华尔街基础英语Lesson 13

1. Good morning. Here we are outside our hotel in Brighton
2. Today we’re going for a walk in the beautiful countryside here,
3. And I must say, we’re lucky to have very nice weather for it,
4. We have some lunch, too—the hotel kindly¹ made us some sandwiches—and we have a car.
5. This is the one.
6. Geez, it’s small, why is everything so damn² small in this country? Small and old?
7. So, Alan’s going to drive, and I’m going to show him where to go,
8. I think I can remember how to get here. But I have a map anyway.
9. So honey, off we go! And remember: in Britain they drive on the other side of the road.
10. So where are we going?
11. We’re going to the Devil’s Dyke³.
12. What did you say? “The Devil’s Dyke”?
13. Honey, in British English a “dyke” is like,
14. A kind of place between two hills where the ground, like, goes down,
15. Oh, yeah?
16. Anyway, just look at the road, Alan, and remember to drive on the left.
17. You already said that, about ten thousand times, so which way now?
18. Uh, take a left here, you see? Where the sign says “London”.
19. Ok, Devil’s Dyke.
20. Here, take a right here!
21. How can I take a right? All the other cars are going left.
22. No, you go left, and then you go round, and then you take a right.
23. What do you mean? But then we’ll go back the way we came, back into Brighton.
24. No, we won’t! Look, you see the sign saying “Lewes”.
25. No, where’s that? I can’t see it. Oh to hell⁴ with it, I’ll just go on!
26. That was just great, Alan. Now we’re on the freeway to London.
27. So we’ll go to London. I’m sure there are lots of old strange sounding places in London.
28. We’re not going to London, honey. You can take the next exit from the freeway, and go back the way we came.
29. That’s just what I said. We’re going back to Brighton.
30. Then why did we come here anyway? Why did we hire this crummy little car?
31. When we get back to that place where you didn’t take a right, like I asked you, you can take a left this time, OK?
32. Alright.
33. So, this is the exit. You take a left here, then you take a right.
34. And you take a left here, and then we’ll be back on the freeway but going the other way.
35. Oh, so we get to see the other side of the freeway? That’s great!
36. Now, you take a left here, Alan, do you think you can do that?

1 kindly   

adj.和蔼的，温和的，爽快的；adv.温和地，亲切地

参考例句：

• Her neighbours spoke of her as kindly and hospitable.她的邻居都说她和蔼可亲、热情好客。
• A shadow passed over the kindly face of the old woman.一道阴影掠过老太太慈祥的面孔。

2 damn   

int.该死，他妈的；vt.指责，贬斥，诅咒

参考例句：

• Damn this useless typewriter!这台破打字机真该死！
• I knew damn well what he was going to say.我非常清楚他要说什么。

3 dyke   

n.堤，水坝，排水沟

参考例句：

• If one sheep leap over the dyke,all the rest will follow.一只羊跳过沟，其余的羊也跟着跳。
• One ant-hole may cause the collapse of a thousand-li dyke.千里长堤，溃于蚁穴。

4 hell   

n.地狱，阴间；用以咒骂或表示愤怒，不满

参考例句：

• It's a hell of a hike from Sydney to Perth.从悉尼到珀斯的徒步旅行简直苦死了。
• The boss really gave me hell today.老板今天着实数落了我一通。