你觉得小城镇和大城市的最大不同是什么

今天的这段对话，在讨论小城镇和大城市，
 
每个人出生的地方都不一样，你觉得小城镇和大城市的最大不同是什么
 
来听今天的讲解:
 
A: So, Michele, you said you are from Canada.
 
米歇尔，你说过你来自加拿大。
 
B: Yeah.
 
对。
 
A: What part of Canada?
 
你来自加拿大哪里？
 
B: I lived in Ontario in a small town called Beaverton.
 
我住在安大略省一个叫做比弗顿的小镇。
 
A: Beaverton. And so how big is the town?
 
比弗顿。这个城镇有多大？
 
B: It was pretty small, about seven or eight thousand people I think.
 
比弗顿非常小，我想人口大概只有七八千人。
 
A: Wow, that's pretty small.
 
哇，那真的非常小。
 
B: Yeah.
 
对。
 
A: Did you like that?
 
你喜欢那里吗？
 
B: I think when I was really little I liked it. It was nice to play outside with your friends and we always felt really safe. When I got older as a teenager, sometimes I thought it was pretty boring being in such a small town, but I think overall it was good to live in a small town.
 
我小的时候非常喜欢那里。在室外和朋友们一起玩非常美好，而且我们一直有安全感。我渐渐长大进入青少年时期以后，有时我会认为生活在这么小的一个城镇非常无聊，不过总体来说，我觉得生活在一个小城镇很好。
 
A: What would you do for fun when you were a teenager?
 
你青少年时期有什么休闲活动？
 
B: Well, there was actually a movie theater in our small town so sometimes we'd go to the theater but it wasn't a great one. We usually went outside of the town into the city to go shopping or see a movie.
 
嗯，我们那个小城镇有一家电影院，有时我们会去看电影，不过不是太好。通常我们会去城市里购物、看电影。
 
A: And so since then have you lived in any big cities?
 
那你之后在大城市生活过吗？
 
B: I've lived near Tokyo in Japan, so that's a pretty big city. Yeah.
 
我在日本东京生活过，东京是个非常大的城市。
 
A: So I guess you prefer that then... to your hometown?
 
我猜，相比你的家乡，你更喜欢东京是吗？
 
B: Well, actually I felt that Tokyo was too big of a city.
 
嗯，实际上我感觉东京这座城市太大了。
 
A: OK.
 
好。
 
B: Yeah, so..
 
所以……
 
A: It's the opposite extreme.
 
这是两个对立的极端。
 
B: Yeah, it's so crowded and the people aren't as friendly so...
 
对，东京非常拥挤，人们也不那么友好，所以……
 
A: That's probably a big difference between a small town and a big town, huh? Like you know practically everyone.
 
这可能是小城镇和大城市的最大不同，对吗？在小城镇，你几乎认识所有人。
 
B: Yeah.
 
对。
 
A: So, you walk into a store. You walk down the street, you can say 'hi' to almost everyone.
 
比如走进一家商店，或是在街头漫步，你几乎可以和所有人打招呼。
 
B: Yeah, well, actually, I've also lived in a really small town in Japan too and I prefered the small town in Japan to the big city like Tokyo. The people in the small town knew my name and were very friendly. If I needed any help then because it's a small town, everybody knows everything about the things in the town so if I needed to find a place or if I wanted to join a club I could easily get the information in a small town, whereas in a big city people don't know the things as well, so.
 
对，我也在日本的一个小城镇生活过，相比大城市东京，我更喜欢日本的小城镇。小城镇里的人们知道我的名字，而且非常友好。在小城镇基本上所有人对各方面情况都很了解，如果我需要帮助，如果我要找一个地址或是我想加入一个俱乐部，我可以很容易地得到信息，可是在大城市人们就不是那么了解了。
 
A: You also have to be careful what you do because everyone will talk.
 
你要小心你的行为，因为人们什么都会说。
 
B: That's true.
 
没错。
 
A: You can't hide.
 
你不能隐藏。
 
B: In a small town, you don't have as much privacy but I think the friendliness outweighs the privacy issues.
 
小城镇没有太多隐私，不过我认为友好比隐私重要。
 
A: OK, thanks Michele.
 
好，谢谢你，米歇尔。
 
B: You're welcome.
 
不客气。