【英语趣味课堂】贝鲁特的夜晚-Beirut Nights

Todd: So, Rina, you were saying Lebanon, or Beirut, has really good night clubs. (Mm-hm) Ah, what's a really cool night club in Beirut?

 

Rina: My favorite night club was rated 5th in Maxim¹ magazine, and it's called B. O. 18, and what it used to be was a Palestinian burial² ground and,

 

Todd: Wait a minute! (Yeah) It, there's no longer dead people there?

 

Rina: No, no, no. It used to be. (OK) Just during the civil war, cause there was a 17 year war, and what it is, you walk up, you don't see anything, it's just a big open space, but you see these, like, almost like subway stairs going down, and you go down these stairs and the theme inside this place is death, and it's like a big coffin³, so you have red velvet⁴ walls and all the tables are little coffins⁵ with Palestinian soldier pictures on it and single rows and it's just a really good, it's a really neat club. And I went to a lot of theme clubs, too, I went to one that's called The Music Hall and it's like just, like a big theater, it was just amazing.

 

Todd: So, what's The Music Hall like?

 

Rina: Um, well they had that night I went, they had five different groups: One American group, one Spanish, one Lebanese, and they all just, it's like a theater, like scene one, scene two, and each scene would be a different music, genre⁶ like, you know.

 

Todd: That's pretty cool.

 

Rina: Yeah, it was cool.

 

Todd: So, at these night clubs, how do people dress? What's the fashion?

 

Rina: Um, Lebanese girls, and people that were like Lebanese girls, they're very trend⁷ conscious⁸. Oh, yeah. Like if it's in a magazine, they're wearing it type thing. They look down on anybody, that doesn't.

 

Todd: Ah, so.

 

Rina: Yeah, and it's all like, done up like they went to the salon⁹ that day to go out sort of thing.

 

Todd: Wow! (Yeah) So we're talking, like the skimpy dressed that they have?

 

Rina: Everything. Oh, yeah.

 

Todd: Your kidding. What do the guys dress like?

 

Rina: Ah, the guys are, they dress prettier than some of the girls.

 

Todd: No kidding.

 

Rina: Yeah, the guys dress really well, but very, just as I said, very trend conscious. Everybody's very image, image conscious. It's really a lot like Japan in that way.

 

Todd: Mm, oh cool. Thanks.

 

1 maxim   

n.格言，箴言

参考例句：

• Please lay the maxim to your heart.请把此格言记在心里。
• "Waste not,want not" is her favourite maxim.“不浪费则不匮乏”是她喜爱的格言。

2 burial   

n.埋葬，埋藏，掩埋

参考例句：

• The priest prepared the body for burial.牧师给死者作安葬准备。
• The Premier's burial was a solemn occasion.总理的葬礼是个庄严的场面。

3 coffin   

n.棺材，灵柩

参考例句：

• When one's coffin is covered,all discussion about him can be settled.盖棺论定。
• The coffin was placed in the grave.那口棺材已安放到坟墓里去了。

4 velvet   

n.丝绒，天鹅绒；adj.丝绒制的，柔软的

参考例句：

• This material feels like velvet.这料子摸起来像丝绒。
• The new settlers wore the finest silk and velvet clothing.新来的移民穿着最华丽的丝绸和天鹅绒衣服。

5 coffins   

n.棺材( coffin的名词复数 )；使某人早亡[死，完蛋，垮台等]之物

参考例句：

• The shop was close and hot, and the atmosphere seemed tainted with the smell of coffins. 店堂里相当闷热，空气仿佛被棺木的味儿污染了。 来自辞典例句
• Donate some coffins to the temple, equal to the number of deaths. 到寺庙里，捐赠棺材盒给这些死者吧。 来自电影对白

6 genre   

n.(文学、艺术等的)类型，体裁，风格

参考例句：

• My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
• Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看， 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。

7 trend   

n.趋势，倾向，方位；vi.倾向，转向

参考例句：

• Today's trend is toward less formal clothing.眼下时尚趋向于穿着随便。
• The trend of prices is still upwards.物价的趋向是仍在上涨。

8 conscious   

adj.有意识的，自觉的；有意识的，神志清醒的

参考例句：

• I was not conscious of having made a mistake.我没意识到犯了错误。
• He is badly hurt but still conscious.他伤得很重，不过神志还清醒。

9 salon   

n.[法]沙龙；客厅；营业性的高级服务室

参考例句：

• Do you go to the hairdresser or beauty salon more than twice a week?你每周去美容院或美容沙龙多过两次吗？
• You can hear a lot of dirt at a salon.你在沙龙上会听到很多流言蜚语。