Name: 私密生活．第三部｜BBC Learning English (Private Lives. Part 3. | BBC Learning English.)
Uploaded: 2026-02-26T12:57:54.000Z
Duration: 7 min 18 s

情態副詞

I would describe myself as a keen, well motivated person who's keen and eager to do well, always ready to give 300% and expect exactly the same back from my superiors and my peers.

我會形容自己是個積極、有動力的人，總是渴望做得好，隨時準備付出 300%，並期望從長官和同事那裡得到同樣的回報。

轉承詞

However, you know, I still serve the Majesty of the Queen and I'm British in private lives.

不過，你知道的，我私底下還是效忠女王陛下，並且是英國人。

He's a colour sergeant in the British Army.

他是英國陸軍的一位陸軍少校。

Lawrence is 33 years old and he was born in Kilmarnock, a large town on the west coast of Scotland.

Lawrence 今年 33 歲，出生在蘇格蘭西部海岸的一個大鎮 Kilmarnock。

When he was 15, Lawrence left school and began work as a joiner, a carpenter.

15 歲那年，Lawrence 離開學校，開始做木匠，也就是 joiner。

But it wasn't long before he decided to join the army and he joined a regiment called the Scots Guards.

但沒過多久，他就決定加入軍隊，並加入了一個叫做 Scots Guards 的團。

Three years ago, he achieved his present rank of color sergeant.

三年前，他晉升到現在的陸軍少校職位。

As we'll discover, Lawrence is very committed to his career in the army and we'll hear him talk about how his career affects his family life.

我們將會發現，Lawrence 非常投入他在軍隊的職業生涯，我們也會聽他談論他的職業生涯如何影響他的家庭生活。

1st Colour Sergeant Lawrence Kerr remembers the day when the young joiner decided he wanted to be a soldier.

陸軍少校 Lawrence Kerr 還記得，當年這位年輕的木匠決定想成為一名阿兵哥的那一天。

I was walking up to the baker's shop to have my lunch and walked past the careers office and all of a sudden had a thought, you know, maybe the life as a joiner wasn't for me.

我正要去麵包店吃午餐，經過職業介紹所時，突然有個想法，嗯，也許木匠的生活不適合我。

And I wanted to, you know, spread my wings, if you like, get out of, you know, a normal, mundane sort of life in the west coast of Scotland.

我想，如果你願意的話，我想展翅高飛，離開蘇格蘭西部海岸那種單調的生活。

So I decided then, at 16 years old, that I thought I'd give the army and especially the Scots Guards, a go.

於是，我在 16 歲那年就決定，我想嘗試加入軍隊，特別是蘇格蘭近衛團。

Giving the army a go has given Lawrence the chance to travel.

嘗試加入軍隊讓 Lawrence 有機會到處旅行。

He's worked in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Canada, the United States of America, and

他曾在香港、新加坡、馬來西亞、澳洲、阿曼、沙烏地阿拉伯、加拿大、美利堅合眾國等地工作，

But while he was working in England, he met dawn, who's now his wife, and

但在他於英格蘭工作時，他遇見了 Dawn，也就是他現在的妻子，

Often when Lawrence is sent on a tour of duty in Britain or overseas, his family go and live where he's working.

很多時候，當 Lawrence 被派到英國或海外服役時，他的家人就會跟著他一起住在他工作的地方。

But on some tours of duty, Lawrence goes alone and he might be separated from his family for up to six months at a time.

但有些服役期間，Lawrence 會獨自一人，而且可能會和家人分離長達六個月。

So being in the army means living on the move and everyone in the family has to be adaptable when he's away.

所以，當兵就意味著到處奔波，家人在他不在的時候都必須很能適應。

Lawrence admits he misses his family very much.

I'm married to my wife, dawn, and I've got two daughters, Nicola and Natasha.

我娶了我的妻子 Dawn，還有兩個女兒，Nicola 和 Natasha。

It takes a certain kind of person in the army because it's so unpredictable what you're going to be doing next.

當兵需要特定類型的人，因為你接下來要做什麼，真的很難預料。

Sometimes you've got to move house maybe up to three times in the space of three years, which does put a hell of a lot of Pressure on the family, the wife and the children.

有時候，你可能三年內就要搬家三次，這對家人、妻子和孩子們來說，壓力真的很大。

But like they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

但就像他們說的，小別勝新婚。

At the moment, Color Sergeant Lawrence Kerr works in London.

目前，陸軍少校 Lawrence Kerr 在倫敦工作。

He's in charge of some of the training of the Scots Guards.

他負責訓練蘇格蘭近衛團的成員。

The Scots Guards is one of seven regiments who, as well as working as soldiers, also guard royal residences such as Buckingham palace, the permanent London home of the royal family.

蘇格蘭近衛團是七個軍團之一，他們除了擔任阿兵哥，也負責守衛白金漢宮等皇家住所，這裡是皇室成員在倫敦的永久居所。

Guarding a royal residence is known among the soldiers as stag duty, and

阿兵哥們稱守衛皇家住所為「站崗」，

when one guard of soldiers comes to the end of a shift, it's relieved by a new guard.

當一個衛兵的班次結束時，就會由新來的衛兵接替。

This ceremony, very popular with visitors to London, is called the Changing of the Guard.

這項對倫敦遊客非常受歡迎的儀式，叫做衛兵交接。

Colour Sergeant Lawrence Kerr did many shifts of stag duty in the early days of his career.

陸軍少校 Lawrence Kerr 在他職業生涯早期，執行過很多次站崗任務。

Well, my main memories of stag duty, whether it be Buckingham palace or anywhere else, was the very first one I'd done when I was about 19 years old, just having come back from Hong Kong, really looking forward to it, standing out there, but

嗯，我對站崗最主要的記憶，無論是在白金漢宮還是其他地方，都是我大概十九歲那年第一次站崗的時候，剛從香港回來，真的很期待，站在那裡，但是

at the same time really worried, thinking, oh, God, the Queen is going to come in.

同時又很擔心，心想，天啊，女王可能會進來。

Colour Sergeant Lawrence Kerr enjoys family life at home in the house just south of London.

陸軍少校 Lawrence Kerr 在倫敦南邊的家裡，享受著家庭生活。

His wife and daughters love watching soap operas on television.

他的妻子和女兒們喜歡看電視上的連續劇。

His daughters, aged 16 and 14, enjoy Australian Soap operas best, like Home and Away and Neighbours.

他們的女兒們，一個16歲，一個14歲，最喜歡澳洲的連續劇，像是《聚散離合》和《Neighbours》。

His wife prefers British soaps like EastEnders, set in the East End of London, and

他的妻子則偏愛英國的連續劇，像是設定在倫敦東區的《EastEnders》，還有

Coronation street, set in Manchester, a large city in the north of England.

設定在英格蘭北部大城市曼徹斯特的《Coronation street》。

家裡有兩位青少年女兒在看電視。

They're absolutely mad on the imported Australian soap operas that's on show in the UK at the moment.

他們對目前英國正在播出的澳洲進口連續劇簡直是瘋狂著迷。

Home and Away and Neighbours and the like.

《聚散離合》、《Neighbours》之類的。

more British soap operas, Coronation street and EastEnders, as opposed to the Australian, She's a soap opera fanatic.

比較喜歡英國的連續劇，《Coronation street》和《EastEnders》，而不是澳洲的，她可是個連續劇迷。

Both EastEnders and Coronation street are about the experiences, especially the private troubles, of communities of working class people.

《EastEnders》和《Coronation street》都是在講述社區裡，尤其是工人階級人們的個人煩惱和經歷。

Colour Sergeant Lawrence and his wife are currently planning a summer holiday.

陸軍少校勞倫斯和他的妻子目前正在計畫一個夏季假期。

They're going to rent a powerboat and mess about on the Norfolk Broads in the east of England, where there are lovely waterways winding through beautiful flat countryside.

他們打算在英格蘭東部的諾福克河網租一艘動力船，在那裡有美麗的運河蜿蜒穿過美麗的平坦鄉村。

This year in July, myself and the wife have decided that for the holiday this year we're going to leave her two children with her mother and father and just the two of us are going to go and hire a cruise liner on the Norfolk Broads and mess about in the river for a week.

今年七月，我和我太太決定今年的假期，我們要把她兩個小孩留給她父母，我們兩個就自己去租一艘遊艇在諾福克河網玩一個星期。

Norfolk is where my wife's family come from.

It is flat as a pancake, Beautiful green, green everywhere lovely waterways.

那裡平坦得像鬆餅，到處都是美麗的綠色，綠意盎然，還有可愛的運河。

So it's something we've always meant to do, and we're going to do it this year.

所以這是我們一直想做的事，今年我們要實現了。

And to end the program, Lawrence looks back on 17 years in the army and how the army has given him educational qualifications that life outside in civilian street would not have done well.

節目最後，勞倫斯回顧了他在軍隊的17年，以及軍隊如何給了他文職工作無法給予的學歷。

I was a bit of a rebel, you know, I left school with the ability to do well, but

我以前有點叛逆，你知道，我離開學校時很有潛力，

qualification wise, I didn't get any because I wasn't interested, you know.

但就學歷來說，我什麼都沒拿到，因為我沒興趣，你知道的。

But having joined the army, you know, it's matured me over the years immensely.

但加入軍隊後，你知道，這些年來它讓我成熟了很多。

And the qualifications that I've got now, you know, there was no way on earth, I think, if I did stay in civilian street, that I would have had the educational qualifications that I have now.

而且我現在擁有的這些學歷，你知道，我想，如果我留在一般社會，絕對不可能有這些學歷。