119. 巴黎生活的初印象

所以我很容易迷路。

So I get lost easily.

所有的街道似乎都有相同类型的商店。

All the streets seem to have the same types of shop.

总有一家咖啡馆、一家小酒馆、一家烟草店、一家面包店，还有一家日本餐厅。

There's always a cafe, a bistro, a tabac, which is a tobacconist, a boulangerie, and a Japanese restaurant.

不知为什么，总有一家日本餐厅。

There's always a Japanese restaurant for some reason.

我超爱这里的日本菜。

Love Japanese food here.

所以每当我跟女朋友在巴黎散步时，我们经常路过一家面包店，她就会说：‘哦，这是巴黎最好的面包店。’

So whenever I'm walking around Paris with my girlfriend, quite often, we'll walk past a boulangerie and she'll go, oh, oh, this is this is this is the best boulangerie in Paris.

然后我们又走到另一条街上，她会说：‘哦，不。’

And then we'll end up down another street and she'll go, oh, no.

不。

No.

不。

No.

这是巴黎最好的面包店。

This is the best boulangerie in Paris.

据我所知，巴黎大约有九家最好的面包店。

And as far as I can tell, there's about sort of nine best boulangeries in Paris.

但毫无疑问，这里的面包质量非常好。

But, certainly, the the the quality of the bread is very good.

我的意思是，与英国相比，法国的面包，比如法棍之类的，看起来可能很简单普通，但作为英国人，我觉得这里的面包品质极高，非常美味。

I mean, compared to England, the French bread, you know, baguettes and things, I mean, it's it might seem to be quite a basic simple thing, but for me as an English person, the bread is, like, really good quality and really delicious.

这有点像奢侈品，但这里的人每天都享受它。

It's a bit of a luxury, but something that people here enjoy every day.

在英国，我们习惯了普通的日常面包，那些面包不像这里的一样柔软美味。

In England, we're just used to the normal everyday loaves of bread, which, you know, are not quite as soft and, and delicious as as you get here.

在餐厅里，桌上会摆着一篮子新鲜热乎的法棍面包，都是从当地面包店买来的。

You get them in you get these baskets of bread on the table in restaurants, bread, fresh hot, baguettes of bread from the local boulangeries and things.

你真的能在街上闻到烤面包的香味，还有可颂之类的其他东西。

You actually can smell the the smell of cooking bread in the streets and and other things like croissants and and stuff like that.

所以这太美好了。

So it's lovely.

吃如此高品质的面包和糕点是一种奢侈。

It's it's it's luxurious to eat such good quality bread and pastries.

很多东西似乎都含有大量的黄油。

A lot of it does seem to contain a lot of butter.

我的意思是，可颂基本上就是黄油以固态形式存在，至少我是这么认为的。

I mean, croissants are just basically it's it's basically butter in in kind of solid form as far as I can tell.

我不知道他们是怎么把这么多黄油放进这些糕点里的，但我猜这正是它们味道如此美味的关键。

I don't know how how they managed to get so much butter into these things, but I suppose that's the key to making them taste so good.

但我认为我不能每天都吃它们。

But they I don't think I could eat them every day.

它们真的不够健康。

They're they're not really healthy enough.

当然，巴黎的饮食习惯与英国的饮食习惯不同。

Certainly, the eating habits in, in Paris are different to the eating habits in The UK.

我的意思是，英国的饮食习惯可不算出名，对吧？

I mean, you know, in The UK, we're not exactly famous for our eating habits, are we?

我们出名的是糟糕的饮食习惯，或者说糟糕的食物。

Well, we're famous for having bad eating habits or at least having bad food.

但巴黎则以美食闻名，当然，大家都知道它拥有绝佳的饮食。

But Paris, on the other hand, is famous for its cuisine and famous for having excellent food, of course, we all know that.

但你知道，在这个国家，他们吃晚餐的方式有一些不同之处。

But there, you know, there are certain things that are different about the way that they, let's say, eat dinner in this country.

在英国，饭后吃奶酪是很常见的。

In The UK, it's quite common to have cheese at the end at the end of a meal.

你会先吃一道开胃菜，比如一些咸味的小菜作为第一道菜。

So you'd start with a, like, a starter of some kind, something savory as your first course.

主菜通常是肉类和蔬菜之类的。

The the main course then would be, you know you know, like, sort of meat and vegetables or something.

然后在那之后，你会吃甜点，来点甜食，再喝杯咖啡。

And then after that, you'd have a dessert, something sweet, and you'd have coffee.

最后，在结尾处才吃奶酪。

And then right at the end, you have cheese.

但在法国巴黎，他们通常先喝开胃酒，那是一种味道偏甜的酒精饮料，然后才开始第一道菜，这和英国的第一道菜其实差不多，就是一些咸味的菜肴，比如我不知道的什么。

Well, here in France, in Paris, it seems they start with an aperitif often, which will be kind of like a quite a sweet tasting, alcoholic liqueur of some kind, and then go on to the first course, which could be, you know, similar to the first course in The UK, really a kind of savory plate of I don't know.

可能是某种肉酱之类的东西。

It could be some pate or something like that.

然后是主菜，有很多东西，比如很多牛排。

And then the main course, lots of things like lots of steak.

我的意思是，他们吃生牛肉，比如鞑靼牛排，对我来说，那看起来就像一大坨厨师忘了煮的碎牛肉。

I mean, they eat raw beef, steak tartare, which is basically for me, it looks like just a load of, like, minced beef that that the chef forgot to cook.

但不，这在这里才是正确的吃法，很多人经常吃，就是一盘生牛肉。

But, no, that's that's the correct way to eat it here, and it's kind of something that people eat a lot, just a plate of raw beef.

这还不是我的菜，但我相信我以后会喜欢上的。

It's not really my cup of tea yet, but I'm sure that I'll grow to like it.

所以，主菜显然不只是生牛肉。

So the kind of main course obviously, it's not just raw beef.

主菜有非常多不同的种类，还有很多美味的食物。

There's loads of different main courses, lots of diff delicious kinds of food.

然后是甜点，你会吃到非常浓郁的蛋糕和美味的甜点等等。

And then a dessert, and you have these very rich cakes and very delicious desserts and so on.

然后之后，不是的。

And then after that, no.

不是的。

No.

我搞错了。

I've got it wrong.

我发现了，奶酪是在甜点之前吃的。

The cheese comes before the dessert, I've discovered.

这是从在别人家吃晚餐中学到的。

This is from eating dinner at people's houses.

他们实际上是先上奶酪的。

They actually serve the cheese first.

我的法国女友对此感到非常惊讶，因为我们把奶酪放在最后吃。

Now, my girlfriend who's French was kind of very surprised to discover that, we have cheese at the end.

在她看来，或者说一些法国人的看法中，这使得英国人显得很奇怪。

And in her I mean, in maybe some people's opinion, some French people's opinion, this makes the English strange.

这只是我们在另一个国家生活时注意到的细微差异之一。

This is just one example of the little differences that, we notice when we, you know, live life in another country.

是的。

Yeah.

我们把奶酪放在最后吃。

We have the cheese at the end.

在法国，他们是在甜点之前吃奶酪。

In France, they have the cheese before the dessert.

所以在法国，顺序大概是甜的、咸的、咸的、咸的、再甜的。

So in France, it kinda goes it sort of goes sweet, savory, savory, savory, sweet.

所以你必须以甜食收尾。

So you have to end on something sweet.

你不能以咸食收尾，但在英国，我们就是这样。

You can't end on savory, whereas in England, we do.

我们有时候会以奶酪收尾。

We end with the cheese sometimes.

你知道，我这其实是在吹毛求疵。

You know, I'm splitting hairs really.

这并不是什么巨大的差异。

That's not a massive difference.

我对葡萄酒一无所知，但似乎这里大多数人对葡萄酒和葡萄品种都有相当不错的了解。

Now, I know nothing about wine, but, it seems that most people here kind of have a fairly decent knowledge of wine and grape varieties and things like that.

当你在餐厅点酒时，侍者会给你一份很长的酒单，你得仔细挑选想买的酒。

And when you, when you order a wine in a restaurant, the waiter presents you with a very long wine list, and you're supposed to very carefully choose which wine you'd like to buy.

而我呢，就只想知道哪款最便宜。

Whereas I'm just like, well, which one is the cheapest?

你知道的。

You know?

我真的不太懂酒。

I I don't really know very much about wine.

但我知道，我希望自己能学会。

But, you know, I I'm I'm I hope to to learn.

我肯定会多加练习。

I'm certainly gonna practice.

咖啡馆文化和酒吧文化完全不同。

Cafe culture is, is totally different to pub culture.

当然，正如你从卢克的英语播客往期节目中已经知道的，去酒吧时，你要去吧台，主动找服务员点酒水和食物，然后端回桌子。

Obviously, as you already know from previous episodes of Luke's English podcast, when you go to the pub, you you go to the bar and you you you have to approach the staff at the bar and you get your drinks and your food there and, you come back to the table.

而在巴黎，你直接坐下，让服务员主动过来为你服务。

Whereas in Paris, you go and just sit down and you let the waiter come and and serve you.

所以，服务员有责任清楚掌握所有情况。

So basically, it's the responsibility of a waiter to know exactly what's going on.

服务员应该能够观察到谁刚进来、谁坐在哪张桌子以及他们的订单是什么，诸如此类的事情。

The waiter should be able to observe who has just arrived and who's sitting at which table and what their orders are and things like that.

所以你去咖啡馆，只是坐下来，放松一下，等着服务员过来为你服务，这真的很惬意。

So you just go to a cafe and you just sit down and just relax and wait for the waiter to come and serve you, which, which is lovely.

我的意思是，我现在真的已经习惯了这种模式。

I mean, I'm I'm really getting used to that now.

你可以去咖啡馆，随便找张桌子坐下，看着周围人来人往，而服务员则会过来，给你端上咖啡、水、啤酒或者别的什么饮品，这种感觉太棒了。

It's it's, it's great to be able to just go to a cafe and just just sit yourself down on a on a at a table and just start watching the world go by while the waiter comes and, you know, drink brings you coffee or or, you know, water or or or a beer or something like that.

这非常惬意。

It's very pleasant.

不过，我刚来的时候，其实根本不知道该怎么做。

When I first arrived though, I didn't really know what I was doing.

你知道，我以前会尽量避免去咖啡馆，因为我害怕自己会做错什么，也害怕得说法语，毕竟这对我来说有点压力。

You know, I I would kind of avoid going to cafes because I was scared scared that I would do something wrong and scared also that I would have to speak French because that's, you know, slightly stressful for me.

我的法语正在进步，我也明白，要想真正提高，就必须让自己置身于这些略带压力的情境中。

My French is improving, and I understand, of course, that for it to improve properly, I need to put myself into these slightly stressful situations.

但我非常在意自己是否违反了某些小小的社交规矩，或者担心自己看起来会显得无礼。

But I'm very, very conscious of sort of breaking some little social rules or very conscious of, I don't know, coming coming across as rude.

所以，你知道，这有点让人紧张。

So, you know, it's a little bit stressful.

因此，我会去咖啡馆，然后心里想：我真的可以就这样坐下来吗？

So I would I would kind of go to cafes and I'd and I'd sort of think, can I really just sit down?

我可以直接坐在一张桌子旁吗？

Do I just sit at a table?

我不需要向服务员宣布我到了，我要坐在那边吗？

Don't I have to, like, announce to the waiter that I've arrived and that I'm gonna be sitting over there?

你知道，我觉得自己直接往桌子旁一坐，就等着上菜，好像有点不太合适。

You know, it seems it it seemed somehow inappropriate for me to just plonk myself down at a table and expect to be served, you know.

但我正在逐渐适应这种服务方式。

But I'm getting used to the service.

这真的很不错。

It's it's it's nice.

这很不错。

It's nice.

在咖啡馆里坐在吧台边是很常见的做法，你可以直接在吧台拿到咖啡，站着喝掉。

It's quite common to kind of actually go and sit at the bar in a cafe, and you get your coffee served directly, and you just stand at the bar and you drink your coffee like that.

我看到很多早上赶时间的人，他们会停下来几分钟，买杯快速咖啡，而在吧台买咖啡会便宜一点。

I see a lot of people in the mornings when they're in a bit of a rush, they kind of manage to stop for a few minutes and just get a quick coffee, and and it's a bit cheaper if you buy the coffee at the bar.

这里的咖啡和英国，或者美国的咖啡有点不一样。

The coffee is a little bit different here than it is in well, in The UK, I suppose, and in America.

这是一种意大利风格的浓缩咖啡，非常好喝。

It's that sort of Italian style espresso coffee, which is really good.

至于饮酒文化——不是喝咖啡，而是喝酒——也有些不同。

And drinking the drinking culture, not coffee, but drinking alcohol, is a little bit different.

看起来，狂饮的现象少了一些。

There's less it seems that there is less binge drinking.

‘狂饮’这个词你可能在英国的报纸上看到过。

Now, binge drinking is an expression that you might sort of read in the newspapers in The UK.

暴饮暴食指的是在很短的时间内大量饮酒，以求迅速醉倒。

Binge drinking means drinking a lot quite quickly in a fairly short period of time in order to get drunk.

而暴饮暴食就是指你在短时间内大量饮酒或吃某种食物。

And a binge is when you, you know, drink or eat a lot of something in a short period of time.

如果你特别喜欢巧克力，你也可以来一次巧克力暴食，然后事后感到非常内疚，或者进行一些暴饮行为。

So you could do like a chocolate binge if you love chocolate, and then you feel very guilty afterwards, or or or do some binge drinking.

那就是你和朋友去酒吧待上几个小时，在酒吧关门之前大量饮酒。

That's where you go to the pub with your friends for a few hours, and you drink lots, before the pub closes.

现在，也许人们说，暴饮暴食在英国是一个严重的公共卫生问题，因为它非常不健康，而且会给国民医疗服务体系带来巨额开支。

Now maybe, well, people say that binge drinking is a is a huge public health issue in The UK because it it's very unhealthy and it, you know, costs the National Health Service a lot of money.

这很可能确实是事实。

And that may well be true.

我认为英国之所以存在暴饮文化，部分原因在于我们的酒吧营业时间有点奇怪。

Part of the reason I think that, we have a binge drinking culture in England is that, our pub opening hours are a little bit strange.

这确实是人们来到英国时经常抱怨的一点。

That's certainly one of the complaints that people have when they come to The UK.

他们问：为什么你们的酒吧晚上11点就关门？

They go, why do your pubs close at 11:00?

这太荒谬了。

That's ridiculous.

那时候我们才刚想开始喝，而不是停下来。

That's when, you know, we're we're ready to start drinking, not stop.

在英格兰，我不太清楚为什么酒吧晚上11点就关门，但事实就是这样。

Well, in England, I don't really know why their pubs close at 11:00, but they do.

尽管许多酒吧拥有24小时营业许可，但大多数仍会在11点或12点左右关门。

Even though many of them have twenty four hour, serving licenses, they most of them still close at about eleven or 12:00.

因此，也许人们会去酒吧，在很短的时间内大量饮酒，因为他们知道11点之后就再也买不到酒了。

As a result, perhaps what happens is that, people go to the pub and they drink quite a lot in quite a short period of time because they know that at at eleven, they won't be able to get anymore.

所以他们干脆在几个小时内把酒全喝完，结果到了周五晚上12点，人们醉醺醺地涌上街头，打架闹事。

So they kind of do all their drinking in just a few hours, and then, of course, you you get people coming out onto the street on a Friday night at 12:00 just completely pissed out of their minds, getting into fights causing trouble.

每逢周五晚上，市中心一片混乱。

It's total chaos in city centers, on a Friday night.

但我感觉这里的情况并不一样。

But I don't get the impression it's the same here.

文化略有不同。

The culture is slightly different.

人们似乎没有那么频繁地狂饮。

People don't seem to binge drink quite as much.

我的意思是，人们当然会喝酒，但不会像我们在英国那样以看似不负责任的方式喝酒。

I mean, people certainly drink, but they don't do it in the seemingly irresponsible way that we do in The UK.

他们似乎会坐下来一边吃饭一边喝酒，而在英国，人们往往站在拥挤的酒吧里喝酒，常常不吃晚饭，直接去酒吧整晚只喝酒，非常不健康。

They, they they seem to sit down and eat and drink at the same time rather than in The UK where people kind of will stand up in very crowded pubs drinking, often missing out on their dinner and just going straight to the pub and just drinking all evening, very unhealthy.

而在法国，人们倾向于坐下来，配着食物喝酒，他们懂得品味葡萄酒的风味，而不是仅仅把它当作用来喝醉的东西。

Whereas in France, people tend to sit down, they drink with their food, they, you know, they enjoy the savoring the taste of wine rather than just seeing it as something that they need to drink in order to get drunk.

所以这相当不错。

So that's pretty good.

我认为这非常健康。

That I think is pretty healthy.

当然，我见过法国人在派对上喝得酩酊大醉，但据我所知，这种情况比在英国要少见得多。

Of course, I have seen French people getting really drunk at parties and things like that, but it's not quite as common in my experience as it is in The UK.

一切似乎都显得更加文明一些。

It all seems a little bit more civilized, perhaps.

在法国，香槟的价格比在英国以及世界其他地方都要便宜。

Champagne in France is cheaper than it is in The UK and in and in the rest of the world.

所以在英国，香槟是一种奢侈品。

So in in England, champagne is a luxury.

它通常是只在特殊场合才喝的东西，而在这里的巴黎，人们更常会享用一杯香槟。

It's the sort of thing that you only drink on special occasions, whereas here in Paris, it's more common to enjoy a glass of champagne.

事实上，我参加过几场派对，看到浴缸里放着好多瓶香槟。

In fact, I've been to a couple of parties here where I've seen loads of bottles of champagne in in the bath.

他们把所有香槟都放在浴缸里，用冰镇着。

So they keep all the champagne in the bath covered in ice.

不过别以为这很常见。

Now, don't think it's that common.

我的法国朋友告诉我，这并不常见。

My French friends tell me that it's not very common.

但说实话，我在这里参加过四五场派对，其中至少有两场派对的浴缸里都装满了香槟。

But to be honest, I've been to four or five parties here, and at least two of those parties had bathtubs full of of champagne.

所以要么我认识的都是特别奢侈的人，要么在派对上大量饮用香槟在这里比在英国更常见。

So either I I'm hanging out with very decadent people, or it's it's sort of more common to drink lots of champagne at a party than it is in The UK.

我们来看看。

So let's see.

我注意到，经常能看到水流经街道。

I've noticed that often you find that water flows through the streets.

我的意思是，街道上的排水沟。

So by this, I mean that the gutters in the streets.

排水沟是人行道和路面之间边缘的部分，也就是排水沟。

The gutters are the the bits at the edge of the street between the pavement and the street, the gutter.

所有的水都会从那里流走。

That's where all the water will flow down.

所以不知为什么，我真的不知道原因。

So for some reason, I don't really know why.

也许你是法国人或巴黎人，或者你知道答案，能告诉我为什么吗？

Perhaps if you're French or Parisian or or you know the answer to this, you can tell me why.

但似乎在下午，经常能看到大量水流经排水沟。

But, it seems in the afternoons often, you get lots of water flowing through the gutters.

于是你会看到长长的水流沿着街道的排水沟流淌，而且看起来非常干净。

So you get these long streams of water flowing down the gutters in the streets, which is it seems very clean.

我想这可能是清理排水沟的一种方式。

I suppose it's a way of cleaning the the gutters out.

周围有这么多流动的水挺不错的，当然，除非你穿着一双匡威帆布鞋踩进去，那样的话你的脚就会湿透。

And it's quite nice to have all this flowing water around, and unless, of course, you step in it in, you know, in a pair of Converse All Stars in which you get in which case you get very wet feet.

但看到这些流动的水，感觉挺有趣或挺有意思的，我会想，这难道不是极大的水资源浪费吗？

But, it's quite funny to see or quite interesting to see all this flowing water, and I think to myself, isn't that a huge waste of water?

但也许在法国或巴黎，人们并不太在意节约用水这个问题。

But maybe in France or in Paris, you know, conversation water conservation is less of an issue.

在英国，我们似乎必须更加节约用水。

In England, we, seem to have to look after our water a lot more.

我们非常注重节水，但在法国，这可能没那么重要。

We we are very conscious of saving water, but maybe in France, that's less of an issue.

不仅在巴黎，我还在其他地方看到过水流从街道的排水沟流下。

And it's not just in Paris that I've seen water flowing down the gutters of streets.

当我去法国南部度假时，也曾在一些小镇上见过这种景象。

Also, I've seen it in towns in the South Of France when I've been there on holiday.

事实上，我记得小时候，我家每年都会去法国南部，暑假时住在南部的一些小村庄和小镇里。

In fact, I remember as a child, my family, we used to go to the South Of France every year, and we'd spend our summer holidays in little villages and towns in the South.

当他们让水流过街道的排水沟时，我和我哥哥、爸爸和妈妈就会玩游戏。

And when they used to flow the the water through the gutters of the streets, my brother and I and my dad and my mom would, would play games.

我们会用纸片折成小纸船，然后让它们顺着街道漂下去。

We would make these paper boats out of pieces of paper and then sail them down the, down the streets.

所以看到水流穿过街道，会营造出一种温馨的氛围。

So seeing the water flowing through the streets, it's kind of it creates a nice atmosphere.

我想这也能清洁排水沟，让我想起在法国度过的童年假期。

It's I suppose it cleans the the gutters, and it reminds me of my childhood holidays in France.

也许他们让水流过街道的原因之一是，有时街道会有点脏。

Maybe one of the reasons that they flow water through the streets is because sometimes the streets are a little bit dirty.

我的意思是，地上有很多狗屎。

What I mean is there's quite a lot of dog turds.

街道上到处都是狗屎，好多狗便便。

There are lots of dog turds on the street, lots of dog poo.

我想你知道我说的是什么，狗屎。

I think you know what I'm talking about, dog shit.

是吧？

Yeah?

当然，‘shit’是粗话。

Of course, shit is the rude word.

狗便便。

Dog poo.

街道上有很多狗屎。

There's there's quite a lot of dog poo on the streets.

对我来说，这有点讽刺，因为这些建筑如此整洁，人们穿着得体，显然非常注重自己的形象，但街道上却到处都是粪便和尿液。

Now that for me is slightly ironic considering the buildings are so nicely presented, the people are very smart, they obviously care a lot about their appearance, and yet on the street, you get quite a lot of shit and piss as well.

在人行道上发现尿渍并不罕见，因为我不知道，也许无家可归的人觉得他们可以随便在人行道上小便。

It's not uncommon to find kind of urine stains on the pavement because, I don't know, homeless people, maybe maybe homeless people decide that they can just urinate on the pavement.

但我肯定不只是无家可归的人才会这样。

But I'm sure it's not just homeless people.

我觉得可能也不只是无家可归的人。

I think it might be, you know, not homeless people as well.

也许在周五晚上喝了几杯后，他们需要上厕所，就想着：算了，就在这条街上解决吧。

Maybe on a Friday night after a few drinks, they need the toilet, and they just think, well, I'll just go right here in the street.

对我来说，作为一个英国人，这相当奇怪，因为在公共场合随地小便是非常粗鲁或不可接受的。

For me, that's quite, as a as an as a Brit, that's quite, odd because it's pretty rude or unacceptable to to sort of urinate in a public place like that.

然而，经常在周六早上，我走到人行道上，就会看到街道上有尿渍。

And yet, often on a Saturday morning, I'll go out onto the pavement, and I'll see kind of peace piss stains on the streets.

我不知道。

I don't know.

也许你真得急了，那就只能解决了。

Maybe if you gotta go, you've gotta go.

但对我来说，这看起来有点奇怪。

But, it seems seemed a little bit strange for me.

我还没在街上撒过尿，但也许有一天我会这么做，那时候，我想我才真正融入了巴黎的生活。

I haven't yet pissed in the street, but maybe, you know, the day will come when I when I do it myself, and then maybe that's when, you know, I I will finally have sort of, been initiated into real Paris life.

所以，街上到处都是狗屎。

So, yeah, dog poo on the street.

所以你走路时得留心点。

So you gotta watch out when you're walking around.

如果你不看路，可能会踩到狗屎。

If you don't watch where you're going, you might step in a turd.

所以，小心点。

So, you know, be careful of that.

这种情况并不常见，主要是因为我觉得自己相当谨慎、警觉，能够避开踩到狗屎。

It doesn't happen very often, mainly because I think I'm I'm quite cautious, quite vigilant, and I manage to avoid stepping in the poo.

但也许正因如此，他们才会稍微冲洗一下街道。

But maybe that's why they they kind of wash the streets a bit.

他们需要把所有污物冲走。

They need to wash away all the crap.

我不知道。

I don't know.

好吧，我也不知道。

Well, I don't know.

我还没见过狗屎在街上漂着，但我知道，等我真看到那一幕时，一定会很有趣。

I've I I haven't I'm yet to see, kind of poo floating down the street, but, you know, I'm sure it's gonna be entertaining when I do see that.

是的。

Yes.

对。

Yeah.

所以，流浪汉的尿或者别人的尿，我不知道。

So tramp tramp's piss or other people's piss, I don't know.

时不时地，空气中确实会残留一股尿味，但这种气味被香水和新鲜面包的香味平衡了。

The there every now and then, you do get a lingering smell of urine in the air, but, that's balanced out by the lovely smells of, you know, perfume and and fresh bread.

但你知道，闻到一点城市尿味，我们不妨这么叫，这并不罕见。

But, you know, it's not uncommon to get a little whiff of of urban urine, let's call it.

让我们看看。

Let's see.

还有什么？

What else?

汽车在这里行驶。

Cars driving driving here.

我注意到汽车之间更容易发生碰撞。

I noticed that cars tend to bump into each other a bit more.

我认为这是因为停车位非常稀少。

I think this is because parking spaces are really, few and far between.

它们非常有限。

They're really limited.

停车的空间很少。

There there isn't much space to park your car.

所以当你找到哪怕一点点空间时，你也会尽量挤进去。

So when you do find even a tiny space, you squeeze all the way into it.

即使这意味着要碰到前面或后面的车，这种为了挤进狭小空间而让车 bumper 相抵的情况似乎也很常见。

And even if that means bumping into the car in front of you or into the car behind you, it seems to be fairly common to, like, bump to even, you know, for cars to press bumpers against each other in order to fit into a tight space.

在伦敦，如果你的车稍微碰到别人的车，就可能惹上大麻烦。

In in London, if you so much as touch another person's car with your car, then you could be in serious trouble.

如果你刮花了别人的车，你会觉得有义务留下电话号码、道个歉，或者尽快逃离现场。

And you if you scratch someone else's car, then you you, you know, you're you sort of feel obliged to leave your telephone number or to apologize in some way or to just escape the scene of the crime as quickly as possible.

而在巴黎，撞到别人的车似乎更像是一件日常小事。

Whereas in Paris, it seems to be sort of more of an everyday thing that you might bump into people's cars.

我自己没有车，所以不太清楚。

I'm I'm not a car owner myself, so I don't really know.

但也许法国人，特别是巴黎人，当有人撞到他们的车时，也会像英国人一样生气。

But maybe French people, Parisian people get equally as angry if someone bumps into their car as as a British person would.

这只是因为这里的停车空间更少，所以这种情况更常发生。

It's it's just that it happens more often because there is less space for for parking here.

我不确定。

I don't know.

但我确实看到过更多汽车互相碰撞的情况，我一直觉得这很奇怪。

But I've certainly seen cars bumping into each other a bit more, and I I always thought, is that strange?

这很奇怪，不是吗？

That's strange, isn't it?

他们是技术差劲的司机吗？

Are they just bad drivers?

他们是不体贴吗？

Are they just inconsiderate?

还是仅仅因为空间太少了？

Or is it just that there is less space?

我还没真正弄明白这一点。

I haven't really worked that out yet.

但对我来说，开车在巴黎是个不小的挑战，主要是因为，在英国，我们靠左行驶。

But driving for me is quite a challenge in Paris, mainly because, obviously, in The UK, we drive on the we drive on the left.

所以车是在道路的左侧行驶。

So the car goes on the left side of the road.

而在巴黎，就像世界上大多数其他国家一样，是的，我承认，世界上大多数国家都是靠右行驶。

Whereas in Paris, like in most other countries in the world, yes, I admit it, most of the other countries in the world drive on the right.

在巴黎，他们也是这样做的。

In in Paris, they do the same thing.

他们靠右行驶。

They drive on the right.

你坐在车的左侧，但开车时却靠右行驶。

You sit on the left of the car, but you drive on the right.

所以这对我来说有点难以适应，因为我习惯坐在车的右侧，用左手换挡。

So that's a bit strange for me to get used to, because obviously, I'm used to sitting on the right hand side of the car, controlling the gear stick with my left hand.

但在法国时，我坐在汽车左侧，用右手换挡，并在道路右侧驾驶。

But when I'm in France, I sit on the left side of the car, control the gear stick with my right hand, and I drive on the right side of the road.

这非常复杂，我知道。

It's very complicated, I know.

但感觉上，当我坐在驾驶座时，总觉得右边的车体太大了。

But how it feels it is that when I'm in the driving seat, it feels like there's too much car on the right.

车子右边显得特别大，而左边却不够宽。

The car is really big on the right, and not enough car on the left.

所以我特别担心自己会不小心撞到车子右侧的什么东西。

So I'm very conscious that somehow I'm gonna, you know, crash into something on the right side right hand side of the car.

这真的很奇怪。

So that's pretty weird.

此外，总的来说，在巴黎开车似乎更混乱一些。

Plus, also, just generally, it seems a bit more chaotic to drive in Paris.

我完全不习惯这样开车。

I'm really not used to it at all.

最糟糕的经历之一是我开着我女朋友父亲的车，这本身就已经很紧张了。

One of the worst experiences was when, I was driving my girlfriend's dad's car, so that was already pretty stressful.

但不仅如此，我当时正从乡下开车进入巴黎。

But not only that, we I was driving into Paris from the countryside.

所以进入巴黎通常意味着你得绕着环城公路开。

So driving into Paris generally means you have to drive around the ring road.

有一条大路环绕巴黎一圈，叫做环城大道。

There's a a big road that goes all the way around Paris, and it's called the Boulevard Perifurique.

这是一条环绕巴黎的环路，车流量非常大。

And, it's a ring road that goes around Paris, and it's very busy.

而且司机们可能有点 aggressive，要找到正确的出口也相当混乱。

And it's kind of the drivers can be a bit aggressive, and, it's a bit chaotic trying to find the right exit and so on.

你必须非常警觉和小心。

You got to be very vigilant and very careful.

但对我来说最吓人的一刻，是我从匝道驶入环城大道的时候。

But this most frightening moment for me was when I was entering the Peripherique from a slip road.

所以匝道就是你用来驶入另一条主干道的路。

So a slip road is the road that you use to get onto another big road.

在这种情况下，就是环绕巴黎的环城大道——巴黎外环路。

In this case, the Boulevard Peripherique, the ring road going around Paris.

在英格兰，从匝道驶入高速公路非常清晰，因为匝道会一直延伸，然后以自己的车道汇入高速公路。

Entering from a slip road onto a a motorway in England is pretty clear because the slip road goes all the way down, and then it joins the motorway with its own lane.

你继续沿着自己的车道行驶，大约一公里后，这条车道会平缓地汇入其他车流。

It it you carry on driving on your own lane, and after about a kilometer, that lane gently feeds into the rest of the traffic.

所以我习惯了驶下匝道后，长时间沿着匝道行驶，然后才平缓地加入车流。

So I'm used to, like, driving down the slip road, and you keep going along the slip road for a long time, and then you gently join the traffic.

但在巴黎，这里根本没有匝道。

Here in in Paris, there's no slip road.

你直接开上这条路，呃，让我解释得清楚一点。

You just go the the the road well, there's the let me explain myself clearly.

是有匝道的，但它不会延伸很长一段距离。

This there is a slip road, but it doesn't continue for a very long time.

它直接把你甩进对向车流中。

It just joins it just throws you directly into the oncoming traffic.

这是我第一次在靠左行驶的国家开车，开的是我女朋友爸爸的车，我特别小心，不敢弄坏它，这让我大吃一惊。

So that was a big shock for me for my first time driving on the wrong side of the road, in my girlfriend's dad's car, you know, very conscious that I shouldn't try, damage it.

我女朋友坐在副驾驶座上，她不会开车，完全感觉不到我所面临的挑战和压力。

My girlfriend in the passenger seat, she doesn't drive, so she's completely oblivious to the challenge, to the stress that I'm under.

你知道吗，我就像个试图紧急迫降飞机的飞行员，而她却只是悠闲地享受着在巴黎的惬意驾驶。

You know, I'm there like a sort of, I'm there like a pilot trying to crash land a plane, and she's just, you know, enjoying a nice drive in the in in in in Paris.

我一边开车上环城大道，一边紧张得直冒汗，生怕崩溃，可这里根本没有长长的引道。

So I'm there kind of sweating, trying not to have a nervous breakdown while I drive onto the Boulevard Perivverique, and no, you know, no long slip roads.

于是我开车前行，心想：应该没问题吧。

So I'm driving along, and I think, oh, it'll be alright.

我就沿着引道开，然后汇入车流。

So I'll just go along the slip road, and then I'll join the traffic.

但就在最后一刻，我意识到引道已经消失了。

But then at the last second, I realized there's no more slip road traffic.

那真是一个相当吓人的时刻。

So that was a pretty frightening moment.

我不得不猛踩刹车。

I had to slam on the brakes.

我不得不踩下刹车，当时很担心有人会撞上我的车尾。

I had to hit the brakes, and I was scared that someone was gonna crash into the back of me.

这过程真是刺激，各位，但你们会很高兴知道，我当然成功了。

It was exciting, ladies and gentlemen, but you'll be glad to know that, you know, I did it, of course.

你知道，我最终做到了。

You know, I managed to do it.

我开上了环城大道，Peripherique。

I got onto the boulevard, Peripherique.

我绕了一圈。

I made it round.

我下了路。

I got off.

车子没有受损。

The car was undamaged.

我的意思是，过程中掉了一点头发，但这就是生活，边做边学吧。

I I mean, I lost a a few hairs in the process, but you live and learn, basically.

所以开车有时候挺奇怪的。

So driving is pretty strange sometimes.

司机并不总是会停车。

Motorists don't always stop.

确实是有这种情况。

There there there's yeah.

这需要一点时间来适应，这么说吧。

It it takes a bit of getting used to, let's say.

我通常觉得，在街上，人们盯着你看的眼神比在伦敦多得多。

I tend to find just generally in the street, people people stare a lot more than they do in London.

我说的盯着看，意思是他们比在伦敦时更频繁地看你。

By stare, I mean, they kind of look at you a lot more.

我一走到巴黎的街上，就感觉更不自在了。

I I I feel more self conscious when I go out into the street in Paris.

我总觉得人们可能在打量我，盯着我看。

I feel kind of aware that people are maybe checking me out, that they're looking at me.

我不认为这只是我多疑。

And I don't think it's just that I'm paranoid.

我真心觉得，在巴黎，人们彼此之间、彼此的衣着或外表的关注度，远高于伦敦。

I genuinely think people tend to look at each other or look at their look at each other's clothes or appearance a lot more here in Paris than they do in London.

你知道，这可能会显得很无礼。

You could you know, it could be rude.

有时候我觉得这真的很无礼，比如当我站在站台等火车时，发现旁边的人正无礼地盯着我看，盯着我的衣服。

Sometimes I think it's rude, frankly, when for example, I'm standing waiting for a train, and I realized that the person next to me is just quite rudely just looking at me, looking at my clothes.

也许他或他们并不觉得这算无礼，但对我来说，盯着人看确实很无礼。

Maybe he did maybe they don't consider it to be rude, but for me, that's I think it's pretty rude to stare.

我在巴黎遇到这种情况的次数，比在伦敦老家多得多。

And I encounter that more here in Paris than I do back home in London.

也许我显得特别突兀。

Maybe I kind of stick out like a sore thumb.

也许人们忍不住看我，因为他们会想，这个穿着如此破旧又不寻常的人是谁？

Maybe people can't help looking at me because they think, who is this weird freak who is dressed in such a such a kind of shabby unconventional way?

不过说实话，我其实并不算特立独行，只是人们可能总会留意我的衣服。

Although, to be honest, I'm not really unconventional, but maybe people just check out my clothes.

也许这就是巴黎人常做的事。

Maybe that's just what people do in in Paris.

但这样盯着别人看，似乎有点奇怪。

But it seems a bit strange to kind of stare like that at at people.

但我认为，这里的人们非常注重自己的外表。

But I think people do take quite a lot of care over their appearance here.

总的来说，我觉得人们都相当有品位。

People in general, I think, are really quite chic.

他们穿得很得体。

They dress very well.

他们穿得很得体。

They dress smart.

他们戴着漂亮的丝巾。

They wear these nice silk scarves.

他们通常穿更正式的衬衫和长裤。

They tend to wear smarter shirts and trousers.

人们穿着非常得体，这真的不是传说。

People are very well dressed, so it's not really a myth.

我认为巴黎人确实喜欢把自己打扮得体面。

I think it's true that Parisians, they like to be well presented.

所以，当你走上街头时，打扮得体、看起来整洁得体才是明智之举。

And so, you know, when you step out in public, it's the dumb thing to to dress yourself up and to to look nice, to look presentable.

但这能成为人们互相凝视的理由吗？

But does that give people justification to stare at each other?

我不知道。

I don't know.

我确实在慢慢适应这一点。

I'm certainly learning to get used to that.

我不确定是不是我的错觉，但有时候我觉得人们在公共场合似乎更不礼貌了。

I don't know if it's my imagination, but sometimes I feel that people seem a little bit more rude in public.

也许他们只是更直接而已。

Maybe they're just more direct.

在伦敦，人们有点拘谨，但我感觉人们确实更粗鲁一些，你知道的。

And in London, people are a bit sort of reserved, But I get the impression that people just are a bit more rude, you know.

正如我所说，他们确实会多看几眼。

They as I said, they they stare a bit more.

他们似乎不像我们在伦敦那样在意自己的个人空间。

They they don't seem to be aware of their own personal space in the same way that we are in London.

也许只是伦敦人有点拘谨罢了。

Maybe it's just that Londoners have are a bit uptight.

但我觉得在伦敦，我们非常小心不会撞到别人。

But I think that in London, we we're quite careful not to bump into each other.

在拥挤的地方，比如地铁上，我们会彼此留出更多的个人空间。

We give each other a bit more personal space in crowded places like on the underground.

我们非常注意尽量不挡别人的路。

We we're very conscious of, like, trying to get out of each other's way.

我认为在地铁上，人们确实相当体贴。

I think certainly on the underground, people are quite considerate.

他们不会，你知道的，尽量避免撞到别人。

They they don't you know, they try to avoid bumping into each other.

他们会尽量避免妨碍他人。

They try to avoid getting in in each other's way.

但我发现，在巴黎这里，人们更容易互相碰撞。

But I find here in Paris, people tend to just bump into each other more.

他们似乎对个人空间的意识稍微弱一些，所以在这里，你经常会看到人们推搡、挤撞的情况更多一些。

They they seem to be slightly less aware of of their personal space, and so you you tend to find people pushing and shoving and bumping into each other a little bit more over here.

是的。

Yeah.

我们来看看。

Let's see.

在伦敦，我认为人们一方面更礼貌、更体贴，但另一方面，你会感觉人们根本不在乎你，这一点我很喜欢。

In London, I think that people, on one hand are are more polite and considerate, and on the other hand, you get the sense that people just don't really care about you at all, which I which, you know, I I quite like.

你知道，我已经逐渐喜欢上这种更多的匿名感。

You know, I've grown to like that, the sense that you've got a bit more anonymity.

如果你想要穿得与众不同，想要有点古怪或看起来有点奇怪，你完全可以，而且人们并不会因此评判你。

And, if you want to dress differently, if you want to be a bit eccentric or slightly odd looking, then you can, and people aren't really gonna judge you for it.

事实上，他们往往会说，是的。

And in fact, they they kind of like, yeah.

做你想做的吧。

Do do whatever you want.

你可以随意穿着。

You can dress however you like.

我根本不关心。

I don't really care.

这就是你在伦敦感受到的氛围。

That's the feeling you get in London.

而在巴黎，感觉像是一个更小的社群。

Whereas in Paris, it seems that, you know, it feels like a smaller community.

而且人们似乎对你的外表更加挑剔。

It and and it feels like people are slightly more judgmental of of your appearance.

这是我给我的印象。

That's the impression I get.

我认为巴黎人可能更保守一些，尤其是在穿着这类事情上，我必须这么说。

I think people maybe people in Paris are I think they're a little bit more conservative, I must say, certainly about clothing and things like that.

如果你穿得有点怪异或与众不同，我觉得人们会盯着你看，有时候这种感觉有点不友好。

And if you if you dress a little bit weirdly or differently, I think you're gonna get people are gonna stare at you, and and that feels a bit unfriendly at times.

对我来说这并不是大问题，因为我其实并不喜欢穿得那么奇怪。

I mean, it's not a big problem for me because I I don't really like to dress that strangely.

我不是哥特族，也不是朋克，或者类似的人。

I'm not a goth or or a punk or anything like that.

但毫无疑问，我感觉这里的人穿衣普遍更保守一些。

But, certainly, I get the impression that people tend to dress slightly more conservatively here.

但非常精致、时尚、有品位。

But very smart, very chic, very fashionable.

事实上，我认为有品位是一种生活方式。

In fact, I think being chic is a kind of a way of life.

巴黎那种宏伟的优雅、精致的呈现和正式的气质，似乎也体现在了人们身上——他们也往往穿着得体、打扮得很有格调。

It it's almost as if the kind of grand elegance of Paris, the beautiful presentation and elegance and sort of formal presentation of Paris is reflected in its people, who also are quite sort of slightly formally presented and quite nicely dressed.

当然，我不能一概而论。

Obviously, I can't make generalizations.

巴黎也有很多人并不穿得那么正式。

There are plenty of people in Paris who don't dress formally.

你知道的，他们穿牛仔裤、T恤、运动鞋之类的。

You know, they wear the jeans and t shirts, trainers, and that sort of thing.

但总体而言，人们普遍很有时尚意识，穿着得体、有品位。

But generally speaking, there is a sense that that people are, quite fashion conscious, quite smart, quite chic.

巴黎以这一点而闻名。

And, well, Paris is famous for this.

它以时尚、时尚品牌、精品店之类的东西而闻名。

That's it's famous for its its fashion and its its, its fashion brands and boutiques and things like that.

我不确定是不是因为我对这种文化不太了解，但人们似乎不太幽默，或者不太容易接受幽默。

I'm not sure if it's just that I don't understand the culture very well, but people seem to be slightly less humorous or maybe slightly less ready for humor.

在伦敦，我感觉人们总是喜欢用幽默。

In London, I get the impression that people are always kind of people use humor.

他们使用自嘲式的幽默和讽刺。

They use self effacing humor, irony.

他们拿自己开玩笑，以此来缓解社交中的紧张或尴尬。

They make jokes about themselves as a way of sort of getting rid of any social tension or awkwardness.

而在巴黎，人们则更愿意直接面对冲突，如果事情就是这样的话。

Whereas in Paris, people are just a bit more ready to, you know, have a conflict if it's if that's the way it is.

比如，如果你在街上撞到别人，通常不会说‘哦，对不起，是我的错’，而更可能是说‘让开，笨蛋’。

Like, if you if you bump into someone in the street, then rather than kind of going, oh, sorry, my mistake, it tends to be like, you know, get out of the way, you idiot.

顺便说一下，有一个词我每天都能听到，这是一个粗鲁的法语词。

By the way, is a a word that I hear every day, and it's a it's a rude French word.

我不太确定它是什么意思。

I think I'm not sure what it means.

我想是 butan。

Think, butan.

我觉得它的意思是婊子之类的意思。

I think it means bitch or something like that.

不管怎样，这就像说那个脏话一样。

Anyway, it's just like it's a bit like the equivalent of saying the f word.

但人们经常在不知不觉中说这个词，你知道的。

And but people say it all the time without even realizing it, you know.

你知道，这非常常见。

You know, it's it's very common.

顺便说一下，我还没完全掌握这个词。

I haven't quite mastered it yet, by the way.

但我不确定说我人们似乎不那么幽默是否公平。

But I don't know if it's fair for me to say that people seem less humorous.

我认为更准确的说法是，在伦敦，人们随时随地都在使用幽默。

I think it's more a case that in London, people use humor all the time, you know.

人们总是准备好自嘲或用自我贬低的幽默方式来开玩笑。

It's like people are always ready to be to make fools of themselves or to use self effacing humor to be a bit of a to be to joke around a lot.

我绝对不认为巴黎人反对使用幽默。

And I I certainly don't believe that the that the Parisians are, against using humor.

这显然不是事实。

It's certainly not the case.

我认为幽默只是被保留用于某些特定场合。

I think it's just reserved for for for certain situations.

比如餐厅里的服务员，他们常常非常幽默；我注意到服务员经常用幽默的方式和顾客互动，幽默就体现在这些时候。

For example, waiters in restaurants, they they are often really quite humorous, And I've I noticed that waiters tend to banter with customers in a humorous way, and that's when that's where the humor is.

或者当你进店时，店员也可能对你开些玩笑。

Or or maybe when you go into a shop, the shopkeeper might be a bit humorous with you.

但这种幽默并不是英国那种讽刺、面无表情的类型。

But it's not the same kind of ironic, deadpan kind of humor that you get in in England.

事实上，在法国，当有人给你讲笑话时，他们往往会边讲边笑，让你知道这是个笑话。

In fact, in in in France, it seems that when someone tells you a joke, they kind of show you that it's a joke by laughing when they make the joke as well.

所以他们是和你一起分享这个笑话。

So they share the joke with you.

也就是说，‘我现在给你讲个笑话了’，你知道的，就是这种感觉。

So it's like, oh, I'm now I'm telling you a joke, you know, like that.

他们会拍一下膝盖，让所有人都知道这是个笑话，你知道的。

They kind of slap the knee and show everyone that this is a joke, you know.

而在英国，由于幽默无处不在，笑话的表达方式可能没那么明显。

Whereas in England, because humor is always there to an extent, the delivery of a joke might be less obvious.

通常的情况是，两个正在分享笑话的人，并不一定都会笑出来。

And what often happens is that two people who are sharing a joke, they don't necessarily laugh about it.

他们只是继续以讽刺的语气说话，顺势把笑话延续下去，因为这样才更有趣。

They just carry on speaking in an ironic way and just continue the joke because that's sort of more fun.

你其实不必特意说明这是个笑话。

You don't actually have to announce that it's a joke.

你只需继续生活下去，继续以开玩笑的语气交谈，就像在进行一场普通的对话一样。

You just you just continue living and and and continue the the jokey conversation as if it's just a normal conversation.

那意味着什么？

What does that mean?

嗯，谁知道呢？

Well, who knows?

我肯定，还是让社会学家和文化理论家们去研究英国幽默究竟意味着什么吧。

I'm sure well, let's leave that up to the sociologists and the cultural theorists and things about exactly what English humor really means.

也许我将来某天可以在播客节目中探讨一下这个话题。

And perhaps I can try and cover it in a podcast episode at some point in the future.

所以看起来，人们没那么讽刺，也没那么冷面幽默。

So it seems that people are less ironic, less deadpan.

当他们搞笑时，更容易让人察觉到他们在逗乐，而且幽默感往往集中在某些特定场合。

When they are funny, it's more obvious that they're being funny, and there and and the the humor scent tends to happen in certain places.

也许在法国，人们对幽默的重视程度较低。

Maybe in France, they put less value on humor.

在英国，我们非常重视幽默。

In in The UK, we value humor a lot.

它是我们日常生活中非常重要的一部分，我们喜欢互相逗乐。

It's like a really important part of our daily lives, and we we like to go around making each other laugh.

我们非常喜欢喜剧演员，每周七天，城市里到处都有喜剧表演，而在这里巴黎，喜剧则没那么普遍。

We we we love comedians, and we we have comedy shows all over the city on every night of the week, whereas here in Paris, comedy is is less, less widespread.

我看过法国的单口喜剧电视节目，但真的不多。

I I've seen stand up comedy, French stand up comedy on TV, and there is well, there isn't very much of it.

这和伦敦不一样，在伦敦，每个频道都有喜剧节目。

It's not like in London where it's just every channel, there's a comedy show on.

在法国，确实有喜剧。

In in France, there is comedy.

但它更像是一种戏剧形式。

But it's more like it's more like sort of drama in a way.

这更像是喜剧剧，而不是纯粹的单口喜剧。

It's more like comic drama rather than out and out stand up comedy.

总之，正如我所说，我并没有所有答案。

Anyway, as I said, I don't have all the answers.

如果你觉得你对法国或巴黎文化比我更了解，请务必留言。

If you feel like you understand French or Parisian culture better than me, please do leave a comment.

你知道的，你认为呢？

Just, you know, what do you think?

即使你在你的国家也发现了这些现象，毕竟我的听众遍布全球，也请留言，你觉得巴黎的法国文化跟你的是相似还是不同？

And and even if if you recognize any of these these things in your country, because obviously, I've got listeners from all over the world, Leave a comment as well, you know, is does Parisian French culture sound similar to yours or or different?

哪些方面相似或不同？

In what way?

我们来看看。

Let's see.

是的。

Yeah.

在法国，人们似乎更正式一些。

It seems that in France, people are a bit more formal.

例如，当你第一次见到某人时，通常会说‘您好，先生’，意思是‘我很高兴认识您’，而在英国则不是这样。

For example, when you meet someone for the first time, it's quite customary to say, you know, bonjour monsieur, hello, sir, you know, which is like, I'm, you know, it's it's I'm enchanted to to to meet you, rather than in England.

就是简单地说声‘嗨’。

It's like, hi.

最近怎么样？

How's it going?

哇。

Wow.

很棒。

Great.

很高兴认识你。

It's really nice to meet you.

我们比较随意，而在巴黎，人们则稍微更正式一些。

We're a bit more informal, whereas in in Paris, people are slightly more formal.

我的意思是，我刚才举的例子是，如果你是法国人，你可能会想，这不对吧。

I mean, maybe the example I've given there is if you're French, you might be thinking, oh, that's not true.

我们只是说，哦，或者类似的话。

We we just say, oh, or or something.

但为了给你一个例子，当我见到我女朋友的法国父母时，我女朋友告诉我，你必须用正确的方式自我介绍。

But just to give you an example, when I met my girlfriend's French parents, I, you know, my girlfriend said to me, look, you gotta you gotta say you've got to introduce yourself in the right way.

你得对我的爸爸说‘Bonjour monsieur’。

You've gotta say bonjour monsieur to my dad.

一开始你得用‘vous’来称呼他们。

You have to call them vous at the beginning.

你知道吗，在法语里，他们有‘vous’和‘tu’两种形式。

You know you know, in French, they have the vous form and the tu form.

‘vous’是正式的‘你’，而‘tu’是非正式的‘你’。

Vous is the formal you, and tu is the informal you.

当然，在英语里，我们只有一个‘you’，两种情况都用。

Of course, in English, we just have you, for both.

所以我的印象是，当我见到我女朋友的父母时，我必须表现得更正式一点。

So my the the impression was that, I I had to be a bit more formal when I met my girlfriend's parents.

而当我女朋友见到我父母时，她却说：‘哦，我该说些什么呢？’

Whereas when my girlfriend met my parents, she was saying, oh, you know, what should I say?

我该怎么介绍自己？

How shall I introduce myself?

我对她说，就简单说声嗨就行。

And I said to her, just say hi.

嗨。

Hi.

直接叫我的父母的名字就行。

And call my, you know, parents by their first names.

嗨，你好。

Hi there.

你知道的，能认识你真是太好了。

How you know, oh, it's really nice to meet you.

她对在初次见面时如此随意感到非常不自在。

And she felt quite uncomfortable about this idea that she could be quite so informal on a on a first meeting.

所以我认为这体现了法国人比英国人稍微更正式一些。

So I think that's an example of how the French are slightly more formal than the English.

我认为法语在很多方面与英语相似，常常是因为我们共享了大量拉丁词源。

I think also the language, French language, is similar to English in in many ways, often because of all the Latin words that we share.

所以是拉丁语源的词汇。

So Latin oriented words.

在我看来，正是拉丁语源的词汇通常更为正式。

So it's the Latin words, in my opinion, which are usually the more formal ones.

而在英语中，我们有大量短语动词和其他表达方式，它们往往更随意。

And in English, we have things like phrasal verbs and and and other expressions, which tend to be less formal.

但在法语中，他们使用的正是英语里更正式的表达方式，远比我们频繁。

But in French, they use what in English is the more formal style more than than we do.

因此，从这个角度看，法语文化显得更加正式。

So it feels like French is a more formal culture in that way.

当然，一旦你熟悉了法国人并成为他们的朋友，就不再需要那么正式了。

Obviously, one once you're once you get to know French people and you become their friends, then, you know, there's no need for formality anymore.

但我感觉在刚开始时，法国的礼仪比英国更讲究一些。

But I get the sense that at the beginning, there's a bit more of a formal protocol than there is in in England.

让我们看看。

Let's see.

其他差异。

Other differences.

当然，他们说的是另一种语言。

Well, of course, they well, they speak a different language.

你知道，这是个很大的不同。

You know, that's a big difference.

让我们看看。

Let's see.

警报声。

Sirens.

警报声不一样。

The sirens are different.

我不知道你是否明白我在说什么。

I wonder if you know what I'm talking about.

我说的警报声，是指警车和救护车发出的声音。

By sirens, I mean the noises that police cars and ambulances make.

在英国，警车会发出那种声音。

So in The UK, police cars sort of go, that kind of thing.

对吧？

Right?

而在巴黎，它们会发出另一种声音。

Whereas in Paris, they kind of go.

不过，对我来说，这似乎是个很小的差别。

Anyway, it seems like a small difference to me.

抱歉。

Sorry.

对你来说这可能只是个小差别，但你知道，当你习惯了城市的这些声音，到了法国，他们的声音却不一样，感觉很不同。

It might seem like a small difference to you, but, you know, when you're used to hearing these sounds of the city, and then in France, they they have, like, a different sound, feels different.

法国的警报声听起来有点像某种旋律。

It feels a bit like the the French sirens are like a melody of some kind.

事实上，也许最好的表达方式是让英国喜剧演员比尔·贝利来解释一下。

In fact, maybe the best way, to express this is if I let Bill Bailey, the English comedian, explain it.

现在你将听到比尔·贝利谈论英国和法国的警报声。

So now you're gonna hear Bill Bailey talking about sirens in The UK and sirens in France.

他实际上通过在键盘上模仿警报声来解释，接着还唱起了一首法国歌曲，并用法语歌词演唱。

And he actually he actually explains he explains it by demonstrating the sirens on his keyboard, and he then goes into a kind of French song, and he he sings some French lyrics.

请听比尔·贝利讲述英国和法国的警车或救护车警报声之间的区别。

So have a listen to Bill Bailey talking about the difference between police sirens or ambulance sirens in The UK and ambulance sirens in French.

我之后会解释他唱的法语歌词。

I'll explain, I'll translate the lyrics of the song which he sings in French, afterwards.

我们来听听。

Let's see.

顺便说一下，比尔·贝利的法语肯定不是完美的法语。

By the way, Bill Bailey's French, I'm sure, is not perfect French.

这是一种英语对法语的近似模仿。

It's a kind of English approximation of French.

但不管怎样，如果你听不懂法语，我之后会为你解释。

But anyway, I will explain it to you afterwards if you don't understand the French.

我们来看看。

So let's see.

开始了。

Here we go.

比尔·贝利和救护车。

Bill Bailey and ambulance.

你看，欧洲生活的方方面面都体现出一种更悠闲的生活方式。

See, everything about European life suggests a much more laid back lifestyle.

就连救护车警报器这样的东西，这里的警报器都非常功能化。

Even things like sirens, you know, here are sirens very, functional.

所以它说，来吧。

And so it says, come on.

来吧。

Come on.

让开。

Out of way.

让开。

Out of way.

这可超出了我的职责范围。

More than my job's worth.

希望我能得到一些，你知道的，失望。

Wish to me, you know, disappointment.

有趣的是，你从来不会往另一个方向走，对吧？

Interestingly, you never even go the other way, do you?

我不知道我是不是会那样做。

I don't know if do that.

他来了。

Here he comes.

看。

Look.

哦，他走了。

Oh, there he goes.

看。

Look.

因为那将违背物理定律，不是吗？

Because that will be defying the laws of physics, wouldn't it?

那将是一辆救护车在另一个维度处理紧急情况。

That will be an ambulance attending an emergency in another dimension.

这里，非常实用。

Here, very functional.

欧洲的警报声，更富有旋律，不是吗？

European sirens, a lot more lyrical, aren't you?

就像是，没错，出了事故，但咱们还是享受这段旅程吧。

It's like, yes, there is an accident, but let's enjoy the ride.

事实上，法国的警笛就是这样的。

In fact, French ones are like this.

那只是它从你身边经过时你听到的那一段。

That's just the bit you hear as it goes past.

如果你从整条街上听完整个声音，它听起来是这样的。

If you listen to it all down the street, it's like this.

好的。

Okay.

刚才那是比尔·贝利在谈论警笛。

That was Bill Bailey there talking about sirens.

当然，如果你想看的话，可以在网站上找到那个片段的YouTube视频。

You can see the YouTube video for that clip on the website, of course, if you want to.

现在让我解释一下他刚才说的内容。

Now let me just, explain what he said there.

我的意思是，我很抱歉。

I mean, what I'm sorry.

他唱的内容，显然是用法语唱的，我猜你们大多数人不会说法语。

What he was singing, because obviously, was singing in French, and I expect most of you don't speak French.

所以他当时说的是：注意。

So he was saying, attention.

我们受伤了。

We are injured.

我们有个人。

We have a man.

他叫让·米歇尔。

He's called Jean Michel.

他的腿断了。

His leg is broken.

还有一个年轻女孩，她叫吉塞尔。

With a young girl, she's called Giselle.