雅思口语| Reading阅读 7.5分语料
fantasy and science fiction books 奇幻和科幻小说
genre/ˈʒɒ̃rə; ˈʒɒnrə/ 类型
I like to, I especially like to read fantasy and science fiction books. I love all kinds of reading but I guess one of my favorite books come from that genre so I really, yeah, I really love that kind of book. 我喜欢读，尤其是奇幻和科幻小说。我喜欢各种类型的读物，不过最喜欢的还是这种类型，所以，嗯，我真的喜欢这种类型。
The Lord of the Ring series 指环王系列
back in high school 回到高中的时候
gripping 扣人心弦的
--So, what's your favorite fantasy genre book? 那你最喜欢的虚幻类书是什么？
---- I think if I had to choose it would be The Lord of the Ring series. I read it, I think I read it back in high school and it was one of the most gripping, interesting, fascinating stories I've ever read. 我想如果我非得选的话，那是指环王系列吧。我是在高中的时候读的，是我读过的最扣人心弦的，最有趣，最吸引人的故事了。
fiction 小说
an imagined world 想象出来的世界
give me kind of an escape 给了我一种解脱
be busy with this book for weeks and weeks on end 连续几周忙着看这本书
And I know it's fiction and it's an imagined world but I think at that time that book was really meaningful to me because it gave me kind of an escape and I could be busy with this book for weeks and weeks on end. 我知道这是小说，是虚构的世界，但我觉得是本很有意义的书，因为给了我一种解脱，我能连续几周忙着看这本书。
end up re-reading the book twice or three times 最后重新阅读了两三遍
fall in love with the characters and stories of adventure 爱上了里面的角色和冒险故事
go through hardships together 一起渡过难关
I actually ended up re-reading the book twice or three times I think because I just fell in love with the characters and stories of adventure and fun and making friends and going through hardships together. 我最后把这本书读了两三遍，因为爱上了里面的角色和冒险故事。还有里面有趣的事，怎么交的朋友怎么一起走过难关
come close 接近
never matched up to what I had going in my imagination 不符合我的想象
And so it was a really meaningful book for me at the time and then when the movies came out, of course I went to see them but somehow it never, although it came close, it kind of never matched up to what I had going in my imagination. 这书真的很有意义，然后相关电影拍出来了，我肯定去看啦，但是不知道怎么的，就觉得，虽然说还是比较接近的，但是还不太符合我的想象。
be imaginative 想象力丰富的
books about possibilities of how life could be 关于生活可以有多少可能性的书
I think because the book was so imaginative, I've kind of fallen in love with reading science fiction and books about possibilities of how life could be or imaginative lives of people. Yeah, that's ... I think that's why I really love that book. 我觉得这本书想象力丰富，我也爱上了读科幻的书，还有讲关于生活有多少可能性的书，亦或是一些关于人们创造力的书。嗯，这就是我喜欢的书。
non-fiction books 非小说类书籍
Not really, I tend to like non-fiction books. 不是的，我倾向于喜欢非小说类书籍。
read things that I can learn something from 读一些我能学到东西的书
read books on culture and religion 读关于文化和宗教的书
---Well I like reading non-fiction because I like to read things that I can learn something from so I love to read books on culture and religion and different things. 我喜欢纪实小说，因为能学到一些东西，所以我会读一些关于文化和宗教的书。