My name is Sam and I'm traveling the world teaching you English.

我叫 Sam，我正在環遊世界教你英文。

Today we're in London in England.

今天我們在英國倫敦。

We're gonna explore the city. We're gonna find loads of awesome English lessons to help you learn English, so let's go.

我們要探索這座城市。我們會找到大量精彩的英語課程來幫助你學習英語，所以讓我們開始吧。

This is London the capital of England it's a quirky city.

這是英國首都倫敦，這是一座奇特的城市。

If something is quirky it is unusual in an interesting way.

如果某事很古怪，那就是以有趣的方式不尋常。

London has something to offer for everyone

倫敦對每個人都有吸引力。

Whoever you are and whatever your interests, London is your home

無論你是誰，無論你的興趣是什麼，倫敦都是你的家。

So welcome to London and let's learn English!

歡迎來到倫敦，一起學英文吧！

First of all it's a typical day in London today because the weather is overcast.

首先，今天倫敦的天氣多雲，這是倫敦典型的一天。

Overcast is how we describe the weather when it's really cloudy. There's like a blanket of cloud and you see no sunshine at all.

多雲是我們描述天氣很陰沉的方式。天空中有一層厚厚的雲，完全看不到陽光。

If we look at the sky, it's completely overcast.

如果我們看天空，完全是一片陰雲。

I looked across the River Thames and I saw Big Ben unfortunately covered in scaffolding.

我朝泰晤士河對岸望去，不幸地看到大本鐘被鷹架包覆著。

Scaffolding is the structure that builders use to restore and build buildings

鷹架是建築工人用來修復和建造建築物的結構。

So for the time being, Big Ben is covered in scaffolding.

所以暫時，大笨鐘被鷹架遮住了。

For the time being, it means for now, temporarily.

「暫時來說」意思是指現在，暫時地。

So this right here is a typical English ice cream and this we call a 99er, because they used to cost 99 pence, 99p.

這是典型的英式冰淇淋，我們稱之為 99er，因為它們過去售價 99 便士。

I don't think they cost 99p anymore.

我想應該不止 99 便士了。

Anyway, it's normal vanilla ice cream and the chocolate is called a flake.

總之，這是普通的香草冰淇淋，而巧克力叫做「巧克力片」。

It's called a flake, you put the flake in and it's really nice.

它叫做「巧克力片」，你把巧克力片放進去，非常美味。

Unfortunately, it doesn't cost that much anymore.

不幸的是，它現在的價格已經不那麼便宜了。

You should definitely try a 99er ice cream when you come to London.

當你來倫敦時，絕對應該試試 99er 冰淇淋。

So guys, that behind me is the London Eye.

各位，在我身後的是倫敦眼。

If you don't know, it's a huge wheel in the middle of London you can go around and around and you get awesome views of the city the Thames, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and much more.

如果你不知道，它是倫敦市中心的一個巨大摩天輪，你可以一圈一圈地繞著它轉，你可以欣賞到城市、泰晤士河、白金漢宮、大笨鐘等等的壯麗景色。

And yeah, it's huge but I want to teach you, you know what I want to teach you. I want to teach you some expressions with the word eye.

是的，它很大，但我想教你，你知道我想教你什麼。我想教你一些含有「眼睛」一詞的表達方式。

First one is I have an eye for something.

第一個是「I have an eye for something」。

That means I'm very good at recognizing the fine details of something. I'm very good at recognizing the quality of something.

這意味著我很擅長識別事物的細節，我很擅長識別事物的品質。

For example, I can say I have an eye for fine art. I can recognize when art is a very good quality.

例如，我可以說我對藝術有一種眼光。我可以辨識出藝術品的優質。

So if you have an eye for art, there are plenty of places in London you can see some amazing art like the Tate Modern.

所以如果你對藝術有一種眼光，在倫敦有許多地方可以看到一些令人驚嘆的藝術，比如泰特現代美術館。

But now, I'm eyeing up my next destination.

但現在，我正在盯著我下一個目的地。

To eye something up means to look at something closely that you're attracted to or you're interested in.

「眼睛盯著某物」意味著細看自己感興趣或感興趣的東西。

I've been eyeing up Westminster Abbey because I want to teach you a little bit of its history.

我一直在注視西敏寺教堂，因為我想教你一些它的歷史。

So Westminster Abbey is really old. 960 AD, so way over a thousand years old and it was founded by monks.

所以西敏寺教堂非常古老。建於公元960年，已有一千多年的歷史，是由修士創立的。

Now, monks are religious men. They usually live in groups in quite poor conditions.

修士是宗教人士。他們通常聚集在一起，生活在相當貧困的條件下。

You might have seen them in brown cloaks, especially in films and stuff like that

你可能在電影等作品中看過他們穿著棕色斗篷。

And they don't live here anymore at Westminster Abbey, so technically, it's not an Abbey anymore.

他們不再在西敏寺教堂居住，所以從技術上講，它不再是一座修道院了。

And when Westminster Abbey was built here, it was an island called Thorney Island, which was an island of the Thames.

當西敏寺教堂在這裡建造時，這裡是一個名為索尼島的島嶼，它是泰晤士河的一個島嶼。

And again, it's not an island anymore but originally it was, which is pretty cool.

一樣，它現在不再是一個島嶼，但最初是，這很酷。

A stone's throw away from the Abbey is St James's Park.

距離教堂只有一箭之遙的地方就是聖詹姆斯公園。

If something is a stone's throw away, it means it's extremely close.

如果某物「就在一箭之遙」，意思是它非常接近。

Often when people think of London they think of pollution and very crowded places, but London is also full of amazing parks, huge parks like this one, St James's Park, which is right in the centre of London.

當人們想到倫敦時，通常會想到污染和非常擁擠的地方，但倫敦也充滿了令人驚嘆的公園，像這個位於倫敦市中心的聖詹姆斯公園這樣的巨大公園。

And we could be smack-bang in the middle of the countryside.

我們可能就處於鄉村的正中心。

If you say something is a smack-bang in the middle, it means it's right in the middle, the very centre.

如果你說某事物「正中央」，意思是它就在中心位置，正中心。

So you know we're smack-bang in the middle of London, but it seems like the countryside, really.

所以我們就在倫敦的正中心，但感覺就像是鄉村一樣。

And you've got St James's Park, you've got Green Park, Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens. There are so many parks in London and I think it's one of the greenest capital cities I've ever been to.

而且還有聖詹姆斯公園、格林公園、海德公園、肯辛頓花園等等。倫敦有很多公園，我認為這是我去過的最綠色的首都之一。

The parks are also abundant with nature and life.

公園也充滿了自然和生機。

You can find many species of birds, such as ducks and swans.

你可以找到許多種類的鳥類，例如鴨子和天鵝。

Here you can see a white swan, which is technically owned by the Queen.

在這裡，你可以看到一隻白色的天鵝，嚴格來說是由女王所有。

The Queen owns all of the swans in the United Kingdom. That means they belong to the Queen.

女王擁有英國所有的天鵝。這意味著它們屬於女王。

Talking of the Queen, our next stop is Buckingham Palace.

說到女王，我們的下一站是白金漢宮。

So that is Buckingham Palace, and on top of the Buckingham Palace, just there, you can see a flag, the British flag.

這就是白金漢宮，在白金漢宮的頂部，就在那裡，你可以看到一面旗幟，英國國旗。

This flag we don't actually call the British flag, it's called the Union Jack.

這面旗幟我們不叫它 British flag，而是叫 Union Jack（聯合傑克/聯合旗）。

When the Union Jack is flying, it means that the Queen is away. The Queen is not present at Buckingham Palace.

當英國國旗飄揚時，意味著女王不在。女王沒有在白金漢宮。

Next, I saw the Queen's Guard, the security at Buckingham Palace and I also noticed that there are a lot of police.

接下來，我看到了女王衛隊、白金漢宮的保全，我還注意到有很多警察。

Around Buckingham Palace as you can imagine, there are a lot of police officers.

你可以想像，白金漢宮周圍有很多警察。

But in British English, we have other words for police officers, slang words.

但在英式英語中，我們還有其他表示警察的詞，即俚語。

For example, coppers. "I spoke to the coppers about the robbery."

例如，coppers。 「我和警察談過這起搶劫案。」

And also the old bill.

還有 the old bill。

This one's a little bit more old-fashioned. We don't use it so now.

這個叫法有點舊了。我們現在不這麼用了。

We often call the police the old bill.

我們會叫警察 the old bill。

So now I'm heading to Covent Garden.

所以現在我要去柯芬園。

If you're heading somewhere, it means you're going to a place.

如果你要去某個地方，那就意味著你要去一個地方。

And Covent Garden is a great place to see live shows and also eat some typical food from England.

柯芬園是觀看現場表演並品嚐一些典型英格蘭美食的好地方。

I'm eating pie. This pie that I'm getting is called steak and kidney pie and it's the most typical.

我正在吃派。我買的這個派叫做牛排腰子派，它是最經典的。

I'm eating it with gravy which is a meat sauce and mashed potatoes.

我搭配肉醬和馬鈴薯泥吃它。

It's so delicious.

非常美味。

Now I really want to teach you an expression with the word pie, and that is to eat humble pie.

現在我很想教大家一個用 pie 這個字的表達方式，叫「to eat humble pie（認錯；道歉）。

Now if you eat humble pie, you show and you say that you're very sorry for making a mistake.

如果你道歉，你會表現出並說你對犯了一個錯誤感到非常抱歉。

For example, I had to eat humble pie when I made a spelling mistake in my English lesson.

例如，我不得不道歉當我在英語課上犯了拼寫錯誤。

I had to say sorry guys, you know teachers make mistakes too.

我不得不對大家說聲抱歉，老師也會犯錯。

I ate humble pie.

我道歉了。

So now I'm getting on the tube to our last destination.

現在我正搭乘地鐵前往我們的最後一個目的地。

The tube is what we call the underground metro system in London, and my final destination--Tower Bridge.

地鐵就是我們所謂的倫敦地鐵系統，也是我的最終目的地──倫敦塔橋。

So behind me you can see Tower Bridge and I want to teach you the expression "to bridge the gap."

在我身後你可以看到倫敦塔橋，我想教你的一個表達是「消除差異」。

OK, to bridge the gap means to make the jump between two things.

「消除差異」意味著在兩件事之間進行跳躍。

So for example, imagine you are an intermediate speaker in English and you want to be advanced, you need to bridge the gap between intermediate and advanced.

舉例來說，假設你的英語程度為中級，並且你想提高英語程度，則需要消除中級和高級之間的差距。

You need to take that leap across to the next level which is obviously very, very different.

你需要跨越到一個新的程度，這顯然是非常非常不同的。

So what can you do to bridge the gap?

那麼你可以做些什麼來消除差距呢？

Well, I think it's always good to take an interest in the culture of the language you're learning.

我認為對你正在學習的語言的文化感興趣總是好的方式。

So if you want to learn British English, it's good to take an interest in British culture. Come to London, and when you have an interest in something, it's always easier to learn.

因此，如果你想學習英式英語，最好對英國文化感興趣。來倫敦，而當你對某件事感興趣時，學起來總是比較容易。

So try and do that to bridge the gap.

請嘗試這樣做來消除差距。

So guys, we've come to the end of this English lesson in London.

各位，我們在倫敦的英語課已經結束了。

We've seen some of the main sites and attractions, but to be honest with you, there's so much more to see, so I'm going to be doing more videos in London in the future.

我們已經參觀了一些主要景點和景點，但說實話，還有更多值得參觀的地方，所以將來我將在倫敦製作更多影片。

We can do museums, more about food and like other parts of the city that I have to show you, and teach your English there as well.

我們可以參觀博物館，進一步了解食物以及我必須向你展示的城市其他地方，並在那裡教你英語。

So that's London. We've learned some English lessons. Thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next class. Bye.

以上就是倫敦。我們學了一些英文。感謝收看，我們下節課見。掰。

So that is the amazing city of London, a dynamic city with so much to offer.

這就是倫敦這個令人驚嘆的城市，一個充滿活力的城市，有很多東西可以吸引你。

I'm traveling in the world and teaching you English.

我正在環遊世界並教你英語。

Where do you think I should go next?

你認為我接下來應該去哪裡？