Name: 祕密生活 (Part 1) | BBC Learning English (Private Lives. Part 1. | BBC Learning English.)
Uploaded: 2026-02-26T12:55:52.000Z
Duration: 9 min 58 s

反身代名詞

I see myself as a West country girl who has lived all her adult life in London.

我認為自己是個來自英國西部的女孩，成年後的人生都在倫敦度過。

第二類條件句型

I think that if I were to get married and have children and give up my career, I would want to go back and live in the countryside again.

我想，如果我結婚生子，放棄事業，我會想搬回鄉下去住。

程度副詞

I think London is a very good place to live for young people in private lives.

我覺得倫敦對年輕人來說，在私人生活方面是個很棒的居住地。

Mo is 34 years old and she was born in a small village in the west of England.

Mo 今年 34 歲，出生在英國西部一個小村莊。

When Mo was 18, her dream was to work in the theatre.

Mo 18 歲的時候，夢想是在劇院工作。

Now she's a show manager at the Royal Albert hall in London.

現在她是倫敦皇家亞伯特廳的活動經理。

As we'll discover, Mo is a determined young woman who's very enthusiastic about her job and we'll hear her talk about the house where she lives, her concerns about the environment, as well as what it's like to work behind the scenes at a great British building.

我們將會發現，Mo 是一位意志堅定的年輕女性，對自己的工作充滿熱情，她會跟我們聊聊她住的房子、對環境的關切，以及在一個英國偉大建築的後臺工作是什麼感覺。

First, Mo retraces her steps from working hard for her A level exams in her final year at school to going on to drama college and becoming a show manager at one of Britain's most magnificent venues.

首先，Mo 回顧了她從學校最後一年努力準備 A level 考試，到進入戲劇學院，成為英國最宏偉場館之一的活動經理的歷程。

I was determined to get good A level results so that I could go into whatever career I wanted to.

我決心要考好 A level 成績，這樣我才能進入任何我想要的事業。

However, what I really wanted to do, I think was acting or presenting, something like that.

不過，我真正想做的，我覺得是演戲或主持，類似那樣。

我很快就長太高，不適合當女演員了。

So I gave up ideas of that and began to think about jobs backstage, such as stage management.

所以我放棄了這個念頭，開始考慮後臺的工作，像是舞臺管理。

I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and studied stage management there.

我去了吉爾德霍爾音樂戲劇學校，在那裡學習舞臺管理。

Then I worked for a series of small theatre companies and ended up at the Royal Albert Hall.

然後我為一系列小型劇團工作，最後到了皇家亞伯特廳。

Mo lives in West London and travels to work by bicycle or underground train, depending on the weather.

Mo 住在倫敦西部，上班會騎自行車或搭地鐵，看天氣狀況而定。

She's home loving and a landlady since she rents one of the rooms in her house to an old friend.

她很喜歡待在家，也是一位房東，因為她把房子的一間房間租給了一位老朋友。

我住在一棟維多利亞式的連棟房屋。

It's the first property I have ever owned and I love it.

這是我第一間自己擁有的房子，我超喜歡的。

I have a lodger who I've known for many, many years.

我有一個房客，我認識他很多很多年了。

只要可以，我都很喜歡待在家裡。

My favourite room is probably the living room.

Mo supports two organisations which campaign to protect the environment and she saves items of household rubbish so they can be collected by local government workers and reused.

Mo 支持兩個倡導保護環境的組織，她會收集家裡的垃圾，讓地方政府工作人員回收再利用。

I'm very concerned about the environment.

I'm a supporter of Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth.

我是 Greenpeace 和 Friends of the Earth 的支持者。

I recycle from home, paper, card cans, bottles.

我會在家裡回收紙張、紙板、罐子和瓶子。

I'm also a vegetarian, not a Strict vegetarian because I do eat fish.

我也是個素食者，不過不是那種嚴格的素食者，因為我還是會吃魚。

Mo and her friends make the most of living in London.

Mo 和她的朋友們很享受住在倫敦的生活。

They often go out to restaurants and bars and they go to the cinema or theatre at least once a week.

她們常常去餐廳和酒吧，而且每週至少會去看一次電影或戲劇。

Mo feels very fortunate to work at the Royal Albert hall, which has about 300 shows a year, including classical and pop music concerts, ballet, boxing, comedy acts, tennis, sumo wrestling and even ice skating.

Mo 覺得很幸運能在皇家艾伯特廳工作，那裡一年大約有 300 場表演，包括古典和流行音樂演唱會、芭蕾、拳擊、喜劇表演、網球、相撲摔角，甚至還有溜冰。

It's clear that to get to know Mo, we need to appreciate the place where she works.

很明顯，要認識 Mo，我們需要欣賞她工作的地方。

If you'd like to come with me now, we'll go up these stairs.

如果你想跟我一起來，我們要走上這些樓梯。

This is staircase 11 at the Royal Albert hall and it's going to take us up to the gallery.

這是皇家艾伯特廳的第 11 號樓梯，它會帶我們到樓上的畫廊。

From the gallery we'll get a wonderful view of the whole of the auditorium of the hall.

從畫廊，我們可以俯瞰整個音樂廳的絕佳景色。

When she reaches the gallery, Mo stands in the back row and proudly surveys the vast auditorium.

Mo 走到畫廊時，她會站在後排，自豪地環顧寬敞的禮堂。

It's a glorious space which can hold over 5,000 people.

這是一個壯觀的空間，可以容納超過 5,000 人。

It's like an amphitheatre with a huge glass and iron dome high above the auditorium and stage.

它就像一個圓形劇場，上方有一個巨大的玻璃和鐵製圓頂，橫跨禮堂和舞臺。

Mo continues our tour and takes us into a very elegant seating area.

Mo 繼續帶我們參觀，並進入了一個非常優雅的座位區。

Bought by Queen Victoria over 125 years ago and now owned by the present Queen, Queen Elizabeth ii.

這是維多利亞女王在 125 年前購買的，現在由現任女王伊莉莎白二世擁有。

這是一個雙倍大小的特等包廂。

Today we have an event on called Youth Makes Music and the orchestra are on stage, they're about to start rehearsing.

今天我們有一個名為「青年音樂節」的活動，管絃樂團正在舞臺上，他們即將開始排練。

They're all youths of 16 or 17 who once a year come in and have the hall for the day.

他們都是 16 或 17 歲的年輕人，每年會來這裡一次，並擁有一整天的場地使用權。

This is, after all, the nation's village hall.

Many villages in Britain like the one Mo grew up in have a village hall where local events take place such as summer fetes, amateur theatre, group productions and even wedding parties.

英國許多像 Mo 長大的村莊都有村莊禮堂，可以舉辦地方活動，像是夏日慶典、業餘戲劇、團體製作，甚至是婚禮派對。

The Royal Albert hall is a grand scale venue where ballet companies and orchestras from around the world can perform to huge audiences.

皇家艾伯特廳是個規模宏大的場地，來自世界各地的芭蕾舞團和管絃樂團都能在此為廣大觀眾演出。

One of Moe's most precious memories as a member of an audience at the hall is of a pop concert.

Mo 作為觀眾在廳裡最珍貴的回憶之一，是一場流行音樂會。

I think my favourite type of music is probably rock music if I'm honest.

說實話，我最喜歡的音樂類型大概是搖滾樂。

And my favourite artist has to be Eric Clapton.

而我最喜歡的藝人絕對是 Eric Clapton。

Managing a show like that Eric Clapton concert is Mo's job.

管理像 Eric Clapton 演唱會這樣的演出，就是 Mo 的工作。

She finds out in advance what technicians and musicians will need, discusses what they can put where and then informs staff at the hall how the show will be managed.

她會事先了解技術人員和音樂家需要什麼，討論東西可以擺在哪裡，然後告知場館員工演出將如何管理。

Mo takes us to meet her colleague Adrian Bray, the technical show manager at the Royal Albert Hall.

Mo 帶我們去見她的同事 Adrian Bray，他是皇家艾伯特廳的技術演出經理。

He's in charge of what he calls the butch side of putting on events, hanging lights, flying in scenery, laying cables, typically at 7 o' clock in the morning, three or four articulated trucks will pull up outside the Royal Albert hall laden to the gunwales with kit that has to be brought into the building, installed and made to work in time for performance at 7 o' clock that evening.

他負責他所謂的活動執行中的「硬體」部分，像是懸掛燈光、吊掛佈景、鋪設線材，通常在早上七點，會有三到四輛大型卡車載著滿滿的設備，停在皇家艾伯特廳外面，這些設備必須在當天晚上七點演出前搬進場館、安裝並運作正常。

So to get all this kit in, I'll be rushing up to the roof and rigging chain hoists to pick up the lighting dresses and the speakers.

所以為了把這些設備搬進來，我會衝到屋頂，架設鍊條吊車來吊起燈光架和喇叭。

I'll be crawling about underneath the stage laying in cables that allow the lighting controller to operate the lights, the sound controller to operate the sound.

我會在地板下爬行鋪設線材，讓燈光控制人員操作燈光，音響控制人員操作音響。

It's a long old day and it's very nice at 2 o' clock in the morning to close the doors, collapse back down into the show management office and have a cup of tea and say, there, another show, well done.

這是一段漫長的一天，在凌晨兩點時，關上門，回到演出管理辦公室，喝杯茶，說聲「好了，又一場演出，做得好」，感覺真的很棒。

Adrian and Mo work together so that a show is taken care of technically, artistically and safely.

Adrian 和 Mo 合作，確保演出在技術、藝術和安全方面都得到妥善處理。

We're now in the centre of the roof of the Royal Albert Hall.

我們現在位於皇家艾伯特廳屋頂的中央。

We're standing 140ft or 40 metres above the arena floor.

我們離場館地板有 140 英尺，也就是 40 公尺高。

It's very strong, so we're quite safe, but we're a long way up looking down from here.

這裡很堅固，所以我們很安全，不過從這裡往下看，距離真的很高。

Balloons and streamers are dropped once a year at the end of a lively evening of classical music known as the Last Night of the Proms.

在一個名為「普羅姆斯之夜」的古典音樂熱鬧晚會的尾聲，每年都會施放氣球和彩帶。

The Proms is an annual series of about 70 concerts featuring music from all over the world.

普羅姆斯是一系列年度音樂會，大約有 70 場，匯集了世界各地的音樂。

Preparing for these concerts is a very exciting and demanding time for Mo and Adrian.

為這些音樂會做準備，對 Mo 和 Adrian 來說，是一段既令人興奮又充滿挑戰的時期。

The Last Night of the Proms is like a huge party and it ends with a celebration of British music.

普羅姆斯之夜就像一場盛大的派對，最後以慶祝英國音樂作結。

The Last Night of the Proms is probably our most famous event here at the Hall.

普羅姆斯之夜可以說是我們在這裡最知名的活動。

not only that, it's a huge party for all the Prommers, that is the audience of the Proms who have been to most of the prom concerts during the season.

不僅如此，這也是所有普羅姆斯觀眾的一場盛大派對，他們是普羅姆斯季期間參加了大部分音樂會的觀眾。

對我來說，這又是一個漫長的夜晚。

As soon as the television cameras have switched off and the last of the Prommers has left the building, I have to go on stage and wade through yards of ticker tape and streamers and party poppers and start sweeping it all up and taking all the lights down and putting all the cameras away.

一旦電視攝影機關機，最後一位普羅姆斯觀眾離開場館，我就得走上舞臺，在堆積如山的紙帶、彩帶和派對彩炮中清掃，然後開始收拾所有燈光並收好所有攝影機。

But it's the build up to the Proms 70 odd shows earlier that's a very exciting period.

但真正令人興奮的時期，是前面那七十幾場普羅姆斯音樂會的鋪陳。

It's world renowned and I'm very, very proud to be a part of it to end the program.

這是世界聞名的，我非常、非常自豪能參與其中，為節目畫下句點。

Mo talks about a member of her family whom she confides in and who has always inspired her.

Mo 談到一位她會傾訴的家人，這位家人一直啟發著她。

I think the person I admire most in my family is my grandmother.

我認為我最敬佩的家人是我的祖母。

She's a very well respected member of our family.

她是我們家族裡備受尊敬的一員。

She's a very determined woman, full of courage.

她是一位非常有決心、充滿勇氣的女性。

And even now that she's in bed all the time, she lives at an old people's home.

而且即使她現在都臥病在床，她還是住在養老院。

She's still very forthright with her views.

她對自己的想法依然非常直率。

我想在某些方面我跟她很像，但是

I try to be a little more diplomatic than she's always been.

我試著比她一直以來都稍微圓融一些。