跟读练习: Spend a Day in the Most Beautiful English Village 🇬🇧 (Real British English) - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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If you can understand the whole of this video,
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your English is very strong.
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Today, I am going to take you to one of the most beautiful and the most famous Cotswold villages.
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Like before, there will be no script and no deliberate slow speaking,
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just you and me spending the day together.
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Are you ready?
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Let's go.
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I am taking you to a gem in the Cotswolds called Borton on the Water
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and it is known as the Venice of the Cotswolds so you'll have to see what you think of it.
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It's not quite as nice a day as I would have wanted,
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it's not sunny but maybe that makes for a more authentic British experience
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because as I have mentioned before we do get a lot of grey.
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hopefully it won't rain fingers crossed
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and I thought you might want to see some more of
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the typical British countryside in springtime it's currently mid-April although this might come out in a few weeks time
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so you can see that luminous green I was talking about more bluebells
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and the typical narrow lanes of the countryside and we are approaching Borton on the water oh pretty cottage
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and here we are the Venice of the Cotswolds as they call it exciting I can't wait to show you
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here we are in Borton on the water as I said it's known as the Venice of the Cotswolds
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and I called it a gem you can't really call it a hidden gem anymore
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because it has been put on the map as we say in
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that it has been discovered and especially in summer it gets packed
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and on a nice day it is absolutely heaving with tourists that's a good british expression to be absolutely heaving
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but you can understand why
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when you come here obviously it's called the venice of the cotswolds
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because of the beautiful river running through it
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and the lovely quaint bridges another A very good word to describe it is picturesque.
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It's the sort of place you would see on a postcard
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so we might call it postcard pretty but picturesque would be a really good adjective to describe this village.
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And it is lovely.
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I have to say you can find many other beautiful Cotswold villages
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that haven't been discovered yet so maybe one day I will take you to those two
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and show you those secrets first let me take you for a walk through the village
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and of course grab a coffee one thing that is very distinctive
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and born on the water that I love is
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that it has a lot of willow trees those are these trees here hanging over the water
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and it makes it really atmospheric it's a very atmospheric place It's better when it's sunny,
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but the other thing, the Cotswolds stone is really famous here.
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It has a warm hue,
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that kind of honey-colored stone.
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That's a very distinctive feature of the Cotswolds.
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In this village, there are so many lovely little shops and cafes.
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I've used that word picturesque because it really is.
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It's one of probably the most picturesque villages you can find here,
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and it's just so quintessentially English nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds.
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I hope you enjoy this glimpse into this lovely village.
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It's a shame they have some sort of green netting up,
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so it's not quite as picturesque as normal.
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And there's a war memorial,
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like they have in many villages,
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to commemorate the First World War.
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As I said, lots of tourists.
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Actually, there are fewer today.
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Normally, there are a lot more.
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And Borton is distinctive for these low stone bridges.
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There are about five or six of them that you have probably seen already and noticed.
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Lots of Cotswold themed shops.
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A Cotswold candle makers there, love it.
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And a Cotswold perfumery.
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Another good word to describe this village is idyllic.
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It's a very idyllic village.
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The river is called the River Windrush, and it's very popular.
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Dogs wanting to swim in it.
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Lots of ducks always in it as well,
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very popular with the animals.
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In summer people also just dip their feet in or do some paddling,
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that's a good verb.
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Yes and there's another one of the Lowstone bridges I mentioned, lots of those.
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There's a pub up over here at Kingsbridge Inn.
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Speaking of which though, I'm starting to get a bit Peckish.
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I'm starting to get a bit peckish,
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which means I'm a bit hungry.
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So I think it might be time to grab a bite to eat and this restaurant looks lovely, doesn't it?
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Come inside with me now and see me order.
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Please could I get the poached eggs and then to drink the sparkling elder pappies?
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Thank you.
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Sorry, I forgot to actually show you my meal, but it was delicious.
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As I said, it's not quite as crowded as it normally is.
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I suppose it's quite a windy and grey day,
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but I used to come a lot here when I was a child,
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and it was a lot less crowded back then.
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And one of the main attractions is this little model village,
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which is very sweet and quaint,
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and I will take you to see it now.
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Isn't it sweet?
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Isn't it sweet?
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Tell me, have you got anything like this near you?
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I would love to know.
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And I shouldn't have been worried because the sun has come out just for you.
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There we go.
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Just so that you can see this lovely little model village.
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And the model is surprisingly accurate.
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The river Windrush, the low stone bridges, the motor museum.
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It's all true to life.
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This brings back lots of memories of childhood and makes me very nostalgic.
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That's a good word, nostalgic.
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Because it reminds me of when I used to come here when I was little and I used to love it.
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I suppose there's something about miniature things isn't there?
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Mini things.
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That's why children love dolls' houses and that's why this is just quite special.
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Lots of little bridges and trees.
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It's just exciting.
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Beautiful model village of a beautiful Cotswold town.
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Come and show you the inside.
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As I said, we used to come here a lot
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when I was a child
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and it was the first time I really started understand the concept of infinity
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because you have a model village within a model village
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and then there's a model village in there
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so i remember thinking as a child first grappling with the concept of infinity
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because you have the infinite regression of a model village within a model village within a model village
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and then i just thought but when does it end
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if every model village has a model village in it
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when does it stop it's funny to remember how your mind works as a child.
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You've got the model village and the model village in the model village.
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And I love the details right down to the music playing,
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to the shop fronts, you can see all the mini shops there.
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You've got a post office and the Victorian Christmas shop.
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I'll show you the real life one of that.
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What do you think?
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Does this make you want to come and visit Boughton on the Water?
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and this is fun this is a periscope so it's got angled mirrors
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so that you can see it at street level come
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and have a look with me
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and we can pretend we are small enough to fit in the model village
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and you can see the real size of people there okay
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and now i am back in the car
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and on my way home i hope you enjoyed that and that it made you feel more comfortable with your english
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because if you understood most of it,
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then as I said, well done because this is real everyday English.
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We are lucky because I don't know if you can hear that,
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but it is now raining.
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So we had perfect timing with the weather and the rain.
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Let me know if you enjoyed this because I would love to do it again.
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Maybe take you to a smaller Cotswold village,
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a hidden gem next time.
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Take care.
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Thank you for joining me and I'll see you in the next one.
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Bye.
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Thank you.
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