些依赖推荐而不是传统旅行指南或口碑的人来说。 但这有一个缺点。 《分享的意图如何破坏享受：拍照目标和体验评估》一文中写道，仅仅为了分享而拍照的人会更少享受体验。 他们的假期是提前想象、策划和塑造的。 有时甚至会增强或上演某些时刻。 这是由于以某种方式呈现的压力。 而且，正如同一篇文章中所解释的，如果我们的现实感觉与我们通过镜头拍摄的想象不同，我们更有可能感到不知所措，甚至彻底失望。

It can surely be said that, because of social media, we can more easily create itineraries and lists of all the places we want to go. Snapping pictures of pretty places isn't necessarily wrong, but doing so with only the intention to post on social media can make us feel stressed. Social media can be a detriment to travel and make you feel like you have to live up to an expectation of what the perfect summer looks like. But let's not forget the same platforms can inspire exploration and help people discover moments that they might never have found otherwise.
可以肯定地说，有了社交媒体，我们可以更轻松地创建行程并列出我们想去的所有地方。 拍摄美丽地方的照片不一定是错误的，但仅仅为了在社交媒体上发布而这样做会让我们感到压力。 社交媒体可能不利于旅行，让您觉得自己必须辜负对完美夏天的期望。 但我们不要忘记，同样的平台可以激发探索并帮助人们发现他们可能永远不会发现的时刻。