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剑桥雅思 15 Test 2 Part 3 Transcript / 听力原文
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OK, Graham, so let's check we both know what we're supposed to be doing.
好吧，格雷厄姆，让我们检查一下我们都知道我们应该做什么。
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OK.
好的。
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So, for the university's open day,
所以，在大学开放日，
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we have to plan a display on British life and literature in the mid-19th century.
我们必须计划展示19世纪中叶英国的生活和文学。
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That's right.
这是正确的。
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But we'll have some people to help us find the materials and set it up, remember.
但请记住，我们会有一些人帮助我们找到材料并进行设置。
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For the moment, we just need to plan it.
目前，我们只需要计划一下即可。
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Good.
好的。
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So have you gathered who's expected to come and see the display?
那么您已经收集到哪些人预计会来观看展览了吗？
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Is it for the people studying English, or students from other departments?
是给学英语的人，还是其他院系的学生？
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I'm not clear about it.
我不清楚。
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Nor me.
我也不行。
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That was how it used to be,
以前就是这样，
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but it didn't attract many people, so this year it's going to be part of an open day,
但它并没有吸引很多人，所以今年它将成为开放日的一部分，
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to raise the university's profile.
提高大学的形象。
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It'll be publicised in the city, to encourage people to come and find out something of what goes on here.
它将在城里进行宣传，鼓励人们来了解这里发生的事情。
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And it's included in the information that's sent to people who are considering applying to study here next year.
它包含在发送给考虑明年申请在这里学习的人们的信息中。
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Presumably some current students and lecturers will come?
想必现在的学生和讲师都会来吧？
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I would imagine so,
我想是这样的，
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but we've been told to concentrate on the other categories of people.
但我们被告知要关注其他类别的人。
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Right.
正确的。
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We don't have to cover the whole range of 19th-century literature, do we?
我们不必涵盖 19 世纪文学的全部内容，不是吗？
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No, it's entirely up to us.
不，这完全取决于我们。
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I suggest just using Charles Dickens.
我建议只使用查尔斯·狄更斯。
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That's a good idea.
这是个好主意。
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Most people have heard of him, and have probably read some of his novels,
大多数人都听说过他，并且可能读过他的一些小说，
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or seen films based on them,
或看过根据它们改编的电影，
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so that's a good lead-in to life in his time.
所以这是他那个时代生活的一个很好的引导。
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Exactly.
确切地。
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And his novels show the awful conditions that most people had to live in, don't they:
他的小说展示了大多数人不得不生活的可怕条件，不是吗：
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he wanted to shock people into doing something about it.
他想让人们震惊并为此采取行动。
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Did he do any campaigning, other than writing?
除了写作之外，他还做过任何竞选活动吗？
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Yes, he campaigned for education and other social reforms, and gave talks,
是的，他为教育和其他社会改革而竞选，并发表演讲，
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but I'm inclined to ignore that and focus on the novels.
但我倾向于忽略这一点并专注于小说。
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Yes, I agree.
是的，我同意。
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OK, so now shall we think about a topic linked to each novel?
好的，现在我们应该考虑与每部小说相关的主题吗？
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Yes. I've printed out a list of Dickens's novels in the order they were published,
是的。我按照出版顺序打印了狄更斯小说的清单，
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in the hope you'd agree to focus on him!
希望你同意关注他！
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You're lucky I did agree!
你很幸运我同意了！
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Let's have a look.
我们来看看吧。
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OK, the first was The Pickwick Papers, published in 1836.
好的，第一本是 1836 年出版的《匹克威克外传》。
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It was very successful when it came out, wasn't it,
它一推出就非常成功，不是吗？
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and was adapted for the theatre straight away.
并立即被改编为剧院。
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There's an interesting point, though,
不过有一点很有趣，
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that there's a character who keeps falling asleep,
有一个角色一直在睡觉，
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and that medical condition was named after the book - Pickwickian Syndrome.
这种病症以这本书的名字命名——匹克威克综合症。
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So why don't we use that as the topic,
那么我们为什么不以此为主题
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and include some quotations from the novel?
并包括小说中的一些引语？
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Right, Next is Oliver Twist.
对了，下一个是雾都孤儿。
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There's a lot in the novel about poverty.
小说里有很多关于贫穷的内容。
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But maybe something less obvious...
但也许还有一些不太明显的事情......
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Well Oliver is taught how to steal, isn't he?
好吧，奥利弗被教导如何偷窃，不是吗？
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We could use that to illustrate the fact that very few children went to school,
我们可以用它来说明很少有孩子上学的事实，
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particularly not poor children, so they learnt in other ways.
尤其是贫困儿童，所以他们以其他方式学习。
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Good idea.
好主意。
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What's next?
接下来怎么办？
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Maybe Nicholas Nickleby.
也许是尼古拉斯·尼克尔比。
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Actually he taught in a really cruel school, didn't he?
事实上他在一所非常残酷的学校里教书，不是吗？
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That's right.
这是正确的。
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But there's also the company of touring actors that Nicholas joins.
但尼古拉斯也加入了巡回演出的演员公司。
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We could do something on theatres and other amusements of the time.
我们可以在剧院和当时的其他娱乐活动上做一些事情。
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We don't want only the bad things, do we?
我们不只想要坏事，不是吗？
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OK.
好的。
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What about Martin Chuzzlewit?
马丁·查兹勒维特呢？
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He goes to the USA, doesn't he?
他去美国了，不是吗？
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Yes, and Dickens himself had been there a year before,
是的，狄更斯本人一年前也去过那里，
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and drew on his experience there in the novel.
并在小说中借鉴了他在那里的经历。
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I wonder, though...
我想知道，不过……
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The main theme is selfishness,
主题是自私，
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so we could do something on social justice?
那么我们可以为社会正义做点什么吗？
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Hmm... No, too general, let's keep to your idea.
嗯……不，太笼统了，让我们坚持你的想法吧。
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I think it would work well.
我认为这会运作良好。
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He wrote Bleak House next - that's my favourite of his novels.
接下来他写了《荒凉山庄》——这是我最喜欢的他的小说。
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It's mine too.
这也是我的。
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His satire of the legal system is pretty powerful.
他对法律制度的讽刺相当有力。
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That's true, but think about Esther, the heroine.
确实如此，但想想女主角埃丝特。
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As a child she lives with someone she doesn't know is her aunt,
小时候她和一个她不认识的人住在一起，她不认识她的姨妈，
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who treats her very badly.
谁对她很不好。
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Then she's very happy living with her guardian,
然后她和她的监护人一起生活得很幸福，
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and he puts her in charge of the household.
他让她负责家庭。
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And at the end she gets married and her guardian gives her and her husband a house,
最后她结婚了，她的监护人给了她和她丈夫一套房子，
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where of course they're very happy.
他们当然非常高兴。
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Yes, I like that.
是的，我喜欢这样。
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What shall we take next?
接下来我们该采取什么？
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Little Dorrit?
小杜丽？
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Old Mr Dorrit has been in a debtors' prison for years...
老杜里特先生已经在债务人监狱里呆了很多年了……
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So was Dickens's father, wasn't he?
狄更斯的父亲也是如此，不是吗？
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That's right.
这是正确的。
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What about focusing on the part when Mr Dorrit inherits a fortune,
专注于多里特先生继承一笔财产的部分怎么样？
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and he starts pretending he's always been rich?
他开始假装自己一直都很富有？
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Good idea.
好主意。
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So, next, we need to think about what materials we want to illustrate each issue.
所以，接下来我们需要思考我们要用什么材料来说明每个问题。
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That's going to be quite hard.
这将是相当困难的。
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