华尔街初级英语学习教程第10课：国外旅游Act2 (MP3和文本下载)

DEBORAH:Hello and welcome. My name’s Deborah Simkowitz. I’m American, I come from Pittsburgh, PA, and I work as a tour guide in England. I show groups of tourists around
the many lovely and historic places in the South of England. Well, right now I’m here in England on vacation, with my husband Alan - my new husband Alan. Alan and I are just
married, so I’m, like, showing him around England. Showing him some of my favorite places - and showing them to you good people, too. So, I’ll do the talking, and Alan - that’s my husband -will take the photos. Would you like to say ‘hi’ to the people,Alan?

ALAN: Hi.

DEBORAH:So this will be, like, our honeymoon, and I’m really excited about it. Aren’t you excited too, Alan honey?

ALAN: Yeah, really. Really excited, Deborah honey.

DEBORAH:That’s great! So, here we are, at Gatwick airport, in London, England, after a 9-hour flight from the States. And we’re feeling a bit, aren’t we, honey?

ALAN: Yeah, really tired. You know, Deborah, I’d like a coffee. Why don’t we go and get one?

DEBORAH:No honey, let’s go to the hotel now. You can get a coffee there.

ALAN: But I want a coffee now.

DEBORAH:Sorry honey, we must go to the hotel now. They’re expecting us at noon, and it’s already 12:30.

ALAN: We can call them and say we’ll be late.

DEBORAH:No, honey, you must wait for your coffee. Sorry! We’ll go to the hotel now.

ALAN: OK. Hey, wait a moment, where are you going?

DEBORAH:I must change some money.

ALAN: Don’t we have some British money already?

DEBORAH:Yeah, but it’s all in traveler’s cheques. We don’t have any cash - remember? You wait here, honey. I’ll go and change some cheques.

ALAN: OK. Don’t be long!

DEBORAH:I’ll be right back!

DEBORAH:Here I am. Right, let’s go to the hotel.

ALAN: OK. Hey, where is it, anyway?

DEBORAH:It’s in Brighton.

ALAN: How far is that?

DEBORAH:About thirty miles.

ALAN: Where are we going? This isn’t the way to the cabs.

DEBORAH:We aren’t going by cab, we’re going by train.

ALAN: By train? Why?

DEBORAH:It’s like, you never really feel where you are in a cab; you never meet the people.

ALAN: I don’t want to meet people. I just want to get to my hotel.

DEBORAH:Come on honey, we’re on vacation in England! Of course you want to meet English people; they’re so polite, and friendly. Here we are.

DEBORAH:So, when’s the next train to Brighton?

DEBORAH:I’ll go and take a look. You wait here, honey.

DEBORAH:That’s a shame.

ALAN: What’s the matter?

DEBORAH:The next train’s at 2:30. That’s in two hours, nearly.

ALAN: So we must wait here for two hours? Geez!

DEBORAH:No, I know what we’ll do. We’ll get a cab.

ALAN: Gee, thanks, Deborah. So where do we go?

DEBORAH:This way. You see those signs?

ALAN: Yeah?

DEBORAH:In Britain they say ‘taxi’, not ‘cab’.

ALAN: Right. Do the drivers speak English, anyway?

DEBORAH:Yeah, of course they do. They speak it with a British accent, that’s all.

ALAN: Well, if I don’t understand -

DEBORAH:you can ask me, honey. Any time.

DEBORAH:Here we are. This is our cab. And this is where our vacation begins.

ALAN: You know what, honey? I’m excited too, now!

DEBORAH:Wow! So here we go! Driver - the Grand Hotel in Brighton, please.