(单词翻译:单击)
听力文本
Holidays are a wonderful time to spend with friends and family, eating and sharing stories.
假期是与朋友和家人一起吃饭和分享故事的美好时光。
Whether you are celebrating at home, waiting at airports or spending time on trains, buses or cars, these situations can give you great chances to learn English.
无论你们是在家里庆祝节日，在机场等候，还是在火车、公交车或汽车上，你们都可以学习英语。
Here are some ideas that you can use to improve your English over the holidays.
以下是一些你们可以用来在假期中提高英语水平的方法。
Podcasts
播客
The Learning English Broadcast is a 30-minute daily podcast that features the audio from our main stories each day.
慢速英语节目是一个每天30分钟的播客，每天以音频的方式重点介绍我们的主要故事。
Listening to the podcast will help develop your ability to understand spoken English and keep you informed of news and information.
收听该播客将会有助于培养你们理解英语口语的能力，让你随时了解新闻和信息。
Once you have finished a program, tell someone what you have learned--tell them about an interesting story in English or your native language.
你们听完了一个节目后，就去告诉别人你们学到了什么——用英语或你们的母语给他们讲一个有趣的故事。
Either way, you are confirming your understanding of what you heard in English.
无论用哪种方式，你们都是在确认你们对你们所听到的英语内容的理解。
Published materials
出版材料
Airports and train stations often have stores selling published materials.
机场和火车站往往有出售出版材料的商店。
Buy an English-language publication to read it while you are waiting or spending quiet time at a hotel or in a home.
买一本英文出版物，当你们在等待或在酒店或家里度过安静的时光时，可以阅读它。
Look at the images and read the lines below them.
看看里面的图片，读读图片下面的文字。
Even if you do not understand all the words, you can use the images to help you understand some of them.
即使并非所有的单词你们都能理解，你们也可以利用图片来帮助你们理解其中的一些。
Later, you can use an online dictionary to look up the words you want to learn.
之后，你们可以使用在线词典查找你们想要学习的单词。
Conversation
交谈
While traveling, it is not unusual to see people from other countries who are also waiting or exploring a new place.
在旅行中，看到来自其他国家的人也在等待或探索一个新的地方并不罕见。
If you hear someone asking for information in English, you might offer to help or simply greet them in English to talk.
如果你们听到有人用英语询问信息，你们可以主动提供帮助，或者只是用英语跟他们打招呼。
A friendly conversation is usually welcome as travelers share their experiences.
当旅行者分享他们的经历时，友好的交谈通常是受欢迎的。
Writing about your day
写下你们的一天
Writing about your day is a great way to practice your English writing skill.
写下你们的一天是练习英语写作技巧的好方法。
Draw images of what you see or do in your travels and look up the English words for the places or events later if you cannot think of them at the time.
把你们在旅行中看到或做过的事情画出来，如果你们当时想不起来表示这些地方或事件的英文单词的话，之后再去查。
Using English to describe how you spent your holiday will help you to put new words to use and make them stay in your memory longer.
用英语描述你们如何度过你们的假期将会帮助你们使用新单词，并让你们对它们保持更长时间的记忆。
And you will have a wonderful record of your travel to look at long after the holiday is over.
而且在假期结束后的很长一段时间里，你们将会有一份精彩的旅行记录供你们查看。
We hope you enjoy your travels this year, especially as we have spent much time at home the past two years.
我们希望你们今年旅行愉快，尤其是过去两年我们大部分时间都待在家里。
If you must stay home this holiday, you can always spend more time with us here at VOA Learning English.
如果这个假期你们必须待在家里，你们可以一直花更多的时间来收听VOA慢速英语节目。
I'm Jill Robbins.
吉尔·罗宾斯为您播报。
译文为可可英语翻译，未经授权请勿转载！
