《新概念英语》青少版第四册第87课: English weather

Lesson 87 English weather
第87课 英国的天气
Everybody talks about the weather in England and this is not surprising.
在英国人人谈论天气,这并不奇怪.
It changes from minute to minute,so it's always interesting.
气候说变就变,所以总是有趣的话题.
Someone once wisely remarked that other countries have a climate,
有人曾巧妙地说其他国家有气候,
but England just has weather!
可英国只有天气.
Gretel was amused by all this talk at first,
起先格莱托对这种讲法感到好笑,
but she has got used to it now.
而现在己习以为常了.
Last week,
直到上星期
Gretel really understood why everyone is so concerned about the weather:
格莱托才真正理解为何大家这么关心天气:
you can never be certain what's going to happen.
没人能肯定天气会发生什么变化.
Thought it was spring,there was a very heavy snowfall.
虽已是春天,却又下了场大雪.
As usual,no one expected it.
和往常一样,没人预料到这点.
The pipes in many houses were frozen;
许多房子的水管冻了,
trains failed to run;cars got stuck;
火车开不了,汽车被堵在路上,
there were many accidents on the roads;
发生了多起交通事故.
lots of people slipped on the icy pavements and got hurt.
许多人在结了冰的人行道上滑倒受了伤.
The weather forecast was very bad.
天气预报很不准.
Everyone complained gloomily,
大家都沮丧地抱怨道,
What awful weather we're having!
多糟糕的天气!
Haven't seen anything like it!and so on.
从来没遇到过这种事.
And then,suddenly,the sun came out,
可一会儿,太阳又突然露面了,
the snow melted and it was spring again.
雪化了,又是春天了.
Typical!Just typical!Gretel remarked.
典型的天气!真是典型!格莱托评论道.
The way you talk about the weather,Gretel,Mr Clark said,
格莱托,看你谈论天气的样子,克拉克先生说.
anyone would think you were English!
别人还当你是英国人呢.