<-NARRATOR:->Listen to a conversation between a student and his ecology professor.

旁白：请听一段学生和他的生态学教授之间的对话。

<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->How's it going, Tom?

教授：最近怎么样啊？Tom。

<-MALE STUDENT:->Great. I was- oh! I wanted to tell you... y'know the guest speaker you brought into class last week, from the wildlife conservation center?

学生：挺好的！我，哦...我要告诉您一件事..关于您上周请来课堂的客座老师，从野生动物保护中心请来的那位。

<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->Susan Brown, yes. She's an old friend from graduate school.

教授：Susan Brown。是的。她是我研究生的老朋友。

<-MALE STUDENT:->Her talk, on wildlife-population modeling... well, it was very theoretical...

学生：她讲的野生动物数量模型，嗯，理论性很强。

<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->[affırming] Mmm. It was certainly a change of pace from what we usually do.

教授：她所讲的和我们通常熟悉的确不同。

<-MALE STUDENT:->Yeah, but I think I pretty much followed along. Plus, I like to see people get so passionate about ecology...

学生：是的，但是我觉得我的确跟上了她的思路。另外，我喜欢看到人们对生态学如此热情...

<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->[remembering] Oh right... ecology's your major field of study, isn't it... yes, Susan Brown's certainly a lively speaker. What a shame she didn't go into teaching.

教授：哦对了。生态学是你的专业领域，是吗？是的，Susan Brown毫无疑问是一位有感染力的演讲家。她不来教学真的太可惜了。

<-MALE STUDENT:->Um, anyway, what I...Well, a while ago, I saw this blurb in the school paper about a- an exchange program, that's part of the study-abroad office... uh, and today there was a booth set up in the student center with a coupla students answering questions about the university's programs in foreign countries.Seeing the booth reminded me about the article in the paper and...

学生：啊，不论如何，一段时间以前，我在学校报纸上看到关于一个交换项目的宣传，这个项目是部分归出国留学办公室管的，现在在学生中心建立了一个咨询站，有几个学生在那里解答关于学校出国留学项目的问题。看到这个咨询站我就想起了报纸上的那片文章……

<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->Thinking about going abroad in the coming year?

教授：你在考虑明年出国？

<-MALE STUDENT:->[No.] Actually, I just spent last summer studying in Tokyo... I think that satisfied my urge to travel...

学生：实际上我上个暑假刚在东京留过学...我觉得那满足了我旅游的欲望...

<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->It must've been quite an experience.

教授：那应该是一段难忘的经历。

<-MALE STUDENT:->Definitely. Taking all those language courses was really challenging.But what I wanted to find out at the booth was... it's, um, a domestic exchange program.Not studying abroad, but studying for a year somewhere else here in the United States.

学生：确实是的。学习语言课程就很有挑战性。但是我想询问这个咨询站的事情是：这个是……嗯……一个国内交换项目。不是在国外学习，而是在美国某个地方学习一年。

<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->[baffled, intrigued] I don't think I've heard of that.

教授：我好像没听说过这个。

<-MALE STUDENT:->[lightly] Well, neither had the guys in the booth.They didn't know what I was talking about.But when I talked to the supervisor in the study-abroad office, it turns out we're part of a- a group of universities throughout the U.S. that does a domestic-exchange program.

学生：啊，那些咨询站里的人也没有听说过。他们不知道我在讲什么。但是当我去问出国留学办公室的主管时，我发现我们是美国有国内交换项目的学校之一？

<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->Huh! So, you spend, what, a year at another university, and your classes count toward your degree here...?

教授：哈！所以你在另一所大学交流一年，你的课程可以算作你主修学位的学分？

<-MALE STUDENT:->Yeah, and I'd pay the same fees... tuition, room, and board... that I pay here. So it doesn't really cost any extra.

学生：是的，我花的钱和这里也一样，学费啦，住宿费啦还有出行费....就像在这里。所以也不会产生什么额外的开支。

<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->Interesting.<-MALE STUDENT:->And, you know, I've lived here in southern Florida my whole life.And I've always been interested in Montana... the university in Montana, where I want to go, has classes that deal specifically with the ecology there, like... [serious] I'm interested in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.It's such an important ecosystem, being the source of three major rivers, and I want to learn more about it.

教授：有趣。学生：你知道，我一直待在弗罗里达南部。我一直对蒙大纳感兴趣...我想要去蒙大纳的大学，那里有针对他们那里的生态环境具体开设的课程，就像我感兴趣的黄石生态系统。它是是重要的生态系统，三条主要河流的发源地，所以我想去多一些关于它的知识。

<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->Wow, this is a unique idea. The climate, the plants, and wildlife... it's really different from here. Probably the culture too, in a way.And don't forget about all the outdoor activities you could do there... hiking, skiing, and the national parks...

教授：哇！这是一个独特的想法。那边的气候、植被和野生动物和我们这里很不一样，也许文化也不一样。而且在那边你还可以做很多户外活动，比如远足啦，滑雪啦，那边还有国家公园。

<-MALE STUDENT:->[not interested in that] That's true. Uh, anyway, I'll have to get my application together in the next month or so. And I'll need two letters of recommendation... one from a professor in my major department...

学生：是的。无论如何我需要下个月之前收集好所有申请的材料，我需要两封推荐信，一封是需要我主修部门的教授写的。

<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->Consider it done.

教授：肯定会给你写的。

<-MALE STUDENT:->Thanks.

学生：谢谢老师。