For many years, adventure writer Peter Heller had nurtured a secret dream: to drop everything and go off to a tropical paradise and learn how to surf.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

It's a curious sport in that... well, it started (when) surfers went to surf on land.

这是一项很有趣的运动，因为……嗯，它是从冲浪选手上陆地冲浪开始的。

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Fiji was probably the nicest that I went to surf-wise.

以冲浪来说，斐济大概是我去过最好的。

享受冲浪 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

(OMITTED) Learning how to surf cames at a high price.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Where would be a perfect place to surf?

什么地方冲浪最好？

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"He found himself in a beach community and thought, 'Well,I might as well try to learn to surf,'" "He asked me if I wanted to come out and learn with him.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

This year, some of those who performed with them that night gathered at the Surf to remember.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

It also included a ceremony to declare the Surf Ballroom a rock and roll landmark.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Hawaii wants to re-invent itself as more than a "sun,sand and surf destination,"

VOA: special.2009.03.02

When an old friend moved to Huntington Beach,California - a Pacific coast city nicknamed Surf City,USA - he realized it was time to live his dream.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup and starts chattering away like it's a cocktail party, completely ignores all the finely-tuned protocols of surf that have developed over decades."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04