英语访谈对话 295 Paris
时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:英语访谈对话
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Todd: OK, Raphael, you were saying you lived in Paris.
Rapheal: Yes, I made my studies there.
Todd: Paris is just an amazing city. Can you talk about Paris?
Rapheal:Yes! Well, the biggest difference I noticed with Tokyo is the size. Like Paris is nice in that way, you can go anywhere by walking. It might take at maximum an hour and a half if you want to go to a very far place, but basically 1 it's a city like made for walkers and you can really go anywhere just by walking, I mean it's quite pleasant cause you can see many, you know, nice buildings and places and things, just by walking.
Todd: Wow, that's nice. How many people live in Paris?
Rapheal:Including the suburbs 2 it's 8 million now. Maybe getting increasing, but the inner 3 city is only one million, so it's not overcrowded at all. Yeah!
Todd: So, what else would you say is different about Tokyo and Paris?
Rapheal:Well, specially 4, Paris you mean? The Transport is less expensive. This is important.
Todd: YeahRapheal:Yeah, Yeah.
Todd: It's more expensive?
Rapheal:No, it's less, sorry, it's less expensive. Anyway, the, I was surprised because Tokyo is not that expensive finally, I mean you can, you can live in a very expensive way if you want but you can save a lot as well. It's really up to you. But in Paris is quite hard to save. I mean, the food is very expensive, and if you want to go out, just, a restaurant or anything, it's really more expensive than in Japan. A restaurant for example, like prices in Japan start from a thousand yen 5, maybe less, like 600 yen, and in France like the cheapest restaurant you can find is 15 Euro which is around 2000 YenTodd: Whoa! That is expensive.
Rapheal:Yeah, it's more expensive, wherever you go it's more expensive if you want to go out but on the contrary 6 the cinema is really cheap, so so many people go to the cinema, I mean, the cinema is really, it's a part of Paris nightlife, like, people used to go to cinema once a week at least, almost everyone. Yeah, cause it's really cheap. A ticket is 1000 yen, maybe less.
Todd: So, what about sports, like what kind of sports do you like to do?
Rapheal:Yeah, anything. Anything, yeah! You have a lot of facilities, like gymnasium 7, swimming pools, clubs, yeah, you can practice a lot. Especially, I was a student so, I had this very easy student life because France has a lot of students, whatever it is, so they give you a bit of money, and you get discount on almost anything, so sport is specially favorized in Paris when you are a student, you canalmost like do whatever you want, as a sport almost free, sometimes, so, it's, you can do a lot of things. Actually, I did Aikido. I did swimming pool, squash 8, tennis, yeah, uh, basketball, yeah, a lot of things actually.
Todd: Active guy. And what about the traffic if you want to drive in Paris?
Rapheal:I never tested, because as I told you it's so nice to just walk, that, and I didn't own a car but it's quite tough for people living in the suburbs cause they need a car to come, the train system is not really good. It's not like, there's a lot of delay 9, trains and things like that, so if you live in the suburbs you need a car, and driving through Paris in the mornings or evening is really difficult, so I just didn't want to test, you know.
adv.基本上,从根本上说
- His heart is basically sound.他的心脏基本上健康。
- Basically I agree with your plan.我基本上同意你的计划。
n.郊区,城郊( suburb的名词复数 );四乡;隧;四郊
- The poor suburbs traditionally formed the bedrock of the party's support. 贫穷的郊区在传统上构成了支持该党的牢固基础。
- The new college will be located in the suburbs. 这所新建的学院将设在郊区。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.内部的,里面的;内在的,内心的;精神的
- The label is on the inner side of the box.标签贴在盒子内侧。
- Other people seek the mountains for renewal of their inner lives.另一些人到深山中去,寻求新的精神生活。
adv.特定地;特殊地;明确地
- They are specially packaged so that they stack easily.它们经过特别包装以便于堆放。
- The machine was designed specially for demolishing old buildings.这种机器是专为拆毁旧楼房而设计的。
n. 日元;热望
- He wanted to convert his dollars into Japanese yen.他想将美元换成日币。
- He has a yen to be alone in a boat.他渴望独自呆在一条船上。
adj.相反的;adv.相反的(地);n.反面,相反
- My sister's taste in dresses is contrary to my own.在服装方面,我妹妹的爱好和我完全不同。
- The result is contrary to expectation.结果跟预料恰好相反。
n.体育馆,健身房
- Our school has a big gymnasium.我们学校有座大型体育馆。
- The game will be staged in the gymnasium.竞赛将在体育馆举行。
n.壁球,摺皱不堪,拥挤嘈杂的人群,浓缩果汁,美国南瓜;vt.压扁,压制;vi.变扁,压榨
- He is drinking lemon squash.他正在喝柠檬露。
- She sprained her ankle playing squash.她在打软式墙网球时扭伤了脚踝。