原版英语对话1000个:095 Ireland

Todd: OK, Shane, you're from Ireland.

Shane: I am, indeed, yeah.

Todd: Where are you from in Ireland?

Shane: I'm from a small town about 30 miles away from Dublin called Anfield, where there is plenty of cows and farmers and those type of things, so it's a good place. Lots of green fields. No mountians. Very small town, you know. I'd say there is about maybe 2,000 people living there, but I actually live outside the town so I live, you know I've got a sort of bungalow¹ house and it's sort of far away from the town so, that where I'm living, or that's where I was living, I was living in Dublin though, the capital but I originally from about, a sort of rural town you might say.

Todd: OK. What is the best thing about your town?

Shane: It's a very close knit community, so if you go into a bar or a pub everyone seems to know each other. You know so whether, you have young people who interact with people who are 50 or 60 years of age, and there's people playing football and all that stuff, there is lots of interaction between people, so everyone seems to know each other.

 

1 bungalow   

n.平房，周围有阳台的木造小平房

参考例句：

• A bungalow does not have an upstairs.平房没有上层。
• The old couple sold that large house and moved into a small bungalow.老两口卖掉了那幢大房子，搬进了小平房。