英语听力精选进阶版 7813

John: Today, we’re in Liverpool!

Sun Chen: The home of The Beatles! 好了，我们今天要介绍的城市就是利物浦。当然要说起利物浦，我们马上能在嘴边提起来的，就是来自这座城市的甲壳虫乐队,那利物浦还有什么让它出名的吗？ What else is the city known for John?

John: The BBC spoke¹ with Perry Lee, and Anthony Sayonas, two people who live in Liverpool. Perry is from Liverpool’s Chinese community, and he told us all about Chinatown in Liverpool, and Anthony knows a lot about the strange sculptures you can see all over the city.

Sun Chen: 我们要和 Perry 去参观利物浦的中国城 Chinatown, Anthony 还要给我们挨个说说利物浦街头当中很奇怪的街头雕塑。They are very strange.

John: First to Chinatown. Perry showed the BBC one of the oldest pubs³ in China town.

Sun Chen: 一会儿 Perry 说话的时候，我们会听到他说过去的酒吧服务生喊关门的时间 call time. 这个酒吧用语通常是酒吧马上就要关门，停止卖酒的时候用的. Perry带我们到了一家利物浦最古老的酒吧。据说以前好多这儿的中国人就经常来这个酒吧碰头。

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This is The Nook pub² which is one of the oldest pubs in Liverpool, and they used to call time in both English and Chinese. Many a time I’d have to come down here and get my dad out, because he used to get paid from the company ship’s office, which was here where this restaurant, The New Capital was, when he was on home leave.

Sun Chen: Ok 这么说，Perry 的父亲曾经就是经常出海的海员。

John: And, Perry’s Dad was Chinese so I think he appreciated that when the pub staff called time it was both in Chinese and English!

Sun Chen: 这就是我们刚才发现的一个，在利物浦说中文的酒吧。利物浦还有些什么好玩儿的呢？ What next John?

John: Well Chinatown in Liverpool loves to celebrate. And Perry told us all about Chinese New Year and how it is celebrated⁴ in Liverpool.

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Amazing eh? Strange isn’t it. A thousand year tradition. A dragon dance. Set against a backdrop of the Anglican Cathederal. It’s a strange juxtaposition⁵, here in Liverpool.

John: Ah, so it’s the traditional dragon dance which moves slowly through Chinatown that marks the New Year in Liverpool.

Sun Chen: 传统的舞龙 the traditional dragon dance. 在利物浦，舞龙经常在英国圣公会教堂外面举行。

John: Perry calls this a strange juxtaposition. A juxtaposition is where two quite different things are placed side by side, in this case the traditional Chinese dance, and a church, where the dance is being performed.

Sun Chen: A juxtaposition 就是并排出现。

John: Yes, this is BBC Learning⁶ English with On The Town in Liverpool. We’ve heard about a Chinese-English pub, and how New Year is celebrated in Chinatown in Liverpool, but what else.

Sun Chen: 说起利物浦街头那些奇怪的雕塑，Anthony 就兴奋不已。我们来听听他是怎么给我们介绍的。

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Liverpool has got more pieces of art on the street than any other city in the land. At the present moment these are new pieces of art, by the Paul McCartney School of Music and stuff⁷. And these are called case histories. And what they are, are supposedly all the famous people that have been based in Liverpool, and famous organisations that have left Liverpool, like they’ve left their luggage here. It’s a really really interesting piece of art. It’s fun!

John: Anthony was sitting on a large pile of what looked like suitcases, in the middle of a road!

Sun Chen: 手提箱 suitcases, 在大街中间. 这个雕塑表述的其实就是那些从利物浦乘船到很远的地方去的人们，他们把行李落在了这里。

John: And there are lots of other similar statues and sculptures all over the city, as this year Liverpool is the European City of Culture.

Sun Chen: 别忘了以后连续收听我们的节目。我们也希望你今年能有机会来利物浦亲身感受！

John: Bye.

1 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

2 pub   

n.[英]旅馆，小店，酒馆

参考例句：

• He is the landlord of this pub.他是这家酒店的店主。
• They saw that four large men marched into the pub.他们看到四个彪形大汉走进了酒吧。

3 pubs   

酒店，酒馆( pub的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• I don't like pubs.They're noisy, smelly, and what's more, expensive. 我不喜欢酒吧。那里又吵，气味又难闻，更重要的是，花费太多。
• We did/went the rounds of all the pubs in town. 我们逐一光顾了城里所有的酒店。

4 celebrated   

adj.有名的，声誉卓著的

参考例句：

• He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
• The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。

5 juxtaposition   

n.毗邻，并置，并列

参考例句：

• The juxtaposition of these two remarks was startling.这两句话连在一起使人听了震惊。
• It is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors.这是并列对比色的结果。

6 learning   

n.学问，学识，学习；动词learn的现在分词

参考例句：

• When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时，常会从车上掉下来。
• Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。

7 stuff   

n.原料，材料，东西；vt.填满；吃饱

参考例句：

• We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
• He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。