实战口语情景对话：Cork 科克

Todd: Eucharia, can you talk about where you are from?

托德：尤查里亚，你来自哪里?

Eucharia: I'm from Ireland and I'm from the second biggest city in Ireland which is Cork. Now the name 'Cork' doesn't come from wine bottle cork, it comes from the irish word 'kirkig' which is 'marsh' so you can imagine how wet Cork is. We have a lot of rain.

尤查里亚：我来自爱尔兰，爱尔兰的第二大城市科克。科克这个名字并不是来自红酒瓶的那个木塞，而是来自爱尔兰单词“kirkig”，是湿地的意思，所以你可以想象得到科克有多湿润。那里雨水丰富。

Todd: And is Cork a big city?

托德：科克是大城市吗?

Eucharia: It's a sprawling city. Most people live outside of the city and commute and my parents live about a 25 minute walk to the city centre and that's quite normal, so most of the city spreads outwards and the surburbs tend to be quite big and you can get lost quite easily!

尤查里亚：是个不断扩张的城市。大多数人住在市郊，我父母住在离市中心步行约25分钟的地方，大部分城市都会向外扩张，这很正常，所以市郊的范围非常大，很容易就会迷路!

Todd: What are the people in Cork like?

托德：科克人有什么特点?

Eucharia: Well when I go home its really strange for me because the men in my city speak with a very high pitched accent voice so it sounds very strange to me, and girls tend to speak in a lower voice because a lower voice in Ireland usually means intelligent and most people would like to seem intelligent. However, most people love to laugh in Cork so there is a really good sense of humour: you just walk on the streets and you hear people laughing all of the time. It's great.

尤查里亚：我回家的时候会觉得很怪，因为科克市的人说话带有口音而且声音很大，对我来说听起来很怪，女孩们会用小声说话，因为爱尔兰认为小声说话表示智慧，所以大部分人想看起来有智慧。科克人喜欢笑，所以他们有很强的幽默感：你在街上会听到周围的人们一直在笑。这感觉很好。

Todd: Oh that's nice. And what would you say is the best thing about your city?

托德：是很好。你认为你的家乡城市最好的事情是什么?

Eucharia: The best thing are the people of course, but also the food. The entertainment is just fantastic. Every night you can go out, you can have dinner. After you can go to the theatre, you can go to classical music concerts, you can go to pop concerts, rock concerts. You can go dancing, different types of dancing. Oh I miss dancing! You can do Irish dancing, more Hip hop dancing, disco dancing. Anything is possible any night of the week.

尤查里亚：最好的当然是科克人，还有食物。科克的娱乐产业很丰富。每天晚上都有精彩活动，你可以外出吃饭，去剧院，去古典音乐会，流行音乐会，摇滚演唱会等等。你也可以去跳舞，有各种不同种类的舞蹈。哦，我忘了提舞蹈了!你可以去跳爱尔兰舞，街舞，迪斯科舞等等。每天晚上都可以。

Todd: Ok and what's the worst thing about your city?

托德：好，那科克最糟糕的事情是什么?

Eucharia: The worst thing has to be rain because Cork is such a wet place. We don't have a lot of snow in Cork because when it snows the snow quickly fades away because the ground is made of limestone so I've never seen real snow before, but getting back to the rain, it rains almost non stop from autumn until spring.

尤查里亚：最糟糕的就是雨水，因为科克非常湿润。可是冬天的时候科克却不会有很多积雪，下雪的时候雪会很快融化掉，因为地面采用的原料是石灰石，所以我以前从来没有见过真正的雪，接着说雨水，从秋天到春天雨水几乎就没停过。

Todd: Wow, that's a long time!

托德：哇，那真是很长时间啊!

Eucharia: So it's a long time having a grey sky over you.

尤查里亚：的确是很长时间，而且天空都是灰色的。

Todd: Still it sounds like a nice place.

托德：不过听起来那还是个不错的地方。