英語趣味課堂：英格蘭 England

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?

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 to. 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.

Todd: Now, you're from Bristol right. What's your hometown like?

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.

Todd: OK. What are the Downs like? You said the downs. Is that a park?

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.

Todd: Sounds like a nice place.

1 miserable

adj.悲慘的，痛苦的;可憐的，糟糕的

參考例句：

It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他，這是可恥的。

Her past life was miserable.她過去的生活很苦。

2 bump

v.(against,into)碰，顛簸;n.碰撞，隆起物

參考例句：

I heard a bump in the next room.我聽到隔壁房間傳來“砰”的一聲。

He got a bad bump on his forehead.他碰得前額隆起一個大包。

3 architecture

n.建筑學，建筑術(shù);建筑物;組織，結(jié)構(gòu)

參考例句：

I'm interested in classical architecture.我喜愛古典建筑風格。

She studied architecture and art history at the university.她在大學里學習建筑和藝術(shù)史。

4 basically

adv.基本上，從根本上說

參考例句：

His heart is basically sound.他的心臟基本上健康。

Basically I agree with your plan.我基本上同意你的計劃。

5 stuff

n.原料，材料，東西;vt.填滿;吃飽

參考例句：

We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我們可以供應你原材料。

He is not the stuff.他不是這個材料。

6 gorge

n.咽喉，胃，暴食，山峽;v.塞飽，狼吞虎咽地吃

參考例句：

East of the gorge leveled out.峽谷東面地勢變得平坦起來。

It made my gorge rise to hear the news.這消息令我作嘔。

7 suspension

n.懸掛，懸浮液，暫緩，未決，中止

參考例句：

The local authorities decided to build a suspension bridge over the river.地方當局決定在這條河上建一座吊橋。

A four-day suspension was imposed on her.她被勒令停職4天。

8 standing

n.持續(xù)，地位;adj.永久的，不動的，直立的，不流動的

參考例句：

After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震過后只有幾幢房屋還立著。

They're standing out against any change in the law.他們堅決反對對法律做任何修改。