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Vicki: Hello and welcome to On the Town from BBC Learning English. I’m Vicki.

Youling: 大家好， 我是幼玲。每次在都市掠影节目中，我们都会给你介绍英国的很有意思的地方。我们今天的目的地是个海滨小镇！

Vicki: That’s right, today we’re finding out about a seaside town in South-East England, called Whitstable. I went there to talk to Sophie and Bridgette, two young mothers who live there, and asked them why Whitstable is a nice place to live.

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Sophie - There is so much that's good about living here. It seems like a really safe area to live, lots of places to go for lovely walks… it's by the sea so you get all the lovely fresh air.

Bridgette – Whitstable as a place is really beautiful in the summer, it's great to go down to the beach and let the kids play. And in the winter it’s a little bit miserable¹, cold and windy, but the summers make up for all of that. The beach in Whitstable is… there's no sand, it's all pebbles² and the shingle³ is all the way into the sea so if you want to swim it's preferable to wear swimming shoes.

Youling: 要谈惠茨特布尔，第一要提及的自然是它的海滩了！

Youling:Bridgette 还特意提到它是什么样的海滩。

Vicki: It’s not a sandy beach, it’s a shingle beach.

Youling: Shingle –圆形的小石子; 圆卵石。 Vicki， Bridgette 好象还提到了另外一个意思相似的单词。

Vicki: Pebbles.

Youling: 因为不是沙滩，都是石子， 所以要不想扎疼你的脚， 你最好就别脱掉你的鞋。

Vicki: Bridgette said that Whitstable is lovely in the summer, but she doesn’t like it so much in the winter – it can get a bit grey and miserable.

Youling: 天色昏暗的冬季里，在海边就不免有种凄凉的感觉。所以冬季的遗憾就等到夏季再补上吧。 英文是怎么说的？

Vicki: to make up for something – the summers make up for the winters.

Youling: Sophie 还提到了她喜欢住在惠茨特布尔的一些其它原因。她觉得这里治安也比较好。

Vicki: safe

Youling: 不仅安全， 而且还有良好的散步环境和新鲜的空气。

Vicki: Fresh air.

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Sophie - It seems like a really safe area to live, lots of places to go for lovely walks, it's by the sea so you get all the lovely fresh air.

Bridgette – Whitstable as a place is really beautiful in the summer, it's great to go down to the beach and let the kids play. The beach in Whitstable is… there's no sand, it's all pebbles and the shingle is all the way into the sea so if you want to swim it's preferable to wear swimming shoes.

Vicki: Another interesting thing about Whitstable beach is the beach huts.

Youling: Beach huts 是什么呀？

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Bridgette - They are just plain wooden houses with… well shacks⁴ really with… there's no electricity or anything, it's just a place where you can keep your stuff for the beach, they're quite picturesque⁵, and all painted different colours all along the coastline, quite beautiful really.

Vicki:The beach huts are made of wood.

Youling: 就是海滩上的小木屋，Bridgette 说它们就象窝棚。

Vicki: Shacks. They are all painted different colours.

Youling: 这些小木屋五颜六色，看起来还满好看。构成了一幅如画的风景线。

Vicki: picturesque

Youling: 但它们是干什么用的呢？

Vicki: Just for keeping your stuff for the beach in!

Youling: 除了海滩外，惠茨特布尔还有什么好玩的？

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Bridgette - there's loads of restaurants, good restaurants and fantastic shellfish, your oysters⁶ are beautiful.

Sophie – Whitstable very, very much for its seafood⁷ and there's three or four restaurants that you can get really, really good oysters .

Vicki: There are lots of restaurants, and in particular you can eat lots of seafood.

Youling: 原来这里还有很多海鲜馆儿。还有这里当地特有的贝类海鲜。

Vicki: That’s right, there's one type of shellfish which Whitstable is famous for. Listen again and see if you can hear what it is.

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Bridgette - fantastic shellfish, your oysters are beautiful.

Sophie – can get really, really good oysters

Vicki: So, Whitstable is famous for oysters

Youling: 鲜蚌!

Vicki: The local wild oysters are called Whitstable ‘natives’

Youling: Native 本地特产. 我特喜欢吃鲜蚌， 你呢？

Vicki: No, I don’t really like them much…. But I like other seafood so I still enjoyed the restaurants in whitstable.

Youling: 那这儿的购物环境怎么样呢？ 都有什么样的商店呢？

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Sophie - It's certainly not full of your high street chain stores. The small shops, the individual shops and there seem to be more and more lovely little boutique shops.

Vicki: Most of the shops are small individual ones

Youling: individual – 私人的，私家的。现在连锁店太多了。

Vicki: chain stores

Youling: Sophie 还用到了另外一个涉及商店类型的词。

Vicki: boutiques

Vicki: Well, we’ve run out of time for today.

Youling: 下次再带你转转别的好玩的地方。

Vicki: Goodbye!

Youling: 再见。

1 miserable   

adj.悲惨的，痛苦的；可怜的，糟糕的

参考例句：

• It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他，这是可耻的。
• Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。

2 pebbles   

[复数]鹅卵石； 沙砾； 卵石，小圆石( pebble的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The pebbles of the drive crunched under his feet. 汽车道上的小石子在他脚底下喀嚓作响。
• Line the pots with pebbles to ensure good drainage. 在罐子里铺一层鹅卵石，以确保排水良好。

3 shingle   

n.木瓦板；小招牌(尤指医生或律师挂的营业招牌)；v.用木瓦板盖（屋顶）；把（女子头发）剪短

参考例句：

• He scraped away the dirt,and exposed a pine shingle.他刨去泥土，下面露出一块松木瓦块。
• He hung out his grandfather's shingle.他挂出了祖父的行医招牌。

4 shacks   

n.窝棚，简陋的小屋( shack的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They live in shacks which they made out of wood. 他们住在用木头搭成的简陋的小屋里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Most people in Port au-Prince live in tin shacks. 太子港的大多数居民居住在铁皮棚里。 来自互联网

5 picturesque   

adj.美丽如画的，（语言）生动的，绘声绘色的

参考例句：

• You can see the picturesque shores beside the river.在河边你可以看到景色如画的两岸。
• That was a picturesque phrase.那是一个形象化的说法。

6 oysters   

牡蛎( oyster的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• We don't have oysters tonight, but the crayfish are very good. 我们今晚没有牡蛎供应。但小龙虾是非常好。
• She carried a piping hot grill of oysters and bacon. 她端出一盘滚烫的烤牡蛎和咸肉。

7 seafood   

n.海产食品，海味，海鲜

参考例句：

• There's an excellent seafood restaurant near here.离这儿不远有家非常不错的海鲜馆。
• Shrimps are a popular type of seafood.小虾是比较普遍的一种海味。