【英语趣味课堂】去格拉斯哥旅游-Travelling in Glasgow

Matt: If I were traveling to Scotland¹ would it be very expensive for me to spend time in Glasgow?

 

Rachel: I'd say there some of the hotels that are quite expensive, but you can usually find a nice bed-and-breakfast which would cost you maybe thirty pounds, English pounds. Scottish pounds even.

 

Matt: Right, right, right.

 

Rachel: A night, and that would have breakfast included.

 

Matt: Yeah, that sounds good. And what about like transportation?

 

Rachel: Glasgow's one of the few cities out of London that has an underground and it only has one line, so it's called the clockwork orange cause it just goes around in a big circle. But it's quite cheap to use. And the good think about Glasgow actually is it's walkable. You can walk around the city quite easily without having to take transportation.

 

Matt: Yeah, that's good. And is that named after the movie?

 

Rachel: Yeah, I think so.

 

Matt: OK, alright.

 

Rachel: I think that was a sort of reference² to it. Yeah. And it is orange. The line, the picture of the line is orange, so. And the buses in Glasgow are orange.

 

Matt: Okay, it's a theme.

 

Rachel: Yes. I don't know why. Different cities in Britain have different colored buses, like Edinburgh's buses are maroon³ and London's buses are red.

 

Matt: Yeah, everyone chooses a color.

 

Rachel: Yeah.

 

Matt: Does it match the flag or the region⁴ or local area?

 

Rachel: I don't know why Glasgow's orange and Edinburgh's maroon but that's the way it is.

1 Scotland   

n.苏格兰

参考例句：

• He has been hiking round Scotland for a month.他围着苏格兰徒步旅行了一个月。
• Scotland is to the north of England.苏格兰在英格兰之北。

2 reference   

n.提到，说到，暗示，查看，查阅

参考例句：

• We spent days going through all related reference material.我们花了好多天功夫查阅所有有关的参考资料。
• I like to have my reference books within my reach.我喜欢把参考书放到伸手可取的地方。

3 maroon   

v.困住，使（人）处于孤独无助之境；n.逃亡黑奴；孤立的人；酱紫色，褐红色；adj.酱紫色的，褐红色的

参考例句：

• Five couples were marooned in their caravans when the River Avon broke its banks.埃文河决堤的时候，有5对夫妇被困在了他们的房车里。
• Robinson Crusoe has been marooned on a desert island for 26 years.鲁滨逊在荒岛上被困了26年。

4 region   

n.地区，地带，区域；范围，幅度

参考例句：

• The students went to study the geology of that region.学生们去研究那个地区的地质情况。
• It is unusual to see snow in this region.这个地区难得见到雪。