托德：馬克，妳馬上就要回美國了。（對）夥計，妳回去以後打算在哪裏生活？
Mark: Well, temporarily, I'll stay at my parents in Birmingham, Alabama.
馬克：我暫時會住在我父母在阿拉巴馬州伯明翰的房子裏。
Todd: OK, and where're you gonna live after that?
托德：好，那之後妳打算住在哪裏？
Mark: Well, I'm not sure. I might move down to South Florida. Florida is kind of my second home, and, yeah, I'd like to actually one day, get a house down there.
馬克：嗯，我還沒有決定。我可能會搬去佛羅裏達州南部。佛羅裏達州就像我的第二個家，我希望有壹天能在那裏買房。
Todd: Oh, really.
托德：哦，真的嗎？
Mark: Yeah.
馬克：對。
Todd: You're just going to buy a house?
托德：妳打算買房嗎？
Mark: Well, I'd like to someday. I mean, I prefer to own my own home instead of always renting an apartment somewhere.
馬克：我希望有壹天可以買套房子。我的意思是，我想擁有自己的房子，而不是壹直租公寓住。
Todd: Yeah, but see, I think it's better to rent, cause you know, when you rent a house, you don't have to worry about losing your job, or if you have to relocate. You don't have to worry about if there's a natural disaster, and in Florida you seem to love those hurricanes down there.
托德：不過妳看，我認為租房子更好，因為租房不用擔心失業或搬遷。妳不用擔心自然災害，佛羅裏達州經常會遭遇颶風這樣的災害。
Mark: That's definitely true.
馬克：完全正確。
Todd: You know.
托德：就是這樣。
Mark: But there's something about owning your own house, that's just, this is my house but I'm renting. It's like someone else, you know, I mean someone else does own your house, and you know, there's that feeling of like, you depend on them, you know for lodging but if it's your house, you own it, then there's a sense of independency there.
馬克：不過擁有自己的房子……妳看如果租房的話，這是我的家可是卻是我租的，這是別人的房子，妳知道這種感覺就像寄宿，要依賴別人，不過如果妳擁有自己的房子，那就會有種獨立感。
Todd: Yeah, that true. That's a good point but on the other hand, I just love my free time, and when you rent, you just got more free time. You know when you own a house. You have to do maintenance. You have to do all the paperwork for taxes, and you know, city government stuff, like that. When you rent it's just really easy.
托德：對，沒錯。這個觀點不錯，不過從另壹方面來看，我喜歡自由時間，如果租房子就會有更多的自由時間。可是如果是自己的房子，妳就要維護，要填寫市政府的交稅單之類的東西。要是租房子，就不用這麽麻煩。
Mark: Well, you know, the maintenance stuff can be fun. It depends on how you look at it. Like, you know, if it's your house, you actually might be motivated to make it look better cause it's, you take pride in, you know, where you live and it's your house, and what do you do in your free time anyway? Like what do you do in your free times?
馬克：妳看，維護其實可以帶來樂趣的。這取決於妳怎麽看待這個事情。如果這是妳的房子，妳會希望讓它看起來更好，因為妳會以妳的房子為榮，對了，妳空閑時間都做什麽？妳會在空閑時間什麽事情？
Todd: What do I do in my free time?
托德：我空閑時會做什麽？
Mark: Yeah.
馬克：對。
Todd: Well, I don't fix pipes and work on plumbing and garden, that's for sure.
托德：反正我肯定不會修理管道，也不會修理水管和整理花園。
Mark: But, well, but why not? I mean.
馬克：可是為什麽不呢？
Todd: Good point. That's true.
托德：這倒是個不錯的觀點。