How Did You Meet Your Best Friend? | Easy English 83 · Easy English
本期视频通过街头采访，讲述人们如何遇见最好的朋友，适合练习英语口语和日常对话表达。
Hello, welcome to Easy English.
你好，欢迎来到“简易英语”（Easy English）节目。
So today, I'm on Brighton beach and I wanna find out how the people of Brighton met their best friend,
今天，我来到了布莱顿海滩，我想了解一下布莱顿的居民们是如何结识他们最好的朋友的。
let's go.
我们走吧。
How did you meet your best friend?
你是怎么遇到你最好的朋友的？
We bought a house off him.
我们从他那里买了一栋房子。
- Wha…?
- 什么……？
I turned up in RAF Laarbruch, which is a RAF camp in Germany.
我来到了位于德国的 RAF Laarbruch 营地（隶属于英国皇家空军）。
The fella I was replacing was in the same room as my now, best mate.
我之前接替的那个家伙，当时和我现在的最好的朋友在同一间房间里。
Within about twenty minutes, they’d er…
大约二十分钟后，他们就……
they’d stripped me naked and tried to shave me nuts so…
他们把我脱得精光，还试图刮掉我的阴囊……
so that’s how we met.
就是这样，我们相识的。
- And that was it.
- 就这样结束了。
That was it, yeah.
就那样，没错。
- Forged friendship.
– 假装的友谊。
Been friends ever since and that was in about nineteen eighty…
从那以后，我们就一直是朋友了。那应该是 1980 年左右的事……
about nineteen eighty-four I suppose I got there.
大概在 1984 年左右，我达到了那个目标（或状态）。
I see, and was he English or German?
我明白了，他是英国人还是德国人呢？
Yeah yeah, no, he was English we were both RAF firefighters at the time.
是啊，其实他不是英国人；当时我们俩都是英国皇家空军（RAF）的消防员。
So er…
所以他……
yeah.
是的。
And we've remained er…
我们一直保持着……（er……这个词在这里似乎不太完整，可能是拼写错误或意思不明确）
well him, there’s another two fellas I was in Germany with.
嗯，还有另外两个人，我和他们一起在德国。
The four of us have remained sort of, friends ever since, really.
从那以后，我们四个人一直保持着朋友关系。
So yeah, my best friend, her name’s Vanita, she lives in Scotland.
是的，我最好的朋友叫瓦妮塔（Vanita），她住在苏格兰。
Um…
嗯……
we met a long time ago in Malaysia, where we were both born.
我们很久以前在马来西亚相识，那里也是我们的出生地。
And she is the sister of my first boyfriend ex-boyfriend.
她是我第一个男朋友的妹妹（也就是我前男友的妹妹）。
How did you meet your best friend?
你是怎么遇到你最好的朋友的？
I met my best friends at school, when I was seven, in junior school.
我在七岁的时候，在小学三年级时，在学校遇到了我最好的朋友们。
Erm…
呃……
yep and…
是的，还有……
aunty Claudia and auntie Ellen and they’re now my children's God-parents.
克劳迪娅阿姨和艾伦阿姨现在成了我孩子的教父母。
- Well, one of them's mine.
嗯，其中一个是我的。
One of them's your God-parent yep.
其中一位就是你的教父/教母，没错。
And erm…
嗯……
we've been friends forever, we don't live anywhere near each other anymore.
我们一直都是好朋友，不过现在我们已经住在相距很远的地方了。
- Right.
- 对。
So, one lives in Oxford and one lives in London.
一个人住在牛津，另一个人住在伦敦。
I met my best friend Vicki when I was eight years old, in junior school and we have remained friends ever since.
我八岁的时候在小学遇到了我最好的朋友维基，从那以后我们一直保持着友谊。
we went to senior school together.
我们是一起上的高中。