英语PK台 第144期:爱丁堡国际艺术节

 Track one

70th Anniversary will be 2017

The World literally¹ is focussed on Edinburgh

There is a whole range of things – many people come and they try to replicate² what happens in Edinburgh – no one really succeeds

Because it is a combination of planning, luck and all sorts of things

The reason for its success is that its genesis was so strong

1947, the end of the second world war – Europe was destroyed, and then this idea of bringing all these peoples together at the highest possible level to celebrate the flowering of the human spirit

To be honest – not that much has changed in terms of the spirit and objective of the festival

It has always been very clearly understood within Scotland as an international event

It has always been given a great degree of independence

Always had this ambition to do things at the very highest level

It is the perfect festival city- an incredibly beautiful place to visit

Half a million people and it expands to a million

The whole city is wrapped up in this great celebration

And around the International Festival all these other festivals grew up

They now are all part of what makes Edinburgh so exciting

Edinburgh is chaotic³ at that time of year, in the nicest possible way

You try walking down the Royal Mile and it is a living carnival⁴!

That is what people want – more and more they want that sort of experience

This is all of these people from around the World coming together

Questions

1.When was the Edinburgh International Festival founded?

2.What was an idea of the festival’s foundation?

3.Why is Edinburgh the perfect festival venue⁵?

4.How many visitors come to Edinburgh and the Festival?

5.What is the Royal Mile like?

Track Two

It does not help that the licensing⁶ laws change and the bars are allowed to stay open as long as they want

There are two sides to a festival – one side is the work and the other side is the celebration

I think that’s what Edinburgh does extraordinarily⁷ well

It has seriousness of intent in terms of going to see a performance

And then this amazing celebration at the end of it

You cannot underestimate the good fun of the festival

Combine that also with the military tattoo⁸ taking place

All these things happening that just bring in huge numbers of visitors

Great for the city’s economy

It is worth hundreds of millions of Pounds to the city’s economy

One reason it has been so successful is that all of the festivals work closely together

We set up a separate body called ‘Festivals Edinburgh’ – making sure in terms of Cultural Diplomacy⁹, promotion¹⁰ in terms of tourism – are done across all of the festivals

It is wonderful in a sense, because in some other festivals you are expected to do everything

Whereas we all do slightly different things

Together we make a really important offering

You have often been accredited¹¹ with modern music – are you bringing in modern acts

Our line with classical music is very strong – we have not diminished that in any way

Questions

1.What are the two sides to a festival?

2.What cannot be underestimated?

3.What is the festival great for?

4.What was set up to coordinate¹² all the festivals in Edinburgh?

5.What is still very strong with the International Festival?

1 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

2 replicate   

v.折叠，复制，模写；n.同样的样品；adj.转折的

参考例句：

• The DNA of chromatin must replicate before cell division.染色质DNA在细胞分裂之前必须复制。
• It is also easy to replicate,as the next subsection explains.就像下一个小节详细说明的那样，它还可以被轻易的复制。

3 chaotic   

adj.混沌的，一片混乱的，一团糟的

参考例句：

• Things have been getting chaotic in the office recently.最近办公室的情况越来越乱了。
• The traffic in the city was chaotic.这城市的交通糟透了。

4 carnival   

n.嘉年华会，狂欢，狂欢节，巡回表演

参考例句：

• I got some good shots of the carnival.我有几个狂欢节的精彩镜头。
• Our street puts on a carnival every year.我们街的居民每年举行一次嘉年华会。

5 venue   

n.犯罪地点，审判地，管辖地，发生地点，集合地点

参考例句：

• The hall provided a venue for weddings and other functions.大厅给婚礼和其他社会活动提供了场所。
• The chosen venue caused great controversy among the people.人们就审判地点的问题产生了极大的争议。

6 licensing   

v.批准，许可，颁发执照( license的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• A large part of state regulation consists of occupational licensing. 大部分州的管理涉及行业的特许批准。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
• That licensing procedures for projects would move faster. 这样的工程批准程序一定会加快。 来自辞典例句

7 extraordinarily   

adv.格外地；极端地

参考例句：

• She is an extraordinarily beautiful girl.她是个美丽非凡的姑娘。
• The sea was extraordinarily calm that morning.那天清晨，大海出奇地宁静。

8 tattoo   

n.纹身，(皮肤上的)刺花纹；vt.刺花纹于

参考例句：

• I've decided to get my tattoo removed.我已经决定去掉我身上的纹身。
• He had a tattoo on the back of his hand.他手背上刺有花纹。

9 diplomacy   

n.外交；外交手腕，交际手腕

参考例句：

• The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
• This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。

10 promotion   

n.提升，晋级；促销，宣传

参考例句：

• The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
• The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级，加了薪。

11 accredited   

adj.可接受的；可信任的；公认的；质量合格的v.相信( accredit的过去式和过去分词 )；委托；委任；把…归结于

参考例句：

• The discovery of distillation is usually accredited to the Arabs of the 11th century. 通常认为，蒸馏法是阿拉伯人在11世纪发明的。
• Only accredited journalists were allowed entry. 只有正式认可的记者才获准入内。

12 coordinate   

adj.同等的，协调的；n.同等者；vt.协作，协调

参考例句：

• You must coordinate what you said with what you did.你必须使你的言行一致。
• Maybe we can coordinate the relation of them.或许我们可以调和他们之间的关系。