BBC都市掠影:Leeds Castle 利兹城堡

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Helen: Hello, welcome to On the Town from BBC Learning English. I'm Helen.
Chen Li: 大家好， 我是陈鹂。今天，我们的城市掠影节目中，我们来带您去英国一些最有名的地方。 Helen, I'm very excited about this place we're going today.

Helen: Me too. Today we're taking you to Leeds Castle, set in the stunning countryside of Kent, about one hour from London.

Chen Li: 利兹城堡，不要被这个名字给弄糊涂了，要知道这个城堡不在利兹市，实际上它位于具有英格兰花园之称的肯特郡。

Helen: Taking us on a tour of the castle is Victoria Wallace, the managing director of the castle. First she told us how old the castle is.

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Palace is exactly the right word – it was a royal palace. It's basically a building that's evolved over 900 years, it started off as one of the Norman castles.

Chen Li: Victoria 说这个城堡更可以说是个皇宫。

Helen: A royal palace. And it has evolved over 900 years. Evolve is a verb and it means developing slowly.

Chen Li: Evolve 进化，我们在谈论历史或者自然科学的时候，会经常用到这个词。

Helen: Leeds castle is very well known worldwide and I asked Victoria, what makes it so famous.

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Leeds has been described as the loveliest castle in the world. And I think that's largely because it sits in a beautiful fairytale landscape, sitting on these two islands in the middle of a lake, with gentle mellow stone architecture.

Chen Li: 这可是里兹城堡一个值得骄傲的称谓。

Helen: The loveliest castle in the world.

Chen Li: 世界上最可爱的城堡。

Helen: And this is because it sits in a beautiful fairytale landscape.

Chen Li: 童话般的风景，一个神奇的感觉。

Helen: Exactly. The castle itself is on two islands in the middle of a lake. That's a very unusual setting.

Chen Li: 对城堡来说，这两个岛屿足够大，以至于看起来，这个城堡就象从湖中升起一样。

Helen: With the stone architecture, it gives visitors a sense of security and tranquillity.

Chen Li: Security 安全，tranquillity 宁静。

Helen: Once visitors walk through the castle gate, what are they expecting to see?