英语听力精选进阶版 7888

Callum: Hello, I'm Callum and this is On the Town. With me today is Helen. Hello Helen.

Helen: Hi Callum.

Callum: Now, I've got a little quiz for you.

Helen: 小测验？没问题，你说吧。

Callum: What do you think I'm talking about? There are over 50,000 of these in Britain and about 7,000 in London. What are they?

Helen: 在英国有5万个，在伦敦有7千个。 是不是中餐馆？

Callum: No, but a very good guess, it's along the right lines. I'm talking about the traditional British pub. The boozer.

Helen: The boozer?

Callum: Yes, that's another name for pubs. Boozers, from the word booze which is a common word for alcohol. Have a listen to this – this is a recording¹ I made of a short shopping trip near our office. As you listen, can you count how many pubs I mention?

Helen: 那么让我们边听边数你提到了几个酒吧。

Well I've just popped out of the office, I'm going to do a little bit of shopping and go and get some lunch and I'm going to take a very unscientific survey and just see how many pubs I pass in this part of London.

Okay, this is the first one I've just passed, it's called The Marquis of Anglesey, and it's offering its 'famous pies' and it's right next door to another one called The Globe.

Let's cross the road and here are two more on the opposite side of the street to each other, we have The Nag's Head and The White Lion. They're all over the place.

And here's another one, it's called The Crown and Anchor and on my right we have The Cross Keys and here we have The Sun and coming up on my left, here's another one, The Prince of Wales. And if I just look to my right down this street we have The Freemasons Arms.

That's the end of my little lunchtime shopping trip and I can't remember how many pubs I actually passed. Must have been seven or eight. Now admittedly, I wasn't counting coffee chains or sandwich bars, I'm sure I passed many more of those but it does still seem as if the traditional British pub is still very prominent.

Helen: 你说了几个酒吧？大概7个或者8个吧。

Callum: Well actually there were nine, I had completely lost count.

Helen: 9个酒吧，才短短几分钟，你就看到了这么多个酒吧？

Callum: I should say of course that that was an edited² piece. It was longer than a couple of minutes I was walking for but all these pubs were within about a kilometre radius³ and that was just the ones I passed.

Helen: 这些酒吧的名字也很特别，是不是？

Callum: Yes, many pub names go back hundreds of years and often follow a similar pattern. They'll be "The Something" as we heard in my walk there was The Sun, The Globe, The Prince of Wales. And another common form of pub names is "The Something and Something" – such as The Crown and Anchor. This reminds me of a game we used to play when I was a young child. The game was called Pub Cricket⁴ and it was based on the names of pubs.

Helen: Pub cricket? 这是什么游戏？

Callum: Well it was a game we played in the car on long journeys, as a way to pass the time. You would look on your side of the road and you'd score points depending on the name of the pub. You'd score a point for each limb⁵ or body part in the name.

Helen: 如果酒吧名字里提到动物或人的肢体部位，那么就可以算出能得几分。

Callum: Yes, so for example if I passed a pub called The White Horse how many points would I score?

Helen: 如果酒吧的名字是白马？那就是4分，因为马有4条腿。

Callum: Four, that's right and a pub called the King's Head would get you one point.

Helen: 这个酒吧叫国王头，这个头就算1分。 这倒挺有意思的。

Callum: Well it was quite fun as a young child, I remember, but I guess it is a game you could play now walking around the streets of London.

Helen: 那么你中午出去遛达的时候累计了几分呢？

Callum: Well that's a good question. I tell you what, try and work it out yourself. I'll put the answer on the website – see if you can get the same score.

Helen: 好主意，我正好出去放松一下，玩玩 pub cricket!

Callum: And I might just go and visit a pub myself too. Just for research of course! Bye.

Helen: Bye!

Callum's pub cricket score

The Marquis of Angelsey... 4

The Globe... 0

The Nag's Head... 1

The White Lion... 4

The Crown and Anchor... 0

The Cross Keys... 0

The Sun... 0

The Prince of Wales... 4

The Freemason's Arms... 2

TOTAL 15 points

1 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

2 edited   

编辑( edit的过去式和过去分词 )； 剪辑（电影、录音磁带、无线电或电视节目、书等）； 主编（报纸、杂志等）

参考例句：

• I know that this draft text will need to be edited. 我知道这篇草稿需要校订。
• All references to the scandal were edited out of the tape. 所有涉及这件丑闻的内容都从录音带中删去了。

3 radius   

n.半径，半径范围；有效航程，范围，界限

参考例句：

• He has visited every shop within a radius of two miles.周围两英里以内的店铺他都去过。
• We are measuring the radius of the circle.我们正在测量圆的半径。

4 cricket   

n.蟋蟀，板球运动；adj.公平的

参考例句：

• The England cricket team scored quite a useful total.英格兰板球队得分总数令人满意。
• We could hear the shrill of the midsummer cricket.我们可以听到仲夏时节蟋蟀的尖叫声。
• Your behaviour isn't cricket.你的行为不光彩。

5 limb   

n.树枝，四肢，枝干，边缘；vt.切断手足，切断树干

参考例句：

• She sat on a limb of the tree and looked down.她坐在一根大树枝上往下看。
• His refusal to agree left him out on a limb.他拒不表示同意，致使自己处于孤立地位。