PARKER:After clearing customs and immigration at the Airport, we arrive at the Great Wall Hotel.Our hosts graciously depart and we are ushered into a beautiful lobby and taken to the reception desk.It is a gleaming new hotel, not at all what I expected, Somehow I had imagined an ancient temple,However I am delighted by the charming, friendly reception and immediately feel at home.
(在机场完成清关和入境手续后，我们来到长城酒店，我们的中方主人彬彬有礼地和我们告别，我们被引导进入富丽堂皇的酒店大厅，并来到接待台前。这是华丽壮观的新酒店，根本和我想的不一样，有时候我曾经想象是一个古庙，不管如何，接待员的友善和优雅让我感到愉快并马上像到家一样)
RECEPTIONIST:Good evening! Do you have a reservation?
（晚上好，您有预定吗？）
PARKER: Yes. we do. The name is Parker, David Parker. And this is Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin. We're from Canada. I believe China National Garment Import and export Corporation has reserved us two rooms.
（是的，我们预定了，我是PARKER, DAVID PARKER. 这位是GOODWIN夫妇，我们来自加拿大，我想中国服装进出口公司为我们预定了两个房间）
RECEPTION: Will each of you please fill out one of these registration forms while I check? I will also need your passports. if you don't mind.
（请你们每位填写一下登记表，我来查看一下您的预定，如果您不介意请出示您的护照）
PARKER:No problem. You have a beautiful hotel.
（没问题，这酒店真漂亮）
RECEPTIONIST: Thanks you, sir, Oh. I see you have a Chinese name. Mr. Goodwin.
（谢谢，哦，GOODWIN先生你有个中文名字）
GOODWIN: I've been to China many times. I feel I'am almost part Chinese.
（我来中国很多次，我觉得我几乎是中国人）
RECEPTIONIST:How kind.
（真好）
GOODWIN:As a student, I visited Qinghai and Xinjiang,and I also took a language course at Beijing University. My Chinese is very rusty.ofcourse, because I don't get much chance practise it in Canada.
（学生时，我去青海和新疆旅游，我在北大学习过语言课，我的汉语非常差，因为在加拿大没有练习的机会）
RECEPTIONIST:Ah, all right. Here are your keys and your key cards.
（哦，好的，这是你们的钥匙和钥匙卡）
PARKER: What is the key card for?
（钥匙卡是做啥的？）
RECEPTIONIST:Please show this card whenever you come to collect your key or whenever you wish charge a service to your account.
（当你到前台取钥匙或者充值服务费时用）
GOODWIN:It's rather like a hotel passport.
（就像酒店的通行证）
RECEPTIONIST:Yes. You will find all the information about the hotel on the information card in your room. The bellboy will show it to you. if you have any questions, just dial "6" on your phone, That is our manager, He is at your service 24 hours a day.
（是的，您房间的信息卡上有关于酒店的所有信息。门童会带您到您的房间，如果有任何问题请用电话拨“6”，那是我们经理，是24小时服务的）
BELLBOY: May I take your baggage, sir?
（我可以拿您的行李？）
PARKER:The bellboy escorts us across the lobby to the elevators, Following us is another bellboy pushing a small cart with our baggage on it. The elevator is made of glass. The shaft of the elevator is transparent and so, as we ascend to the sixteenth floor, we can look down into a nightclub dominated by a beautiful Chinese pagoda.Someone is playing the piano because it is the cocktail hour. And beyond the nightclub we can see the neighbourhood. I find it rather disappointing. I expected, of course, to find myself surrounded by an ancient city with towers and temples, but it all looks quite modern.
（门童引导我们穿过大厅去电梯口，另一个门童推着行李车跟随我们。电梯是玻璃制作的，电梯框是透明的，这样，当我们升向16楼时，我们能看到下面耸立着美丽中国塔旁边有个夜总会，有人在弹钢琴，现在是鸡尾酒时间。夜总会外就是我们的邻居了，很令我失望，我希望，当然，希望周围是有很多古塔和庙宇的古城环绕我们，但是这儿看上去太现代了）
BELLBOY:This is your room. Mr, and Mrs. Goodwin.
（这是您的房间，GOODWIN先生 夫妇）
GOODWIN: Thank you very much. David, Just as soon as you get settled into your own room, please give us a ring and we'll go downstair and drink one of those Beijing bears you've been talking about ever since we left Vancourver.
（非常感谢，大卫，你整理好你的房间后马上给我打电话，我们下楼去喝杯北京啤酒我们离开温哥华时你说过的）
PARKER: Right!
（好的）
DIALOGUE:SARAH'S HOLIDAY TRIP.
（SARAH 的假日旅行）
FATHER: Hello Sarah! Had a good day?
（嗨 SARAH, 今天如何？）
SARAH:Not bad-bit busy getting everything ready for Mr. Goodwin.
（还不坏，有点忙着给GOODWIN先生准备每件事）
FATHER:What's he up to now?
（他现在又去哪了？）
SARAH: Didn't I tell you? He's off to China looking for contracts, I've been booking his flight, getting his visa for China.
（我没告诉你吗？ 他去中国寻求合同了， 我给他定的机票，办理的去中国的签证）
FATHER:Doesn't it make you jealous sometimes? You always seem to be booking tickets or getting visas for some exotic places; but you never go anywhere yourself.
（有时你没有一点嫉妒吗？你总是订机票办签证到一些外国风情的地方，但是你却从没去过）
SARAH: Yes. I'm realy fed up with it. I was hoping Mr.Goodwin would takeme to China. They did talk about it at one time. I never seem to go anywhere except to and from work.
（是的，我真的烦死了，我曾希望GOODWIN先生能带我去中国。他们确实讨论过一次，我除了来去工作外哪儿也没去过）
FATHER:oh, by the way. there's a letter for you.
（哦，瞧，这儿是你的信件）
SARAH: Funny.I wasn't expectiong anything. I's a New York post mark. I don't know anyone there. I wonder what's in it.
（有意思，我期望任何事呀，是纽约的邮戳，我不认识哪儿的任何人。里面能是什么呢？）
FATHER:Why don't you open it and see?
（你打开看看不就行了？）
SARAH:I've won a prize in a travel competition! I'd forgotten I'd entered. Do you remember? The prize was a trip for two to a secret exotic holiday resort. Now it's my turn to go somewhere exciting.
（我赢得了旅游竞赛的奖励。我不记得我参加过，你记得吗？ 奖励是两人到神秘的异域风情的假日旅游，现在终于轮到我去令人兴奋的地方了）
FATHER: Great! Where is is?
（太好了，哪儿？）
SARAH; Just a minute. Let's see. Oh no!
（等下，我看看，哦 不要这样！）
FATHER: What's the matter? Where is it?
（怎么了？哪儿？）
SARAH: Would you believe Vancouver!
（你能想象是温哥华吗！）