賴世雄英語書信通Unit 38：向友人告知旅游近況函

February 28, 2005

Dear Joyce,

I just arrived in New Delhi yesterday. During my last week in Nepal, I went to a town west of Katmandu which is very close to the Himalayas. It’s really incredible to be able to walk out of a hotel in the morning and see snow-covered, 25,000-foot high mountains. I can’t imagine what it would be like to climb one!

As I just mentioned, I flew into India yesterday. I haven’t had much time to look around yet, but one first impression I got was that this is a really crowded place. It’s not hard to believe that there are over a billion people in this country. This morning I went to the big mosque and fort in Old Delhi. They are pretty impressive. They had some great architects in those days.

I’ll be in India for two weeks, and then I’ll fly back to Bangkok. I’m looking forward to picking up your letter(s).

Sincerely,

Vincent

親愛的喬依絲：

我昨天剛到新德里。上星期我在尼泊爾時到加德滿都西邊一個臨近喜馬拉雅山脈的城鎮(zhèn)。在早晨走出飯店時能看到兩萬五千英尺高覆蓋著白雪的山實在是非常令人難以置信。我簡直無法想象去爬上一座山會是什么樣子!

我剛才提到，我昨天已飛抵印度。我還沒有很多時間去四處看看，但我所得到的第一印象是這里真的很擁擠。這個國家有十億多的人口并不難想象。今天早上我去了舊德里一座很大的清真寺和一座堡壘。它們真的是令人印象深刻。當時的印度有一些很杰出的建筑師。

我會在印度待兩星期，之后就會搭機回曼谷。我很期待接到你的來信。

文森　敬上

2005年2月28日

字詞解說：

1. New Delhi },nju:dely n.新德里(印度首都)

2. be close to.二很接近……

例:His office is close to the train station.

(他的辦公室很近火車站。)

3. the Himalayas [,himaleiaz} n.喜馬拉雅山脈

4. incredible 法相信的，難以置信的

例:It was incredible to have the opportunity to meet that famous actor.

(有機會遇見那個著名的演員真是令人難以相信。)

5. snow-covered 被雪覆蓋的

6. imagine 想象

例:Can you imagine living on a boat?

(你能想象住在船上是什么樣子嗎?)

7. mention .提及，說到

例:The boss didn't mention you at the meeting.

(老板在會議上沒有提到你。)

8. look around/round四處看看

例:Let's go to the museum and look around.

(咱們到博物館去四處看看。)

9. impression 印象

impress 使有深刻印象

leave/make a favorable/bad impression on sb

給某人留下好/壞印象

be impressed with…對……印象深刻

例:The student left a favorable impression on his teachers.

(那個學(xué)生給他的老師們留下了好印象。)

The manager is impressed with the new employee，s performance.

(經(jīng)理對那位新來員工的表現(xiàn)印象深刻。)