實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：England 英國

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：艾麗，你能談談英國嗎，有關氣候，天氣，領導人，還有食物之類的?

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.

艾麗：嗯，目前我并不想談領導人，因為那算是傷心事，不過英國的天氣，嗯，也算是痛處。那并不是世界上最好的天氣，尤其是和日本比的話，我現(xiàn)在在日本生活，我很喜歡這里的天氣。英國總是很冷，即使在夏天也很冷，我聽說非常冷。今年整個夏天幾乎都要穿夾克，只有幾天有陽光，下了很多雨，所以就天氣來說非常糟糕。

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

托德：你來自布里斯托爾，對吧?你的家鄉(xiāng)怎么樣?

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.

艾麗：布里斯托爾是一個非常棒的城鎮(zhèn)。我以前生活在倫敦，那是英國的首都，那兒的天空是灰色的，城市很大，而且并不友好，我搬到布里斯托爾以后非常棒。那是個城市，但是算是小城市，所以你經(jīng)常能遇到朋友，嗯，經(jīng)常能遇到熟人。而且那里有大面積的綠地。那里有個地方名為Downs，那是個大公園，城市的建筑很古老，就在巴斯附近，巴斯是一個非常著名的羅馬風格城鎮(zhèn)，就是巴斯羅馬浴場的所在地，所以那個城市的所有建筑、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什么樣?你說過Downs，那是個公園嗎?

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.

艾麗：The Downs，對，是公園，是一片大面積的綠地。其實不算公園，因為那里有許多樹木，還有灌木之類的東西。那只是一片大面積的綠地，你可以在那里踢足球。我的意思是那里幾乎每周都有足球比賽。你可以在那里放風箏。你可以帶你的孩子去那兒玩。那里與埃文峽谷相連，峽谷里有布里斯托爾吊橋，這非常有名，我想可能是歷史上建造的第一座吊橋，站在吊橋上眺望峽谷，你會以為你身處山區(qū)，而不是在城市里。那真是個非常漂亮的地方。

Todd: Sounds like a nice place.

托德：聽起來是個不錯的地方。