乡间漫步 🏡（与我女儿同行）[998]

而且这很棒，因为你真的可以做到。

And it's lovely because you can even do it.

哦不，你不能在外面做。

Oh no, you can't do it outside.

做播客。

Podcasting.

我能做到，我确实做过，我会的？

I could, I can, I have, I have, I will?

而且

And

这房子比你的办公室大得多，简直大了将近一百万倍。

this house is certainly a lot, a lot, like nearly a million times bigger than than your office.

大了一百万倍。

A million times bigger.

一百万倍，差不多还多十倍。

A million, but like 10 times bigger.

这地方确实比我的办公室大得多，但设备配置完全不一样。

It's it's certainly much bigger than my office, but it's not equipped in the same way as my office.

因为我的办公室是专门定制的。

Cause my office is a bespoke place.

‘定制’的意思就是，它从头到尾都是为做这个播客设计建造的。

Bespoke means it's been specifically designed and created for doing this podcast.

而我现在做的这种，算是‘游击式播客’。

Whereas what I'm doing now is a form of gorilla podcasting.

不是指大猩猩那个‘gorilla’，是g-e-u-r-r-g-o-d这种拼法。

Not gorilla like the ape, but gorilla, g e u r r god.

‘Gorilla’怎么拼来着？

How do you spell gorilla?

是g-u-e-r-r-i-l-l-a，就是gorilla。

It's g u e r r I l l a, gorilla.

不过呢，这其实是‘gorilla’的一个不同拼法。

Anyway, it's a different spelling of gorilla.

意思是随时随地灵活应对，想办法即兴做播客，本质上就是在打破常规。

It means finding ways to improvise your podcasting on the go so that you are essentially sort of breaking the rules.

你可能在客厅里录，或者在花园里录。

You're you're recording in the living room or you're recording in the garden.

你不是在标准的播客空间里做，而是抓住任何机会就录。

You're not doing any normal podcasting space, you're just finding ways every time to do it whenever you can.

我就是这么看的。

That's how I see that.

对。

Yes.

你真的在打破规则吗？

You're really breaking the rules?

我的意思是，也不是真在破坏规则，只是没按常规方式来做。

Well, I mean, not really breaking the rules, but not doing it in the normal standard way.

对吧？

Yeah?

好的。

Okay.

你静音了。

You're muted.

我又给你静音了。

I've muted you again.

对。

Yes.

这样你就不容易发出噪音了，你衣服摩擦麦克风，还有喘气声，这些听众都不想听，对吧？

So that you you don't because you would you're rubbing the microphone against your t shirt and breathing into it and stuff that people don't wanna hear hear breathing, do you, on the podcast?

我不确定。

I don't know.

总之，就是这样了。

So anyway, there you go.

我们现在就是这样，孩子回学校之前都会这样。

That that's where we are now, and that's where we're gonna be until the kids go back to school.

所以整个夏天剩下的时间，我都会在这儿。

So pretty much for the rest of the summer, I will be here.

那从下周开始？

And starting next knee?

我正在挠膝盖。

I'm scratching my knee.

对。

Yeah.

下周我们四口子全都会在这儿，这样一来，我真不知道该怎么继续像以前那样做播客了。

Starting next week, all four of us will be here, and that means that I don't know how I'm gonna continue doing my podcasting in the way that I normally would.

对吧？

Right?

你都习惯了每周免费更新一集，还有呢。

You've come to expect one free episode every single week plus yes.

他们平时还会定期推出付费高级内容。

They have plus plus premium episodes on a regular basis as well.

所以我会像之前说的那样，搞点游击式播客，趁着在乡下和家人在一起的空档，找时间找地方录节目。

So I'm gonna be improvising, as I said, guerilla podcasting, trying to find time and space to podcast in the midst of family time here in the countryside.

现在我们有更多时间，也有更多空间，不用再赶着在异国他乡度假了，这其实挺好的，意味着我大概真能抽出更多时间来做这个。

The fact we've got more time, the fact we've got more space and we're not rushing around a foreign country, you know, being on holiday is great because it does mean that I probably will have more time to do this.

但我要说的是，更新频率可能不会像今年其他时候那样固定了。

But what I will say is that it might not be on the same regular basis that you've had for the rest of the year.

可能不会每星期一都准时更新一集了。

So I might not you might not get an episode every Monday.

有时候可能星期二、星期三才出一集，日子不固定。

You might get, you know, episodes arriving on different days of the week.

也有可能一周出好几集。

You might get more than one episode a week.

咱们走着瞧吧。

We will see.

当然，也可能会稍微少一点。

You might get slightly less.

我会尽量在这段时间里给你们和往常一样多的节目，不过发布时间可能会有点乱。

I'll attempt to give you the same number of episodes I would normally give you during this period, but they just it might be a bit haphazard.

我的更新时间可能不会那么规律。

My uploading schedule might be a little bit haphazard.

所以呢，就是这样了。

So there you go.

事情就是这么个情况。

That is that.

好了。

Alright.

接下来说点别的事。

Now other bits of housekeeping.

各位听众，你们还记得吧？

So listeners, you remember, don't you?

那是不是两个月前的事了？

Was it two months ago now?

他说着，挠了挠膝盖。

He says scratching his knee.

我的腿有点痒。

I I'm my my legs are a bit itchy.

你的也是吗？

Your yours as well?

听不到你，因为你的麦克风静音了。

You they can't hear you because your microphone is muted.

是的。

Yeah.

我的特别痒。

Mine are so scratchy.

你觉得你的腿为什么会痒？

Why why are your legs itching, do you think?

因为那个。

Because of the.

所以这是法语。

So that's French.

你得把它翻译成英文。

You need to put that in English.

你知道该怎么弄吗？

Do you know how to do that?

就是，我不晓得该怎么说。

Like, I don't know how to say it.

你知道吧，在乡下，会有蚊子之类的虫子，会咬人，让人痒得直抓腿，诸如此类的事。

Basically, so as you know, in the countryside, there are things like mosquitoes and other little Stop kicking the table, please.

蚊子和其他那些小爬虫，咬你一口就让你浑身发痒。

Mosquitoes and other little creepy crawlies that will bite you and leave you scratching your legs and stuff like that.

但好像在这片地区，有一种毛毛虫。

But it seems that here in this part of the world, there are these caterpillars.

对吧？

Right?

这些毛毛虫在树上筑巢，身上会掉下细小的绒毛。

These caterpillars that make their nests in trees, and they and they shed the little, hairs on their body.

这些毛毛虫全身都长满了绒毛。

These are caterpillars that are covered in hair.

我不确定它们是蝴蝶的幼虫还是蛾子的幼虫。

I I don't know if they're like butterfly caterpillars or moth caterpillars.

我也不知道它们最后会变成什么，毕竟所有毛毛虫都会经历变态，变成蝴蝶或者蛾子。

I don't know what they turn into eventually because, of course, all caterpillars, you know, undergo metamorphosis and turn into other, you know, butterflies or moths.

但这些毛毛虫会在树上聚集成群，一起织出一张丝网把自己裹起来，然后身上掉毛。

But what these ones, what they do is they nest in the trees and they there's loads of them all nesting in a big bunch and they spin a kind of web of thread around them And then they cut I think they sort of shed the hairs on their body.

那些绒毛会飘到空气中，到处都是。

And the hairs go in the air and go everywhere.

一旦碰到皮肤，它们就像蚊子叮咬一样，会刺得皮肤发痒。

And when they touch your skin, they actually kind of spike your skin a bit like the way a mosquito bites you.

绒毛扎进皮肤，里面含有一种让人烦躁的化学物质，结果就会留下特别特别痒的小红点。

And the hair goes in, and it contains some sort of annoying chemical, and, essentially, it leaves very, very itchy little bites.

乡下就是这样的。

This is what it's like in the countryside.

我们一家巴黎人跑到乡下来，对这些事儿一无所知。

Us, this Parisian family going to the countryside with no idea about these things.

我们刚来这儿的第一个周末，头天晚上一觉醒来，全都痒得不行。

And our first weekend here, we we all on the first night, we woke up in the morning scratching terribly.

我身上到处都是。

I was covered.

胳膊上全是红点。

My arms were completely covered.

算了。

Whatever.

上个周末又来了。

Recent weekend.

不过也还好。

But okay.

第二个周末。

The second weekend.

但这是我们夏天刚来时的第一个周末。

But the first weekend in this that we've been here in the summer.

那就是第一个周末。

It was the first weekend.

就是头一回。

It was the first.

你居然敢在我的播客里反驳我？

How dare you contradict me on my own podcast?

你没对着麦克风说话，别人听不见的。

They can't hear you because you're not speaking into the microphone.

总之，我们所有人都被咬得满胳膊满腿都是小包，特别痒。

Anyway, we we all got sort of all these little bites all over our arms and legs, they've been very irritating and scratchy.

不过我觉得现在比以前轻多了。

But I think it's less bad than it used to be.

我们这儿还是有点儿这个情况。

We still got a little bit of that.

乡下生活不就是这样的吗？

But that's life in the countryside, isn't it?

你知道的。

You know?

你住在大自然中间，难免会碰到这些事儿——天气确实好多了，花园也美，可我老是忍不住挠膝盖。

You're kind of living in in the middle of nature, and you end up with these things like you end up you just end up the it's like the weather's much nicer, and the garden is lovely, but I keep scratching my knee.

那你能怎么办呢？

So what can you do?

你知道的。

You know?

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这个是中文的还是日文的。

This one is Chinese or Japanese.

你画的这个女孩，是中国人还是日本人。

This girl that you're drawing is Chinese or Japanese.

我可以快速在屏幕上给她看一下。

I could just quickly show her on the screen.

好的。

Okay.

对。

Yeah.

好的。

Alright.

不错。

Good.

我很期待看你怎么处理这个。

I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with that one.

有些听众可能还记得，几个月前我请过安娜·布鲁克来做客播客，她跟我们讲了不少超自然的故事，就是她家里发生的那些奇怪的灵异经历。

So some of you listening will remember that a few months ago, I had Anna Brooke on the podcast, and she told us various paranormal stories, if you remember, all about the kind of weird experiences, weird sort of poltergeist experiences that she had at home.

她还提到了她的新书，叫《巧克力致死》。

And she talked about her new book, which is called death by chocolate.

太棒了。

I love it.

想说话的话，请对着麦克风说，我们才能听清楚。

If you wanna speak, speak into the microphone so we can hear you.

太棒了。

I love it.

就是那个巧克力相关的。

That by chocolate.

这太让人兴奋了，我真的喜欢。

It's exciting and I love it.

就是和他们一起的那些故事。

Like with them with them.

这本书叫什么名字？

What is it called?

对。

Yeah.

还有先生、女孩可可，以及他的男朋友。

Monsieur and the girl, Coco, and the his boyfriend.

她的男朋友。

Her boyfriend.

她的男朋友。

Her boyfriend.

是的

Yeah.

还有她的狗。

And her dog.

对

Yeah.

所以他们都不知道那个小女孩其实是奶奶

So and and they don't know that that the little girl that the grandma is

别剧透。

Don't spoil it.

剧透警告。

Spoiler alert.

你不能提前泄露故事的关键反转，但你确实很喜欢。

You can't give away the big twist of the story, but you really enjoyed it.

好的。

Okay.

这是一本叫《巧克力之死》的儿童读物，适合我女儿这个年纪的孩子，差不多是青春期前吧。

So this is death by chocolate, a book for children around my daughter's age, sort of, you know, preteen, basically.

然后安娜来了。

And Anna came on.

她分享了自己真实的超自然经历，这些经历正是这本书的灵感来源。

She told the the the true stories of her paranormal experiences, which had inspired the book.

之后我们发起了一项活动，邀请听众们提交你们自己的超自然经历，或者任何奇怪、难以解释的故事。

And then we launched a competition, which was basically, listeners, we wanted you to send in your experiences, your descriptions and stories of paranormal experiences that you've had or just strange experiences.

我一共收到了大约一百个不同的故事。

And I received about a 100 different stories.

首先，花这么长时间才把它们全部看完，确实挺费劲的。

And it's it's first first of all, it's taken me a long time to go through them all.

但我之所以提到这个，是因为你可能在想：那你们挑出来的那些故事，什么时候才讲啊？

But the point is the reason I'm saying this is because you might be thinking, well, when are we gonna hear the stories that you've selected?

那个比赛现在进展怎么样？

What's happening with that competition?

所以目前这件事暂时搁置了。

So it's kind of on hold at the moment.

我先把所有故事都看完了。

What I've done is I've I went through all of the stories.

花了特别久的时间，然后挑出了我最喜欢的。

It took me a long, long time, and I chose, my favorite.

我列了个精选名单，现在等安娜看完，再挑出她最喜欢的。

So I made a a short list of my favorite ones, and I'm waiting for Anna to read my short list and to choose her favorite.

所以拖这么久，就是因为我在等安娜。

That's why it's taking so long because I'm waiting for Anna.

安娜最近也特别忙，新书《死亡巧克力》刚出版上市。

And Anna has been incredibly busy as well, with the publication and, launch of her new book, Death by Chocolate.

再加上，对我们来说，这会儿正好是学年结束、暑假开始，她也忙得不可开交，这边那边的事一堆。

But also, just like for us, it's been the end of the school year, the beginning of the summer holidays, and that means that she's also been incredibly busy doing this, that, and the other.

最近她也没碰上别的什么麻烦事。

And there have been no other other things that, she's had to deal with recently.

所以我还在等她读完我给的短名单，选出她最喜欢的故事。

So I'm still waiting for her to read the shortlist I've given and choose her favorite story.

等我们定下来，就能录竞赛那一期了。

Once we've done that, we'll be I will be able to do the competition episode.

我会念给你们听我们选中的那些故事。

I'll read you the stories that we chose.

我还会告诉你们，我们觉得最棒的是哪一篇，以及谁会赢得安娜的那本书。

I'll tell you the the the one that we consider to be our favorite, the person who's gonna win a copy of Anna's book.

另外，我还决定搞一个听众选择奖，你们听完所有故事后，可以投票选出自己最喜欢的一篇，得票最多的那篇将获得听众选择奖，获奖者还能得到一件卢克英语播客的周边礼品。

But, also, I've decided I'm gonna do a kind of listener's choice award for this as well, which means that when you listen to all those stories, you'll be given the option to vote for the one that you like the best, and the one that gets the most votes will be the, winner of the listener's choice award, and you will be given an item of Luke's English podcast merchandise.

你肯定特别期待。

Oh, you're so excited.

我能感觉出来。

I can tell.

你可能会收到一个卢克英语播客的马克杯。

You you might receive a Luke's English podcast mug.

我觉得奖品应该是寄给你一个卢克英语播客的马克杯，上面的图案你可以从卢克英语播客周边商店里选自己喜欢的。

I think it's probably gonna be the prize that I'll send you a Luke's English podcast mug, with a designer of your choice on it based on the selection that you have in the, LEP merch store.

我女儿也想插一句。

And my daughter would like to come in here.

嗯？

Yes?

那你怎么让大家投票呢？

But how do you make how do you make the people vote?

就是怎么

How do you like

我怎么让大家投票？

How do I make them vote?

我也不知道。

Don't know.

但你怎么

But how do you

让他们投票？

Let them vote?

对。

Yeah.

你怎么会想这样呢。

How would you yeah.

是的。

Yeah.

这是个很好的问题。

It's a very good question.

我有两种办法可以做。

There's two ways I could do it.

一种是用一个网站，让人们可以发起投票，或者

One way is to use a kind of a website where people can launch Or

或者他们直接发邮件给你。

or you can they just email you.

是的。

Yeah.

不是。

No.

这不太好，那样我会收到上百万封邮件，根本管不过来。

That's not good because then I've got a million emails coming into my inbox and it gets too difficult to manage.

我觉得最简单的方法是搞个在线投票，通过链接就行。

The easiest way, I think, is to create a poll, an online poll, through a link.

我想用谷歌就能做，它会自动生成一个投票。

I think you can do it with Google, and it just creates a poll.

或者在YouTube上，我也可以创建一个投票。

Or I think on YouTube, I can create a poll.

或者干脆就这样，我在评论区直接说：挑出你最喜欢的那个故事。

Or simply this, I'll just say in the comment section, just name the story that you like the best.

不过这些细节现在不用操心，因为这集还没到那儿。

But we don't need to worry about those details yet because this isn't that episode.

但我一定会想办法让你选出最喜欢的故事，这会很棒。

But I will find a way to let you choose your favorite stories, so that's gonna be great.

这些故事真的特别好。

But the stories are really good.

我简直被深深打动了。

I was, like, really, really, really impressed.

我待会儿读给你听，因为我女儿现在就想听。

I'll read them to you later because my daughter wants to hear them now.

这些故事真的非常出色。

But the stories are really, really good.

我特别佩服。

I was really impressed.

我已经把数量精简了不少，提炼出了精华。

And I've managed to reduce the number and and distill it down.

所以我们现在有一批真正有趣、引人入胜、既吓人又动人的听众来稿。

So we've got a good set of genuinely interesting, entertaining, quite scary, quite moving stories from listeners.

这很吓人吗？

That is Scary?

是的。

Yes.

接下来就会讲到这个。

That's something that's gonna be coming up.

明白吗？

Okay?

我

I

我喜欢恐怖故事。

love scary stories.

她刚跟我说，你能说说‘我女儿喜欢恐怖故事’吗？

She's just said to me, can you say can you say my daughter loves scary stories?

我女儿喜欢恐怖故事。

My daughter loves scary scary stories.

你为什么这么喜欢恐怖故事呢？

Why do you love scary stories so much?

我也不太清楚，但是

I don't know but

请对着麦克风说。

Into the microphone please.

我真的说不上来为什么。

I don't really know why.

就是觉得这些故事特别刺激，情节紧凑，我特别喜欢这种节奏感。

It's just that they're exciting and and there's a lot of movement and I love movement.

恐怖故事里动作场面多，我就爱这个。

There's a lot of action in scary stories, and I just love that.

你最近刚和你弟弟一起去过英国。

You so so recently, I was in England with your brother.

我现在说的是我女儿。

I'm talking my daughter at this point.

我们在那里的时候，我逛遍了那些卖二手书和旧物的慈善商店，给你买了好多书，孩子，等等——

And and when we were there, I went around all the this the charity shops that sell secondhand books and things, and I bought loads of books for you, child child wait a minute.

我给你买了好多书，其中有一本是福尔摩斯的故事。

The I bought a lot of books for you, child one, and included in it was a a Sherlock Holmes story.

是的。

Yeah.

你直接跟我说话，回答我的问题就行。

Just talk to me and answer my questions.

那本书里有个福尔摩斯的故事。

There was a Sherlock Holmes story.

你能告诉我们故事的名字，还有你对它的看法吗？

Can you just tell us the name of the story and what you thought of it?

波西米亚丑闻。

Scandal in Bohemia.

《波西米亚丑闻》。

A Scandal in Bohemia.

是的

Yes.

而且特别刺激。

And it was exciting.

不算太吓人，但特别带感。

It wasn't very scary, but it was exciting.

对。

Mhmm.

我特别喜欢福尔摩斯用手做那个动作的样子。

And, like, I liked how Sherlock Holmes did that thing with his hands.

他用手沾了红色颜料。

He took paint red paint in his hand.

他就是这么做的。

He did like this.

抹到脸上？

Put it on his face?

是的

Yeah.

因为当时他正在打斗中间

And because he was in the middle of a fight

对

Mhmm.

他就做了个动作，示意大家去打斗

And he did like this, which he asked the people to do a fight.

等一下

Wait a minute.

你说他做了个动作，别人看不到你指的是什么啊

People when you say he did like this, people can't see what you're talking He

他把手放在脸上，拖了一下

he put his hand on his face and dragged it.

所以 basically，他把手上的红漆抹在了脸上

So basically, he put paint in his hand and Red smeared paint.

他用手抹了红漆在脸上，假装是脸上在流血。

Red paint and smeared it on his face to make it look like he was bleeding from the face.

他还让那些人假装打架，那个演坏人的女孩以为他真的受伤流血了。

And he asked the people to do a fight and then the girl who was the baddie, she thought that he was really bleeding.

她把他带进屋里，这时候，福尔摩斯的朋友华生大喊：着火了！

She took her in the house and then he's when when his when Sherlock Holmes friend Watson said, fire, fire.

女孩趁机拿走了那封重要的信，而福尔摩斯正好看到了。

Well, the girl took the letter, the precious letter, and then Sherlock Holmes saw it.

当福尔摩斯喊出‘假警报’时，她赶紧把信放回了原来藏的地方。

And when and when Sherlock Holmes said false alert, well, she she put it back in the place that he was

藏在一个隐蔽的地方。

In a hiding place.

对。

Yeah.

所以，这就是福尔摩斯设计的圈套，让那个女人自己露出马脚。

So this is Sherlock Holmes' way of tricking this woman, into revealing wait a minute.

从而暴露了那封重要信件的藏匿地点。

Into revealing the location of some very important letter.

接着说。

But go on.

那个女孩比他更聪明，拿了信就走了，还去了别的地方，留下了一张照片。

The girl over was more smart than him and took the letter to and took with her and went somewhere else and left another photo.

留下了一张照片。

Left another photo.

没错。

That's right.

所以她比他更胜一筹。

So she outsmarted him.

她是极少数能智胜福尔摩斯的人之一。

So this is the only person one of the only people ever to outsmart Sherlock Holmes.

历史上只有两个人做到过。

There are two people who've done it.

是莫里亚蒂和她吗？

Was it, Moriarty and and hers?

这个角色的名字叫艾琳·艾德勒。

Irene Adler is the name of the character.

总之，这故事挺有意思的。

So, anyway, that was good.

波希米亚丑闻。

A scandal in Bohemia.

她真的很喜欢这个故事。

She really enjoyed it.

接下来，我在这档播客里还会讲另一个福尔摩斯的故事。

And, well, I'm gonna do another Sherlock Holmes story on this podcast.

也许下一期，第九集，编号999，我打算读一篇新的福尔摩斯故事给你听。

So maybe the next episode, episode nine number 999, I think that what I'm gonna do is read through another Sherlock Holmes story for you.

我一直在想怎么安排比较好。像那种一千字以内的短篇，我大概十分钟就能读完，然后逐句讲解里面的词汇和细节，这样就能做成一个一小时半左右的完整节目。

And I've been trying to think of ways to do it because what I can do with a with a short, a very short story that's about a thousand words or less is I can read it in ten minutes and then go through every single line and explain loads of detailed vocabulary, and that's like a decent sort of hour and a half episode.

不过，一篇福尔摩斯故事通常有九千字左右。

But a Sherlock Holmes story is typically about 9,000 words long.

我之前也讨论过这个问题，一直在琢磨，到底用哪种方式在播客里讲这么长的故事最合适。我可以直接从头到尾把整个故事讲完，但很多人肯定会听得云里雾里，搞不清楚我在说什么。

I've talked, yeah, I've talked about this before and, you know, just sort of debating about, wait a minute, debating about what the best approach is for for telling a story like that on the podcast because I could just tell the whole story from start to finish, but, of course, a lot of people are gonna get lost and are not gonna understand what I'm saying.

但反过来，如果我一边读故事，一边停下来解释，那故事节奏就会变得很慢。

But on the other hand, if I read through the story and stop regularly and explain things, that's gonna make that's gonna slow down the story.

我们公寓里有一只鸟。

There's a bird in our in our flat.

有只小知更鸟刚飞进屋里，现在正蹦蹦跳跳地到处探索呢。

There's a there's a little Robin who's just jumped into the into the house, and he's come currently bouncing around investigating.

你看，它正扑腾着往窗户上撞。

You know, it's flying up against the window.

你能把门打开让它出去，还是直接把它赶出去？

Are you able to open that door or just shoo it?

嘘，嘘，嘘，快从房间里出去。

Shoo, shoo, shoo out of the room.

天哪。

Oh, dear.

哎呀，它飞进来了。

We're gonna oh, it's flown in here.

哦，没事的。

Oh, and it's it's alright.

咱们来处理一下吧。

Let's deal with this.

好的。

Okay.

不好意思。

Sorry.

别怕，小家伙。

Don't worry, little bird.

别怕，小知更鸟。

Don't worry, little Robin.

我来帮你打开这个。

Let's open this up for you.

它在哪儿？

It's on the what?

是线的问题。

Cable.

不是线的问题。

It wasn't the cable.

让开一下。

Get out of the way.

它怕你，所以别过去。

So it it it'll it's scared of you, so don't go over there.

哦，它现在

Oh, and it's

飞走了。

gone.

呼。

Phew.

怎么样，是不是挺刺激的？

Well, wasn't that exciting?

这是我第一次在播客里遇到鸟。

First time I've had a bird on this podcast.

我觉得它短暂地出现在视频里了。

And I think it appeared for a moment on video.

你其实能在视频里看到它。

I think you could actually see it on video.

是的。

Yeah.

那真是个令人激动的时刻。

It was an exciting moment.

对了，我都不记得我们刚才在聊什么了。

So anyway, I can't remember what we were talking about.

你刚才正要说说我对在这个播客里讲福尔摩斯故事的方式吧。

You were about to say something about about my my approach to to telling a Sherlock Holmes podcast Sherlock Holmes story on this podcast.

对，没错。

Oh, yeah.

确实如此。

True.

我特别喜欢福尔摩斯的故事，以后有机会我可能会聊聊这个福尔摩斯故事。

So I really like Sherlock Holmes stories, so I'll maybe comment sometime on the Sherlock Holmes story.

是的。

Yeah.

如果我在讲故事的过程中经常停下来解释细节，问题就在于其他听众也会觉得烦躁。

Well, if I tell the story and pause regularly during the telling of the story to explain details and explain things, the problem is that other people also get frustrated.

要么水平高的听众觉得故事太拖沓，要么水平低的听众跟不上，五分钟内就完全迷糊了。

So either the the the sort of higher level listeners get a bit frustrated because the story is slowing down, or the lower level listeners get frustrated because they can't keep up and they just get lost after about five minutes.

那我该怎么办？

So what do I do?

说实话，我总想挑个最合适的办法。

Well, you know, I'm always trying to choose the best option.

我觉得这次我会这么做，但这个方法的缺点是会花很长时间。

I think what I will do this time, is this, and that the the drawback of this approach is that it's gonna take a lot longer.

所以这次我打算直接从头到尾把整个故事读一遍。

So what I will do this time, I think, is just read the entire story from start to finish.

我稍微调整了一些词汇，但还是会完整读完一遍，然后再回过头来解释一些细节。

And I've made a few little changes to some of the vocab, throughout, but I'll read the whole story from start to finish, and then I'll go through the story again and explain some details.

这样下来，这一集可能会长达三个小时，不过我以前做过一次，就是那个关于大鸟从蛋里孵出来的《阿波努斯岛》的故事。

That that's probably gonna make the episode about three hours long, But I did it once with the Apeonus Island, story, the one about the bird, the large bird that, hatches from an egg.

是的。

Yeah.

你知道那个故事。

You know that story.

那次我就这么干过。

So I did it with that one.

最后时长大概三个小时，但反响特别热烈。

It ended up being about three hours long, but it was really, really popular.

很多人留言说非常喜欢这期节目。

Lots of people commented on how much they liked it.

所以我想这次还是沿用这种模式。

So I think I'll probably take that approach.

不过各位听众，我想让大家知道，在播客里讲故事其实没那么简单。

But I just listeners, I want you to I want you to know that, actually, telling a story on the podcast is not as simple as you might think.

如果我只是把故事讲出来，很多人可能会听糊涂。

And if I just tell the story, a lot of people will get lost.

而且，偶尔我会收到一些母语为英语的听众的留言。他们通常是我播客里最挑剔的观众，因为我的播客本来就不是给英语母语者做的。

And, actually, occasionally, I get comments from native English speakers who are usually the most critical audience of my podcast because this podcast is not for native English speakers.

不过，我确实会收到一些在线英语老师的评论，他们选择对我的工作提出批评，说些类似这样的话：这到底是什么？

But I do get comments from the occasional online English teacher who has chosen to criticize me for my work, and they say things like, what is this?

这应该是用来学英语的。

This is supposed to be learning English.

学习的地方在哪？

Where's the learning?

老师教的内容在哪？

Where's the teacher teaching?

他只是讲了个故事，就这么简单。

He's just telling the story, and that's it.

我觉得这种风格有种特别的吸引力，我的听众喜欢听我用这种方式讲故事。

And I kind of there's a certain, appeal to that that, my audience liked listening to those stories told in my voice and that I they like the way I do it.

但我同意你的看法。

But I think I agree.

确实需要加入一些教学内容。

I there needs to be some sort of teaching involved.

所以，我打算先把整个故事念一遍，然后再回过头来详细解释，但这样集数会特别长。

So, essentially, I'll read the whole story and then go through it again and explain details, but it's gonna be a really long episode.

我不确定最后会有多长。

I don't know how long that will end.

什么什么什么什么什么什么什么什么

What what what what what what what what

也许可以设计一个小活动，比如试着改写故事里的词汇，做点类似的小练习。

Maybe just also ask an activity like like now try to like change the vocab of the story and, like, do a thing like that, a little activity.

对。

Yeah.

我可以给听众提供一系列带答案的配套练习。

I mean, I can offer my listeners some sort of series of activities that they can do with answers.

说实话，这本来就是我付费节目的常规做法。

I mean, that's normally the sort of thing I do in a premium episode, to be fair.

在免费节目中，我一般不会做到这一步，也不会花这么多精力去做这些内容。

Like in a free episode, I'm not necessarily gonna go that far and, you know, do all that stuff for That's

免费节目？

a free episode?

对。

Yeah.

是的。

Yeah.

对。

Yeah.

大部分集数都是免费的。

Most of the episodes are free.

所以，大概第九百九十九集就会做这个了。

So, anyway, that's probably what's gonna come up in episode 999.

然后就是第一千集了。

Then there's episode 1,000.

对吧？

Right?

所以这一集可以算是第九百九十八集。

So this episode is Can be the most 998.

下一集是第九百九十九集，再之后就是第一千集了。

The next episode, 999, then it's episode 1,000.

但我对这个有点犯难，因为首先，我还没准备好任何东西。

And I've got a little bit of a problem with that because, well, first of all, I don't have anything ready.

其次，我觉得听众们都期待点特别的，毕竟这是第1000集。

And second of all, I think the audience, everyone expects something extra special because it's episode 1,000.

过去几个月我一直在提这事。

And I've talked about it over the last couple of months.

我老说，哎呀，第1000集就要来了。

I keep saying, oh, episode one thousand's nearly here.

我得搞点特别的才行。

Oh, I've better do something special.

我老在念叨这事。

And I keep talking about it.

但你也知道，这段时间实在太忙了，根本没空准备一个特别惊艳的东西。

But, as you know, it's been such a busy time that I haven't had a chance to prepare something super duper extra special.

我说的特别惊艳，其实是指一集长篇合集，把常驻嘉宾的对话都串起来，说不定再加点听众的投稿，搞成一个 podcast 的精华合集，让大伙儿听到所有常驻嘉宾和听众的声音，来一场精彩纷呈的盛宴。

And I suppose what I mean by something super duper extra special is a sort of long anthology episode where I feature conversations with regular guests and maybe even some, contributions from listeners, and it's a long thing with, like, a sort of best of of of the podcast where you hear from all my, audience, from all my regular guests in some format, some incredible, smorgasbord of of guest appearances.

我女儿问，什么是自助餐？

What's a smorgasbord is the question from my daughter.

其实就是一大盘子或托盘，摆满各种各样的食物。

It's basically a kind of a a kind of a large plate or tray covered in different types of food.

这叫自助餐，是斯堪的纳维亚那边的传统。

That's a smorgasbord, and it's it's it's a Scandinavian thing, think.

对。

Yeah.

你妈妈在给我打电话。

Your mom is calling me.

今天什么事都凑一块儿了。

Everything is happening today.

在这种情况下，想做个普通的播客实在太难了。

It's so hard to do a normal podcast in the midst of all this stuff.

我现在去接电话。

Now I'm gonna take the call.

我先暂停一下播客，接个电话。

I'm gonna pause the podcast and take this call.

各位听众，稍等一下。

Bear with me, listeners.

好。

Okay.

不着急。

It's not urgent.

我待会儿再跟你妈聊。

I'll talk to your mom later.

有个好消息，这周你每天下午都可以去马术训练了，没错。

But news, good news, you're able to go to your horse training this week every afternoon Yes.

下午两点到五点。

From 2PM till 5PM.

我希望

I hope

我要不要

I'm gonna am I

问题？

Question?

我是要骑马，还是只帮忙？

Am I gonna am I gonna go on the horse or just help?

是的。

Yeah.

你肯定会骑小马，我觉得。

You're gonna I think I think you're gonna ride ponies.

哦，天哪。

Oh baby.

哦，亲爱的。

Oh babe.

我希望我能见到卡佳。

I hope I have Katya.

所以啊，她这周能骑小马，特别开心，这就是我们的情况。

So okay she's very pleased to be able to ride ponies this week so that's that's our

卡佳是最棒的小马。

Katya is is the best pony.

卡特？什么？

Cat what?

卡佳是最棒的小马？

Katya is the best pony?

对。

Yes.

这些小马都有名字，而卡佳是最棒的。

They've they've all got names these ponies and Katya is the best.

对。

Yes.

是的。

Yeah.

好的。

Okay.

然后是果汁，接着是

And then it's s juice and then

现在安静点。

Be quiet now.

谢谢。

Thank you.

别敲桌子了。

Stop knocking the table.

所以，没错，第一千集了。

So, yes, episode 1,000.

大家大概都期待着什么了不起的场面。

Everyone probably expects something incredible.

请别再敲桌子了。

Stop knocking the table, please.

大家都挺好的，你也是。

Everyone well, you are.

大家可能觉得，既然把所有你最爱的嘉宾都请到同一集里，那肯定得有啥惊天动地的安排，但其实这背后要操心的事特别多——我得一个个安排通话、录素材、收集所有录音，再想办法把它们拼在一起。

Everyone probably expects something incredible with, you know, all the all your favorite guests all in being included in the same episode, but that actually requires a lot of organization because I've got to arrange calls with all of them, record things with all of them, take all those recordings, somehow find a way to put them in.

这段时间真是乱成一团：找新地方、搬进来、想买车、试车、孩子期末放假，一堆事全挤一块儿了。

And, everything's been so crazy and up in the air, what with finding this place, moving into this place, trying to buy a car, going testing cars, the kids ending school, all these different things.

还带着儿子去了一趟英国，各种琐事堆在一起，根本抽不出时间来筹备第1000期节目。

Traveling traveling to England with my son and all that stuff, and it's been really, really hard to find the time to organize episode 1,000.

眼看着日子一天天逼近，我真不知道该怎么下手了。

And then I find it getting closer and closer with every single week, and so I don't really know what to do.

我脑子里其实冒过几个点子。

I've had some ideas.

我有几套方案，觉得应该还行。

I've got some ideas for it, which I think are probably okay.

有个听众叫亚历克斯，给我提了个建议。

I got a suggestion from a listener called Alex.

奥利维亚，你想说点什么吗？

You wanna say something, Olivia?

但可能就简单一点吧。

But it's maybe just gonna be simple.

什么意思？

What's that?

这怎么可能会简单呢？

How could it be simple?

就跟往常一样，就聊个话题。

Just like always, like, just on a topic.

就我一个人自说自话。

Just me talking on my own

这种形式。

kind thing.

我觉得可以。

Think so.

也许会吧。

Maybe it's gonna be.

问题是，我不希望听众失望，万一真做到第1000集的时候，还是我一个人在说话，他们可能会想，哎，我还以为会有什么特别的呢，但说实话，这可能真做不到。

Thing is though, I don't want people to to be disappointed that if if if episode 1,000 comes around and it's just me talking, maybe people will like, oh, I thought there would be something a bit more special than this, but, it might not be possible.

我收到了一些听众的建议。

So I got a suggestion from I've got a few suggestions from listeners.

说实话，很多建议都有点不切实际。

A lot of the suggestions, to be fair, have been a little unrealistic.

这些建议本身不错，但提建议的人可能并不清楚制作这样一集到底得多费劲。

They've been great suggestions, but they've they've just been suggested by people who don't necessarily know what it takes to produce an episode like that.

有些提议简直太离谱，也太有野心了。

So some of the suggestions have been very outlandish and ambitious.

还有，别唱歌，求你了。

And can you don't sing, please.

那些离谱又野心勃勃的点子，真要做起来得花上无数时间和精力。

Outlandish and ambitious and, the sorts of things that would take a hell of a lot of time and organization to to do.

我收到一个来自亚历克斯的建议，他是节目的老听众了，他说：如果你还没决定千集特别节目的内容，这里有个简单又古怪的点子。

I got a suggestion from Alex, a regular long term listener of the podcast, who said, here's a quick and strange idea for the one thousandth episode in case you're still not sure what to do.

想象一下，录一个十小时的闲聊。

Imagine a ten hour ramble.

我不确定自己能不能撑住十小时的闲聊。

I don't know if I could do a ten hour ramble.

不过他说，不用提前准备，也不用剪辑。

But, anyway, he said zero preparation, zero editing.

这听起来挺吸引人的。

I like the sound of that.

完全符合你的风格，而且我想YouTube的算法也特别喜欢这种内容。

100% your style, and I guess the YouTube algorithms love this sort of thing.

你可以挑一天，带着几块备用电池和一个麦克风，去法国乡下的某个山坡上坐着，静静回顾这整个旅程，聊聊未来的方向。

You could simply take a day and go and sit on a hill somewhere in the French countryside with a couple of power banks, that means a couple of batteries, and a microphone and reflect what it's all been about and where it's heading.

为了不缺话题，就打开你所有往期节目的存档，一集一集地聊，带着点怀念和温情，这样肯定能引起听众的共鸣。

And, and to not run out of things to say, simply open the archive of all your episodes and talk about them one by one with some nostalgia and warmth, and that will surely resonate with the listeners.

如果你要讲每一集，那每集大概只有四十秒的时间。

If you wanna talk about every single episode, you'll have about only forty seconds for each one.

十小时除以一千，就是这个数。

That's ten hours divided by a thousand.

对吧？

Right?

算下来每集大概四十秒。

Works out at about forty seconds per episode.

天哪。

Oh my god.

我根本不可能把所有旧集都过一遍，每集都说点什么，那得花超过十个小时。

I can't possibly go through my entire archive and say something about each one, because it would take over ten hours.

所以他建议，你可以挑一些记得清楚的录制过的集数，或者选几集对你特别重要的。

So he said, maybe you could select some episodes that you remember recording or choose some that mean a lot to you.

总之呢，就是给你点思路，谢谢你的建议，Alex。

Anyway there's just some food for thought sorry thank you Alex for that suggestion yes

你也可以选一些你最喜欢的，就像我一样。

and you could also but maybe select your favorite ones like with me.

奥利维亚、维奥莱特，还有我提到的其他那些名字。

Olivia, Violet, and all the other names I

这些年在这档播客里出现过的每一个你。

All the different iterations of you that have been on this podcast over the years.

是的。

Yeah.

当然。

Certainly.

每一期有你的节目都是我的最爱。

Every episode with you is one of my favorites.

这确实没错。

That's that's absolutely true.

我的也是。

And also mine.

也是你的最爱。

Also yours or your favorites.

嗯，

Well,

我以前从来没听过任何一集。

I'd never really heard an an episode.

你真的从来没听过一集。

You never really heard an episode.

对。

No.

没错。

No.

你没有。

You're not.

你从不听我的播客。

You don't listen to my podcast.

和我最好的朋友普洛姆一起。

With with Ploom, my best friend.

是的。

Yeah.

在她家的Alexa上，我们总试着播放你的播客，然后就会冒出另一个女孩的声音，不过……

Well, on her Alexa, we always try to put your podcast on and then it makes like a a a another girl that talks, but

那是英语版的，由露西主持。

that's English with English with Lucy.

对。

Yes.

没错。

Yeah.

对。

Yes.

没错。

Yeah.

我知道。

I know.

你朋友有台亚马逊的Alexa，每次去她家，你就说‘Alexa，播放卢克的英语播客’，然后它就会放《English with Lucy》之类的。

You've got so your friend has got an Amazon Alexa, and you when you're at her house, you say, Alexa, play Luke's English podcast, and it puts on English with Lucy or something

差不多吧。

like that.

这说的是什么啊？

It's like, what?

我们其实不想听我爸爸的，不是Lucy。

Like, we want my dad's not not Lucy.

Lucy今年秋天会来我的播客做客。

She's gonna be on my podcast in the autumn, Lucy.

是的。

Yeah.

总之，

Anyway,

我兄弟，你舅舅，是的。

my brother, your uncle Yeah.

他又提了个不错的主意。

Suggested suggested another another good good idea.

这个主意。

Idea.

哦。

Oh.

我也许也会这么做。

I might do this too.

我也许可以把所有这些都放进一集超长的节目中。

I might do all of this in one massive ever episode.

我不确定。

I don't know.

这得花多少小时啊？

It's gonna take how many hours?

太多了，这很明显。

Well, too many, obviously.

但他建议直接采访我。

But his suggestion was that simply he interviewed me.

他刚想出了一套问题。

He just has come up with a series of questions.

哦，这主意不错。

Oh, that's good.

他可以问我这些问题。

He could ask me the questions.

我觉得他特别适合提出有深度、有趣又好玩的问题，

And I think he's in quite a good position to be able to come up with insightful, interesting, and entertaining questions that

可以

could

从而引发一场精彩的对话。

generate an interesting conversation.

我觉得应该是反过来才对。

I guess it's the other way around.

反过来是怎么个说法？通常来说

What's the other way Normally

通常是你去问那些帮你的人。

normally, it's you who ask the question to the to the people who help you.

但现在是詹姆斯。

But now it's it's it's James.

是詹姆斯在问你。

James who asked you.

会是谁来问我。

Who will ask me.

是啊。

Yeah.

可能会是谁来问我。

Who might ask me.