英文原版对话1000个:772 Good Ole' England

Todd: OK, Mark, we've been talking about places that you've traveled, things that you have done. What about people that go to your country, England? Can you recommend three or four good places to go to in England?

Mark: Right. Well, obviously¹, most people should visit London. Personally, I don't like London. It's too busy and too expensive.

Todd: But, wait a minute, you're saying that people should visit it but you don't like it. Why?

Mark: They should visit it because you have to go once to see all the famous places such a Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace, just to say you've been, but if you arrive in London, I'd say spend maybe one or two days there and then move and you can move to cheaper places. My favorite place in England is in the North of England. It's called the Lake District.

Todd: The Lake District.

Mark: Yeah, it is very, very beautiful.

Todd: So, I take it there's many lakes.

Mark: That's right. There's got to be about twenty or thirty lakes up there and the scenery's beautiful. Famous for Peter Rabbit. Do you know Peter Rabbit?

Todd: Yeah, the fairy tale.

Mark: That's right. The children's character. Yeah. The writer, Beatrice Potter, she was born in the Lake District, so that's how she got her inspiration².

Todd: So if you go the Lake District, now are you talking about camping or do you stay in a like a bed-and-breakfast, or?

Mark: Yeah, you can stay in a bed-and-breakfast. You can camp. You can stay in pubs³ or inns⁴, or there are many hotels. It's very organized for the tourists in the Lake District. Yeah, and it's not such a big area, so you can travel around there by bus, or by car pretty easy. Yeah.

Todd: OK, so that's two. Anymore?

Mark: Actually, I've never been but I'd probably recommend Scotland⁵, but I've never been. But Edinburgh Castle is very famous. Also, York. The city of York, in Yorkshire is very beautiful as well. That was famous for the Vikings in the olden days, so it has a beautiful big cathedral and all the old viking walls, so if you like history then England is a beautiful place to visit. There are many places. You have Stratford-upon-Avon for Shakespeare, Oxford⁶ which is a famous university city, so if you like history then England is great.

Todd: OK, well, sounds good. Thanks, Mark.

 

1 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。

2 inspiration   

n.灵感，鼓励者，吸气

参考例句：

• These events provided the inspiration for his first novel.这些事件给了他创作第一部小说的灵感。
• What an inspiration she was to all around her!她对于她周围所有的人是一种多么大的鼓舞！

3 pubs   

酒店，酒馆( pub的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• I don't like pubs.They're noisy, smelly, and what's more, expensive. 我不喜欢酒吧。那里又吵，气味又难闻，更重要的是，花费太多。
• We did/went the rounds of all the pubs in town. 我们逐一光顾了城里所有的酒店。

4 inns   

小旅馆，客栈，小酒馆( inn的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Hotels have taken the place of old inns. 旅馆已代替了旧的客栈。
• Such inns as there were were generally dirty and flea ridden; the food simply local cheese accompanied were by bread often twelve months old, all washed down with coarse wine. 当地的那些小旅馆通常是既肮脏又尽是跳蚤；食物只不过是本地土产乳酪就着存放了经常12个月的陈面包，都用粗制的酒送下肚去。

5 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。

6 Oxford   

n.牛津（英国城市）

参考例句：

• At present he has become a Professor of Chemistry at Oxford.他现在已是牛津大学的化学教授了。
• This is where the road to Oxford joins the road to London.这是去牛津的路与去伦敦的路的汇合处。