Whitstable 惠茨特布尔

Vicki: Hello and welcome to On the Town from BBC Learning English. I’m Vicki.

Youling: 大家好， 我是幼玲。每次在都市掠影节目中，我们都会给你介绍英国的很有意思的地方。我们今天的目的地是个海滨小镇！

Vicki: That’s right, today we’re finding out about a seaside town in South-East England, called Whitstable. I went there to talk to Sophie and Bridgette, two young mothers who live there, and asked them why Whitstable is a nice place to live.

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Sophie - There is so much that's good about living here. It seems like a really safe area to live, lots of places to go for lovely walks… it's by the sea so you get all the lovely fresh air.

Bridgette – Whitstable as a place is really beautiful in the summer, it's great to go down to the beach and let the kids play. And in the winter it’s a little bit miserable, cold and windy, but the summers make up for all of that. The beach in Whitstable is… there's no sand, it's all pebbles and the shingle is all the way into the sea so if you want to swim it's preferable to wear swimming shoes.

Youling: 要谈惠茨特布尔，第一要提及的自然是它的海滩了！

Youling:Bridgette 还特意提到它是什么样的海滩。

Vicki: It’s not a sandy beach, it’s a shingle beach.

Youling: Shingle –圆形的小石子; 圆卵石。 Vicki， Bridgette 好象还提到了另外一个意思相似的单词。

Vicki: Pebbles.

Youling: 因为不是沙滩，都是石子， 所以要不想扎疼你的脚， 你最好就别脱掉你的鞋。

Vicki: Bridgette said that Whitstable is lovely in the summer, but she doesn’t like it so much in the winter – it can get a bit grey and miserable.

Youling: 天色昏暗的冬季里，在海边就不免有种凄凉的感觉。所以冬季的遗憾就等到夏季再补上吧。 英文是怎么说的？

Vicki: to make up for something – the summers make up for the winters.

Youling: Sophie 还提到了她喜欢住在惠茨特布尔的一些其它原因。她觉得这里治安也比较好。

Vicki: safe

Youling: 不仅安全， 而且还有良好的散步环境和新鲜的空气。

Vicki: Fresh air.

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Sophie - It seems like a really safe area to live, lots of places to go for lovely walks, it's by the sea so you get all the lovely fresh air.

Bridgette – Whitstable as a place is really beautiful in the summer, it's great to go down to the beach and let the kids play. The beach in Whitstable is… there's no sand, it's all pebbles and the shingle is all the way into the sea so if you want to swim it's preferable to wear swimming shoes.

Vicki: Another interesting thing about Whitstable beach is the beach huts.

Youling: Beach huts 是什么呀？

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Bridgette - They are just plain wooden houses with… well shacks really with… there's no electricity or anything, it's just a place where you can keep your stuff for the beach, they're quite picturesque, and all painted different colours all along the coastline, quite beautiful really.

Vicki:The beach huts are made of wood.

Youling: 就是海滩上的小木屋，Bridgette 说它们就象窝棚。

Vicki: Shacks. They are all painted different colours.

Youling: 这些小木屋五颜六色，看起来还满好看。构成了一幅如画的风景线。

Vicki: picturesque

Youling: 但它们是干什么用的呢？

Vicki: Just for keeping your stuff for the beach in!

Youling: 除了海滩外，惠茨特布尔还有什么好玩的？

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Bridgette - there's loads of restaurants, good restaurants and fantastic shellfish, your oysters are beautiful.

Sophie – Whitstable very, very much for its seafood and there's three or four restaurants that you can get really, really good oysters .

Vicki: There are lots of restaurants, and in particular you can eat lots of seafood.

Youling: 原来这里还有很多海鲜馆儿。还有这里当地特有的贝类海鲜。

Vicki: That’s right, there's one type of shellfish which Whitstable is famous for. Listen again and see if you can hear what it is.

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Bridgette - fantastic shellfish, your oysters are beautiful.

Sophie – can get really, really good oysters

Vicki: So, Whitstable is famous for oysters

Youling: 鲜蚌!

Vicki: The local wild oysters are called Whitstable ‘natives’

Youling: Native 本地特产. 我特喜欢吃鲜蚌， 你呢？

Vicki: No, I don’t really like them much…. But I like other seafood so I still enjoyed the restaurants in whitstable.

Youling: 那这儿的购物环境怎么样呢？ 都有什么样的商店呢？

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Sophie - It's certainly not full of your high street chain stores. The small shops, the individual shops and there seem to be more and more lovely little boutique shops.

Vicki: Most of the shops are small individual ones

Youling: individual – 私人的，私家的。现在连锁店太多了。

Vicki: chain stores

Youling: Sophie 还用到了另外一个涉及商店类型的词。

Vicki: boutiques

Vicki: Well, we’ve run out of time for today.

Youling: 下次再带你转转别的好玩的地方。

Vicki: Goodbye!

Youling: 再见。