美語情景對話 第705期:Good Ole' England 英國
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?
託德：馬克，我們之前談了你去過的地方，和你在旅行時做的事情。那如果人們去你的祖國英國旅遊，你可以推薦三四個遊覽勝地嗎？Mark: Right. Well, obviously, most people should visit London. Personally, I don't like London. It's too busy and too expensive.
馬克：好，顯然大部分人都應該去倫敦旅行。我個人並不喜歡倫敦。那裏太繁忙，而且物價也貴。Todd: But, wait a minute, you're saying that people should visit it but you don't like it. Why?
託德：等一下，你說人們都應該去倫敦旅遊，可是你並不喜歡那裏。爲什麼？
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.
馬克：人們應該去倫敦旅遊的原因是，你要去一次那裏看看那些著名的景點，比如大本鐘、特拉法加廣場、白金漢宮等等，你可以和別人說你去過這些地方，我建議在倫敦玩一兩天就好，然後就可以去物價便宜些的地方繼續遊玩。英國我最喜歡的地方是英國北部稱爲湖區的地方。Todd: The Lake District.
託德：湖區。Mark: Yeah, it is very, very beautiful.
馬克：對，那裏非常非常漂亮。Todd: So, I take it there's many lakes.
託德：我想那裏一定有很多湖。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?
馬克：沒錯。那裏大概有二三十個湖，景色非常美。湖區以彼得兔聞名。你知道彼得兔嗎？Todd: Yeah, the fairy tale.
託德：知道，那個童話故事。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 inspiration.
馬克：對。那個兒童故事。作者碧雅翠絲·波特出生在湖區，那裏是她的靈感來源。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?
託德：如果我們去湖區旅行，你是建議我們在那裏露營，還是住家庭式旅館？Mark: Yeah, you can stay in a bed-and-breakfast. You can camp. You can stay in pubs or inns, 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.
馬克：你可以住家庭式旅館，也可以露營，還可以住在小旅館，那裏有很多酒店。湖區組織完善，對遊客來說很便利。湖區的面積並不大，你可以坐巴士在那附近遊玩，開車也很方便。Todd: OK, so that's two. Anymore?
託德：好，你推薦了兩個地方。還有其他地方嗎？Mark: Actually, I've never been but I'd probably recommend Scotland, 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, Oxford which is a famous university city, so if you like history then England is great.
馬克：雖然我從來沒去過蘇格蘭，不過我還是要推薦一下這裏，不過我沒有去過。愛丁堡古堡非常出名。另外，約克郡的景色也很棒。約克郡在古代因海盜而出名，那裏有又大又漂亮的天主教大教堂，還有古老的海盜牆，如果你對歷史感興趣，那英格蘭是個不錯的選擇。英格蘭有很多美麗的景點。比如莎士比亞的故鄉斯特拉特福，還有著名大學牛津大學，如果你喜歡歷史，那英格蘭是非常適合遊玩的地方。Todd: OK, well, sounds good. Thanks, Mark.
託德：好，聽起來很好。謝謝你，馬克。
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