台灣名列第二十九
Dan and Zoe are going to New Zealand for vacation tomorrow.
丹與柔伊明天要去紐西蘭度假。
Zoe: Dan, have you finished packing already?
柔伊：丹，你行李已經整理好了嗎？
pack(v.)打包、收拾already(adv.)已經
Dan: I’m almost done. I only have to get my passport and motion sickness pills ready. Hey, do you know how many countries we can travel to visa-free?
丹：我快好了；我只要把護照和暈機藥準備好就可以了。嘿，妳知道我們去幾個國家可以免簽證嗎？
almost(adv.)幾乎、差不多motion(n.)動作、移動sickness(n.)病症、患病pill(n.)藥丸、藥片-free無…的visa(n.)簽證
Zoe: How many countries? I have no idea.
柔伊：幾個國家？我不知道耶！
idea(n.)想法、主意
Dan: 148 countries. According to the Hanley Passport Index, a global ranking of countries in terms of the travel freedom for their citizens, Taiwan is ranked number 29.
丹：148個。根據Hanley Passport Index—一個根據各國家公民旅遊自由度的國家全球排名—台灣排名第二十九。
according to根據index(n.)指標global(adj.)全球的in terms of就…而言、根據…來看freedom(n.)自由、不受限制citizen(n.)公民rank(v.)把…分等級、具有…的地位
Zoe: It means that there are 148 countries we can travel to without applying for visas?
柔伊：意思是我們可以不用申請簽證，去148個國家旅行？
mean(v.)意思是、意味著without(prep.)沒有…、不用…apply(v.)申請
Dan: Exactly. The ranking is based on exclusive data from the world’s largest and most accurate database of travel information, the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
丹：沒錯。這個排名是根據世界最大最精確的旅遊資料數據庫—國際航空運輸協會（IATA）—的專有資料而來。
exactly(adv.)精確地based on根據exclusive(adj.)專有的、獨有的data(n.)資料、數據accurate(adj.)準確的、精確的database(n.)資料庫、數據庫information(n.)資訊international(adj.)國際的transport(n.)運輸association(n.)協會、聯盟
Zoe: That’s good to know. Then what are the top 3 countries?
柔伊：很高興知道這個資訊呢。那前三名是哪些國家呢？
top(adj.)最好的、最重要的
Dan: Japan is ranked No. 1 with 190 visa-free countries, Singapore, No. 2, with 189 countries, and Germany, France and South Korea are number 3 with 188 countries!
丹：日本有190個免簽證國家，排名第一；新加坡189個國家排名第二；德國、法國和南韓有188個國家排第三名。