美語情景對話 第406期:English Village 英國鄉村
My name's Ruth and I'm from a small village in England. I live quite near Nottingham and I've lived there for most of my life actually. Nottingham is quite famous for Sherwood Forest, where Robin hood was supposed to live and as a child I spent some of my time in Sherwood Forest playing.
我叫魯斯，我來自英國的一個小鄉村。我住的地方離諾丁漢很近，實際上我大部分時間都生活在那裏。諾丁漢因舍伍德森林而聞名，那被認爲是羅賓漢生活的地方，而我小時候也經常在舍伍德森林裏玩耍。I live in a village and it's actually a mining village with about 1,000 or 1,500 inhabitants. There's really not very much to do there. There's a shop and a post office, a school and my mom teaches at the school.
我生活在一個小村莊，實際上那是個採礦村，只有1000或是1500名居民。那裏其實沒有什麼可以做的事情。村莊裏有一個商店，一個郵局，一個學校，我媽媽就在那所學校裏教書。I did actually live in Edinburgh for one year and that was quite different from life in my village because there was so much more to do and there were so many more people and there was so much more traffic, but I think actually I prefer living in a village because, well, if you want to go out to the shops, if you want to go to the cinema, you can go to the nearest town, or to the nearest city, but you can always escape city life and you can always go back to where it's quiet and more peaceful and where everybody knows each other, but if you live in the city you can't really escape it, and I don't really like the noise of the city so I think I will probably live in a village for the rest of my life.
我曾經在愛丁堡生活過一年的時間，那裏的生活與我們村莊的生活非常不同，因爲那裏有太多可以做的事情，而且那裏也有很多人，而且交通流量也更大，不過我想我更喜歡生活在鄉村，因爲如果你想去商店，如果你想去看電影，你可以去最近的城鎮，或者去最近的城市，你可以逃離城市生活，回到那些安靜又寧靜的生活，而且在村莊裏所有人都互相認識，但是如果你生活在城市裏，你就不能逃離那裏的生活，而且我真的非常不喜歡城市裏的噪音，所以我想我會在村莊裏度過我的餘生。
重點講解：
1. be famous for
因……而著名；
eg. Mr Hirst is as famous for being rich and famous as he is for his art, which may be part of his appeal.
赫斯特先生因爲富裕而聞名，也因爲其藝術而被世人尊崇，這也許就是他的魅力所在。
eg. The area is famous for its very mild winter climate.
這個地區因冬季氣候十分溫和而著名。
2. be supposed to do sth.
認爲；覺得；相信；
eg. His latest novel is supposed to be the best of his works.
他最新的這部小說被認爲是他最好的作品！
eg. An aim not to show feeling is supposed to be part of the British national character.
感情不外露被認爲是英國國民性格的一部分。
3. be different from
異於；和…不同；
eg. My aesthetic standards are quite different from his.
我的審美標準與他的大不相同。
eg. The message they are transmitting to their daughters is very different from that of previous generations.
他們向女兒傳輸的信息與上幾代人截然不同。
