实战口语情景对话 第406期:English Village 英国乡村

 　　My name's Ruth and I'm from a small village in England. I live quite near Nottingham and I've lived there for most of my life actually. Nottingham is quite famous for Sherwood forest, where Robin¹ hood² was supposed to live and as a child I spent some of my time in Sherwood Forest playing. 我叫鲁斯，我来自英国的一个小乡村。我住的地方离诺丁汉很近，实际上我大部分时间都生活在那里。诺丁汉因舍伍德森林而闻名，那被认为是罗宾汉生活的地方，而我小时候也经常在舍伍德森林里玩耍。

　　I live in a village and it's actually a mining village with about 1,000 or 1,500 inhabitants³. There's really not very much to do there. There's a shop and a post office, a school and my mom teaches at the school. 我生活在一个小村庄，实际上那是个采矿村，只有1000或是1500名居民。那里其实没有什么可以做的事情。村庄里有一个商店，一个邮局，一个学校，我妈妈就在那所学校里教书。

　　I did actually live in Edinburgh for one year and that was quite different from life in my village because there was so much more to do and there were so many more people and there was so much more traffic, but I think actually I prefer living in a village because, well, if you want to go out to the shops, if you want to go to the cinema, you can go to the nearest town, or to the nearest city, but you can always escape⁴ city life and you can always go back to where it's quiet and more peaceful and where everybody knows each other, but if you live in the city you can't really escape it, and I don't really like the noise of the city so I think I will probably live in a village for the rest of my life. 我曾经在爱丁堡生活过一年的时间，那里的生活与我们村庄的生活非常不同，因为那里有太多可以做的事情，而且那里也有很多人，而且交通流量也更大，不过我想我更喜欢生活在乡村，因为如果你想去商店，如果你想去看电影，你可以去最近的城镇，或者去最近的城市，你可以逃离城市生活，回到那些安静又宁静的生活，而且在村庄里所有人都互相认识，但是如果你生活在城市里，你就不能逃离那里的生活，而且我真的非常不喜欢城市里的噪音，所以我想我会在村庄里度过我的余生。

1 robin   

n.知更鸟，红襟鸟

参考例句：

• The robin is the messenger of spring.知更鸟是报春的使者。
• We knew spring was coming as we had seen a robin.我们看见了一只知更鸟，知道春天要到了。

2 hood   

n.头巾，兜帽，覆盖；v.罩上，以头巾覆盖

参考例句：

• She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
• The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。

3 inhabitants   

n.居民，住户， （栖息在某地区的）动物( inhabitant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They set fire to the city and massacred all the inhabitants. 他们放火烧了这座城市，而且屠杀了所有的居民。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He quartered his men on the inhabitants in the town. 他把他的部队安置在镇上的居民家中。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 escape   

vi.逃跑，逃避；逃过..的注意；逸出；n.逃跑

参考例句：

• We had to break the door out to escape from the fire.我们不得不把门砸开以逃避火灾。
• He didn't allow any word to escape his lips.他守口如瓶。