BREDA: If I could just find out a bit more about you …

布兰达：可以再问一些关于您的问题吗？

DAN: OK.

丹：好的。

BREDA: So you said you wanted to compete – have you ever won any photography competitions?

布兰达：您刚才说想要参加比赛，您曾经在摄影比赛中得过任何奖项吗？

DAN: Not yet, but I have entered three in the past.

丹：没有。但是我之前参加了三次比赛。

BREDA: Oh, that's interesting.

布兰达：哦，听起来很有趣。

So why don't you tell me something about those?

您不妨告诉我一些关于比赛的事儿。

Let's start with the first one.

我们先聊下第一次比赛吧。

DAN: Well, the theme was entitled ‘Domestic Life'.

丹：比赛的主题是“家庭生活”。

BREDA: I see – so it had to be something related to the home?

布兰达：明白了。所以参赛作品是和家庭有关对吗？

DAN: Yeah. I chose to take a photo of a family sitting round the dinner table having a meal, and, um, I didn't win, but I did get some feedback.

丹：是的。我选择拍一张一家人围坐在餐桌旁吃饭的照片，嗯，我没有得奖，但我确实得到了一些反馈。

BREDA: Oh, what did the judges say?

布兰达：嗯，评审们怎么说？

DAN: That it was too ‘busy' as a picture.

丹：图片看起来太杂乱了。

BREDA: Aha – so it was the composition of the picture that they criticised?

布兰达：啊哈，所以他们批评的是画面的构图？

DAN: That's right – and once they'd told me that, I could see my mistake.

丹：没错。他们一告诉我，我就明白我的错误了。

BREDA: So what was the theme of the second competition?

布兰达：第二次比赛的主题是什么？

DAN: Well, my university was on the coast and that area gets a lot of beautiful sunsets, so that was the theme.

丹：我的大学在海边，那个地区有很多美丽的日落，所以这就是主题。

BREDA: Oh, sunsets, that's a great theme.

布兰达：哦，日落，是个好的主题。

DAN: Yes. The instructions were to capture the clouds as well – it couldn't just be blue sky and a setting sun.

丹：没错。赛事说明还要捕捉云彩的图片，不能只有蓝天和落日。

BREDA: Sure, cause they give you all those amazing pinks and purples.

布兰达：的确。因为云彩能呈现出粉色和紫色，非常漂亮。

DAN: Yeah – and I thought I'd done that well, but the feedback was that I should have waited a bit longer to get the shot.

丹：是的。我认为我做得很好，但反馈是我应该多等一会儿再拍摄。

BREDA: I see. So the timing wasn't right.

布兰达：明白了，拍摄的时机不对。

DAN: Yes – I took it too soon, basically.

丹：是的，就是说我拍得太早了。

And then the third competition I entered was called ‘Animal Magic'.

我参加的第三场比赛叫做“动物魔法”。

BREDA: Well, that's a difficult subject!

布兰达：好吧，这个主题可不简单。

DAN: I know! I had to take hundreds of shots.

丹：就是说。我拍了有上百张。

BREDA: I'm sure – because animals move all the time.

布兰达：肯定的。因为动物一直在动。

DAN: That's what we had to show – there had to be some movement in the scene.

丹：这就是我们必须展示的，场景中必须有一些运动。

I got a great shot of a fox in the end, but I took it at night and, well, I suspected that it was a bit dark, which is what I was told.

最后我拍了一张很棒的狐狸的照片，但我是在晚上拍的，好吧，我怀疑它有点暗，他们是这么告诉我的。

BREDA: Well Dan – you seem to be really keen and we'd be delighted to have you in our club.

布兰达：好的，丹。您看起来真的很喜欢摄影，我们也很高兴您能够加入我们。

I'm sure we can help with all those areas that you've outlined.

我相信我们可以为您提到的所有这些方面提供帮助。

DAN: Thanks, that's great.

丹：非常感谢，太好了。