2010年01月08日嘣脆英语--amusement-park星光游乐园[厦门大学广播电台].docx

Amusement Park星光游乐园Opening(Together) Happy New Year!F: Everyone, we’re glad to have you here listen to 2010’s first issue of Crispy English on Xiamen University Broadcasting Station. I’m your host Liang Jing.M: I’m Yuanxuan. I wish to grasp this opportunity to thank you all for your continued love and support for us.F: And we hope you could give us your attention as always in the coming year.M: In today’s programme, you will get on a train and start the year’s first trip with us – to amusement parks. Our first stop will be Word Club, where you can see whatever fun you’re gonna have in an amusement park. At the second stop, World’s Kaleidoscope, a variety of theme parks around the world will appear before you. After that, we’ll go on to today’s terminus – Movie House. To keep it mysterious, I’ll reveal the name of the movie later on in our journey. Now get you ticket, and let’s go! Part One: Word ClubM: Hey, where have you been on the New Year’s Eve? Got a party to live it up?F: Oh, it was a pity that I’d been fully occupied with my reviews those days. But for the finals, I’d rather have been hanging out with my friends and waiting for the arrival of my last New Year on this campus.M: I feel sorry for that. Anyway, it doesn’t matter much. Let’s just prepare a plan for this time next year, okay?F: Well, I’d expect myself to be studying in Britain then. Quite probably I’d take a train across the Channel and get off when it arrives in Paris. I’d watch the countdown in a plaza, oh oh, maybe I’d be more likely to go to the Disneyland to watch the parade and the firework show.M: It would be a memorable trip, that’s for sure. I remember once I experienced a parade. That was fabulous! “Parade”是一场盛大华丽的巡游。

在迪士尼里，换上庆典新装的米奇和米妮，南瓜车上的灰姑娘，都会不时经过身边，微笑地与你招手F: Sometimes the excitement they produce is hilarious enough to make you dance and sing along with them. But somehow, I’m even more fascinated by the “firework show”, “烟火表演”. 看着那些绚烂的烟花腾空降落，会有莫名的幸福涌上心头M: Yeah, fireworks seem to have a sort of witchcraft, which always get the spectators into ecstasies. Oh… it suddenly occurs to me that there’s another thing that you must be fond of.F: Um, I wonder what it could be. It’s a…M: It sings cheerfully when it’s on show.F: A fountain! Yeah, it’s a “musical fountain”, “音乐喷泉”. Passers-by tend to throw a coin into the fountain and make a wish when the fountain is not playing music.M: 当音乐静止，喷泉成了往来人群的许愿池。

他们“throw a coin into the fountain”, “向许愿池投下硬币”, “make a wish”, “许下心愿”. Do you believe that if you do this, your dreams will come true?F: I’d rather say I’m willing to try it. You’ve got nothing to lose.M: Except for several pence.F: Aha, well worth it! I think to follow the crowd and queue up for a ride would be a different kind of joy. I guess there would be a long, long “cable railroad”, “merry-go-around” and “Ferris wheel”. 想象里的游乐园，总有长长的“索道”，“旋转木马”和“摩天轮”M: Merry-go-around looks gorgeous, with a variety of seats like the most traditional horses, as well as “zebras”, “斑马”, “unicorns”, “独角兽”, and “coaches”, “四轮马车”. They gallop round and round, up and down, as if never stop.F: Perhaps that’s why some say that the merry-go-around represents eternity.M: Yeah. Similarly, the Ferris wheel is considered to stand for happiness. But I haven’t been in a Ferris wheel cabin yet. Instead, I’m a frequent rider of roller coaster. Dare you ride a “roller coaster”?F: 不就是“云霄飞车”嘛！It’s Ok with me. Can’t you think of something more breath-taking?M: Come on, you’re challenging me! I seek all kinds of thrills, like “Pirate Ship”, “海盗船”, “Haunted House”, “鬼屋”, “Freefall ride”, “自由落体车乘”….F: Wow! That sounds exciting.M: You seem to be a brave one, huh? Maybe sometime we’re gonna have a contest on that.F: No problem. You can’t win! But before talking about that, you should tell me where I could find some specialties in a park. You know what? Some friends have already begun to ask me for presents.M: Let me see… Almost every park would have some fancy little shops selling souvenirs. They may have quite different names, from ordinary “store” and “shop” to “treasure-house” and “chandler”. 因而不论是看到“store”和“shop”这样平凡的名字，还是“treasure-house”或“chandler”这样生疏的字眼，都做好淘宝贝的准备吧！F: Yeah, I’ll buy some small handicrafts and accessories like “key ring”, “钥匙扣”, “piggy bank”, “存钱罐”, “photo frame”, “相框”, “plush toy”, “毛绒玩具”, “throw pillow”, “抱枕”, “pin and badge”, “别针和徽章”….M: I have one last suggestion for you. When you grow too tired to play, a food kiosk or cafe would be a perfect place for you to refresh a little. “Food kiosk”也就是贩售各种各样小零食的亭子。

F: Yeah, then a cup of hot cocoa would suffice me. I’m so lucky today to have you consummate my plan. Ok everybody, it’s time we put an end to today’s Word Club. Next is World’s Kaleidoscope. Please stay with us! Part Two: World’s Kaleidoscope1. Ocean Park Hong KongM: Next station: Admiralty. Doors will open on the 。