Name: 費城精彩┃隨身學習美式英語發音 (Great Things about Philadelphia┃Learn American English Pronunciation On the Go)
Uploaded: 2025-07-21T19:11:07.000Z
Duration: 30 min 23 s

未來簡單式

I hope that by listening to this podcast, you will increase your listening comprehension for Americans and you will also speak better American English.

我希望通過收聽這個播客，您能提高對美國人的聽力理解能力，也能說更好的美式英語。

委婉語氣表達希望、渴望

If you would like a free transcript of this podcast, please visit rachelsenglish.com slash podcast and look for this episode.

如果您需要本期播客的免費文字稿，請訪問 rachelsenglish.com slash podcast 並查找本期節目。

In today's episode, we're just going to be having conversation.

在今天的節目中，我們將進行對話。

And as we are speaking naturally about things, we're going to try to identify all of the interesting idioms, phrasal verbs, weird vocabulary words that we're using, and we'll stop and we'll define them.

當我們自然而然地談論事情時，我們要試著找出所有有趣的成語、短語動詞和我們正在使用的奇怪詞彙，然後停下來給它們下定義。

And the idea about doing this is that when we catch how we use these kinds of phrases and words in natural conversation, then we can start to better understand how they're used.

這樣做的目的是，當我們捕捉到在自然對話中如何使用這些短語和單詞時，我們就能開始更好地理解它們是如何被使用的。

It also just helps provide context for what you're hearing.

這也有助於為你所聽到的內容提供背景資訊。

Sometimes when you hear an idiom in context, it's a lot easier to understand what it means than when you're just learning definitions.

有時，當你聽到一個成語的上下文時，理解它的意思要比只學習定義容易得多。

So David and I have each put together a couple of questions that we're going to ask each other to get this conversation going.

是以，我和戴維各自準備了幾個問題，我們將互相提問，以展開對話。

So my question for you is, what are some of the great things about living in Philadelphia?

我想問的是，生活在費城有哪些好處？

Well, as you know, I've lived here for a long time, since 2001.

大家都知道，我從 2001 年起就一直住在這裡。

And there's a lot of things that I really love.

It's an old city, and so it's very dense.

這是一座古老的城市，是以人口密度很高。

It's walkable, meaning that in comparison to some other American cities where there's more sprawl and things are spread out and are a lot more car dependent.

這裡適合步行，這意味著與其他一些美國城市相比，這裡的土地更加無序擴張，事物分散，更加依賴汽車。

In Philadelphia, it's really easy to walk to a lot of different things.

在費城，步行去很多地方都很方便。

Sprawl is, yeah, when things are spread out.

對，無序擴張就是指事物分散開來。

Oh, we talk about urban sprawl sometimes.

哦，我們有時會談論城市無序擴張。

And I use it specifically that way in terms of urban sprawl.

我是在城市無序擴張的情況下這樣使用它的。

It's a technical, not technical, but it's a specific term to indicate cities where population has spread in not a very planful way.

這是一個技術術語，不是專業術語，但它是一個特定的術語，用來表示人口以一種不太有計劃的方式擴散的城市。

And it's very wide rather than being high, like New York City is really high.

它非常寬闊，而不像紐約市那麼高。

It's very dense, and there are a lot of very tall buildings where people live.

這裡的人口密度非常高，人們居住的地方有很多很高的建築。

So in any given block, you might have thousands of people living.

是以，在任何一個街區，都可能生活著數千人。

Whereas in sprawl, I think of it as being, yes, unplanned, but also lower apartment buildings or houses that just mean that it's not physically possible to have as many people in as dense of an area.

而在無序擴張中，我認為它是，是的，沒有規劃，但也有較低的公寓樓或房屋，這只是意味著在物理上不可能在一個如此密集的地區有這麼多的人。

So, yeah, so I love that about Philadelphia.

所以，是的，我喜歡費城的這一點。

It also, it's what I think of as a gritty place.

同時，它也是我心目中的髒亂差之地。

It's a blue-collar, historically working class place where there was a lot of industry, a lot of things were made here.

這是一個藍領工人聚集的地方，歷史上這裡曾有很多工業，很多東西都是在這裡製造的。

So blue-collar, you basically just defined that by talking about it.

所以，藍領，你基本上只是通過談論來定義它。

In English, we have certain jobs that we'd call blue-collar and certain jobs that we'd call white-collar.

在英語中，有些工作我們稱之為藍領，有些工作我們稱之為白領。

So blue-collar jobs would be, like you said, industry working, like the workers kind of idea.  White-collar would be more the bosses, the executives, the managers, people who are running that.

是以，藍領工作就像你說的，是行業工作，就像工人的那種想法。  白領則更多是老闆、行政人員、經理和管理者。

Our office work versus work with your hands could be a rough translation as well.

我們的辦公室工作與雙手工作相比，可能也是一種粗略的翻譯。

And it literally comes from the color of one's collar, right?

而它的字面意思就是一個人衣領的顏色，對嗎？

Like a lot of blue-collar jobs, those uniforms tended to be blue.

和許多藍領工作一樣，這些制服往往是藍色的。

That is probably where it comes from, I would imagine.

I don't know that for sure, but it seems like a very plausible explanation.

我不確定，但這似乎是一個非常合理的解釋。

Oh, well, I think, I love how Philly is sort of cutting edge on the food scene.

哦，好吧，我想，我喜歡費城在美食界的前沿地位。

I mean, it's one of the cities in the world.

我的意思是，它是世界上數一數二的城市。

I was saying that's an interesting phrase.

Cutting edge means innovating at the forefront, where a lot of excitement around something is happening.

前沿意味著在最前沿進行創新，在最前沿發生著令人興奮的事情。

A lot of interesting work and developments in a field are happening where it's cutting edge.

在某一領域，許多有趣的工作和發展都發生在其最前沿的地方。

It's at the edge where new growth is happening, you would say.

可以說，這裡是新增長的邊緣。

And so I think there are a lot of interesting food options here and a lot of great chefs working in the city.

是以，我認為這裡有很多有趣的美食選擇，也有很多優秀的廚師在這裡工作。

People might see that in restaurant advertisements or listings.

人們可能會在餐廳廣告或列表中看到這一點。

BYO meaning instead of having a wine and liquor license or a wine seller themselves, a lot of restaurants here encourage people to bring their own wine.

BYO 的意思是，這裡的很多餐廳都鼓勵人們自帶葡萄酒，而不是自己擁有葡萄酒和酒類許可證或葡萄酒銷售商。

In other words, they're not licensed themselves to sell wine.

換句話說，他們本身沒有銷售葡萄酒的執照。

And so you're welcome to bring your own BYO.

And part of what has happened then is that it creates a good environment for people who are launching out on their own to start a small restaurant, to start in a small space, and to cook cutting edge or avant-garde new kinds of food without having the need to invest heavily in a liquor license.

後來發生的部分情況是，它為獨立創業的人創造了一個良好的環境，讓他們可以開一家小餐館，在一個狹小的空間裡烹飪前沿或前衛的新食品，而無需在酒牌上投入巨資。

I guess they're really expensive in Philly.

我猜在費城，這些東西真的很貴。

And in addition then, stocking a wine seller is an expensive part of a more traditional restaurant startup cost.

此外，葡萄酒銷售商的庫存也是傳統餐廳啟動成本中昂貴的一部分。

So it's just fostered this great environment where you're right, there are lots of chefs trying lots of different kinds of things.

在這裡，你說得對，有很多廚師在嘗試各種不同的東西。

It's also great for us because that means when we go out, if you can bring a bottle of wine, you pick it out at the liquor store or the wine store and it's obviously way less expensive to a bottle of wine at a wine store than it is at a restaurant.

這對我們來說也很好，因為這意味著當我們外出時，如果你能帶一瓶酒，你可以在酒類專賣店或葡萄酒專賣店挑選，在葡萄酒專賣店買一瓶酒顯然比在餐館買要便宜得多。

I mean, that's where a lot of restaurants make a lot of their money is in the markup on alcohol.

我的意思是，很多餐館就是靠酒水加價來賺錢的。

And so it's absolutely great as a diner to pick out a favorite bottle of wine to take and then it saves you a lot of money on your meal.

是以，作為用餐者，挑選一瓶最喜歡的葡萄酒帶走絕對是件好事，這樣還能為您節省不少餐費。

And I think it does allow the restaurant to just focus on what they're doing with the food, which is generally awesome.

我認為，這確實讓餐廳可以專注於他們正在做的食物，而這通常是很棒的。

And that's one thing that is pretty uncommon.

In New York City, I think there was only one restaurant I can think of that I knew was a BYO.

在紐約，我能想到的只有一家餐廳是自帶餐具的。

And most other places, they serve it and if you want to bring your own bottle, they'll charge you a fee for that.

而在其他大多數地方，他們會提供酒水，如果你想自帶酒瓶，他們會收取一定的費用。

But in Philly, there's so many BYOs where you can just bring your own bottle of something and they don't charge you to bring it in and you can just supplement your meal with it.

但在費城，有很多自帶酒水的餐廳，你可以自帶一瓶酒，他們不收你的錢，你可以用它來補充你的膳食。

Okay, so that's one of the things I love about it.

好吧，這也是我喜歡它的原因之一。

I also love the classical music scene here.

我還喜歡這裡的古典音樂氛圍。

我是一個古典音樂的超級書呆子。

There's a fairly good opera, although I got spoiled living in New York with The Met.

這裡有相當不錯的歌劇，雖然我在紐約生活時被大都會歌劇院慣壞了。

Though I've been to some stuff here in Philly that I've enjoyed.

雖然我在費城也參加過一些我喜歡的活動。

Yeah, food would spoil if it's left out to go bad.

是啊，食物放在外面會變質的。

Someone gets spoiled when they get what they want.

有人得到了自己想要的東西，就會被寵壞。