102. 比赛获奖者

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大家好，欢迎来到卢克英语播客的又一期节目。

Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another episode of Luke's English podcast.

在本期节目中，我将做以下几件事。

So in this episode, I'm going to do these things.

首先，我会告诉你们关于一项长期比赛的结果，这项比赛已经持续了大约六个月，或者类似那么久的时间。

First, I'm going to tell you about the results of the competition, the long running competition which has been going for about six months or something ridiculous like that.

所以我会公布这项比赛的结果，然后宣布获胜者，这将会非常戏剧性。

So I'm going to tell you about the results of that competition, and then I'm going to announce the winner, which will be dramatic.

你会知道谁真正赢得了这本词典。

You'll find out who's actually won the dictionary.

还有两位亚军，他们也会赢得其他稍旧一些的词典。

There are also two runners up who will win other slightly older dictionaries too.

然后我会告诉你一些关于各种事情的新闻、更新和相关信息。

And then I'm gonna give you some news about various things, various updates, and news, and stuff like that.

好的。

Okay.

好吧。

Right.

所以这个比赛。

So the competition.

它始于一月，我想，当时我参加了一个比赛，目标是赢得一本词典，以及被称为2011年最佳博客麦克米伦词典奖的珍贵奖项。

It started in January, I think, when I was entered in a competition to win a dictionary and to win a coveted prize known as the Macmillan Dictionary Prize for best blog 2011.

你猜怎么着？

And guess what?

我赢了。

I won it.

我想你大概已经明白了。

I think you probably got that message.

我已经说了差不多半年了。

I've been going on about it for about half a year now.

所以我从他们那里赢到了这本词典。

So then I I won the dictionary from them.

我想，我拿这本词典做什么呢？

And I thought, what am I gonna do with this?

我不需要这本词典。

I don't need this dictionary.

我本来就懂英语。

I can already speak English.

我知道我要怎么做了。

I know what I'll do.

我会把它送给一位听众。

I'll give it to a listener.

但我该送给谁呢？

But which one shall I give it to?

于是我决定举办我自己的比赛，我想，好吧。

Then I decided that I would set up my own competition, and I thought, right.

我该怎么举办这个比赛呢？

How am I gonna do this competition?

我真正希望的是听众能以某种方式参与进来。

What I want really is is for listeners to somehow participate in some way.

所以我想，有了。

So I thought, I know.

我会给他们机会，让他们给我发送简短的MP3录音。

I'll give them the opportunity to send me short m p three recordings.

我得对这些录音的长度设个限制，对吧？

Now I have to put a limit on the number of limits on the length of those recordings, don't I?

因为可能会发生的情况是，人们会给我发送长达十分钟甚至更久的录音。

Because what might happen is people will send me these lengthy recordings of ten minutes or more.

如果我收到很多这样的录音，管理起来会非常困难，而且它们太长了，发布起来也不方便。

And if I if I get a lot of those, it will be very difficult for me to manage, and it will be they'll be too long and difficult to publish and everything.

所以我想，不行。

So I thought, no.

我得把时长限制在两分钟以内。

I'll have to restrict it to just two minutes.

这就是当时的挑战。

That was the challenge.

你们自己可以判断一下，这个挑战完成得有多成功。

We'll you know, you can judge for yourselves how successfully that challenge was met.

另一部分是，听众必须通过录制一段信息来回应，比如以MP3文件的形式发送，要在两分钟内对播客的某一集发表评论。

Well, the other part of that was that they had listeners had to respond by giving me a message recorded, you know, in some way, maybe sent as a m p three file or something, and in that message in two minutes to comment on one of the episodes of the podcast in some way.

说实话，我在执行这些规则时相当宽松，因为我做这件事的主要目的，只是给听众一个机会为播客贡献内容，也让其他听众了解全球各地聆听《卢克英语播客》的人们所形成的社区。

To be honest, I've been fairly liberal with my application of those rules because my main objective with doing this was to just give listeners a chance to contribute something to the podcast and so that other listeners can get an idea of the sort of community of people around the world who listen to Luke's English podcast.

现在我也知道，例如，录自己的声音可能非常困难，要么是因为紧张，要么是因为缺乏录音条件。

Now I also know that, for example, recording your own voice can be very difficult, either because you're stressed or because you don't have the facilities to do it.

所以我提供了一个通过电子邮件发送评论的选项，我也收到了几条这样的评论。

So I did give some, I did give an option to send comments to me via email, and I received just a couple of those.

所以大多数人还是按照我最初设想的方式，录下了自己的声音。

So most people did it in the in the way that I'd originally intended it, which was to record their voice.

我收到了大约25条投稿，这已经相当不错了。

And I got something like about 25 entries which is quite good really.

这真是完美的数量。

It's really the perfect number.

它让我制作了几个包含这些评论的播客，如果你访问我的网页，就能找到这些节目。

It made several podcasts in which you can hear those comments and if you go to my webpage you will be able to find those episodes.

网址是teacherluke.podomatic.com。

It's teacherluke.podomatic.com.

我稍后会再详细介绍这个网站。

I'll be telling you more about website details later on.

我有一些关于此事的公告和更新要告诉你们。

I've got a few announcements and updates to give you on that.

那么获奖者呢？

So what about the winners?

所以规则的要点是，人们要想获胜，就需要获得投票。

So the parts of the rules again were so that in order to for people to win, they would get votes.

听众是怎么投票的？

And how did listeners vote?

嗯，你们可能知道，因为我猜你们都投过票。

Well, you you know probably because I imagine you voted.

你们去了页面，找到了你们喜欢某人评论的那期节目。

You go you went, onto the page, found the episode in, in which you you like someone's comment.

然后，只要你们觉得某个评论最好——不管出于什么原因，只要你们觉得它最好，就可以通过写下那个人的名字和他们所在的国家来投票。

And then, if you basically like the comment, the the comment that you think is the best for whatever reason you think it's the best, but which comment you think is the best, you would vote by writing the name of that person and the country that they came from.

我收到了大量的投票。

And I received loads and loads and loads of votes.

非常多。

Loads.

我不知道具体有多少。

I don't know how many.

就是很多。

It's like a lot.

我们来看看。

And let's see.

统计完之后，我这里有了结果。

After counting them up, I've got the results here.

所以我把它们按倒序排列了。

So I've got them in kind of reverse order.

现在我来逐一公布。

And so I'm just going to go through those now.

记住，前三名将获得奖品。

Remember, the top three will win prizes.

一等奖是《麦克米伦短语动词词典》，这是我从麦克米伦获得的奖品。

The first prize is the Macmillan Phrasal Verbs Dictionary which I received from Macmillan as my prize.

二等奖和三等奖分别是《牛津短语动词词典》和《牛津习语词典》，我最近在一家慈善商店买的。

The second prize and third prizes are an Oxford phrasal verb dictionary and an Oxford idioms dictionary, which I picked up in a charity shop recently.

所以有三个奖品要送出。

So three prizes to give away.

那么我们将从参赛者名单中以字母A开头的人开始，你们可以看到这些名字的列表。

So we're going to start down with the a of people entered the competition and you can see lists of those names.

实际上，我想感谢每一位参赛者。

I'd like to thank everyone actually for entering.

事实上，我现在要打开我的电脑，以便读出参赛者名单，因为我希望感谢每一位参与的人。

In fact I'm going to now go to my computer so that I can read the list of names because I would like to thank everyone for taking part.

所以我要打开我的网站，那里列出了所有名字。

So I'm just going to go on to my website here where I have the names all listed.

我看到我最近的一期节目是，嗯，我之前给每个人写过一封信，信中提到了一些事情，比如我当时身体不太舒服。

I see the latest episode that I did was a well, I wrote everyone a note a while ago in which I said various things like, for example, the fact that I'm I I was not very well at that time.

我当时得了重感冒，喉咙也很不舒服，但现在好多了，感觉好很多。

I had a kind of a bad cold and a bad throat, and, I'm I'm feeling better, much better now.

谢谢。

Thank you.

虽然我偶尔还是流鼻涕，但我想这可能是因为花粉症，我不确定。

Although I still got, still got a bit of a runny nose at times, but, I think that maybe even hay fever, I wonder.

我最近还做了一期关于去酒吧的节目，那是和我哥哥一起录制的，在那期节目中，我们告诉了你们在英国去酒吧所需知道的一切。

I also did an episode recently about going to the pub and that was recorded with my brother and, in that episode we tell you everything that you need to know about, going to the pub here in The UK.

任何你能想到的信息，我估计里面都有。

Just whatever information you can think of, I expect it's in there.

节目时长至少有一小时，你可以了解到如何点酒、有哪些啤酒可选，以及其他所有相关内容。

There's at least an hour of an episode and you can find out everything about how to be served, what kinds of beer you can drink and everything else.

这是你了解英国酒吧文化的终极指南。

It's your ultimate guide to going to the pub in The UK.

此外，还有一些其他节目，比如《卢克对奥利弗》也在其中。

And then, some other episodes and Luke versus Oliver was in there as well.

这是另一集往期节目。

It's another previous episode.

所以我现在正在这里翻看。

So I'm just scrolling through here.

我的网站上有太多内容了。

There's so much content on my website.

我真心希望每个人都能充分利用我在这里发布的所有视频和其他内容。

I do hope that everyone really makes the most of all the videos and things that I'm posting here.

我为大多数节目都发布了视频，这些视频是为了让你观看的，因为它们与你所收听的播客节目内容密切相关。

I post videos with most of my episodes and they're intended for you to watch because they are somehow connected to the episode of the podcast that you've that that they are added to.

现在我翻到了竞赛投稿第一部分的那集。

So now I've got down to the competition entries part one episode.

我想特别感谢来自巴西的卡米拉、来自意大利的克里斯蒂娜、来自西班牙的丹尼尔、来自俄罗斯的德米特里、来自芬兰的埃莉萨、来自波兰的埃维莉娜、来自乌兹别克斯坦的法鲁和诺尔迪亚、来自巴西的杰尼维尔、来自日本的宏志、来自墨西哥的胡安·卡洛斯、来自白俄罗斯的卡罗尔、来自日本的清美、来自意大利的路易吉、来自意大利的马尔科、来自保加利亚的纳迪亚、狗狗尼娜、来自俄罗斯的雷吉娜、来自瑞士的罗曼、来自伊朗的罗米娜、来自巴西的塞缪尔、来自保加利亚的斯蒂芬、来自巴西的瓦格纳、来自德国的凡妮莎，以及最后来自日本的吉田。

So I'd just like to say very, very warm thank you to Camilla from Brazil, Christina from Italy, Daniel from Spain, Dimitri from Russia, Elisa from Finland, Evelina from Poland, Faroo and Nordea from Uzbekistan, Jenivel from Brazil, Hiroshi from Japan, Juan Carlos from Mexico, Carol from Belarus, Kiyomi from Japan, Luigi from Italy, Marco from Italy, Nadia from Bulgaria, Nina the dog, Regina from Regina from Russia, Roman from Switzerland, Romina from Iran, Samuel from Brazil, Steph from Bulgaria, Wagner from Brazil, Vanessa from Germany, and finally Yoshida from Japan.

以上就是所有参与的人，正如我所说，投了大量票，现在我要公布投票结果。

So those are all the people who took part and as I said lots of votes were cast and I'm now going to tell you the results of those votes.

好吧，我们从下面开始，有来自日本的弘石、来自保加利亚的纳迪亚和克里斯蒂娜。

Okay, so let's start at the bottom here we've got Hiroshi from Japan, Nadia from Bulgaria and Christina.

我记不清每个人来自哪里了。

I can't remember where everyone is from.

所以让我直接往下看。

So let me go right down to that.

那是来自意大利的克里斯蒂娜，当然。

So that was Christina from Italy, of course.

没错。

That's right.

好的。

Okay.

他们每人得了一票，接下来是来自意大利的马尔科，他得了两票。

So they they all got a vote each, and let's go on to Marco from Italy, with two votes.

来自莫斯科的德米特里得了三票，意大利的路易吉和芬兰的伊丽莎也各得了三票。

Dmitry from Moscow with three, along with Luigi from Italy and Elisa from Finland all got three votes.

来自俄罗斯的雷吉娜获得了四票。

Regina from Russia then got four votes.

来自德国的凡妮莎获得了五票。

Vanessa from Germany with five votes.

来自伊朗的罗米娜获得了六票。

Romina from Iran, six votes.

来自波兰的伊维琳娜也获得了六票。

Evelina from Poland with six votes.

接下来，让我们揭晓最后三位候选人，女士们先生们。

And that brings us to the final three, ladies and gentlemen.

并列第二名的是来自日本的清美和来自白俄罗斯的基里尔。

So in joint second place, have Kiyomi from Japan and Kirill from Belarus.

你们将获得牛津出版社的短语动词词典（较旧版本）或牛津习语词典。

You will receive either the phrasal verbs dictionary from Oxford, the slightly older one, or the Oxford idioms dictionary.

最后，女士们先生们，卢克英语播客竞赛的总冠军，也就是赢得词典的人，是——请鼓掌，女士们先生们。

And finally, ladies and gentlemen, the grand winner of Luke's English podcast competition to win the dictionary is drum roll, ladies and gentlemen.

敲鼓声。

Drum roll.

让我在这儿桌上敲个鼓点吧，来自巴西的卡米拉，各位女士们先生们，来自巴西的卡米拉，恭喜你！我希望你正在听这段录音，我肯定你在听。我不知道你是否意识到自己赢了比赛，你可能已经自己数过一些票数了，但你最终以总共12票胜出。

Just give me a chance to do a drum roll here on the desk Camilla from Brazil ladies and gentlemen Camilla from Brazil congratulations I hope you're listening to this I'm sure you are I don't know if you've realized that you've won the competition You might have already sort of counted up some of the votes for yourselves, but you won there with 12 votes, in total.

但我想特别感谢每一位参与和投票的人。

But I I would like to say an extra special thank you for just everyone who took part in it and everyone who voted.

你知道，我举办这个比赛的主要原因，只是想让大家乐一乐，给你们一个彼此倾听的机会。

You know, I'm I I believe that, the main reason I did the the the competition was just to kind of have a bit of fun and give, you a chance to hear each other a bit.

所以我很高兴比赛进行得很顺利。

So I'm really pleased that it went well.

再次恭喜你，卡米拉。

So congratulations, Camilla.

所以卡米拉、卡罗尔和KIYOMI，请你们发一封邮件给我，附上你们的邮政地址，也就是完整的国际邮政地址，这样我才能把奖品寄给你们。

So could you please, Camilla, Carol, and Kiyomi, please send me an email with your postal address, and that's the full international postal address so that I can send you, your prizes.

请直接发邮件到 luketeacher@hotmail.com。

So just send me an email luketeacher@hotmail.com.

你可以在网站上找到这个邮箱地址：l u k e t e a c h e r，也就是 luketeacher@hotmail.com。

You can find that email address on the website l u k e t e a c h e r luke teacher at hotmail dot com.

请把你的地址发到这里，我会把这些书打包寄给你们，因为我就这性格。

Send your addresses there and I will get these books packaged up to you and sent off because that's what kind of that's just the kind of guy I am.

就这样了。

There you go.

好了，到此为止。

So that's it.

这标志着播客的这一章节——比赛章节——正式结束。

That closes the this this chapter of the podcast, the competition chapter.

我真不敢相信花了我这么长时间。

I can't believe it it took me so long.

从我参加比赛到最终宣布我自己的比赛获胜者，差不多整整六个月。

Six six months pretty much from entering the competition myself to finally announcing the winner of my own competition.

六个月。

Six months.

但我觉得这很有趣。

But I think that was fun.

所以给我发你的评论和类似的东西吧。

So send send me your comments and things like that.

别忘了，你随时可以发送评论，并在每集卢克英语播客的下方添加你的贡献。

Don't forget you can always send comments and add your contribution to the bottom of each episode of Luke's English podcast.

我知道你们很多人是通过 iTunes 听这个节目的，所以别忘了访问我的博客页面 teacherluke.wordpress.com，或者我的播客页面 teacherluke.podomatic.com。

I expect many of you listen to this via iTunes as well, so don't forget you can visit either my blog page, which is teacherluke.wordpress.com or my podcast page, teacherluke.podomatic.com.

好的。

Okay.

现在我来给你们说些新闻。

Now let me give you some news.

好吧，我们先从第一条新闻开始。

Well, let's start here with the the first piece of news.

你们可能已经知道，我经常在伦敦和巴黎之间往返。

The facts you might already know that I spend a lot of time between London and Paris.

那是因为我女朋友住在巴黎。

That's because my girlfriend lives in Paris.

而且今年晚些时候，我打算搬到巴黎住一段时间，具体多久还不确定，我会在那里找工作，教书的工作。

And actually later on this year, I'm going to move to Paris for a certain amount of time, not sure how long exactly, and I'm going to look for work there, teaching work.

所以，我希望能在巴黎的一所学校找到一些教学工作。

So hopefully I will find myself some work teaching in a school in Paris.

我想去一所非常好的学校，在那里教英语。

I'd like to go to a really good school and teach English there.

此外，我可能还会做其他一些工作，等等，不过我会稍后给你们更多更新。

And also, I may be doing some other work and things like that, but I'll give you some more updates about that later.

当然，这个播客会照常更新，我只是会身处一个稍微不同的地方，但我认为这会非常有趣，你们可能会听到一些关于我生活在另一种文化中的经历、甚至我自己学习另一种语言的体验的精彩节目。

Of course, the podcast will continue as normal and it'll it'll it'll just be that I am in a slightly different place, but I think it will be fascinating and you might find some very interesting episodes coming up about my experiences of living in another culture, my experience of even learning another language myself.

我认为这将极大地丰富和提升我对语言的理解、有效教学的能力，以及我对文化差异和跨文化交流等问题的看法。

And I think it's something that will be very enriching and very informative for my understanding of language, my ability to to teach it effectively, and also just my perspective on things like cultural differences and cross cultural communication.

因此，我认为这是我人生中一个非常有趣的步骤，也将为我的工作和整体生活带来巨大益处。

So I see it as a kind of really interesting step for me and something which will be a great benefit to my work and my life in general.

而且我计划在未来将这些影响融入播客中，所以你们会发现越来越多有趣的节目，其中不仅包含语言内容，还有更丰富的视角，就像你们从卢克英语播客中获得的其他一切一样。

And I I plan to kind of add those influences into the podcast in the future, so you will find more and more interesting episodes, with a lot more perspective in them as well as language and all the other things that you can get from Luke's English podcast.

对。

Right.

我的下一条消息是，我最近更新了WordPress页面。

My next piece of news is, well, the WordPress page, which I, have updated recently.

那就是卢克英语博客。

So that's that's Luke's English blog.

你可能已经知道卢克英语播客了。

You might already know about Luke's English podcast.

我经常提到它，每次节目开头和结尾我都会提到，但我还做了很多其他事情。

I talk about it all the time, and you hear me mention this at the beginning and the end of each episode, but I also have done lots of other things.

所以我制作了YouTube视频。

So I've done YouTube videos.

我还做了之前提到过的迷你播客。

I've done these mini podcasts, which I've talked about before.

我还做过一些广播节目，在节目中我会播放音乐，并在每首歌之间说上几句。

I also have done some radio shows, which is where I play music and I kind of do a little bit of talking between each track.

我做过一期，还和我哥哥一起做过一期。

I've done one of those and and another one with my brother.

这算是个副项目，主要是有机会放点音乐，顺便聊聊天。

That's kind of side project, just the chance to play some music, and and to have a bit of chat as well.

此外，我还在推特和脸书上，以及其他各种平台上都有账号。

So also I'm on Twitter and I'm on Facebook and and all these other things.

所以，你为什么不访问一下Luke的英语博客呢？我已经更新了那个网站，把所有我做的内容都集中在一个地方了。

And so why don't you visit Luke's English part Luke's English blog because I've I've updated that site so that everything that I'm doing is all in one place.

所有内容都在博客页面上，网址是teacherluke.wordpress.com。

And it's all on the blog page, which is teacherluke.wordpress.com.

在那里，你会看到一个简洁实用的菜单，可以轻松获取有关播客的信息。

And there you will find a useful simple menu where you can access information about the podcasts.

你可以找到每一集的完整列表。

You can find every episode listed.

你还可以找到一些关于如何利用Luke's English播客来提高英语水平的建议。

You can also find some information about how you should use Luke's English podcast to improve your English.

我会向你介绍我的教学方法和通过这个播客进行教学的理念。

And I tell you some things about my methodology and my approach, to teaching through this podcast.

你还可以找到我所有YouTube视频的列表，这些视频都配有文字稿，可以帮助你学习，对教师在课堂上使用也很有帮助。

You can also find, a list of all my YouTube videos, and, those videos all have transcripts, you can use them to help you and they're they're quite good for teachers as well to use in class.

在这些视频中，我会走上伦敦的街头，采访母语为英语的人，探讨各种日常话题，听母语者在伦敦街头真实使用的英语非常有趣。

On those videos, I go out into the streets of London and I interview native speakers of English about sort of various everyday topics and it's very interesting to hear English as it really is spoken by native English speakers in the streets in London.

所以你可以在网站上找到这些视频。

So you can find the videos there on the website.

还有别的吗？

What else?

如果你想收听广播节目，只需点击标有“广播节目”的按钮，那里有几个链接可供选择。

If you want to listen to the radio shows, you can just click on the button that says radio show and you can find a couple of links there.

如果你想在Twitter上找到我，可以访问网站，我提供了Twitter、Facebook以及其他一些链接，还有更多关于我、我的教学和经验的信息。

If you want to find me on Twitter, you can go to the website and I've got links to Twitter, links to Facebook and various other things, some more information about me and my teaching and my experience.

所以请访问 teacherluke.wordpress.com，你会找到更多内容。

So do visit teacherluke.wordpress.com and you'll find much more content.

这样你就能更方便地访问所有内容。

It will be a lot easier for you to access everything.

所有内容都集中在一个地方，你有很多机会留下评论、发起讨论、提问，以及参与和贡献。

It's all available in one place and there are plenty of opportunities for you to leave comments, to start discussions and to ask questions and generally just take part and contribute.

我觉得这会非常有趣。

I think that will be really interesting.

那么，我们再来看看一些其他新闻，我个人最近在做的事情。

So let's see, also some other sort of news, things that I've been doing personally.

上周，正如你可能知道的，我整个星期都在布莱顿。

Last week, as you may know, I was in Brighton all week.

上周二也是我的生日，我过得很愉快。

It was also my birthday on Tuesday of last week, and I had a very good time.

我在Facebook上收到了很多来自人们的美好祝福。

And I got lots of really great messages from people on Facebook.

听到你们的生日祝福真的非常暖心。

It's very lovely to hear your birthday messages.

非常感谢。

Thank you very much.

在布莱顿，我和另外两位喜剧演员保罗·朗顿和亚历克斯·洛夫一起表演了单口喜剧，作为布莱顿边缘艺术节的一部分，我们举办了一场演出。

In Brighton, I was performing a stand up comedy show with two other comedians, called Paul Langton and Alex Love, and we put on a show in Brighton as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival.

上周一到周四，我们在布莱顿韦斯顿路的一家叫‘神庙酒吧’的地方，每晚都上演了一小时的喜剧表演。

And we did a one hour comedy show on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of last week in a place called the Temple Bar on Weston Road in Brighton.

我表演了十五分钟的段子，亚历克斯十五分钟，保罗也十五分钟。

And so stand up comedy, I did fifteen minutes of material, Alex did fifteen minutes, and Paul did fifteen minutes as well.

大致算下来，我们总共表演了一个小时左右，稍微少一点点的单口喜剧内容。

Roughly, give or take a few minutes, we ended up doing an hour or just under an hour of of stand up comedy.

我们每天都会带着宣传单走上布莱顿的街头，试图告诉人们喜剧演出的信息，并说服大家来看秀，效果还不错。

And we got we went out every day into the streets of Brighton with all our flyers in order to, try and, you know, inform people that the comedy evening was happening and to try and persuade people to come and see the show, and we did quite well.

每晚的观众都相当不错，我们都玩得很开心。

We got decent audiences in every single night, and we all had a lot of fun.

整天在阳光下发传单真的很累，但显然也很棒，因为阳光下的布莱顿是个美丽的地方。

It was quite exhausting being out in the sunshine all day handing out flyers, but obviously it was great as well because Brighton's a lovely place when the sun is out.

它靠近海边。

It's near the sea.

你能感受到清新的海风。

You get this nice sea air.

总的来说，布莱顿就是一个非常、非常宜人、宁静、放松的地方。

And, generally, Brighton is just very, very nice, very sleepy, very chilled out kind of place.

如果你来英国，我强烈推荐你去布莱顿，尤其是叫‘小巷’的区域，那里有很多酷炫的小店、酒吧和很棒的咖啡馆。

And and if you do come to England, I really recommend that you visit Brighton and you visit an area called The Lanes, which is where you find lots of really cool little shops and bars and really nice cafes.

当然，你还可以去海滩，在傍晚时分烧烤、喝点饮料。

And, of course, you can go down to the beach where you can, you know, you can have barbecues and have some drinks on the beach in the evening.

还有海滨游乐宫，里面充满了游乐设施、娱乐和各种好玩的东西。

And there's the pavilion, which is full of amusements and and and of fun and games and things like that.

所以这场喜剧表演非常有趣，虽然很累，但是一次很棒的经历。

So the comedy was was great fun, quite exhausting, but very good experience.

和保罗、亚历克斯还有当时也在演出的莫兹一起度过时光真是太棒了。

And it was great to spend time with Paul and Alex and and also Mozz who was putting on a show at that time as well.

和他们这些朋友、同行喜剧演员一起闲逛真的很开心，我们彼此逗得哈哈大笑。

Great to hang out with them, my friends, my fellow comedians, and, we made each other laugh a lot.

我们还为卢克的英语播客录制了多期节目，这些内容很快就会上传上线。

And we also recorded several podcast episodes for Luke's English podcast, and you will find those being uploaded in the near future.

这是来自布莱顿边缘艺术节的三期节目。

That's three episodes from the Brighton Fringe Festival.

我希望它们既有趣又富有洞见。

And they're very entertaining and quite insightful as well, I hope.

希望你们听完后也会同意我的看法。

I hope that you'll agree with me when you listen to them.

我们来看看。

Let's see.

我最近还做了些别的事情。

Some other things that I've been up to.

所以我生病了。

So I was ill.

我现在好多了。

I'm better now.

如果你给我发了消息表示关心，谢谢你的关心。

Thanks for your thanks for your concern if you sent me some messages.

我表弟上周末结婚了，不是奥利，是我另一个表弟。

My cousin got married at the weekend, not Ollie, but my other cousin.

我有三个表亲：奥利，你认识的；乔治娜，比奥利和我都大两岁；还有维多利亚，比我们大大约三岁。

I've got three cousins, Oliver, who you know, Georgina, who is two years older than Oliver and and me, and Victoria, is about three years older than us.

就在上个周末，乔治娜和她的未婚夫卢坎结婚了，那是一场极其精彩的婚礼。

And this weekend, the weekend that we just had, Georgina got married to her fiancee, Lucan, and it was an absolutely fantastic wedding.

太棒了。

It was brilliant.

全家人都受邀参加，我们一整天都在萨福克郡的乡下度过，萨福克位于英国东部的东盎格利亚地区。

The family all the family and friends were invited, and we spent the day in the countryside in Suffolk, and that's in the East Of The UK in an area called East Anglia, Suffolk.

而且天气美极了。

And absolutely beautiful day.

阳光灿烂，蓝天白云，温暖宜人，微风轻拂。

Just brilliant sunshine, blue sky, warm, nice cool breeze blowing.

这真是乡村英式婚礼的完美日子。

It was the perfect day for a lovely English wedding in the countryside.

这一定是我参加过的最美好、最愉快的婚礼之一。

And it must be one of the nicest, most pleasant weddings that I've been to.

仪式非常温馨。

The service was really sweet.

乔治娜和卢坎显然深爱着彼此。

George Georgina and Lucan obviously really love each other.

看到所有家人和朋友聚在一起真是太好了。

It was great to see all the members of the family and everything.

卢坎的致辞非常出色，他的伴郎的致辞也同样精彩。

Lucan's speech was was excellent and so was his best man's speech.

地点简直太棒了。

And the location was incredible.

它位于一座古老的乡村宅邸，一座坐落在乡野中央、被护城河环绕的古老庄园。

It was in a in an old country house, an an old country manor house in the middle of the countryside surrounded by a moat.

所以它被水环绕着。

So it's surrounded by water.

你只能通过一座石桥进入这座房子。

You can only access the house over a a stone bridge.

房子周围是美丽的花园，有令人惊叹的树篱和独特的草药园，简直太惊人了。

And, all around the house were these beautiful gardens with incredible hedges and interesting herb gardens, and it was just amazing.

再往远处是连绵的乡野，你能看到长满树木的起伏山丘，还有野生的鹿群在乡间出没。

And then countryside all the way into the distance, you can see these rolling hills with trees on them and, deer wild deer, in the in the in the countryside there as well.

所以这真的太棒了，之后我们举办了一场非常愉快的派对。

And so it was really fantastic, and we had a great party, afterwards.

奥利弗、我和我们的朋友布莱恩、史蒂夫在那里演奏了音乐。

And Oliver and me and our friends Brian and Steve, we played music there.

我们曾经一起组过乐队。

We we've we've play in a band together.

所以我们演奏了大约一个小时的音乐，大家都跳舞了，真是太棒了。

So we played about an hour of music and everyone danced, and it was brilliant.

我父母那里还搞了个迪斯科舞蹈比赛。

My parent there was like a dancing competition, a disco dancing competition.

我爸妈赢了，因为他们是最棒的。

My mom and dad won because they're the best.

所以整个婚礼都非常完美。

So it was really good wedding all around.

最后，能在英国享受到一些阳光真是太好了。

And so finally, great to have some sunshine here in The UK.

那真是非常美好的一天。

And it was it was just a really great day.

说到地点，如果你能想象《傲慢与偏见》这部简·奥斯汀小说里的场景，就像书中的某些画面，或者也许《唐顿庄园》——如果你看过那个讲述住在庄园里的上层阶级人士的剧集的话。

The location, I'd say, if you can imagine something like Pride and Prejudice, the Jane Austen novel, Pride and Prejudice, like some of the scenes from that, or maybe, I wonder Downton Abbey, if you ever watched that program about sort of upper class people who live in a manor house.

想象一下一个令人惊叹的英国乡村花园，有一座宏伟古老的漂亮房子。

Just picture an amazing English country garden with a big old very fantastic looking house.

这真是太棒了。

It was it was great.

整个婚礼都在那里举行。

And the wedding going on there the whole time.

真的太精彩了。

Really brilliant.

所以我已经跟你们说了新网站的事，也说了婚礼的事。

So I've told you about the new website, told you about the wedding.

这个周末在伦敦是个非常重要的周末，因为周二就是女王登基纪念日。

This weekend is a very sort of big big weekend in London because it's the Queen's Jubilee on Tuesday.

所以周一和周二这两天都是这里的银行假日。

So there's Monday and Tuesday are both holidays here, bank holidays.

不过我其实还要上班，因为学校照常开门，所以对我来说并没有放假？

Although I'm actually working because the school is still open, so isn't there no holidays for me?

但对于其他人来说，这是一个盛大的全国性假期，周六、周日、周一、周二，形成了一个超长的周末。

But for everyone else, the these are there's a big national holiday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, a very long weekend.

而周一正是女王的生日。

And it's the Queen's birthday on Monday.

周二则是女王的登基钻禧庆典，也就是她的钻石禧年。

And then on Tuesday, it's the Queen's Jubilee, which is her Diamond Jubilee.

这代表了她已经担任女王六十年了。

And that represents, I think, sixty years that she's been Queen.

所以她是在1952年加冕的，六十年后，也就是2012年的今天，女王依然精神矍铄，今年正是她的钻禧年。

So she was crowned in 1952 and so sixty years later, here we are in 2012, the Queen is still going strong and it's her Jubilee year, it's the Diamond Jubilee.

作为君主统治六十年，这是一段极其漫长的时间。

Sixty years is an incredibly long time to reign as the monarch.

因此，仅凭她在如此奇特的环境中坚持这么久，你就必须对她表示敬意。

So you got to give her some respect just for surviving that long in such weird conditions.

想想看，对她而言，对于大多数人来说，身居女王之位，那一定相当奇怪。

Think sure for her, for most other people being in that position where you're the queen, you're, I mean, it must be quite strange.

你知道，这是一种非常奇怪的位置。

You know, it's such an odd position.

根本没有其他人和她处于同样的位置。

No one else shares that position at all.

我不是说当女王很难。

I'm not saying it's difficult being the queen.

我肯定这日子相当不错。

I'm sure it's it's pretty great.

你知道，总有专人伺候你。

You know, you have people serving you all the time.

你想要什么，都能得到。

You anything you want, you can get it.

你知道，你有大把的钱。

You know, you've got loads of money.

但与此同时，我知道女王某种程度上就像一名公务员。

But at the same time, I know that the queen is kind of like a civil servant.

她某种程度上就像一名公务员，因为她为英国付出了很多努力，外出代表国家，参与各种国家仪式活动，出席公共场合，为各种设施揭幕。

She's like a public servant in a way because she works pretty hard for The UK by going out, sort of representing, you know, doing all the sort of state ceremonial work that she does and opens things and appears in public.

我的意思是，她有一辆非常舒适的车，但她仍然需要频繁外出，做很多事情。

I mean, she's got a very comfortable car, but nevertheless, she still has to go out and about and do stuff quite a lot.

她有一座漂亮的房子，也有很多钱，所以生活也不算太差。

She's, you know, she's got a lovely house and a lot of money, so it's not that bad.

但即便如此，她确实也在做很多事情。

But still, she she does do things.

然而，也有一种观点认为，女王和王室是一种过时的概念，已经不再适用于现代社会。

Nevertheless, there's also the argument which says that the queen and the Royal Family is a kind of an old fashioned concept which doesn't really apply anymore.

有些人认为，一个拥有比其他人更多权力的王室精英家族，实际上是在复制一种等级制度，使国家保持一种精英化、不公平的状态，而王室还耗费大量纳税人的钱，他们应该被废除。

And some people say that just the existence of an elite family of royals who have like more power than anyone else means that means that somehow this replicates a system of higher a system of hierarchy in the in the in the country, so that it kind of, you know, keeps the country an elite unfair place, and the the royal family just use a lot of taxes and that they should be got you know, we should get rid of them.

他们并不是通过民主选举产生的。

They're not democratically elected.

我的观点介于这两种看法之间，尽管我认为让未经选举的人掌握权力确实有点荒谬。

My opinion is kind of somewhere in between that, although I do think that it's a bit ridiculous to to have unelected people in positions of power.

我的意思是，但与此同时，王室实际上并不掌握实权。

I mean but at the same time, the royal family are not they're not really in a position of power.

他们几乎没有立法或行政权力。

They don't have much legislative or executive power, really.

那是政府的事。

That's the government.

而我们选举政府。

And we elect the government.

所以，我觉得这本质上是一种民主的运作方式，只不过是一种有点奇怪的民主，因为我们有一位国家元首，一位非选举产生的国家元首。

And and so, you know, I think really it is it's a it's a it's a democracy at work, but it's just a bit of a strange democracy because we have this, this head of state, this this unelected head of state.

但当你意识到女王的角色纯粹是象征性的，仅仅代表国家时。

But, really, when you realize that the the role the queen has is just purely to be a symbol and purely to symbolize the state.

她就像是大不列颠及北爱尔兰联合王国的化身，实际上并没有多少权力，那就没什么问题了。

She's like the embodiment of the state of The United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and she doesn't really have much power, then it's fine, really.

我不介意国家元首和政府首脑分开。

I don't mind having a separation between the head of state and the executive head of the country.

我认为这几乎相当健康，因为当你同时让国家元首担任行政首脑时，比如在美国，你不仅会觉得这个人是你民主选举出来的，因此他们应该对你负责，真正代表你的意愿，

I think that's almost quite healthy because when you have, the head of state being also the executive leader, like, for example, in America perhaps, you as well as having this sense that you've democratically elected this person, and therefore, they should be answerable to you so that they're actually serving you, reflecting your wishes.

而且由于他们是国家元首，你还会对他们产生一种过度的尊重，因为总统，比如说，代表着美国国家的某种象征，

You also because they're the head of state, you also get this kind of over the top respect because the president, for example, represents something about the American state.

如果你为美国感到自豪，就意味着你也想为你的总统感到无比自豪，因为他们代表了你，

And if you're proud of America, it means you want you also want to be very proud of your president because they represent you.

你知道，就像说‘愿上帝保佑总统’一样，

You know, it's like, you know, god bless the president.

愿上帝保佑美国，

God bless America.

你知道吧？

You know?

就是这种感觉，

That sense.

这有点奇怪，因为这意味着你忘记了他们只是个普通人，只是承担着一项极其重要的工作——反映你的意愿。

Which is a bit odd because it means that you you forget that they're just a person who has got a role at a very important job to just reflect your wishes.

如果你给予他们如此过度的尊重，这真的有效吗？

And if you give them all this sort of over the top respect, is it does it work?

我不知道。

I don't know.

我的意思是，我想在法国以及许多其他共和国，这种做法完全没问题。

I mean, I guess in places like France and in so many other republics, it it works absolutely fine.

但我想，我主要的观点是，在英国，我们有点奇怪。

But I'm I guess, really, my main point is that in Britain, we're just a bit strange.

我们做事的方式有点奇特，但归根结底，这在某种程度上仍然是民主，尽管你可能会对此提出异议。

We just have a slightly strange way of doing it, but it's still democracy really at the end of the day to an extent, although, you know, you could argue against that.

所以，关于英国王室，我有了一套相当复杂的看法。

So that's rather a complicated set of opinions about the royal family there.

但无论如何，如今王室的受欢迎程度比以往任何时候都高。

But nevertheless, the royal family now are more popular than they've ever been before.

也许不是有史以来最高，但确实比过去多年、甚至几十年都要高得多。

Well, maybe not that they've ever been, but they're they're more popular than they have been for, you know, years, absolutely ages.

所以我计划制作几期单独的节目，分别关于女王的钻禧庆典和今年举办的奥运会。

So I'm planning to do individual episodes on the Queen's Jubilee and on the the Olympics, which are happening this year.

但今年对伦敦来说是重要的一年。

But it's it's a big year for London.

这个周末的钻禧庆祝活动部分包括泰晤士河上将布满船只。

The parts of the Jubilee celebrations this weekend will be that the River Thames will be just completely full of boats.

大约有一百艘船将沿着泰晤士河航行，作为一场盛大的庆典活动，庆祝女王登基六十周年。

There'll be something like a 100 boats sailing down the Thames, all as part of a a massive, kind of event of pageantry celebrating the the, sixty year Jubilee of of the Queen.

这将是一场盛大的活动。

So it's gonna be a huge event.

我想象街道上会有很多大型派对，因为你知道，英国人就是喜欢找借口放假聚会。

There'll be big parties in the streets and things, I imagine, because, you know, basically, the British, we just love an excuse to have a day off and have a party.

我认为这才是最主要的原因。

I think that's really the main thing.

我们当然非常高兴能获得一天假期。

We're we're obviously very pleased to have been given a day off.

我认为，目前全国上下普遍充满爱国情绪。

And I think that the mood in general in the country is very quite patriotic at the moment.

我看到越来越多的英国国旗到处飘扬，人人都在为庆祝王室、女王和英国而积极准备。

I'm seeing more and more Union Jack flags flying everywhere, and everyone is really gearing up for a big celebration of the royal family and the queen and, like, Britain.

这是一件相当有趣的事情。

So that's quite an interesting, it's quite an interesting thing.

所以我计划进一步报道庆典和即将来临的奥运会。

So I I'll I plan to do more on the Jubilee and the Olympics as well, which is coming up soon.

但今年对伦敦来说真是非常重要的一年。

But it's it's a big, big year for London.

这里似乎正处在一个令人兴奋的时刻，因为很多事情正在发生。

It seems that it's it's very exciting time here because lots of things are happening.

一切都显得非常紧张热烈。

It all seems to be very intense.

将会有很多人到来。

There's gonna be loads of people coming.

全世界的目光都将聚焦伦敦，因此这对伦敦来说是个重要的时刻。

The eyes of the world will be on London, so it's a kind of big time for London.

我只希望天气能保持良好。

I just hope the weather stays good.

当你在新闻中看到伦敦的画面时，它总是显得很漂亮。

That's it's it always looks nice when you see footage of London on the news.

天气好的时候，伦敦总是看起来很棒。

It always looks good when the weather's nice.

所以我真心希望阳光明媚，让全世界的人都知道，伦敦有时候天气真的很美。

So I really hope the sun shines just so that people realize around world that London, you know, it's the weather's beautiful here sometimes.

比如今晚，就非常温暖宜人。

Like this evening, for example, it's lovely and warm.

有一阵凉爽的微风。

There's a nice cool breeze.

今天很热，确实是个炎热的日子。

It's a it's a hot it's been a hot day.

我从婚礼上晒黑了，你知道的，这感觉很棒。

I've got a suntan from the wedding, and, you know, it's great.

所以现在正是来伦敦的绝佳时机，这真是个特别有趣的时刻。

So it's a really good time to it's very interesting sort of time to be in London at the moment.

如果你的城市里有什么活动，我相信一定有，因为现在全球都处于一个非常有趣的时期，那就给这期节目留言吧。

If things are going on in your cities, I'm sure they are because it's a very interesting time generally at the moment, then, you know, send send a add a comment to this episode.

告诉我们你们城市里正在发生什么，有哪些重大事件。

Tell us what's going on, what big events are happening in your cities.

你会想到伦敦的奥运会吗？

And do you think of the Olympics in London?

我想知道世界各地的人们对此有什么看法。

I wonder what people around the world think about that.

在接下来的几期播客中，你们都可以提交自己的评论，请一定要参与。

You'll be be able to contribute your comments in the next few podcasts, so please do.

我觉得差不多就这些了。

I think that's pretty much it.

另外，我发现了一位非常棒的喜剧演员。

On another note, I, I discovered this really fantastic comedian.

他真的很有趣，因为他既是喜剧演员，又是一位出色的音乐家。

He's he's he's he's, like, really interesting because he's a he's a comedian, but also he's a he's a brilliant musician.

他叫雷吉·沃茨。

His name is Reggie Watts.

雷吉·沃茨，拼写是 R-E-G-G-I-E W-A-T-T-S。

Reggie Watts, r e g g I e w a t t s.

雷吉·沃茨。

Reggie Watts.

他有着一段有趣的经历。

And he's he's got an interesting past.

我不太确定自己了解多少关于他的事，因为我刚刚才发现他。

I'm not sure I know that I don't know that much about him at the moment because I've just discovered him really.

但总的来说，他是一位单口喜剧演员，同时也搞音乐。

But, basically, he's a comedian, stand up comedian who also does music.