实战口语情景对话 第330期:On the Move 四处搬家

 　　I am totally¹ English but I spent my whole life basically² living in other countries, well, my parents spent 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.

　　我是彻头彻尾的英国人，可是我一生中几乎都生活在其他国家，我的父母使我生活在外国的时间非常长。其实我在英国上学的时间算很长了。住在其他国家非常棒。我想在你年轻的时候去不同的国家看看很好。我在非洲和尼日利亚待过一段时间。实际上我是在英国出生的，但是我出生十五天以后就去了非洲，我在15天的时候第一次坐飞机，显然我并不记得那次飞行的太多事情，之后我们在荷兰生活了9年的时间，这非常好，你知道，能在不同的文化中成长我感觉很幸运，虽然我不能说那个国家的语言这件事令人非常尴尬，因为我一直上的都是英语学校，不过困难的事情是，你去的每个地方都会交到朋友，你和人们变得亲近之后，突然你不得不搬走，不得不搬家，再继续去别的地方生活，我发现这是最难的事情，我8岁的时候回到英国上寄宿学校，因为我的父母认为，相比于在世界各地不同的学校上学，在英国读寄宿学校我会接受更好的教育，而这很有趣，不过有些事是我一直都很羡慕的，那就是，学校里其他孩子在学校里的朋友就是他们在上学期间的朋友，而他们真正的朋友是他们从小就认识的朋友，可能是他们出生以后、学龄前的朋友，他们一直保持联系，我18岁的时候，我学校里那些朋友，他们在家乡的真正朋友是那些他们出生后就认识的朋友，我一直都很羡慕这一点，因为我们总是在四处搬家，像我说过的我很幸运，我们去了荷兰、苏格兰和非洲，我很幸运能去这些地方，但是同样艰难的事情是，我没有定所，没有一个可以称为家的地方，那是在一天结束的时候可以回去的地方，可以和所有家人、朋友待在一起的地方。

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。