【一起闲话英语】你参加了什么俱乐部？-To Belong

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speaker Do you belong to anything? Well, I belong to a running club. It's actually a marathon¹ running club because I used to start running marathons two years ago, and if you train for a marathon it's like a lot of time you have to invest² in it and a lot of running you have to do alone by yourself, and if you have somebody, with you, like your a member of a club, it's just much more fun to do it with other people than if you have to do it alone.

 

speaker Yes, I belong to a singing club and piano club. And in singing club, it's like a small group of students that gather together and sing songs from all over the world on different topics, and piano club is the club where students prepare their own piano piece and then perform it once in a half year in a small concert or gathering³ in university.

 

speaker Do I belong to anything? Do I belong to anything? Well, I guess I'm a very big soccer fan, and I guess I belong to a soccer culture, if you can say ... call it that. Yeah, I follow soccer a lot back home. I'm really liking⁴ playing the sport. I really like watching the sport, but my favorite team is Manchester United⁵.

 

speaker In university right now, I'm in a circle that involves that is sports based and we just play mainly volleyball and baseball, and membership⁶ isn't very big. It's like about maybe fifteen students, and we meet like once a week to just play sports, and usually on a weekend maybe we have like a dinner party or something.

speaker No, in the past, I've joined things but I'm quite faddish⁷ about things so I'll start something but then not go after the first couple of months, especially gym memberships⁸ that would involve working out or any strenuous⁹ exercise.

 

speaker Do you belong to anything? Well, no. I don't belong to any club or circle. Coming to college, I wasn't really interested in joining anything. I just wanted to get my studies over with quickly.

 

 

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