【英语趣味课堂】纽约-New York

 Marion: Yeah! So you said you went to New York there. How did you find New York?

 

Mauve: Oh, it was great. It was cool.

 

Marion: So what did you do there?

 

Mauve: Well, we went to see the Empire State building, the Statue of Liberty¹. Took a boat around Manhattan and went to a show on Broadway.

 

Marion: That must of have been exciting.

 

Mauve: Oh, it was great. It was brilliant. It was so professional².

 

Marion: Yeah. What was the show?

 

Mauve: It was really good. It was called, it was called "Wonderful Town!" I had never heard of it before but we just cued³ and got tickets during the day and whatever we could get we just went to see it. Yeah, but it was really, it was a comedy as well. It was really funny, and there was dance. It was very good.

 

Marion: Mm, yeah, so would you go back to New York?

 

Mauve: Yeah, I would, definitely⁴. Um, it's funny though, like after I spent a week there, and after the week I feel I really know it very well, you know, we did a lot of walking, went to all the different districts, Chinatown, So-Ho, Grenich Village, and Central Park kind of, it's very easy to find your way around as well.

 

Marion: All right. Yeah, that's good. With the grid⁵ system, which Dublin doesn't have. You know Dublin for a tourists it's probably harder to find their way around. It's not as sign posted or well signaled. Not as well laid out kind of thing.

 

Marion: Yeah! Which of the kind of the areas did you prefer in New York. Did you have, like,one favorite?

 

Mauve: Um, I really liked Chinatown. Chinatown was lovely. We went into lots of little small shops and it was lovely, like, you know, really quaint⁶ little places. We ate in a few, we ate in one place there as well. It was nice

 

Marion: Yeah, real Chinese food.

 

Mauve: Yeah, exactly and like all Chinese people walking around. It's funny. You walk around chinatown and you just see Chinese people and you walk into the Italian district, you know, Little Italy, and you just, people are speaking Italian. It's fun, you know, when you're in one city

 

Marion: And the kind of change from one to the other, obvious as well.

 

Mauve: Yeah, exactly, yeah! See you kind of forget you're in New York, almost.

 

Marion: Cool. Thanks Mauve.

 

学习内容：

 

Learn Vocabulary from the lesson

find

 

How did you find New York?

 

When someone asks you 'how do you find' something they are asking for your opinion or what you think of it. Notice the following:

 

Don't you find the city to be a little bit noisy.

I find this class to be incredibly boring.

queued⁸

 

We just queued and got tickets during the day.

 

To 'queue⁷' is to make a line and wait for something. Notice the following:

 

The children quickly queued up to go to lunch.

People have been queued to buy tickets since yesterday.

find way around

 

It's very easy to find your way around in New York.

 

If it is easy to 'find your way around' a place it means⁹ that it is easy to understand the city and where places are located¹⁰. Notice the following:

 

I have lived here for three years and I still can't find my way around.

How long did it take you to learn to find your way around the city.

grid system

 

New York has the grid system, which Dublin doesn't.

 

A 'grid system' is a city plan where all the streets run parallel¹¹ or perpendicular¹² to each other.  In some cases the streets run north and south or east and west. Notice the following:

 

The grid system makes driving here really easy.

The city had a good grid system, but the streets changed names at every corner.

quaint places

 

We went into small shops, which are really quaint little places.

 

A 'quaint' place is unusual or interesting in a good way and usually a little old fashioned. Notice the following:

 

There are lots of quaint places to eat around here.

He prefers to go to quaint places like coffee shops and bars.

1 liberty   

n.自由，自由权；冒昧行为

参考例句：

• He stood for the cause of liberty and justice.他为自由和正义的事业而奋斗。
• You are at liberty to do as you please.你可以随意行事。

2 professional   

adj.专业的；职业的；n.专业人员；职业运动员

参考例句：

• He is a professional tennis player.他是一名职业网球运动员。
• I need a professional to sort out my finances.我需要专业人士为我管理财务。

3 cued   

v.向…发出指示信号( cue的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The band director cued the drums to begin. 乐队指挥暗示鼓手们敲起来。 来自辞典例句
• I've cued them in on the plans for the travel. 我已经把旅行计划通知了他们。 来自互联网

4 definitely   

adv.一定地，肯定地；明确地，确切地

参考例句：

• The team will definitely lose if he doesn't play.如果他不参加比赛，这个队肯定会输。
• I shall definitely be home before six o'clock.6点以前，我一定回家。

5 grid   

n.高压输电线路网；地图坐标方格；格栅

参考例句：

• In this application,the carrier is used to encapsulate the grid.在这种情况下，要用载体把格栅密封起来。
• Modern gauges consist of metal foil in the form of a grid.现代应变仪则由网格形式的金属片组成。

6 quaint   

adj.古雅的，离奇有趣的，奇怪的

参考例句：

• There were many small lanes in the quaint village.在这古香古色的村庄里，有很多小巷。
• They still keep some quaint old customs.他们仍然保留着一些稀奇古怪的旧风俗。

7 queue   

n.队列；辫子；长队；vt.梳成辫子；vi. 排队

参考例句：

• To what window are you standing in a queue?你在排哪个窗口的队？
• I had to queue for quite a while.我不得不排一会儿队。

8 queued   

v.（人、车等）排队等候( queue的过去式和过去分词 )；（使）排队，列队等待

参考例句：

• I queued for two hours to get a ticket to see the football game. 我排了两个小时的队，就是为了买张足球赛的票。 来自辞典例句
• We queued up for half an hour to get into the cinema. 我们排队等了半个小时才进到电影院。 来自辞典例句

9 means   

n.方法，手段，折中点，物质财富

参考例句：

• That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
• We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。

10 located   

adj.处于，位于

参考例句：

• The mechanic located the fault immediately. 机修工立即找到了出故障的地方。
• a small town located 30 miles south of Chicago 位于芝加哥以南30英里的一个小镇

11 parallel   

n.相似处；平行线；纬线；adj.平行的；类似的

参考例句：

• This is the parallel points in the characters of different men.这就是不同人物间个性上的类似之处。
• The growth of the two towns was almost parallel.这两个城镇的发展几乎相同。

12 perpendicular   

adj.垂直的，直立的；n.垂直线，垂直的位置

参考例句：

• The two lines of bones are set perpendicular to one another.这两排骨头相互垂直。
• The wall is out of the perpendicular.这墙有些倾斜。