英语访谈对话 488 European Vacation

 　　Todd: So, Steven, you're from Europe, you're from England. (Yep) Have you travelled much in England? I'm sorry, have you travelled much in Europe?

　　Steven: Ah, yes I have, yeah. Um, when I was 18 and 20 I travelled all around Europe by train.

　　Todd: Oh, wow, sounds fun.

　　Steven: Ah, it's great, so basically¹ backpacking, but going between countries by train with some friends. I travelled with some friends, so you can buy one ticket. It's called an interrail ticket and you can visit any country in Europe using this one ticket. They last, well, the ticket I had lasted one month.

　　Todd: That's a good deal.

　　Steven: So, we went to France and we travelled to Italy and then we went down to some Greek² islands. Also we went to Amsterdam in Holland³.

　　Todd: Wow! What did you do in France?

　　Steven: In France we were on the South Coast⁴, South of France. What did we do? Well, really we spent our time on the beach mainly⁵ playing water sports on the beach and just sunbathing⁶ and relaxing. (Cool) That kind of thing. Yep.

　　Todd: Ah, did you make it to Sardegna?

　　Steven: Sardegna...no

　　Todd: Or Corsica? I'm sorry.

　　Steven: No, no we didn't. Nope.

　　Todd: Oh, really.

　　Steven: Um, I think my favorite city was probably Florence in Italy.

　　Todd: Oh, OK.

　　Steven: We were lucky, We met some students, some British students who was studying Italian, and they had their own apartment on the hills, one of the hills in Florence, and they invited us to their apartment, so we stayed with them, and they had, they had built up some local knowledge. They knew about some local restaurants so they took us to a very traditional, whatchucallem, piatza, uh pizza restaurant, pizze, pizzu (Pizzeria!) Thank you. Yes. Um, and I think it was the best pizza I've ever had. It was wonderful.

　　Todd: I'm hungry now too.

　　Steven: And they even took us to a communist⁷ festival, which was in the mountain and we played five a side football, at a communist festival which was quite a unique⁸ experience.

　　Todd: How bizarre⁹. How bizarre.

　　Steven: After some tequila. It was great.

　　Todd: So, Florence was your favorite city. Was Italy you're favorite country?

　　Steven: Ah, I think so. I love the Tuscany area. Yeah, it's absolutely¹⁰ beautiful. Hard to beat.

　　Todd: Well, wish I could do it again.

1 basically   

adv.基本上，从根本上说

参考例句：

• His heart is basically sound.他的心脏基本上健康。
• Basically I agree with your plan.我基本上同意你的计划。

2 Greek   

adj.希腊(人)的，希腊语的；n.希腊人；希腊语

参考例句：

• The Greek seaman went to the hospital five times.这位希腊海员到该医院去过五次。
• Delta is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.δ是希腊字母中的第四个字母。

3 Holland   

n.荷兰(欧洲)

参考例句：

• There are many dairies in Holland.荷兰有很多牛奶场。
• Holland is one of Germany's neighbours.荷兰是德国的邻国之一。

4 coast   

n.海岸，海滨，滑坡；vt.沿海岸而行；vi.下滑

参考例句：

• They're holidaying on the west coast.他们正在西海岸度假。
• There are thousands of villages on the coast.在沿海有上千座村庄。

5 mainly   

adv.主要地，大抵，大概

参考例句：

• The sea water is mainly composed of water and salt.海水主要由水和盐组成。
• It is mainly because of my fault.这主要是由于我的过错。

6 sunbathing   

n.日光浴

参考例句：

• tourists sunbathing on the beach 在海滩上沐浴着阳光的游客
• We've been sunbathing on the beach. 我们一直在海滩上晒日光浴。

7 communist   

n.共产主义者，共产党员；adj.共产主义的，共产党员的

参考例句：

• In the following year he joined the Communist Party.第二年他入了共产党。
• The People's Daily is the organ of the Chinese Communist Party.《人民日报》是中国共产党的党报。

8 unique   

adj.独一无二的，独特的；罕见的

参考例句：

• The paths must be unique.路径必须是唯一的。
• This stamp is unique;there are no others like it.这张邮票是独一无二的，再也没有象这样的了。

9 bizarre   

adj.奇形怪状的，怪诞的

参考例句：

• They saw a bizarre animal in the lake.他们在湖中看见一个奇怪的动物。
• The building was of bizarre construction.这建筑构造奇异。

10 absolutely   

adv.绝对地；完全地

参考例句：

• The plane absolutely refused to start.这架飞机完全发动不起来。
• All the car parks are absolutely full.所有的停车场都停满了车。