【一起闲话英语】最喜爱的国外城市-Best (Foreign) City

Katia, Mexico

speaker My favorite city, I would have to say that is New York. It's very lively. There's always things happening. It's very young city, a lot of culture, a lot of shows. Nature, there's also nature, and the buildings. It just gives you a certain feeling that I really enjoy so I would say New York City is my favorite city.

Tom, United¹ Kingdom

speaker Bangkok is my favorite city, not so much for the city itself but because there are so many places around Bangkok within easy reach of a day trip and a visit. It's a great place to base yourself. The weather's fantastic. The food is amazing, and there's just a lot going on.

 

Lia, Indonesia²

speaker My favorite city would be Singapore because it's close from my home country and it has a lot of beautiful places, good department stores. It's very beautiful and they have a very strict rules like you cannot throw rubbish or garbage everything in other places so it's very beautiful and the people are very nice. Actually, they can speak English and Chinese so it's a very good place.

 

Todd, United States

speaker My favorite city hands down has got to be Barcelona, Spain. Now, it's a long time since I was there, but when I was there, it just really had everything. It has great architecture³, nice people, really good weather, great food. It has a very strong culture. The city has a very strong identity⁴. It's on the sea. It's just great, like it's hard to think of anything bad about it except maybe it's a little expensive.

 

Crystal⁵, United States

speaker My favorite city has to be Seoul, Korea⁶. I've been there about like five times already and the people are just amazing. Like the people there are just so rough⁷ and so mean and just so aggressive⁸. I don't know, it's so much fun to be there I think because of the people.

 

Jess, United Kingdom

speaker My favorite city would be Paris. I lived very near Paris for about three months,and went to Paris every weekend for sightseeing and going out in the evenings, and it's just fabulous⁹ spending all day walking around the city looking at the architecture, going to art galleries, and then at night, the restaurants and the wine was fantastic and then night clubbing on Saturday nights, so yeah, I think it's a fabulous city.

1 united   

adj.和谐的；团结的；联合的，统一的

参考例句：

• The whole nation is closely united.全国人民紧密团结。
• The two men were united by community of interests.共同的利益使两个人结合在一起。

2 Indonesia   

n.印度尼西亚

参考例句：

• You see,I stayed in Indonesia for eight years.你知道，我在印度尼西亚呆了8年。
• Indonesia has more active volcanoes than any other country.印尼是世界上活火山最多的国家。

3 architecture   

n.建筑学，建筑术；建筑物；组织，结构

参考例句：

• I'm interested in classical architecture.我喜爱古典建筑风格。
• She studied architecture and art history at the university.她在大学里学习建筑和艺术史。

4 identity   

n.身份，本体，特征；同一(性)，一致

参考例句：

• He never revealed his identity.他从未暴露过自己的身份。
• He showed his identity card and went in.他把工作证亮了一下就进去了。

5 crystal   

n.水晶，水晶饰品，结晶体；最好的玻璃器皿

参考例句：

• It used to be a crystal stream.那曾是条清澈见底的小溪。
• Those fine wine glasses are made of crystal.那些漂亮的酒杯是用水晶做的。

6 Korea   

n.朝鲜(亚洲)

参考例句：

• Korea lies to the east of China.韩国位于中国东面。
• Korea and China are separated by only the Yalu River.朝鲜和中国只隔一条鸭绿江。

7 rough   

adj.粗糙的；粗略的，大致的；粗野的，粗暴的

参考例句：

• It's just a very rough translation.这只是一篇非常粗糙的译稿。
• His reply was a bit rough.他的答复过于粗鲁了一点。

8 aggressive   

adj.侵略的，好斗的；敢作敢为的

参考例句：

• You'd better keep the two aggressive boys apart.你最好把那两个好斗的男孩分开。
• These fish are very aggressive.这些鱼极具攻击性。

9 fabulous   

adj.极好的；极为巨大的；寓言中的，传说中的

参考例句：

• We had a fabulous time at the party.我们在晚会上玩得很痛快。
• This is a fabulous sum of money.这是一笔巨款。