《新概念英语》青少版第四册第15课:Gretel writes a letter home

Revision Lesson 15 Gretel writes a letter home
复习课15 格莱托写家信

Dear Mummy and Daddy,I'm sending you the photos you asked for.
亲爱的爸爸妈妈:现寄上你们要的照片

First you'll find a photo of the house I'm staying at.
你们首先看到的是一张我目前住房的照片

It's a very typical English house.
它是幢典型的英国式住房

You don't see many blocks of flats in England.
在英国看不到成幢成幢的公寓楼

The English prefer houses to flats.
英国人宁愿住小洋楼而不愿住公寓

Sometimes you see rows and rows of houses and they're all exactly the same!
有时人们会看到一排排模样完全一样的小洋房

I enclose some pictures of the family I'm staying with.
附上几张我目前借居的那个家庭的照片

You can see Sandy and Sue.(the children I told you about in my last letter)
你们看到的是桑迪、苏(我上封信上谈到的孩子)

and Mr and Mrs Clark.
以及克拉克夫妇

They have all become very good friends of mine.
他们都已成了我的好朋友

There are some pictures of the garden,too.
另外有几张花园的照片

Every English house has a small garden.
每一座英式小洋楼都有小花园

The English people work very hard in their gardens.
英国人在花园里干活很认真

Mr Clark has a lovely lawn and lots of rose-bushes
克拉克先生有一个漂亮的草坪和许多玫瑰花丛

and he grows all his own vegetables.
他自己还种蔬菜

Everything is so green in England.
英国是遍地皆绿

Mr Clark rarely has to water the garden because it rains so often here!
克拉克先生很少给花园浇水,因为这儿常下雨

When it rains my English friends say,"Nice weather--for the ducks!"
下雨时,我的英国朋友就会说:"对鸭子们,这可是好天气!"

I'll write to you again soon.
我不久再给你们来信

Love,Gretel.爱你们的格莱托