实战口语情景对话 第288期:England 英国

Todd: So, Eli, can you talk a little about England and maybe about it's climate and it's weather, it's leaders, what people eat?
托德：艾丽，你能谈谈英国吗，有关气候，天气，领导人，还有食物之类的？

Eli: Well, I'm not going to talk about leaders right now because that's a bit of a sore point but England weather, hmm, that is a bit of a sore point too. It's not the greatest weather in the world, especially compared to Japan where I am now, which the weather I just love. England is always cold, almost always cold even through the summer it's quite cold I hear. This summer it's been sort of jacket weather all summer with only a few days of sunshine and it rains a lot, so it's pretty miserable as far as weather's concerned.
艾丽：嗯，目前我并不想谈领导人，因为那算是伤心事，不过英国的天气，嗯，也算是痛处。那并不是世界上最好的天气，尤其是和日本比的话，我现在在日本生活，我很喜欢这里的天气。英国总是很冷，即使在夏天也很冷，我听说非常冷。今年整个夏天几乎都要穿夹克，只有几天有阳光，下了很多雨，所以就天气来说非常糟糕。

Todd: Now, you're from Bristol right. What's your hometown like?
托德：你来自布里斯托尔，对吧？你的家乡怎么样？

Eli: Bristol's a great town. I used to live in London which is the capital of England and it's very gray and big and unfriendly but when I moved to Bristol it was just great. It is a city but it's a very small city so you can always bump into your friends, um, always meet people. It's got big green areas. It's got a place called the downs which is a big park, and it's the architecture of the city is very old. It's very near Bath, which is a very famous old Roman town, where the Roman baths were, so all the sort of architecture of the city, the houses, all of it's very pretty.
艾丽：布里斯托尔是一个非常棒的城镇。我以前生活在伦敦，那是英国的首都，那儿的天空是灰色的，城市很大，而且并不友好，我搬到布里斯托尔以后非常棒。那是个城市，但是算是小城市，所以你经常能遇到朋友，嗯，经常能遇到熟人。而且那里有大面积的绿地。那里有个地方名为Downs，那是个大公园，城市的建筑很古老，就在巴斯附近，巴斯是一个非常著名的罗马风格城镇，就是巴斯罗马浴场的所在地，所以那个城市的所有建筑、所有房屋都非常漂亮。

Todd: OK. What are the Downs like? You said the downs. Is that a park?
托德：好。Downs什么样？你说过Downs，那是个公园吗？

Eli: The downs. It's, it's a big area of green basically. It's not a park as in lots of trees and trees and sort of shrubbery and stuff. It's just a big wide spread of greenery where you can play football. I mean there's football matches sort of every week. You can go fly your kites. You can take your kids there. And that joins on to the Avon-gorge, which is where the Bristol suspension bridge is, which is very famous as being I think the first ever suspension bridge built, and from standing on the bridge and looking out into the gorge, I mean you'd think you're in the middle of the mountains, not in the middle of the city. It's a really pretty area.
艾丽：The Downs，对，是公园，是一片大面积的绿地。其实不算公园，因为那里有许多树木，还有灌木之类的东西。那只是一片大面积的绿地，你可以在那里踢足球。我的意思是那里几乎每周都有足球比赛。你可以在那里放风筝。你可以带你的孩子去那儿玩。那里与埃文峡谷相连，峡谷里有布里斯托尔吊桥，这非常有名，我想可能是历史上建造的第一座吊桥，站在吊桥上眺望峡谷，你会以为你身处山区，而不是在城市里。那真是个非常漂亮的地方。

Todd: Sounds like a nice place.
托德：听起来是个不错的地方。