美语情景对话 第229期:Life in England 英格兰的生活

Todd: OK, hello!

托德：你好！

Sarah: Hello!

萨拉：你好！

Todd: Hi, what's your name?

托德：嗨，你叫什么名字？

Sarah: My name is Sarah.

萨拉：我的名字是萨拉。

Todd: OK, and Sarah where are you from?

托德：好的，萨拉，你来自哪里？

Sarah: I'm from the north of England, Newcastle.

萨拉：我来自英格兰北部的纽卡斯尔。

Todd: OK, so Newcastle, how far is that from London?

托德：好，那纽卡斯尔离伦敦有多远？

Sarah: Um, it's about 300 miles.

萨拉：嗯，大约300英里。

Todd: Uh-huh, do you go to London a lot or have you been to London before?

托德：啊，你经常去伦敦吗，或者说你以前去过伦敦吗？

Sarah: I live in London. I've lived in London for the past seven years.

萨拉：我住在伦敦。我过去七年一直住在伦敦。

Todd: Oh, really?

托德：哦，这样啊？

Sarah: Almost seven years, yeah.

萨拉：差不多七年的时间了，对。

Todd: OK. Which do you prefer, London or Newcastle?

托德：好的。那你更喜欢哪里，伦敦还是纽卡斯尔？

Sarah: Um, like them both. I prefer Newcastle because it's smaller, so it's easier to get around and it's also cheaper. London is very expensive.

萨拉：嗯，两个地方我都喜欢。我喜欢纽卡斯尔是因为那里很小，所以很容易四处游玩，而且物价也相对便宜。伦敦物价非常贵。

Todd: So all your family is in Newcastle?

托德：那你家人还在纽卡斯尔吗？

Sarah: Um, pretty much yeah.

萨拉：嗯，差不多是这样。

Todd: So are they always trying to get you to go back and move back to Newcastle?

托德：那他们会劝你搬回纽卡斯尔住吗？

Sarah: Ah, no, no, because most of the jobs are in the south, anyway for younger people so it's quite difficult to get a job in the north in teaching.

萨拉：嗯，不会，不会，因为大部分适合年轻人的工作机会都在南方，在北方找到一份与教育相关的工作非常难。

Todd: OK. Um, what do you like about London?

托德：好的。嗯，你喜欢伦敦的什么地方？

Sarah: Ah, it's a very busy place, there's lots of things going on all the time. There's also lots of things I don't like about London, but all my friends live there lots of job opportunities.

萨拉：嗯，伦敦是一个非常忙碌的城市，有许多事情同时在进行。当然伦敦也有许多我不喜欢的地方，但是我所有的朋友都在那边，而且那里工作机会也多。

Todd: OK, what were you doing before you came to Japan in London?

托德：好，你来日本之前，在伦敦是做什么工作的？

Sarah: Ah, I was in Austria for a year. I was teaching in Austria, and then I was in London teaching, in London for a few years.

萨拉：哦，我在奥地利待了一年。我在奥地利教课，之后我回伦敦继续教课，在伦敦工作了几年的时间。

Todd: What were you teaching in London?

托德：你在伦敦教什么？

Sarah: I was teaching primary school. I was a primary school teacher.

萨拉：我在小学教课。我是一名小学老师。

Todd: Kids!

托德：孩子！

Sarah: Yeah.

萨拉：对。

Todd: So what's it like teaching kids?

托德：教孩子的感觉怎么样？

Sarah: Um, tiring. Very tiring. I prefer teaching adults. That's my preference. I've mainly taught adults in TEFL, but in the state system in England it's only been children. It's fun. It's just very tiring.

萨拉：嗯，累，非常累。我喜欢教成年人。我更偏好教成年人。我主要是用英语教授成年人，不过在英格兰的体系中，那只适用于儿童。不过这很有意思。只是会很累。

重点讲解：
1. get around
到处旅行；游历；
eg. He claimed to be a journalist, and he got around.
他自称是一名记者，经常四处游历。
eg. " It is rather large to get around in a week, " answered Ames, pleasantly.
“这么大个城市，一星期恐怕逛不完吧，"艾姆斯愉快地答道。
2. pretty much
几乎；近乎；差不多；
eg. His new government looks pretty much like the old one.
他的新政府看起来和旧政府没什么两样。
eg. The result of the ballot is pretty much what we expected.
投票的结果和我们预料的差不多。
3. prefer doing sth.
喜欢做某事；乐意做某事；
eg. I prefer reading non-fiction.
我喜欢看纪实作品。
eg. I prefer doing some writing in my spare time.
我更喜欢业余时间写点什么。