太极英语-10

【太極英語微課堂-10】如何用地道的美語介紹名勝古跡

Joe: Shifu, you are a perfect driver. 

Shifu: Well, thank you, I will take that as a compliment. ButJoe, how much do you know about Luoyang?

Joe: Actually I didn’t know anything about it before Igoogled it yesterday.

Shifu: What did you find?  

Joe: I know Luoyang is one of the cradles ofChinese civilization, and is one of the FourGreat Ancient Capitals of China.

Shifu: You are quite right. And it has the Longmen Grottos, aworld heritage site, which is where we are going to today. 

Joe: I am also very interested in the White Horse Templethere, do we have time to visit it too?

Shifu: Are you talking about Baima Si?

Joe： Yes, I think that it is.

Shiffu: I don’t think it’s a problem. Luoyang is also verywell known as a city of peonies, we should come next April to see the flowers.

Joe: Awesome！Thank you, Shifu!

Joe：師父，您開車好棒啊！

師父：謝謝，我就當作你在夸我好了。但是Joe，你對洛陽了解多少？

Joe：在我昨天上網搜索之前還真是對它一無所知。

師父：你搜到了什麼？

Joe：我知道了洛陽是中華文明的搖籃之一，是中國是四大古都之一。

師父：你說得很對。它還有一個世界遺產龍門石窟，就是我們今天要去的地方。

Joe：我對那裡的白馬寺也很感興趣，我們有時間去逛一下嗎?

師父:我想沒問題。洛陽還是一個聞名遐邇的牡丹之城，明年四月我們可以過來看看花兒。

Joe：太好了！謝謝您，師父！

R  compliment ['kɒmplɪm(ə)nt] n. 恭維；誇讚

R  actually ['æktʃuəli] adv. 事實上

R  google  [gu:gl] n/v. 谷歌搜索

R  cradle  [['kreidl] n. 搖籃

R  civilization  [,sivilai'zeiʃən]n. 文明

R  ancient ['einʃənt] a. 古代的

R  capital  ['kæpitəl] n. 首都

R  heritage  ['heritidʒ] n. 遺產；繼承物

R  interested ['intristid]a. 感興趣的

R  be interested in 對……感興趣

R  temple  ['templ] n. 寺廟

R  peony   ['piəni] n. 牡丹

R  spring   ['spriŋ] n. 春天

R  flower [flauə] n. 花