牛津校園生活情景對話：浪漫塔城

英語情景對話作爲真實生活的交際模式,作爲語言輸出的源頭,作爲語言練習的最佳途徑,作爲語言教授的媒介,它對於把英語作爲外語來學習的學生,扮演着非常重要的角色。下面本站小編爲大家帶來牛津校園生活英語情景對話，歡迎大家學習!

S： Vivian, you finally came. I had to coo] my heels for you.

S:薇薇安，你終於來了。我等你好一陣兒了!

V; I'm so sorry, Sara! I had an emergency this afternoon，and I came here as soon as I finished it.

V:真不好意思，薩姆!下午突然有點事，一忙完我就趕過來了。

S; It doesn’t matter! I have already copied all of the pictures to the computer, come and see!

S:沒關係的!我已經把照片都拷到電腦裏了，過來看吧!

V: Ok! What’s the folder name of your pictures?

V:好的!照片的文件夾名叫什麼?

S： r City!

S:哦..塔城!

V： Tower City? Are you sure?

V:塔城?你確定嗎?

S: Of course! The Oxford city is comMonly referred to as “Tower City”!

S:當然啦I塔城就是牛津城的俗稱!

V: Let me guess.. it the reason that there are many towers in the city?

V:讓我猜猜……是不是因爲牛津城的塔特別多啊?

S: Bingo! You are brilliant! There are really a great many towers in Oxford, such as Carfax Tower, Magdalen Great Tower, Founders Tower and Tom Tower. Moreover, a lot of buildings are built with spires, just like Ashmolean Museum.

S:答對了!你真行!牛津城確實有很多的塔，例如：卡法克斯塔、莫德林高塔、 發現者塔和湯姆塔。而且，有很多建築物都像塔那樣帶有尖頂，比如艾什莫 林博物館。

V： Hum, I see it. What’s the name of the square tower? It’s very special!

V:嗯，我看見了。這座方形的塔叫什麼名字?它挺特別的!

S: Tom Tower! It is a bell tower in Christ church College of the University of Oxford. The bell housed in the tower is named as Great Tom, which is the loudest bell in the whole Oxford. You may find that the tower is named for its bell!

S:湯姆塔!它是牛津大學基督教堂學院的一座鐘塔。放置在這座塔裏面的鐘叫 作大湯姆，它是全牛津城聲音最洪亮的一個鐘。你應該發現這座塔的名字是 源於它的鐘了吧!

V: Yeah! How big is Great Tom? Do you still remember?

V：是的!大湯姆有多大呢?你還記得嗎?

S: Of course! I remember clearly that Great Tom weighs around seven tons. It was not so heavy originally, and only reached seven tons after recasting for many times. It was first recast in 1626 and 1654; then recast three times between 1678 and 1679 to increase its weight from two to over six tons; and finally recast in 1680 to Great Tom. Since then, it has been hung in Tom Tower.

S:當然!我記得很清楚，大湯姆的重量 約爲7噸。它本來並設有那麼重，只 是經過多次的重鑄以後才達到7噸的。它於1626車和1654年首度被重鑄;接 着在1678車和1679年間被重鑄了三 次，使它的重量從2噸增加到6噸多;最後一次重鑄是在1680年，這就有了 大湯姆。從此以後，大湯姆就被懸掛在湯姆塔中了。

V: Oh, where did it belong to before hung in Tom Tower?

V:哦，在被懸掛於湯姆塔中之前它被放置在哪呢?

S: It was originally called “Mary”，and belonged to Osney Abbey. In 1545，it was moved to St. Frideswide’s church, and renamed “Tom”.

S:它最初被稱爲"瑪麗”，屬於奧斯尼修道院。1545年，它被.遷到了聖弗萊滋 維德的教堂，並易名爲“湯姆”。

V: Oh. What is the name of this architecturally splendid building?

V:哦。那這個建築物又是什麼呢?

S: It is Radcliffe Observatory, which was the astronomical observatory of Oxford University between 1773 and 1934. The 18th century building was modelled after the ancient Tower of the Winds in Athens. The observatory was founded by John Radcliffe, an English physician，so it was named after him. A number of landmark buildings in Oxford were also named after him, including the Radcliffe Camera in Radcliffe Square, the Radcliffe Infirmary, except the Radcliffe Observatory.

S:這是拉德克里夫天文臺，是牛津大學1773年?1934年間的天文臺。這個18 世紀的建築物是以雅典古老的風之塔爲模型建造的。這個天文臺是由一位英 格蘭內科醫生約翰?拉德克里夫修建的，因此以他的名字命名。牛津城還有一 些標誌性建築物也是以他的名字命名的，包括拉德克里夫廣場的拉德克里夫 圖書館、拉德克里夫醫院、拉德克里夫天文臺等。

V; John Radcliffe is really a remarkable figure! So what is the Radcliffe Observatory used for at the moment?

V:約翰拉德克里夫可真是個大人物!那麼拉德克里夫天文臺現在用來做什麼 呢?

S: It is now used by Green Templeton College of the forms a centrepiece for the college. Having come into existence on 1st October 2008, Green Templeton College is the University^ newest college. It is merged from Green College and Templeton College, and is located on the previous Green College site and is centred around the Radcliffe Observation.

S:它現在被牛津大學格林坦普利頓學院所用，併成爲了該學院最引人注目的建 築。成立於2008年10月1日的格林坦普利頓學院是牛津大學最新的學院。 該學院是由格林學院和坦普利頓學院合併而成的，位於格林學院的舊址，學 院的中心是拉德克里夫天文臺。

V: Owning so many splendid towers, the Oxford city deserves to be called as the “Tower City”!

V：擁有這麼多壯觀的塔，牛津城被稱作“塔城”真是名副其實!

S: Thafs ture!

S:確實是這樣!

相關閱讀：牛津大學簡介

牛津大學(University of Oxford)，簡稱牛津(Oxford)，是一所位於英國牛津市的世界著名公立研究型大學。實際創立日期仍不清楚，但有記錄的授課歷史可追溯到1096年，爲英語世界中最古老的大學，也是世界上現存第二古老的高等教育機構，是世界著名研究型大學之一。牛津同時擁有全球最具規模的大學出版社，及全英最大型的大學圖書館系統。另外，牛津大學培養了衆多社會名人，包括了26位英國首相、60位諾貝爾獎得主以及數十位世界各國的皇室成員和政治領袖。