A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
伦敦
London
London is a modern Babylon.
伦敦是现代的巴比伦。
I like where I live here, in London.
我喜欢我住的地方，在伦敦。
Gentlemen never wear brown in London.
伦敦的绅士从不穿棕色衣服。
In London, I take the Tube everywhere.
在伦敦，我到哪里都坐地铁。
For me, London is and always will be home.
对我来说，伦敦现在是，将来也永远是我的家。
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
自行车改变了我对伦敦的体验。
It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.
那是一个夜晚，伦敦被包围并被大火刺穿。
I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.
我当然没有离开伦敦的计划。这是一个伟大的城市。
My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.
我回到伦敦后，接触了更广泛的社会。
Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.
别误会我的意思——我喜欢伦敦，而且在那里还有一套公寓。
As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.
作为一个在伦敦的外国人，我喜欢那里有那么多其他的外国人。
I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.
我在戏剧学校交了会费，并在伦敦的每个剧院的后台工作。
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It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
那是一个星期天的下午，潮湿而沉闷。我们地球上最沉闷的景象莫过于伦敦下着雨的星期天。
Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
总有一天，当这个奇异的世界恢复和平时，我想再次来到伦敦，在一个月色皎洁的夜晚，站在某个阳台上，俯视泰晤士河平静的银色曲线和它那黑色的桥梁。
And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.
随着年龄的增长，我参加了伦敦皇家音乐学院的试镜，他们说，不，我们不接受你，因为我们对一个所谓的“聋人”音乐家的未来一无所知。我只是不能完全接受。
On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.
仔细一看，这个装置竟然是一个丧礼自动点唱机——这是伦敦劳合社与口香糖自动点唱机原理混合的结果。
The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.
伦敦的皇家节日大厅很漂亮;人们在那里闲逛。我认为这种吸引人的、非排他性的性格非常重要。
An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.
伦敦的一个勤杂工是最低等的。勤杂工就是茶水工。他会是狗的身体:意思是什么都愿意做的人。我对此早有准备，也很享受。