【英语趣味课堂】书本和电影-Books and Movies

I am totally¹ English but I spent my whole life basically² living in other countries, well, my parentsspent most of my life living in other countries. I've actually been at school in England for quite a while of it. Living away from your own country is great. I guess it's really good when you're young you get to see different countries. I stopped off in Africa and Nigeria. I was actually born in England,but I went there fifteen days after I was born so, my first plane flight was 15 days old, and I can't really remember obviously³ that much of that but then we went to Holland⁴ for nine years, which is great and it's, you know, I'm very lucky to have grown up in a different culture, although very embarassingly I can's speak the language cause I always went to an Enlgish school, but it's kind of difficult cause you, wherever⁵ you go, you make friends. You get close to people and then suddenly you have to move, and move house, go on to somewhere else, and I found this to be the sort⁶ of hardest thing, when I was 8, I went off to boarding⁷ school in England cause my parents thought I'd get a better education that way than moving around to different schools all over the world,

 

and this was you know, it was good it was fun, but something like I always envied⁸ was the way, all the other kids at school, there school friends were just their friends in term time, but their real friends were friends that, you know, they had known⁹ since they were little, since you know, since they had been born or, you know their early school friends and they still knew them and you know even when I was 18 years old, still, my friend's from school had their real friends at home who they'd known all there lives, and I've kind of always envied that because we've always been moving around and as I say, you know, I'm very lucky, we've been in Holland, Scotland¹⁰, and Africa, and I've very lucky to have seen all of these places but it's kind of hard as well, not having a root, not having a place where you can actually call your home, somewhere to go back to at the end of the day and have all of your family and friends around you.

 

1 totally   

adv.完全地；整个地

参考例句：

• I totally agree with you.我完全同意你的看法。
• You are totally wrong this time.你这次完全错了。

2 basically   

adv.基本上，从根本上说

参考例句：

• His heart is basically sound.他的心脏基本上健康。
• Basically I agree with your plan.我基本上同意你的计划。

3 obviously   

adv.显然；明白地

参考例句：

• Obviously they were putting him to a severe test.显然他们是在给他以严峻的考验。
• Obviously he was lying.显然他是在撒谎。

4 Holland   

n.荷兰(欧洲)

参考例句：

• There are many dairies in Holland.荷兰有很多牛奶场。
• Holland is one of Germany's neighbours.荷兰是德国的邻国之一。

5 wherever   

adv.（究竟）在哪里；conj.无论什么地方，各处，处处

参考例句：

• She used to follow after him wherever he went.以前，他走到哪里，她总是跟到哪里。
• The foolish boy was laughed at wherever he went.这个愚蠢的男孩不论走到哪里都受到讥笑。

6 sort   

v.排序，挑选，分拣；n.种类，类别，性质，程度

参考例句：

• She was a strange sort of person.她这个人有些古怪。
• I don't much care for that sort of man.我不太喜欢那种人。

7 boarding   

n.木板（建造之物）；寄膳（宿）；用木板制成的物体；上船（或火车、飞机等）v.上（船、车或飞机）( board的现在分词 )；收费供…膳宿；强行登（船）；使搭伙

参考例句：

• We were sent to boarding school at a tender age. 很小的时候我们就被送到了寄宿学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• There is a small boarding school in the little town. 那个小镇上有一所不大的寄宿学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 envied   

adj.被人妒忌的，被人羡慕的v.妒忌，羡慕( envy的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He envied your trip to Greece. 他羡慕你能够到希腊去旅行。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Better be envied than pitied. 宁可让人妒忌，不可让人怜悯。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

9 known   

adj.大家知道的；知名的，已知的

参考例句：

• He is a known artist.他是一个知名的艺术家。
• He is known both as a painter and as a statesman.他是知名的画家及政治家。

10 Scotland   

n.苏格兰

参考例句：

• He has been hiking round Scotland for a month.他围着苏格兰徒步旅行了一个月。
• Scotland is to the north of England.苏格兰在英格兰之北。