【英语时差8,16】巴腊鲜货市场（上）

Borough¹ Market Paul: It’s London’s oldest food market! Yang Li: It’s also the most famous place for fine food. Paul: It’s the famous Borough Market, right near London Bridge!So glad to have you join us for a visit to the world famous Borough Market! Oh yeah, this market is probably one of the top markets in Europe. It’s a food market now. It’s started very small but now it’s grown to a big market now and there’s a lot of quality foods here. Paul: Borough Market has a long history as a wholesale² fruit and vegetable market. Yang Li: It’s also the country’s most important retail³ market for fine foods. Paul: We spoke⁴ to Richard, a local trader. He said there is a lot of history in this place. Borough market has been here for about 1,000 years, pretty much since the Romans left and it used to go across both sides of London Bridge, as London Bridge was much bigger, much wider and people used to live on it. But it was deemed too dangerous and so it was brought down onto the bank side. So there's a lot of history in this place and it’s a good place to come if you like food especially 'cause there's lots of different food from different places all over the world and everybody is particularly passionate⁵ about their particular product. Well, there are all sorts of food. There's, from your butcher, so you've got different types of pork and wild boar and beef and there’s Neil's Yard dairy does all English types of cheeses with their massive variety, and there are stalls that concentrate just on one particular thing, like just concentrates on tea.

1 borough   

n.享有自治权的市镇；(英)自治市镇

参考例句：

• He was slated for borough president.他被提名做自治区主席。
• That's what happened to Harry Barritt of London's Bromley borough.住在伦敦的布罗姆利自治市的哈里.巴里特就经历了此事。

2 wholesale   

n.批发；adv.以批发方式；vt.批发，成批出售

参考例句：

• The retail dealer buys at wholesale and sells at retail.零售商批发购进货物，以零售价卖出。
• Such shoes usually wholesale for much less.这种鞋批发出售通常要便宜得多。

3 retail   

v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格

参考例句：

• In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
• These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。

4 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。

5 passionate   

adj.热情的，热烈的，激昂的，易动情的，易怒的，性情暴躁的

参考例句：

• He is said to be the most passionate man.据说他是最有激情的人。
• He is very passionate about the project.他对那个项目非常热心。