第二课：世界各地的英语 课文翻译 NANCY:Oh, there you are. Now then, did you have a good flight? 南希：噢，你在这儿。你旅行愉快吗？ JOE:Sure, we flew all the way direct from Seattle to London. 乔：还可以，我们从西雅图一直飞到了伦敦。 NANCY: You must be very tired. Did you sleep at all on the plane? 南希：你一定很劳累。你在飞机上睡觉了吗？ JOE:No, not really. I’m very tired. Could I use your bathroom? 乔：没有，的确没睡。我很累。好了，我可以用你的浴室吗？ NANCY:Why, of course. You don’t need to ask, just make yourself at home. 南希：当然可以。你不用问。请随便。 Let me give you a clean towel. 我给你一条干净的毛巾。 JOE:A clean towel? 乔：一条干净的毛巾？ NANCY:Yes. Here you are. The bathroom is upstairs. It’s the second door 南希：是的，给你。浴室在楼上，左边第 on the left. 二个门。 JOE:Thanks Nancy. If you’ll excuse me now. 乔：谢谢你，南希。打扰了。 （after a while） （过了一会儿） NANCY:Have you found it? 南希：你找到了吗？ JOE: Well, eh yes, I mean no. I mean, I found the bathroom, but I didnt 乔：噢，是的，没有。我的意思是我找到了浴室，但没找到 find what I was looking for! 我想找的地方！ SPEAKING 课文翻译 EMILY:Karen, can you tell me how to pronounce“kilometre”？ 埃米莉：卡伦，请你告诉我怎样读“kilometre”这个词好吗？ KAREN:Sure. British people say /’kilumi：t/ and Americans say 卡伦：当然可以。英国人读/’klumi：t/，美国人读 /ki’lmit/ . /ki’lmit/。 TEACHER:Karen and Emily, is there anything that isn’t clear to you? 老师：卡伦，埃米莉，你们还有什么不清楚的吗？ KAREN:Emily asked me a question, but I already answered her. 卡伦：埃米莉问了我一个问题，可我已经回答了她。 TEACHER:What was her question? 老师：她的问题是什么？ KAREN:She asked me how to pronounce“kilometre”。 卡伦：她问我怎么读“kilometre”这个词。 MS SMITH: Harry, take these two pizzas to Mr Thompson on Broad Street, 史密斯夫人：哈里，把这个比萨饼送给托马逊先生，他在百老汇大街 Number 12. 12号。 HARRY:Can you spell that name, please? 哈里：你会拼写那个名字吗？ MS SMITH:Th-o-m-p-s-o-n. On Broad Street, Number 12. 史密斯夫人：T-h-o-m-p-s-o-n。在百老汇大街12号。 HARRY:Can you repeat the address, please? 哈里：你把地址再重复一下好吗？ MS SMITH:Broad Street, Number 12. 史密斯夫人：百老汇大街12号。 HARRY:Got it. 哈里：明白。 MS SMITH:Take Dave’s motorbike. Here are the keys. And hurry up! 史密斯夫人：骑上戴夫的摩托车，钥匙在这里。赶快点！ HARRY:Anything else? 哈里：还有别的事吗？ MS SMITH:Don’t forget to buy me some ketchup on your way back. 史密斯夫人：在回来的路上别忘了给我买点番茄酱。 READING 课文翻译 ENGLISH AROUND THE WORLD 世界各地的英语 English is a language spoken all around the world. There are more 英语是世界各地都讲的一种语言。不止 than 42 countriesswheresthe majority of the people speak English. Most native 42个国家的人讲英语。在英国、 speakers of English are found in the United Kingdom, the United States of 美国、加拿大、澳大利亚、南非、爱尔兰、新西兰， America, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland and New Zealand. In total, 大多数人以英语为母语， for more than 375 million people English is their mother tongue. An equal 总共有三亿七千万多人的母语是英语。还有同 number of people learn English as a second language. These people will per- 样多的人把英语作为第二种语言，这些人 haps speak the language of their own country at home with their family, but the 在家有可能和他们的家人讲本国语，但是官方、 language of the government, schools, newspapers and TV is English. This 学校、报纸、电视都用英语。这种情况 situation is found in countries such as India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the Philip 在很多国家都存在，如印度、巴基斯坦、尼日利亚和菲律宾。 pines. However, the number of people who learn English as a foreign language 然而，把英语当作外语学习的人 is more than 750 million. Everywhere in the world children go to school to 有七亿五千多万人。世界各地的孩子上学 learn English. Most people learn English for five or six years at high school. In 学英语。大多数人在中学学5到6年的英语。在 China students learn English at school as a foreign language, except for those 中国，学生把英语作为一种外语学习。但香港的 in Hong Kong，where many people speak English as a first or a second language. 学生不同，在那儿有许多人把英语当作第一或第二语言。 In only fifty years, English has developed /into/ the language most widely 仅仅50年中，英语已经发展成为世界上讲得最多，使用 spoken and used in the world. English is the working language of most interna- 得最广泛的语言。英语是大多数国际组织、国际 tional organisations, international trade and tourism. Businessmen and tourists 贸易、国际旅游的工作语言。商人和旅游者经常来中国，他们 often come to China without being able to speak Chinese. Chinese businessmen, 通常用不着会讲汉语。中国的商人、 taxi drivers and students talk with them using English. English is also the 出租车司机和学生用英语和他们交谈。英语像 language of global culture，such as popular music and the Internet. You can 流行音乐，因特网一样，也是全球性文化。你可以 listen to English songs on the radio or use English to communicate with people 通过无线电听英语歌曲也可以用英语和世界各地 around the world through the Internet. With so many people communicating in 的人在因特网上交流。每天有这么多人 English every day, it will become more and more important to have a good 用英语交流，我们可以认识到掌握好英语 knowledge of English. 越来越重要。 INTEGRATING SKILLS 课文翻译 Reading and writing AMERICAN ENGLISH AND BRITISH ENGLISH 美国英语和英国英语 Many students want to know about the differences between American 很多学生想了解美国英语 English and British English. How did these differences come about? There is 和英国英语的区别。这些不同是怎样产生的？就 no quick answer to this question. At first the language in Britain and America 这一问题不能立即做出答复。起初英国英语和美国 was the same. In 1776 America became an independent country. After that, the 英语一样。1776年美国独立。从那以后，这种 language slowly began to change. For a long time the language in America 语言慢慢地发生变化。很长一段时间美国 stayed the same, while the language in England changed. For example, 300 英语没有变化，而英国英语变了。例如，300 years ago the English talked about“fall”。 Today, most British people talk 年前英国人说“fall”（秋季）。而今天大多数英国人说 about“autumn”， but American still talk about“fall”。 In the same way “autumn”（秋季），但是美国人仍然说“fall”（秋季）。同样， Americans still use the expression“I guess”（meaning“I think”）， just as the 正如英国人300年前那样，美国人仍然说“I guess” British did 300 years ago. （意为“我想”，英国人说I think）。 At the same time, British English and American English started borrow 与此同时，英国英语和美国英语都从 ing words from other languages, ending up with different words. For example, 其他语言中吸取一些词汇，结果出现了一些不同的词汇。例如， the British took“typhoon”from Chinese, while the Americans took“tornado” 英国人从汉语中吸取了“typhoon”（台风）一词，而美国人从 from Spanish. 西班牙语中吸取了“tornado”（龙卷风）一词。 In 1828 Noah Webster published the first American dictionary. He wanted 1828年，诺亚·韦伯斯特出版了第一本美语字典。他想 to make American English different from British English, so he changed the 把美国英语和英国英语区分开，所以他改变了 spelling of many words. That’s why the words colour, centre, and traveller 许多词的拼写。那就是为什么“colour, centre, traveller” are spelt color, center and traveler in American English. Except for these 这些词在美国英语中拼写为“color, center, traveler”。不过， differences in spelling, written English is more or less the same in both British 英国英语和美国英语的书面语几乎 English and American English. 是一样的。 The differences are greater in the spoken language. For example, Americans 英国英语和美国英语在口语中的差别更大。例如： say dance /dns/, and in southern England they say /da:ns/. In America 美国人说dance/dns/,而英国南部的人说/da:ns/。在美国， they pronounce not /nat/; in southern England they say /nt/. However, 人们说not/nat/,而在英国南部，人们说/nt/。然而， most of the time people from the two countries do not have any difficulty in 大多数时候来自这两个国家的人毫不费力 understanding each other.
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