情景对话

Todd: So, Eli, can you talk a little about England and maybe about it's climate and it's weather, it's leaders, what people eat?
托德：艾丽，你能谈谈英国吗，有关气候，天气，领导人，还有食物之类的？
Eli: Well, I'm not going to talk about leaders right now because that's a bit of a sore point but England weather, hmm, that is a bit of a sore point too. It's not the greatest weather in the world, especially compared to Japan where I am now, which the weather I just love. England is always cold, almost always cold even through the summer it's quite cold I hear. This summer it's been sort of jacket weather all summer with only a few days of sunshine and it rains a lot, so it's pretty miserable as far as weather's concerned.
艾丽：嗯，目前我并不想谈领导人，因为那算是伤心事，不过英国的天气，嗯，也算是痛处54pz38obdl^。那并不是世界上最好的天气，尤其是和日本比的话，我现在在日本生活，我很喜欢这里的天气yoP](w9+6B-9]e。英国总是很冷，即使在夏天也很冷，我听说非常冷GqgQuj=%l49wgui。今年整个夏天几乎都要穿夹克，只有几天有阳光，下了很多雨，所以就天气来说非常糟糕@HmTwT@pYjk*bzrRZ。
Todd: Now, you're from Bristol right. What's your hometown like?
托德：你来自布里斯托尔，对吧？你的家乡怎么样？
Eli: Bristol's a great town. I used to live in London which is the capital of England and it's very gray and big and unfriendly but when I moved to Bristol it was just great. It is a city but it's a very small city so you can always bump into your friends, um, always meet people. It's got big green areas. It's got a place called the downs which is a big park, and it's the architecture of the city is very old. It's very near Bath, which is a very famous old Roman town, where the Roman baths were, so all the sort of architecture of the city, the houses, all of it's very pretty.
艾丽：布里斯托尔是一个非常棒的城镇oa!k-4n4zDxSafg。我以前生活在伦敦，那是英国的首都，那儿的天空是灰色的，城市很大，而且并不友好，我搬到布里斯托尔以后非常棒)M6S_#_cQ4M,Vr。那是个城市，但是算是小城市，所以你经常能遇到朋友，嗯，经常能遇到熟人1BnkwqHz~2&zb3P。而且那里有大面积的绿地_hMKawCn4G)3igI。那里有个地方名为Downs，那是个大公园，城市的建筑很古老，就在巴斯附近，巴斯是一个非常著名的罗马风格城镇，就是巴斯罗马浴场的所在地，所以那个城市的所有建筑、所有房屋都非常漂亮S&C6d.E-1rtb。
Todd: OK. What are the Downs like? You said the downs. Is that a park?
托德：好,Tmgm*rSqOV&DY。Downs什么样？你说过Downs，那是个公园吗？
Eli: The downs. It's, it's a big area of green basically. It's not a park as in lots of trees and trees and sort of shrubbery and stuff. It's just a big wide spread of greenery where you can play football. I mean there's football matches sort of every week. You can go fly your kites. You can take your kids there. And that joins on to the Avon-gorge, which is where the Bristol suspension bridge is, which is very famous as being I think the first ever suspension bridge built, and from standing on the bridge and looking out into the gorge, I mean you'd think you're in the middle of the mountains, not in the middle of the city. It's a really pretty area.
艾丽：The Downs，对，是公园，是一片大面积的绿地Ummt0YymY_。其实不算公园，因为那里有许多树木，还有灌木之类的东西YkJ[OIJ[Z^Y7。那只是一片大面积的绿地，你可以在那里踢足球5Vg[e-=)hhiq|RM。我的意思是那里几乎每周都有足球比赛J@z%spy])pQV4Xf8y。你可以在那里放风筝,Nq+CHbV*9sz@_。你可以带你的孩子去那儿玩iWLIbCxA00E*。那里与埃文峡谷相连，峡谷里有布里斯托尔吊桥，这非常有名，我想可能是历史上建造的第一座吊桥，站在吊桥上眺望峡谷，你会以为你身处山区，而不是在城市里LmUK)1EsIP4vX。那真是个非常漂亮的地方^Go5Z2Pnc9VMi%。
Todd: Sounds like a nice place.
托德：听起来是个不错的地方70Ss#jh%XJ。

重点讲解

重点讲解：
1. sore point
痛点；痛处；
eg. Don't mention baldness to Eddie. It's a sore point with him.
别对伊迪提起秃头之类的事，他对这事很敏感tNY8.JOoOtpkQ。
eg. This just becomes these achieving to drop the biggest sore point of copartner.
这恰恰成为这些创投合伙人的最大心病ss6LccRl^.65h)@。
2. compared to
相对…而言；对照；
eg. The writer was compared to Shakespeare.
把这个作家与莎士比亚进行了比较ibu|juG*Tbg.v*BXgG。
eg. That had been a placid pastime compared to his condition now.
与他目前的情况相比，那简直算是安静的消遣了sS|OD|TIeJq=@。
3. as far as sth. is concerned
就…而言，说到（用于表明所谈论的话题） ；
eg. As far as starting a family is concerned, the trend is for women having their children later in life.
在要孩子方面，目前的趋势是女性要孩子要得比较晚qZVUmJux~t@N^G%。
eg. As far as oil energy is concerned, we cannot be too frugal.
就石油能源而言，我们愈节省愈好^c1@!EZA4+1u(。
4. bump into
偶然遇见；意外碰到；
eg. I happened to bump into Mervyn Johns in the hallway.
我在走廊里意外碰见了默文·约翰斯&eHI)#8jh*N.ByFl~q。
eg. How nice to bump into you!
碰到你真高兴！
5. in the middle of
在…的中间；
eg. I was in the middle of the back row.
我在后排的中间!0fm(Qp!RTPAG%。
eg. Two actors carried on a dialogue in the middle of the stage.
两个演员在舞台中央进行对白6T!d+,2G,C=DYV%dC+tZ。