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Welcome to the Rachel's English Podcast. I'm Rachel and this podcast is made especially for non-native speakers, where we try to reveal the idioms, phrasal verbs, and interesting vocabulary words that Americans use in everyday conversational English. If you'd like a free copy of the transcript for this podcast, visit rachelsenglish.com slash podcast and search for this episode. This week, it is the final podcast of 2017, the final week.

歡迎收聽 Rachel's English 播客。我是 Rachel，這個播客是專門為非母語人士製作的，在這裡，我們試圖揭示美國人在日常英語會話中使用的習語、短語動詞和有趣的詞彙。如果您想免費獲得本期播客的文字稿，請訪問 rachelsenglish.com slash podcast 並搜索本期節目。本週，是 2017 年的最後一期播客，也是最後一週。

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And we're talking about New Year's resolutions, goals that you make for yourself to achieve in the upcoming year. So I'm sitting down with my husband, David, and we're talking about any New Year's resolutions that we are making this year. Let's get started.

我們正在談論新年願望，也就是你為自己制定的來年要實現的目標。所以，我和我的丈夫大衛坐在一起，我們正在討論今年我們要做的新年計劃。讓我們開始吧。

New Year's resolutions. David, do you make them?

Yeah, I don't keep them, but I make them.

是的，我不留著它們，但我做了它們。

I feel like you also don't tell them because I didn't know that you've made New Year's resolutions.

我覺得你也沒有告訴他們，因為我不知道你已經下了新年決心。

Well, then maybe I haven't in the last three or four years.

好吧，那也許我在過去的三四年裡沒有這樣做過。

Okay. But previously, you would say you have made them.

好吧，但之前你會說是你做的。

I feel like I often have in my adult life.

我覺得自己在成年後的生活中經常如此。

No, I don't think so. I think it was more maybe mid-20s to mid-30s. How old was I when we met?

不，我不這麼認為。我想應該是 20 多歲到 30 多歲吧。我們認識的時候我多大？

30-something. Upper 30s. So, okay. So you've been making New Year's resolutions. What are you resolving to do?

30 多歲30多歲那麼，好吧所以你一直在做新年的決議。你想做什麼？

I feel like there have been some common themes for me. Things like exercise on a regular basis or do daily meditation practice.

我覺得我有一些共同的主題。比如定期鍛鍊或每天進行冥想練習。

So there are things that you already did, but your goal was for more consistency.

是以，有些事情你已經做了，但你的目標是要更加一致。

How did you do with meeting those resolutions?

Not well. That's not strong enough. Horribly.

I think it's interesting. We make resolutions to try to do things better. I wonder, do we ever look at why we don't do things well? Why aren't you consistent in working out?

我覺得這很有趣。我們下決心要把事情做得更好。我在想，我們有沒有審視過自己為什麼做不好事情？你為什麼不堅持鍛鍊？

Well, because it gets really cold out and you don't like to run when it's cold. I wonder if you came up with looking at the why you haven't been able to do it yet and then came up with strategies to count to attack that doubt or that, I can't do it today because it's too cold. If you had a list of strategies planned as part of your resolution, if it would help people keep them more.

因為外面很冷，而你不喜歡在冷的時候跑步。我想知道，你是否想出了一個辦法，看看為什麼你還沒有能夠做到這一點，然後想出一些策略來消除這種疑慮，或者說，我今天做不到，因為太冷了。如果你在決議中計劃了一系列策略，是否能幫助人們更好地堅持下去。

Okay, let's come up with a strategy right now. Exercise more in 2018. Would you say that would be a new year's resolution for you this year?

好吧，我們現在就來制定一個策略。2018 年多運動。你覺得這是你今年的新年願望嗎？

Okay. Why do you think you don't exercise consistently now?

好吧。你覺得你現在為什麼不堅持鍛鍊？

Like I'm in a pattern of not doing it, so it's hard to start a new pattern.

就像我已經形成了不做的模式，所以很難開始新的模式。

A body at rest tends to stay at rest. I've been doing a whole lot of resting. Why else?

處於休息狀態的身體往往會一直處於休息狀態。我一直都在休息。還能為什麼？

Well, yeah, it gets cold, but there have been winters where I've run almost every day right through the winter, so that's not a good excuse.

嗯，是的，天氣很冷，但有幾個冬天我幾乎每天都跑步，一直跑到冬天，所以這不是個好藉口。

Well, let's look at the inertia and the laziness. I mean, how this is really the question that everyone has. If anyone could solve this, they'd make billions of dollars. Everyone tries to solve it and they all make some money, right? But then everyone drops out.

好吧，讓我們來看看惰性和懶惰。我是說，這其實是每個人都有的問題。如果有人能解決這個問題，他們就能賺幾十億美元。每個人都試圖解決這個問題，他們都賺了一些錢，對嗎？但後來每個人都放棄了

我想知道是否有這樣的應用程序。

There probably is. I actually saw audible.com. For those of you who don't know, audible.com sponsors a ton of websites, a ton of podcasts. They have not sponsored this podcast, but it's an audio book database. You can download all sorts of different books read by famous people and voiceover artists. One time, I must have been searching something about them because they started targeting ads at me. And one of the books that they were recommending was how to stay motivated for exercise. And I thought, oh, wow, they know me. They know what I need. So there is stuff out there on how to stay motivated.

可能有。實際上，我看到了 audible.com。對於那些不知道的人來說，audible.com 贊助了大量的網站和播客。他們沒有贊助這個播客，但這是一個有聲讀物數據庫。你可以下載由名人和配音藝術家朗讀的各種不同的書籍。有一次，我一定是在搜索有關他們的內容，因為他們開始向我投放廣告。他們推薦的其中一本書是如何保持鍛鍊的動力。我心想，哦，哇，他們瞭解我。他們知道我需要什麼。於是就有了關於如何保持運動動力的書。

It just made me curious in the moment. I hadn't thought about this before, but if there was an app and maybe it exists called New Year's Resolutions that had a social component and gave you a reminder every other day that said, go running, you've missed one, better do two in a row, stuff like that, and that was also social, that'd be kind of cool.

這讓我頓時感到好奇。我之前沒有想過這個問題，但如果有一個應用程序，也許它的名字就叫 "新年決心"，它有一個社交組件，每隔一天就會給你一個提醒，說 "去跑步吧，你已經錯過了一次，最好連續跑兩次"，諸如此類，而且還是社交的，那就很酷了。

That would be. Could help people keep their resolutions. Any other resolutions you've had as an adult? Anything not related to exercise?

那就是可以幫助人們遵守他們的決議。你成年後還有什麼其他的決心？與鍛鍊無關的？

No, I'm not thinking of anything. I probably need to be more specific or not more specific, branch out into some other areas. I don't know exactly what that would be, but you know,

不，我什麼都沒想。我可能需要說得更具體一些，或者說得不具體一些，涉足一些其他領域。我不知道具體是什麼，但你知道的、

I do think actually you're on to something by saying be more specific. What does it mean to be on to something? It's when someone thinks, okay, you've started a good idea. We should take that further. Like if you're brainstorming how to solve a problem, oh, I think you're on to something. Let's explore that. I think you're on to something with talking about being specific because if your goal is to exercise more, that's very generic. It could be three times a week for a half hour. You could set something more specific that might help you keep the goal. You know, you were talking about the kind of goal to set, and you were talking about a SMART goal. SMART here being an acronym. An acronym is when you take the first letter of several words and put them together. That is an acronym.

我認為你說得更具體，其實是有道理的。"有想法 "是什麼意思？就是當有人認為，好吧，你提出了一個好主意。我們應該更進一步。比如，你在集思廣益地想如何解決一個問題，哦，我覺得你有想法了。我們來探討一下。我覺得你說得很有道理，因為如果你的目標是多鍛鍊，那就太籠統了。可以是每週三次，每次半小時。你可以設定一些更具體的目標，這樣可能會幫助你實現目標。你知道，你剛才說到要設定什麼樣的目標，你還說到了 SMART 目標。SMART 是一個縮寫。首字母縮寫就是把幾個單詞的第一個字母拼在一起。這就是首字母縮寫。

And here the acronym happens to spell an actual word, and that is SMART. What is a SMART acronym and how did you, or sorry, a SMART goal, and how did you learn about these kinds of goals?

在這裡，縮寫恰好拼成了一個真正的單詞，那就是 SMART。什麼是 SMART 首字母縮寫，你是怎麼做到的，或者說，對不起，SMART 目標，你是怎麼了解到這類目標的？

Right. We were talking about this before the show. So one of my friends, Bradley, brought this up when a group of us, a couple of years ago, we were talking about New Year's resolutions and we decided to go around the circle and see if anybody wanted to share what their

好吧我們在節目開始前討論過這個問題。我的一個朋友布拉德利提出來的，幾年前，我們一群人在一起討論新年願望，我們決定圍成一圈，看看有沒有人願意分享他們的新年願望。

New Year's resolution was. And before we started, he suggested that we all try to do it in SMART format. And SMART stands for specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and what's the T?

新年願望。在開始之前，他建議我們都試著用 SMART 的格式來做。SMART代表具體、可衡量、可實現、現實，T是什麼？

Timely. Timely. So instead of us all going around and saying, I want to run more, you know, I was forced that year, at least at the beginning of the year, to say, you know, a little something about each of those areas.

及時。很及時是以，那一年，至少在年初的時候，我不得不說，你知道，每個領域都要講一點東西，而不是我們都到處說，我想跑得更多。

How you could measure it. Well, you would know by whether or not you ran, whether or not it was achievable and realistic. Right.

如何衡量？好吧，你可以通過你是否跑步來知道，它是否可以實現，是否現實。對

Getting specific with your goal. So I remember that being really helpful both for myself as I was thinking about my goal and to hear other people putting their New

目標要具體。是以，我記得這對我自己非常有幫助，因為我在思考我的目標，也聽到其他人把他們的新目標寫在紙上。

Year's resolutions into that format was just helpful to, yeah, to use that as a sort of a tool to get more specific. It does force you to be more thoughtful and detailed about your New Year's resolution, I think, when you have to say something that is specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely.

我認為，將新年願望轉化為這種形式，有助於使其更加具體。我認為，當你必須說出一些具體的、可衡量的、可實現的、現實的和及時的東西時，它確實會迫使你對自己的新年願望更加深思熟慮，更加細緻入微。

Speaking of timely, that brings me to what I've decided to do this year, which is a little bit different. I find that having a goal for a year is not great for me. It's just, it's too much time. So I decided to flip the idea of a New Year's resolution on its head rather than making a goal to do in 2018. I decided towards the end of 2017, I was going to make a goal to do before the year was out because that provided more of a time crunch, more motivation to make it happen. You said flip on its head.

說到 "及時"，我就想到了我今年決定要做的事，這有點與眾不同。我發現，為一年設定一個目標對我來說並不好。時間太長了。所以我決定顛覆新年決心的想法，而不是制定一個 2018 年的目標。我決定在 2017 年年底前，制定一個在今年年底前完成的目標，因為這樣更有時間緊迫感，也更有動力去實現它。你說的是 "翻轉"。

Yeah, that means do it the opposite way it's been done. Change it around completely. So

是的，這意味著要反其道而行之。徹底改變它。所以

I flipped the idea of a New Year's resolution on its head by deciding I had to do it before

我顛覆了 "新年決心 "的概念，決定必須在新年之前完成它。

New Year rather than in the New Year. Got it.

新年，而不是在新年。知道了。

Okay, so my goal was to, before the year is out, sign up for and take my first piano lesson.

好吧，我的目標是在今年年底之前，報名並上第一堂鋼琴課。

And it looks like I'm going to be able to do that. I have the piano getting tuned next week and then the week after that, just in the nick of time. It's going to be on the 20th of December. I'm going to have my first lesson.

看來我可以做到了。我的鋼琴下週就要調音了，再過一週，時間剛剛好。就在 12 月 20 日。我要上第一節課了

You got 10 days to spare. Just in the nick of time.

Yep. What does this phrase mean? This means down to the wire. Oop, another idiom. These things mean just before time runs out. Is that another? Yeah, it is. Runs, runs out.

是的。這句話是什麼意思？意思是到了最後關頭。哎呀，又一個成語。這些東西的意思是就在時間耗盡之前。這是另一個嗎？是的運行，耗盡。

It becomes so hard sometimes to describe idioms without using other idioms. If it's just in the nick of time, that means you have done something just before the allotted time has ended. Just before the deadline.

有時候，不使用其他成語來描述成語變得非常困難。如果是在緊要關頭，表示你在規定的時間結束之前做了某件事情。就在最後期限之前。

Just before the deadline. So the phrases we used were just in the nick of time. You could also say it's getting down to the wire. When it's getting down to the wire, that means you are really running out of time on getting something done. What was the other one we used? Oh, time's running out. Almost no time left.

就在截止日期之前。所以我們用的短語是 "恰逢其時"。你也可以說已經到了最後關頭。快到最後關頭的意思是，你完成一件事的時間真的不多了。我們用過的另一個詞是什麼？哦，時間不多了。幾乎沒有時間了。

Those are fun idioms. So anyway, yeah, I think I'm going to achieve it. And I'm looking forward to having that first lesson. I decided to have the person come to the house just because

這些成語很有意思。總之，是的，我想我會做到的。我很期待上第一節課。我決定讓那個人到家裡來，只是因為

I'm a little bit lazy. No, it's not that, right?

我有點懶。不，不是那樣的，對嗎？

No, no, no, no, no. It just had to do with spending time. I would rather spend the time that I would be commuting to the lesson on practicing. You know, time is finite. It is not unlimited. So I feel like with Stoney, with running Rachel's English, I tend now to make many more choices based on what will save time, whereas I used to make choices based on what will save money. Time has become more precious to me than anything now. So they're going to come into my house. I don't know who it is yet. It's going to be a half hour lesson. And I'm hoping that in the evenings before dinner, when David's the cook in our family, when David's in the kitchen and Stoney and I are playing downstairs, that I can be at the piano practicing and that he can hopefully start to get the idea that music and making music is an enjoyable way to spend time, is a fun way to be together. And I just hope that that starts to become more of a central part of our household. And really, I'm prepping him for a desire to study the piano as well, because I would really like to give him lessons in a couple of years.

不，不，不，不，不。這只是時間問題。我寧願把上課的時間花在練習上。要知道，時間是有限的。時間不是無限的。所以我覺得，在經營斯通尼和瑞秋英語的過程中，我現在更傾向於根據什麼能節省時間來做出更多的選擇，而我以前則是根據什麼能省錢來做出選擇。現在，時間對我來說比什麼都寶貴。所以他們要到我家來。我還不知道是誰。這將是半小時的課程。我希望晚上吃晚飯前，戴維是我們家的廚師，戴維在廚房，我和斯通尼在樓下彈琴，我可以在鋼琴前練琴，希望他能開始明白，音樂和製作音樂是一種愉快的消磨時間的方式，是一種有趣的相處方式。我希望這能

David, did you have any kind of music lesson growing up?

大衛，你在成長過程中上過音樂課嗎？

No, I didn't. So I really think it's great that he's going to have piano lessons at the very least.

不，我沒有。所以我真的覺得他至少能上鋼琴課是件好事。

I'm also kind of drawn to the violin. I don't know. I think there are definitely people out there who have studied both, but I might have to choose there between the two. If you had to choose between piano and violin for Stoney right now, which would you choose?

我還有點喜歡小提琴。我不知道。我覺得肯定有人同時學習這兩種樂器，但我可能要在兩者之間做出選擇。如果現在讓你在鋼琴和小提琴之間為斯通尼做選擇，你會選哪個？

Oh, well, this is a non-musical person saying this, but I feel like I would say piano because

雖然我是個不懂音樂的人，但我還是想說鋼琴，因為

I feel like I've heard people say that that is a really generalizable instrument to learn.

我覺得我聽別人說過，這是一種非常通用的樂器。

I don't think so. General? What do you mean by that? Like versatile?

我不這麼認為。將軍？什麼意思？比如多才多藝？

Well, learning that specific instrument gives you a broad general knowledge of music and sight reading and gives you a sense for how other instruments work. It gives you a general sense of musical knowledge. I don't know if that's true or not.

那麼，學習特定的樂器可以讓你獲得廣泛的音樂常識和視譜，讓你瞭解其他樂器是如何工作的。它能讓你對音樂知識有一個總體的認識。我不知道這是不是真的。

The thing I like about piano is I do think it's very versatile. It can be used for solo performance and then it's used a lot in ensemble and it's used a lot in accompanying. So accompanying a singer or a whole chorus or a violinist or that kind of thing, it appeals to me a lot.

我喜歡鋼琴的一點是，我認為它的用途非常廣泛。它可以用於獨奏，也經常用於合奏和伴奏。是以，為歌手或整個合唱團或小提琴家伴奏或類似的事情，對我來說非常有吸引力。

So if you listen to last week's podcast, where we were talking about a memorable gift that we've received, you know that I had clips from two friends that have been on past podcasts, actually, asking them. And so I asked them not only their most memorable gift, but I also asked them about

所以，如果你聽了上週的播客，我們正在談論我們收到的一份難忘的禮物，你就會知道，我有兩個朋友的片段，實際上，他們已經在過去的播客中問過我了。所以我不僅問了他們最難忘的禮物，還問了他們

New Year's resolutions. So let's first listen to Elliot, my friend Elliot, and let's see what

新年決心。那麼，讓我們先聽聽埃利奧特，我的朋友埃利奧特，讓我們來看看

Elliot has to say about his New Year's resolutions. I think there was a period in my life where I thought I probably should. I've never been one to make a lot of ones that I actually, as I was making them, I seriously planned on following through with. But I will say last year I made a resolution to run a half marathon, which is something I'd never done before.

艾略特對他的新年願望的看法。我想，在我的生命中有一段時期，我覺得我也許應該這樣做。我從來都不是一個會下很多決心的人，實際上，在我下決心的時候，我就認真地計劃著要堅持到底。但我想說的是，去年我下定決心要跑一次半程馬拉松，這是我以前從未做過的事情。

I'm actually not much of a runner. I don't enjoy it as much as I do other kinds of exercises, but I signed up for it and followed through with it and completed it. And so I was really proud of that as sort of one of the successful examples of a resolution I've made.

我其實不太喜歡跑步。我不像做其他運動那樣喜歡跑步，但我報名參加了，並堅持完成了。所以我真的很自豪，因為這是我下決心的成功範例之一。

I would say most of them have sort of been something I intended to do, and then they kind of went by the wayside pretty quickly. Okay, so David, he just said went by the wayside.

我想說的是，其中大部分都是我打算做的事情，但很快就被擱置了。好吧，戴維，他剛才說 "被遺忘"。

Yeah, I thought about that too. When something goes to the wayside or goes by the wayside,

是啊，我也想過這個問題。當一件事被遺忘或被遺忘時、

I guess we use by with that. That went by the wayside. That means you meant to do it, you wanted to do it, you intended to do it, but for whatever reason, it became less important and you didn't do it. Right, you've moved on.

我想我們用的就是這個。那就是 "順其自然"。這意味著你打算去做，你想去做，你打算去做，但不管出於什麼原因，它變得不那麼重要了，你就沒有去做。沒錯，你已經向前看了。

You moved on. Yeah, you know, I meant to mow the lawn, but the day got really busy, so that went to the wayside. He also was talking about, I was thinking about the idea of a smart goal, and he made it very measurable. It was very specific. It was to do one half marathon that year.

你繼續前進。是的，你知道，我本來想修剪草坪的，但今天實在太忙了，所以就放棄了。他還說到，我在想一個聰明目標的概念，他讓目標非常可衡量。非常具體。那一年他只參加了一次半程馬拉松。

Right. So that does make the goal. That's a much better goal than run more. Right.

是的。所以這確實是目標。這個目標比多跑要好得多。對

Choose a specific race and aim to do it. Let's keep listening to that conversation.

選擇一場特定的比賽，並以它為目標。讓我們繼續聆聽這段對話。

Now, will you do a second half marathon? I am happy to report that I'm signed up for one in November of this year, and I'm doing it actually with my company, with Magoosh. A bunch of people are doing it. So there's some good pressure at work from people to keep me motivated.

現在，你還會參加第二次半程馬拉松嗎？我很高興地告訴大家，我已經報名參加了今年 11 月的半程馬拉松，而且是和我的公司 Magoosh 一起參加的。很多人都參加了。所以在工作中，大家給了我很大的壓力，讓我充滿動力。

And so, yes, I'm planning to do another one this year. And so we'll see. It's great. I guess it's harder to find ways to do things like team sports and play basketball and other things. So maybe with enough time, I'll develop a love for running that I didn't have before. We'll see.

所以，是的，我計劃今年再做一次。我們拭目以待。太棒了我想，要想方設法去做團隊運動、打籃球和其他事情就更難了。所以，也許有足夠的時間，我會對跑步產生以前沒有的熱愛。我們拭目以待。

Is the half marathon in November in the San Francisco area?

11 月的半程馬拉松賽是在舊金山地區舉行嗎？

It's in Berkeley. Actually, it's the Berkeley half marathon at the end of November.

是在伯克利。實際上，是 11 月底的伯克利半程馬拉松。

And so I've started. I took some time off. Actually, I got a little injury from running in the spring. So I took a little time away. And for the last few weeks, I've started my training program again. So I'm excited to do that. The one I did before, the first one I did was in

於是我開始了。我休息了一段時間。事實上，我在春天跑步時受了點傷。所以我離開了一段時間最近幾周，我又開始了我的訓練計劃。所以我很高興能這樣做。我之前做的第一個訓練計劃是在

San Francisco. And part of the motivational aspect of that was we got to run along the coast line. It was a beautiful day with the Pacific Ocean off to our side. And so that was a nice setting to do this in Berkeley. It will also be special, but maybe not quite as dramatic, but it'll still be rewarding to finish. Yeah. The location makes a huge difference.

舊金山激勵我們的部分原因是，我們可以沿著海岸線跑步。那天天氣很好，太平洋就在我們身邊。是以，在伯克利舉辦這次比賽的環境非常不錯。這也會很特別，但也許沒有那麼戲劇化，但完成比賽還是會很有成就感的。是啊地點有很大的不同。

Yeah. I want to do that. I have it in mind that sometime I'm going to do the Disney World marathon. Yeah, that would be great. I never will because I'm not going to run that far, but if I could be anywhere like to run a marathon, Disney World would be it.

是的，我想參加我已經想好了 某天我要去迪斯尼世界跑馬拉松是啊，那太好了我不會去的，因為我不會跑那麼遠 但如果我能去任何地方跑馬拉松 迪斯尼世界一定是個好地方

You never know. That's exactly the way I sounded a little over a year ago that I would never do this kind of thing. I don't know. When I finished the race, I told myself I'm never doing this again. And here I am signed up for another one. I've heard from other runners that kind of happens too. So we'll see. Maybe this will become a habit. Now, would you ever do a marathon?

你永遠不知道。一年多前我也是這麼說的，我絕不會做這種事。我不知道當我完成比賽後，我告訴自己，我再也不會這樣做了。現在我又報名參加了另一場比賽。我聽其他選手說也有這種情況。所以我們拭目以待。也許這會成為一種習慣。現在，你還會參加馬拉松比賽嗎？

No, that I have decided I will not do. What I've learned about training for a half marathon is that and a full marathon is that at least for me, a full marathon would be completely different.

不，我決定我不會這麼做。關於半程馬拉松和全程馬拉松的訓練，我的體會是，至少對我來說，全程馬拉松會完全不同。

It takes a different kind of training. And I, you know, I'm, I'm your listeners won't know this, but I'm a tall guy. I'm not, I wouldn't say that my body type is one that's really set up for long distance running. I think probably you end up developing knee problems or something like that.

這需要不同的訓練。我，你知道，我，我是你的聽眾不會知道這一點，但我是一個高大的傢伙。我的體型並不適合長跑。我想你可能最終會出現膝蓋問題或類似的問題。

So I think keeping it to a half marathon is ambitious enough for me at this point.

是以，我認為目前將目標控制在半程馬拉松對我來說已經足夠雄心勃勃了。

That sounds smart. Wow. Marathons, half marathons. David, what's the longest run you've ever done? The longest race? I did a 10 mile run, the Broad Street run in Philadelphia, which is, starts from the north, um, north end of the city and run straight down Broad Street. That's a really fun race. Okay. So I actually would have thought that might be kind of boring because it's just on one street the whole time. There's not much elevation change. There's not a lot of nature. Is that right? No, no. It's pointedly not nature-y, but it's great because you run down a street that's the city's most iconic street and is usually obviously packed with traffic and people line the street and you end up down by all the sports stadiums and it's just, it's a great, it's a great race. So not boring at all. Urban, urban energy. Urban energy. Tons of people just, you know, walking out their front door and cheering and yelling. It's great. Is this something that you will do again?

聽起來真聰明。哇哦馬拉松 半程馬拉松大衛，你跑過最長的距離是多少？最長的比賽？我跑過10英里，費城的布羅德街長跑，從城市的北邊，嗯，北端開始，沿著布羅德街直跑。那是一場非常有趣的比賽好吧，我還以為那會很無聊，因為全程都在一條街上。海拔變化不大沒有太多的自然風光是這樣嗎？是的但它很棒，因為你跑過的街道是這座城市最具標誌性的街道，通常車水馬龍，人山人海，最後你會經過所有的體育場館，這是一場很棒的比賽。所以一點也不無聊。城市，城市的活力。城市的活力很多人走出家門歡呼吶喊非常棒你還會再參加嗎？

I would love to. All right. Hey, maybe that's your, going to be your news resolution for this year. Maybe. When is it? That race has gotten so popular that you can't just decide to sign up. You have to win the lottery to get, to get a bib. Okay. A bib is what you wear on the front of your shirt when you're in a race. Right. So when is it? Is it March? It's May. May. I think you should try to, try to enter the lottery. Try to get that. It's true. Could enter the lottery. See if I get it. It could be a really measurable goal for this year. Quite. You know, another thing that

我很樂意好吧嘿，也許這是你的， 將是你的新聞決議 今年。也許吧什麼時候？那場比賽太受歡迎了 你不能就這麼決定報名參加你得中彩票才能拿到參賽證 You have to win the lottery to get, to get a bib.好吧號碼布就是你參加比賽時 穿在襯衫前面的東西好的那是什麼時候？是三月嗎？是五月五月我覺得你應該嘗試， 嘗試進入彩票。嘗試得到的。這是真的。可以進入彩票。看看如果我得到它。這可能是一個真正可衡量的目標 今年。沒錯你知道，另一件事

I think would be fun is there is a half marathon in Manhattan that talk about urban energy. I think that would be really fun. Yeah. Is that the same day as the New York marathon? No. Okay. I think it's like one of the runs people use sometimes to qualify for the New York marathon. I see. I'm not sure. New York marathon is something that happens right around my birthday. It's usually the first

我覺得在曼哈頓舉辦一場關於城市能源的半程馬拉松會很有趣。我覺得那一定很有趣是啊，和紐約馬拉松是同一天嗎？不，好吧，我覺得那是人們用來參加 紐約馬拉松的資格賽之一我明白了我不確定紐約馬拉松是我生日前後的事通常是第一個

Sunday. It's the first Sunday of November, right? And we a couple of times have gone. And before I met David, I went quite a bit. It's just so much fun to watch that. I love seeing the elite racers go by. Oh yeah. And then when the elite racers are done and it's just all your other more average marathoners, a lot of them have their names written somewhere so you can shout to them individually. I love doing that. Yeah. That's fun. Cheering people on. That's a lot of fun.

星期天是十一月的第一個星期天，對吧？我們去過幾次在遇到戴維之前，我也經常去看比賽太有意思了我喜歡看精英賽車手經過是啊 Oh yeah.當精英選手跑完後，剩下的都是普通馬拉松選手 他們很多人的名字都寫在某處，你可以單獨對他們喊話我喜歡這麼做我喜歡這麼做很有趣為大家加油很有意思

All right. Well, I'm going to make it my New Year's resolution to watch the New York City marathon again this year because we missed it. We missed it this year. That's a great goal. I completely agree. So rather than run a marathon, my New Year's resolution is to watch the New

好吧我要把今年再看一次紐約馬拉松 作為我的新年願望 因為我們錯過了我們今年錯過了這是一個偉大的目標。我完全同意所以與其跑馬拉松，我的新年願望是看紐約馬拉松

York City marathon. It's measurable. Either we'll be there or we won't. Yep. I'll know if I reach that one. Okay. When I was with my cousin Brooke recently, I also asked her about New Year's resolutions. Let's see what she had to say. Yes. So Brooke, do you make New Year's resolutions?

紐約市馬拉松賽。這是可以衡量的。我們要麼去，要麼不去。沒錯到了我就知道了 I'll know if I reach that one.好吧最近和表妹布魯克在一起時，我也問了她關於新年願望的問題。看看她怎麼說。好的布魯克，你有新年願望嗎？

If you do, do you keep them? Yes. I typically do make maybe one

如果有，你會保留它們嗎？會。我通常會做一個

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