對話 Dialogue
清清：最近一直下雨，而且一下就是好幾天，應該是梅雨季到了吧？
Qīngqing: Zuìjìn yìzhí xiàyǔ, érqiě yí xià jiùshì hǎo jǐ tiān, yīnggāi shì méiyǔ jì dào le ba?
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華華：對啊，這個時候天氣特別潮濕，衣服和鞋子都很難乾。
Huáhua: Duì a, zhège shíhou tiānqì tèbié cháoshī, yīfu hé xiézi dōu hěn nán gān.
清清：我每天出門都覺得很麻煩，還要一直帶傘。
Qīngqing: Wǒ měitiān chūmén dōu juéde hěn máfan, hái yào yìzhí dài sǎn.
華華：而且雨有時候很大，也可能造成水災或山坡地坍方。
Huáhua: Érqiě yǔ yǒu shíhou hěn dà, yě kěnéng zàochéng shuǐzāi huò shānpōdì tānfāng.
清清：原來梅雨不只是麻煩，還可能變成災害。
Qīngqing: Yuánlái méiyǔ bù zhǐshì máfan, hái kěnéng biàn chéng zāihài.
華華：對，不過梅雨對臺灣來說也很重要，是主要的水資源之一。
Huáhua: Duì, búguò méiyǔ duì Táiwān lái shuō yě hěn zhòngyào, shì zhǔyào de shuǐ zīyuán zhī yī.
清清：真的嗎？我還以為一直下雨只有壞處。
Qīngqing: Zhēn de ma? Wǒ hái yǐwéi yìzhí xiàyǔ zhǐyǒu huàichù.
華華：其實很多用水和農業灌溉，都很依賴這段時間的雨。
Huáhua: Qíshí hěn duō yòngshuǐ hé nóngyè guàngài, dōu hěn yīlài zhè duàn shíjiān de yǔ.
清清：這樣說起來，梅雨真的讓人又愛又恨。
Qīngqing: Zhèyàng shuō qǐlái, méiyǔ zhēn de ràng rén yòu ài yòu hèn.
翻譯 Translation
Qingqing: It’s been raining nonstop lately. It must be plum rain season, right?
Huahua: Yeah, the weather is especially humid this time of year, and it’s not easy to get clothes and shoes dry.
Qingqing: It’s really inconvenient to leave the house every day. I always have to bring an umbrella.
Huahua: And sometimes the rain is very heavy, which can even cause floods or landslides.
Qingqing: So the plum rain is not only troublesome—it can also turn into a disaster.
Huahua: Right, but it’s also a very important water resource for Taiwan.
Qingqing: Really? I hadn’t considered there was a bright side to constant rain.
Huahua: Actually, daily water use and farming both depend on this period of rain.
Qingqing: When you put it that way, people really have a love-hate relationship with the plum rains.
生詞 Vocabulary
1. 潮濕 (cháoshī) humid
2. 曬乾 (shài gān) dry (in the sun)
3. 麻煩 (máfan) troublesome; inconvenient
4. 造成 (zàochéng) to cause; to lead to
5. 水災 (shuǐzāi) flood
6. 坍方 (tānfāng) landslide
7. 災害 (zāihài) disaster
8. 資源 (zīyuán) resource
9. 依賴 (yīlài) to depend on
10. 農業 (nóngyè) agriculture
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