BBC都市掠影:St Albans 小城:圣奥尔班斯

Jean: Well actually I’m feeling a little run down. I need a break. 我最近可累坏了，再不休息一下就不行了。

Neil: Oh no, what’s up?

Jean: I think I need to get out of the city.

Neil: Well I know somewhere we can go which is peaceful, has a fascinating history and is just twenty minutes away from the centre of London.

Jean: Sounds perfect.

Neil: Welcome to On the Town from BBC Learning English, I’m Neil. This is the programme where we visit some of the most interesting places in and around London.

Jean: So, where are we going?

Neil: St. Albans.

Jean: St. Albans. Neil提议要去的目的地，就是伦敦市区外缘的一座叫St. Albans的小城。

Neil: Well, here we are. Quiet, isn’t it?

Jean: Wow, I can actually hear birds singing. So, what can we do here?

Neil: Let’s start at the biggest and most impressive building in St Albans: the cathedral.

Jean: Cathedral. 大教堂。It’s beautiful.

Neil: Yes, and it tells the story of the city.

Jean: What do you mean?

Neil: Can you see the bricks in the main tower of the cathedral?

Jean: The red ones?

Neil: Yes. They’re actually Roman bricks.

Jean: Roman bricks? 罗马的砖头？

Neil: St Albans used to be a Roman city. In fact, it was one of the most important cities in Roman Britain.

Jean: About two thousand years ago 罗马人在这里建造了这座现在称为ST ALBANS的城市。这座城市在罗马统治英国的时期是当时最重要的城市之一。

Neil: The Roman city was called Verulamium. There’s a museum all about it here. Let’s have a look.

The museum has some very impressive Roman mosaics. Mosaic.

Jean: 马赛克. Mosaic.

Neil: David Thorold is an archaeologist at the museum. He describes the biggest mosaic.

Jean: Archaeologist. 考古学家。