Todd: So, Mini, your country, Sri Lanka, is a very popular tourist destination. Can you talk a little about costs? Like how much does it cost to have a nice vacation in Sri Lanka?

托德：米妮，你的祖国斯里兰卡是旅游胜地。你能说说费用问题吗?去斯里兰卡度假需要多少钱?

Mini: It's a very cheap place to have a vacation, so for example if you have... your budget is around 50,000 yen in terms of rupees around 45,000 rupees, you can have a good vacation. You can have a good hotel. You can have good food. You can shop as well — by clothes and all the stuff and go around the country as well.

米妮：去斯里兰卡度假很便宜，5万日元左右的预算，也就是4.5万卢比左右，你就可以度过一个愉快的假期。你可以住好酒店，吃美味的食物。当然还可以去购物，买衣服和其他东西，还有在斯里兰卡观光。

Todd: That's pretty cool. So, how much is a nice hotel, like a five-star hotel?

托德：那太酷了。那五星级酒店的价格大概是多少?

Mini: For one day, it's around 10,000 yen. Around 9,500 rupees.

米妮：一天大概1万日元，也就是9500卢比。

Todd: Right. So 10,000 yen. OK, so that's pretty cheap. That's about 100 dollars I think. Right? One hundred U.S. dollars? So, a five-star hotel, you're talking about beautiful room, nice swimming pool, nice facilities, everything.

托德：好。1万日元。真的很便宜。大概是100美元，对吧?100美元?五星级酒店，你说的是有漂亮的房间，游泳池、完备设施的那种吧?

Mini: Everything is there, and it's near the beach as well.

米妮：里面什么都有，而且附近还有海滩。

Todd: Oh, man, that's great. So, what if you want something cheaper. What if you just want a small room, very basic, just a bed, a bathroom, no swimming pool, nothing nice. How much would a hotel like that cost?

托德：天哪，那太棒了。如果想要便宜的房间呢?如果说是那种小房间、只有床和浴室等基本设施，没有游泳池，也不是那么完备的房间，这种酒店要多少钱?

Mini: OK, for that, you can pay around a thousand yen. Around nine hundred rupees.

米妮：这种大概是1000日元，900卢比左右。

Todd: A thousand yen.

托德：1000日元。

Mini: A thousand yen. A thousand, five hundred yen.

米妮：1000日元，或者是1500日元。

Todd: Ten dollars.

托德：10美元。

Mini: Mm-hm. That's cheap.

米妮：嗯，很便宜。

Todd: For one night?

托德：一晚上的价格?

Mini: Yeah.

米妮：对。

Todd: Really.

托德：真的吗?

Mini: Mm-hm.

米妮：嗯。

Todd: I wanna go.

托德：我想去。

Mini: I'm sure.

米妮：我确定。

Todd: That is really, really cheap.

托德：那真是太便宜了。

Mini: Yeah, it's very cheap.

米妮：对，是非常便宜。

Todd: OK, what about things like internet access? So can you get high-speed internet access?

托德：那有网吗?有高速网络接口吗?

Mini: If you want to stay in a hotel like that, no, you can't get internet access from those kind of hotels, but if you stay in four-star hotel, maybe three-star hotel you can get high-speed internet access.

米妮：没有，这种酒店里没有网络接口，但是四星级酒店里有，可能三星级酒店也有高速网络接口。

Todd: OK.

托德：好。

Mini: But you have like centers, internet media centers, kind of stuff. You can pay like fifty rupees and access to the internet. You can do it anytime.

米妮：斯里兰卡有网络媒体中心。花50卢比就可以接入网络。随时都可以。

Todd: Right. OK. And just lastly, what about meals? How much do meals cost?

托德：好。最后一个问题，食物呢?食物的价格呢?

Mini: If you want to go for a nice buffet, maybe around two thousand yen, a thousand, five hundred rupees around.

米妮：一顿丰盛的饭菜大概要花2000日元左右，约1500卢比左右。

Todd: Oh, that's actually kind of expensive, isn't it. Two thousand yen.

托德：哦，那有点儿贵，是吧?2000日元。

Mini: But you have everything there. It's really nice. I love it.

米妮：但是这顿饭里什么都有，非常棒，我很喜欢。

Todd: OK. Well, it sounds like a great place to go. Thanks Mini.

托德：好，听起来斯里兰卡是个好去处。谢谢你，米妮。

Mini: You're welcome.

米妮：不客气。