【英语趣味课堂】打猎-Hunting

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Lindsay: So, Jake we were just talking about zoos. Now, I'm curious. What do you think about hunting? Do you like hunting?

Jake: Not really. I know a lot of people who do hunt though.

 

Lindsay: What do they hunt?

 

Jake: Well, deer mostly and sometimes grouse¹ and different birds.

 

Lindsay: Do they use a gun or a bow and arrow²?

 

Jake: They use guns.

 

Lindsay: Yeah, I don't know about hunting. I'm not a really big fan of hunting.

 

Jake: Yeah, a lot of people enjoy it I guess, and plus they get to eat the animals after they hunt them.

 

Lindsay: Yeah, my father was a very big hunter. He actually kept a big rifle³ gun and would go pheasant hunting twice a year. He would always come back with this nasty⁴ pheasant and put it in our freezer but my mom never knew how to cook it so it would just stay in our freezer forever.

 

Jake: So you never ate the pheasant?

 

Lindsay: We never ate the pheasant. But in general both my mom and I were very upset with my father for hunting. We just didn't think he needed to go out and shoot poor animals.

 

Jake: But he must have really enjoyed it to go against you and your mother's wishes and go hunting all the time.

 

Lindsay: That's a good point. He did really enjoy it and basically⁵ he just did what he wanted to do, but have you ever eaten a hunted deer?

 

Jake: Yes, I have, and it was pretty good actually.

 

Lindsay: Does it taste different than cow?

 

Jake: It's not the same as cow definitely⁶, but it's not a really unusual tasting meat either, I would say.

 

Lindsay: OK, so someone went and hunted the deer and then served it to you?

 

Jake: Yes.

 

Lindsay: And that was OK for you?

 

Jake: Yes, it was OK for me because I eat cow and chicken all the time and I don't see how that's different.

 

Lindsay: Yeah, but this deer was in the wild, and what if it was a mother?

 

Jake: Well, some of the cows that we eat are mothers as well.

 

Lindsay: You think so? I never really thought about that. I guess you're right, but something about the idea of going out and shooting⁷ a poor deer. It just reminds me of Bambi. It's so sad.

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