时间:2019-01-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语访谈对话


英语课

   Todd: So, Steven, where did you go to college?


  Steve: I went to the University of Wales, um, the College of Cardiff there, so it the United Kingdom, obviously we have England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland and so I spent three years over in Wales.
  Todd: Wow. Sounds fun. So what's university like in Wales? Is it different than University life in Britain?
  Steve: Yeah, it is. Um, for example Wales has it's own distinguished 1, distinctive 2 language and culture as well, so if you go to Wales you'll see street signs written not only in English, but above that you'll have the Welsh language there and Welsh people are very, very proud of their language, and their heritage and there culture and it made it just a slightly different experience from studying over the border in England.
  Todd: So they speak Welsh? Is that the language?
  Steve: That's correct. Yeah. Yeah, they do. It's not spoken by everybody in Wales. Since the middle ages, the usage of the language has declined somewhat but there has been a revival 3 over the last 30 or 40 years, and now about, maybe about 40% of the Welsh population speak it as either as their first of second language.
  Todd: Did you learn it while you there?
  Steve: No, no, I didn't, no. Everybody speaks English there. but there is a lot of good music coming out in Welsh now. There's lots of cultural festivals and when I was at Cardiff, there's lots of pubs where it's Welsh speaking only and it was quite good fun to go in there and try to order a beer and stuff in the Welch language, but that was about as far as I got.
  Todd: Could you say that there's any, it's a stereo type, that's there's any difference between the Welsh people and the British people?
  Steve: There is yeah, because they've had a different history and obviously that affects how people have evolved over many centuries. They like different sports for example. They're more into rugby than they are into football. They tend to look slightly different than they do to English people. They tend to have sort of redder hair and darker eyes than English people, but also they're very, very loyal, they're very, very fierce, they're very passionate 4 people. They're very nice people.
  Todd: Well, it sounds like a nice place to go. I'd love to go someday.
  Steve: Yeah it was nice!

adj.卓越的,杰出的,著名的
  • Elephants are distinguished from other animals by their long noses.大象以其长长的鼻子显示出与其他动物的不同。
  • A banquet was given in honor of the distinguished guests.宴会是为了向贵宾们致敬而举行的。
adj.特别的,有特色的,与众不同的
  • She has a very distinctive way of walking.她走路的样子与别人很不相同。
  • This bird has several distinctive features.这个鸟具有几种突出的特征。
n.复兴,复苏,(精力、活力等的)重振
  • The period saw a great revival in the wine trade.这一时期葡萄酒业出现了很大的复苏。
  • He claimed the housing market was showing signs of a revival.他指出房地产市场正出现复苏的迹象。
adj.热情的,热烈的,激昂的,易动情的,易怒的,性情暴躁的
  • 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。
学英语单词
age-specific fertility rate
Agonomalus
anisyl aldehyde
anticreativity
antipoison
assembleia
autoeciousness
backhand lift
beaded-wire counter
benzophen anthridine alkaloid
blows someone off
brace in
cat states
chemical detector
coefficients
coestate
comprehensors
convective heating surface
corrugated canal gate
cosmic technology
cotton consumption
current diagram
cutheparine
demicellization
demycent
despeciation
development age
effect of action
electric train staff instrument
exhaust gas recirculation
fecho
fuel-indicator
gain field
Hampton Tableland
hemipilia formosana hay.
Holyoake, Sir Keith Jacka
internal lamella
isovaleryl-indanedione
JMA
kerber
Kurtty
lanugo
large-flowereds
leasing period
leechees
lesara
link control message
magneto thermoelectric effect
maintain secrecy
marine physics
masculinisation
mcgarvie
merphos
meter frame
microproof
millerand
mini-max swap
mufti days
natica tabularis
on a basis of
open a can of worms
orbital dynamics
Ouachita River
pants suits
photo interpreter
pick resistance
Pomona Heights
positive-negative bipolar
presporogonic
quantum of energy
refer to arbitration
restaurant-critic
rigid check of switch blades
Rochefort-sur-Nénon
rough lemons
rumbled on
ruptured tubal pregnancy
scattering resonance
schrof
segment unused word
selective rejection
signal log
small-profile car
Soubry
state reserve bank
steadying band
surge impedance of a cable
sweet roll
system of space axes
tainly
the Bank for International Settlements
thermocouple current meter
thin screwdriver with wooden handle
think upon
to make good time
vallon
Vernou-en-Sologne
videographic display
warded off
winding up supervision by a court
wine-bibbings
xke