【英语趣味课堂】喜爱印度-Loving India

My name is Jeff Eagar. I'm from Canada but I just spent six months in India and I love India. I think India is my favorite country in the whole world. India is very interesting. It's real life. It's the good and the bad, and the rich and the poor, and the happy and the struggling, all together in one country, and when you go to India, you feel a lot of emotion, you feel a lot of sadness and happiness and joy and that's why India is my favorite country.

India is a very interesting culture, and it's a very old culture. It takes a little bit of time for you to get used to India when you go there. They go things differently from other countries. I was eating with my hands in India. You eat with your hand and your left hand acts as toilet paper, because they don't have toilet paper in India, and they are mostly Hindu and they believe in the Hindi, Hindu religion, and it's a very old religion. A very beautiful religion, they have many gods and many deities¹, and it's very colorful and they do lots, lots of religions ceremonies with fire and with bells, and with holy² priests⁴, and it's very visually⁵, for your eyes, it's an interesting place, a very interesting thing to see 

 

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a little bit

 

It takes a little bit of time for you to get used to India when you go there.

 

Used like this 'a little bit' is similar to some.  The example is saying that you are not immediately used to India, it takes some time to adapt. Notice the following:

 

You will need a little bit of patience to deal with cultural differences.

It always takes a little bit of time to get your food at this restaurant.

acts

 

In India, you eat with your hand and your left hand acts as toilet paper.

 

'Acts,' in this example, can be replaced with 'is used as' or 'replaces.'  Basically, people use their left hand instead of toilet paper. Notice the following:

 

The waterfall acts like a natural shower.

These games act as entertainment for the village.

religion

 

The Hindu religion is very old.

 

A 'religion' is a set of beliefs or ideas about the ways of the world and how it was created and should function. There are many different religions in the world. Notice the following:

 

Which is the most popular religion in your country?

He learns about religions all over the world.

deities

 

The Hindu religion has many deities.

 

A 'deity⁶' is a god or spiritual⁷ character. Notice the following:

 

There is a deity for luck and another one for love.

There are sculptures⁸ and images of deities all over the house.

holy priests

 

They conduct their religious⁹ ceremonies with holy priests.

 

A 'holy priest³' is a spiritual leader who has been trained to lead ceremonies. Notice the following:

 

He is training to become a priest.

The wedding was performed by a holy priest.

1 deities   

n.神，女神( deity的名词复数 )；神祗；神灵；神明

参考例句：

• Zeus and Aphrodite were ancient Greek deities. 宙斯和阿佛洛狄是古希腊的神。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Taoist Wang hesitated occasionally about these transactions for fearof offending the deities. 道士也有过犹豫，怕这样会得罪了神。 来自汉英文学 - 现代散文

2 holy   

adj.神圣的，圣洁的，至善的；n.神圣的东西

参考例句：

• She was still a holy and pure young girl.她仍是一个圣洁的少女。
• He reads the Holy Bible every night.他每晚读《圣经》。

3 priest   

n.神父，牧师，司铎，司祭，领导者，神甫；vt.使成为神职人员

参考例句：

• He confessed to a priest that he had sinned.他向神父忏悔他犯了罪。
• The priest visited all the old people in the parish.牧师探望了教区里的所有老人。

4 priests   

n.（基督教和罗马天主教的）神父( priest的名词复数 )；牧师；（非基督教会的）教士；祭司

参考例句：

• the ordination of women priests 女司祭的授职礼
• The clergy remain divided on the issue of women priests. 在女性教士的问题上，牧师们意见不一。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 visually   

adv.视觉上；外表上；看得见地；形象化地

参考例句：

• a visually handicapped child 弱视儿童
• Our findings relate to physically rather than the visually handicapped pupils. 我们的研究结果是关于肢体残疾的学生，而不是视力有障碍的学生。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 deity   

n.神，神性；被奉若神明的人(或物)

参考例句：

• Many animals were seen as the manifestation of a deity.许多动物被看作神的化身。
• The deity was hidden in the deepest recesses of the temple.神藏在庙宇壁龛的最深处。

7 spiritual   

adj.精神上的，神圣的，崇高的，高尚的，鬼的，招魂论的&n.有关教会的事

参考例句：

• His spiritual nature is good.他心灵本质上是善良的。
• Their friendship was strictly spiritual.他们的友情完全是精神上的。

8 sculptures   

n.雕刻( sculpture的名词复数 )；雕刻品；雕刻术；雕塑术

参考例句：

• She creates sculptures out of scrap materials. 她利用废旧材料进行雕塑创作。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He asked one of his helpers to borrow some hammers and tear down the Buddhist sculptures. 他吩咐帮手去借几个铁锤，让原先几座塑雕委曲一下。 来自汉英文学 - 现代散文

9 religious   

adj.宗教性的，虔诚的，宗教上的；n.修道士，出家人

参考例句：

• She is very religious person who goes to church every Sunday.她十分虔诚，每个星期天都上教堂。
• It is hard for me to reject religious beliefs.要我抛弃自己的宗教信仰是困难的。