【话匣子英语】新主持

 今天毛拉和哈皮向我们介绍了一个新的主持人，他的名字叫安德鲁.....

Maura: Today is a Chatterbox episode, and that is where we chat. And sometimes we interview people. Today we’re going to interview someone who’s very important.

 

Harp¹: Yes. Today, Maura is going to interview Andrew. And Andrew is the newest member of Culips.

 

Maura: That’s right. Harp and I have been co-hosts at Culips for a long time, but we are adding Andrew to the mix.

 

Harp: Yes. So Andrew will be joining us and co-hosting episodes with Maura or me.

 

Maura: That’s right. So, this is the first time that you’ll be hearing Andrew’s voice, but it definitely won’t be the last. We’re really excited. He has a lot of experience teaching English and learning languages, and is really excited to start helping² you learn to speak English better.

 

Harp: Yes. So we thought we’d start by giving you an interview with him so you could learn a little bit more about Andrew.

 

Maura: That’s right. Now you can hear about what kind of person he is and what he’s into.

 

Harp: So, I’m gonna leave it to you Maura.

 

Maura: All right. Let’s go. All right. So, Andrew, why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself?

 

Andrew: Sure, absolutely. OK, my name is Andrew and I was born in Toronto. And when I was a toddler, I moved to a city called Langley, which is right outside of Vancouver. When I was a teenager, I moved to Kelowna and I went to high school in Kelowna, British Columbia. And I moved to Victoria to go to the University of Victoria, where I majored in history and English. Upon graduation, I moved to Korea. I taught English at an elementary school in Seoul, South Korea, for 3 years. And then I moved to Montreal, and here I am. I’m currently attending Concordia University, studying linguistics³.

 

Maura: Cool. So you’ve been around the country and the world a little bit.

 

Andrew: Yeah. A very long life, yes.

 

Maura: So, what was it like growing up in Kelowna? I know I’m from Ontario, which doesn’t have mountains and is a little bit more flat, and I’m always jealous of people who are from the West Coast and have beautiful natural scenes around them.

 

Andrew: Yeah, absolutely. Well, the nice thing about Kelowna is the four seasons, I think. We have summer, a beautiful long summer, and the winter. It’s fairly grey in the winter but it’s not too cold, which is nice. And of course there’s skiing, lots of mountains. And I’m a big snowboarder, so, yeah, it was great for that.

 

Maura: Yeah. That’s something that I think a lot of people maybe don’t know; that there are parts of Canada where the winter isn’t that bad.

 

Andrew: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think the coldest it would get in Kelowna during the winter is maybe minus 10. So it’s not that bad in Kelowna. And then in the summer it’s… Yeah, it’s really warm.

 

Maura: Yeah. Minus 10. It seems not bad at all, actually.

 

Andrew: It’s not bad compared to Montreal.

 

Maura: No. OK, cool. And then you moved to Victoria, which is a pretty chill place.

 

Andrew: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It’s very laid back. It’s on Vancouver Island, so it’s got a bit of an island mentality⁴.

 

Maura: And then you decided⁵ to go to Korea. Now, what made you, first of all, decide to travel, and also choose Korea?

 

Andrew: OK. This is a long story.

1 harp   

n.竖琴；天琴座

参考例句：

• She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
• He played an Irish melody on the harp.他用竖琴演奏了一首爱尔兰曲调。

2 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

3 linguistics   

n.语言学

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• Linguistics is a scientific study of the property of language.语言学是指对语言的性质所作的系统研究。

4 mentality   

n.心理，思想，脑力

参考例句：

• He has many years'experience of the criminal mentality.他研究犯罪心理有多年经验。
• Running a business requires a very different mentality from being a salaried employee.经营企业所要求具备的心态和上班族的心态截然不同。

5 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。