真实轻松英语：谈论老朋友

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你好，欢迎收听BBC学习英语出品的《真实简易英语》。

Hello and welcome to Real Easy English from BBC Learning English.

这是一个用简单英语进行真实对话的播客，帮助你提升英语能力。

This is the podcast where we have real conversations in easy English to help you with your learning.

我是贝卡。

I'm Becca.

我是菲尔。

And I'm Phil.

你可以在我们的网站上观看这个播客的视频版。

And you can watch a video version of this podcast on our website.

视频配有字幕，方便你学习。

It's got subtitles to help you learn.

网址是 bbclearningenglish.com。

That's bbclearningenglish.com.

菲尔，你今天怎么样？

How are you today, Phil?

我很好。

I'm good.

特别好。

I'm really good.

你呢？

What about you?

这周你有什么安排吗？

Have you got any plans for this week coming up?

有。

Yes.

我特别期待周末，因为我要和一些老同学见面。

I'm really excited for the weekend because I'm going to meet up with some of my old school friends.

我从八年级就认识他们了。

I've known them since I was in year eight.

贝卡，今天我们来聊聊老朋友。

Well, Becca, today, we're talking about old friends.

我们说的老朋友，是指那些从小时候就认识、交往很久的朋友。

And when we say old friends, we mean friends that we've had a long time, particularly since we were children.

那菲利普，你有很多老朋友吗？

So Phil, do you have many old friends?

是的。

Yeah.

我确实有几个，但可能没像该做的那样常和他们见面。

I do have some, but I probably don't see them as much as I should.

为什么会这样？

Why is that?

人年纪大了就会搬走，成家立业，而我本来就不太擅长和人保持联系。

As you get older, you move away, you have families, you and I'm just not very good at staying in touch with people.

所以我很少见到那些从小认识的老朋友。

So I don't often see people that are very old friends.

你呢？

What what about you?

你有很多经常见面的老朋友吗？

Do you do you have many old friends that you see often?

是的。

Yeah.

我有。

I do.

我确实有。

I do.

幸运的是，我们住得不算远。

I mean, luckily for myself, we don't live very far away.

所以保持联系也容易些。

So it is easier to stay in touch.

所谓保持联系，就是维持这种互动。

And by staying in touch, we mean kind of keeping that contact.

我有几个朋友小团体。

So I do have a couple of friendship groups.

我们有群聊，平时在群里互相问候，也约着见面。

We have group chats where we kind of, you know, keep in touch with each other there and we plan meetings.

不过我们发现，一约见面，往往得提前好几个月就定好下一次的时间。

Although we find that when we plan to meet each other, we will then plan to meet each other the next time months in advance, months before we meet.

因为年纪大了，事情一多，确实很难维持联系。

Because, yeah, it it is difficult when you are older and you get busy.

你多久见一次老朋友？

How often do you see your old friends?

听起来你们联系得挺频繁的。

It sounds like you stay in touch quite a lot.

是的。

Yeah.

我们确实经常保持联系。

We do.

就像我说的，我们主要靠群聊和社交媒体保持联系。

We stay in touch a lot over, like I said, group chat, social media.

我们尽量每个月见一次，或者每两个月见一次，要是真有心的话。

And we try to meet at least once every month, once every couple of months, you know, if we really try.

所以，我们见面确实比较方便。

So, yeah, it is easier for us to to meet up.

那你上一次见到老朋友是什么时候？

So when when was the last time that you saw one of your old friends?

大概是去年吧，我想。

It was probably sometime last year, I think.

不过我觉得，一年大概也就见那么一两次老朋友。

But, yeah, I probably only only a couple of times a year, I think, I'd see old friends.

那你有没有和哪些老朋友断了联系？

And have you lost touch with any of your old friends?

断了联系，就是跟他们不再保持联络了。

So to lose touch is to lose that contact that you have with them.

是的。

Yes.

我觉得我是有。

I I think I have.

这种事发生的时候，你根本察觉不到，对吧？

You don't notice it when it happens, do you really?

因为又不是闹了矛盾，或者干脆说：我不跟那人来往了。

Because it's it's not like you have an argument or you say, I'm not talking to that person anymore.

就是，我也说不清楚。

You you just I don't know.

就是好长时间不见面而已。

You just don't see them for a long time.

如果再见到那些人，说不定就又联系上了。

If I saw those people again, then I might get back in touch with them.

确实有那么一些人，我以前很熟，但已经很久没见了。

But yeah, there's there's people that there's definitely people that I used to know that I haven't seen for a long time.

所以没错，我确实跟一些人断了联系。

So yeah, I've definitely lost touch with some people.

那你觉得，随着年纪增长，你的朋友圈子也变了吗？

So do you think your friendship groups have kind of changed as you've grown older then?

既然跟一些老朋友失联了，那现在是不是有了新朋友？

If you've lost touch with some old friends, you have newer friends now?

变化最大的是我现在认识了很多有孩子的家庭，他们的孩子和我们家的一样大。

What has changed a lot is I have a lot more friends who are families, who have children the same age that we have.

因为一旦有了孩子，你和同样处境的人就有了很多共同话题，孩子之间也是。

Because suddenly, when you have children, you have so much in common with people in the same situation, and your children do.

如果孩子们相处得很好，你们俩家长自然就会经常聚在一起。

And if your children get on very well together, you're gonna spend a lot of time together.

我明白了。

I see.

所以我们俩挺不一样的，我很多朋友都没成家，我自己也没成家。

So that's why we're quite different because a lot of my friends don't have families and, you know, I don't either.

所以保持联系、维持友谊对我们来说特别容易。

So it's quite easy for us to stay friends, and to stay in touch with each other.

我们来回顾一下本期学过的词汇，首先是‘老朋友’，指的是认识很久的朋友。

Recap some of the vocabulary we learned in this episode, starting with old friend, and that's a friend that you've known for a very long time.

我们之前提到过‘和某人保持联系’，比如和朋友保持联系。

So we had this idea of being in touch with someone, with a friend.

如果你和某人保持联系，就意味着你们经常见面、经常聊天。

And if you are in touch with someone, it means that you see them often, you speak to them often.

所以如果你和某人保持联系，哪怕过了很久，你们还是会继续这样往来。

So if you keep in touch with someone, it means you continue to do those things even after a long time.

如果你和某人断了联系，那就是说你们不再见面，也不再通消息了。

If you lose touch with someone, that means that you don't see or speak to them anymore.

不过，你也可以重新和某人恢复联系。

However, you can get back in touch with someone.

也就是说，再次开始见面或聊天。

That is to start seeing them or speaking to them again.

如果你和某人一直保持友谊，那就意味着你们长时间都维持着朋友关系。

And if you stay friends with someone, it means that you continue to be friends with someone for a long period of time.

比如，我和一些老朋友能一直保持联系，是因为我们住得特别近。

For example, it's easy for me to stay friends with some of my old friends because we live very close to each other.

以上就是本期《轻松地道英语》的全部内容。

That's it for this episode of Real Easy English.

欢迎访问我们的网站 BBC Learning English，下载练习表，多加练习，帮你轻松开展自己的英语对话。

Try the worksheet on our website b b c learning english dot com to practice and to help you have your own Easy English conversations.

我们下周还会回来，带来另一段真实的简易英语对话。

And we'll be back next week with another Real Conversation in Easy English.

不过现在，我们就先说到这里了。

But for now, it's goodbye.

再见。

Bye.