Revision Lesson 15
復(fù)習(xí)課15
Gretel writes a letter home
格萊托寫(xiě)家信
Dear Mummy and Daddy,I'm sending you the photos you asked for.
親愛(ài)的爸爸媽媽:現(xiàn)寄上你們要的照片.
First you'll find a photo of the house I'm staying at.
你們首先看到的是一張我目前住房的照片.
It's a very typical English house.
它是幢典型的英國(guó)式住房.
You don't see many blocks of flats in England.
在英國(guó)看不到成幢成幢的公寓樓.
The English prefer houses to flats.
英國(guó)人寧愿住小洋樓而不愿住公寓.
Sometimes you see rows and rows of houses and they're all exactly the same!
有時(shí)人們會(huì)看到一排排模樣完全一樣的小洋房.
I enclose some pictures of the family I'm staying with.
附上幾張我目前借居的那個(gè)家庭的照片.
You can see Sandy and Sue.(the children I told you about in my last letter)
你們看到的是桑迪、蘇(我上封信上談到的孩子)
and Mr and Mrs Clark.
以及克拉克夫婦.
They have all become very good friends of mine.
他們都已成了我的好朋友
There are some pictures of the garden,too.
另外有幾張花園的照片.
Every English house has a small garden.
每一座英式小洋樓都有小花園.
The English people work very hard in their gardens.
英國(guó)人在花園里干活很認(rèn)真.
Mr Clark has a lovely lawn and lots of rose-bushes
克拉克先生有一個(gè)漂亮的草坪和許多玫瑰花叢.
and he grows all his own vegetables.
他自己還種蔬菜.
Everything is so green in England.
英國(guó)是遍地皆綠.
Mr Clark rarely has to water the garden because it rains so often here!
克拉克先生很少給花園澆水,因?yàn)檫@兒常下雨.
When it rains my English friends say,"Nice weather--for the ducks!"
下雨時(shí),我的英國(guó)朋友就會(huì)說(shuō):"對(duì)鴨子們,這可是好天氣!"
I'll write to you again soon.
我不久再給你們來(lái)信.
Love,Gretel.
愛(ài)你們的格萊托