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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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。
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。
They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldn't be.
他们从来没有打算来这里。我所有的家人都要去伦敦，因为他们想去一个大的。从来没有任何摊牌——也不会有。
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
尽管有假期，我可以自由地参观伦敦剧院，探索乡村，但我在一所英语学校度过了非常悲惨的四年殖民生活。
I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'
我总是担心有一天有人会拍我的肩膀说:“回北伦敦去。”
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。