What Makes BRITISH People HAPPY? | Easy English 143 · Easy English
通过轻松的英语视频，了解英国人最幸福的回忆。适合练习日常对话和情感表达。
We took like a seven month break from work.
我们休息了大约七个月，没有去上班。
It's just really embarrassing, like excruciatingly embarrassing.
真的非常尴尬，尴尬到让人难以忍受的程度。
Can I ask is your dad still with us?
我可以问一下，你们的父亲还在我们身边吗？
No, no he passed away in 2012.
不，他已于 2012 年去世了。
So you're literally taking a trip down memory lane?
那么，你真的是在重温过去的美好时光（也就是在“沿着记忆的轨迹”旅行）吗？
We are indeed.
我们确实如此。
But I actually managed to convince my family to let us get married there.
不过我最终还是说服了我的家人，让他们同意让我们在那里结婚。
You live every day so it's fullest potential for the person.
你每一天都在认真地生活，这样才能让自己的潜力得到最大程度的发挥。
Yeah, well no.
嗯，其实并不是这样。
We were kind of strangers at the start and now we all just like we go on so well.
一开始我们彼此还挺陌生的，但现在关系变得非常融洽，相处得也非常愉快。
Starting out in a big tech company is kind of the dream that you would have, right?
在一家大型科技公司开始职业生涯，这应该算是大多数人梦寐以求的事情吧？
So yes, they could say that.
所以，没错，他们确实可以这么说。
Hiya, happy new year and welcome to Easy English.
嗨，新年快乐！欢迎来到“Easy English”（简单英语）栏目。
Today I want to find out what makes Brits happy.
今天我想弄清楚是什么让英国人感到幸福。
I went down to ask the people of Brighton for their happiest memory or times where they fell out their best.
我下去了，想向布莱顿的居民们询问他们最快乐的回忆，或者那些让他们表现得最出色的时刻。
As always, before we get started, don't forget to like and subscribe to Easy English.
像往常一样，在开始之前，请别忘了给 “Easy English” 点赞并订阅它的频道。
Here we go.
开始吧。
It's probably when we went traveling around the world.
大概是在我们环游世界的时候吧。
We went on the Transmongolian Railway.
我们乘坐了横贯蒙古的铁路。
So we're remembering a game that we paid at Christmas with my family, which was really good fun.
我们正在回忆一款在圣诞节时和家人一起玩的游戏，那真的非常有趣。
So it's called Accentuate and there were a load of us around the kitchen table and including Stu's mum who is like what 81?
这个软件的名字叫 “Accentuate”；当时我们很多人围坐在厨房的桌子旁，其中还包括 Stu 的妈妈——她应该有 81 岁左右吧。
So you pick a card and it has a whole heap of accents on it.
你随机抽取一张卡片，发现上面标注了许多不同的口音符号。
Right, I love some of this.
对，我真的很喜欢其中的一些内容。
Scottish, Russian, Polish, server dude, things like
苏格兰语、俄语、波兰语……还有那些负责服务器维护的工作人员……诸如此类的内容。
that and then you pick up a
就是那样，然后你再拿起那个……
movie quote and you've got to read the movie quote in the accent that you've picked up and hilarity into you.
这是一句电影台词；你必须用自己模仿出来的那种口音来念这句话，同时还要融入自己的幽默感，这样才能让这句话真正变得有趣、好笑。
I went with my dad over to Spain and there was a waterfall there
我和爸爸一起去了西班牙，那里有一个瀑布。
and basically they turned it on that day, particularly when being my dad were there.
基本上，他们就是在那天把那东西打开了——尤其是当时我的父亲也在场。
So we got to actually jump off the rocks from the top down to the bottom and it was fantastic.
我们真的从山顶一直跳到山底，那种感觉简直太棒了！
It kept going up, up and down, up and down and up and down, you know, all day long.
价格一直在上下波动，一整天都是这样。
Coming back to Brighton's day after a long time away with my mother.
在阔别多年后，我和母亲终于再次回到了布莱顿。
Yes, we used to live here in the 1970s.
是的，我们在20世纪70年代曾住在这里。
So we, but this was all a very run -down area of Brighton.
所以我们当时所在的这个地方，其实属于布莱顿市较为破败、环境较差的区域。
Oh really?
哦，真的吗？
So reminiscing of what the Brighton used to look like 40 years ago.
于是开始回忆40年前布莱顿的样子了。
Probably when I was a kid, my
大概是在我小时候吧……
parents used to send me to India for the summers or the rest of my family lived there and my grandmother's got like a farm,
我的父母过去常常在夏天把我送到印度去；我的其他家人也住在那里，而且我的祖母还拥有一座农场。
an orchard in South India.
印度南部的一个果园。
The earth is like this really red color and it's like got all the tropical fruits through those of like bananas and guavas and like
地球的颜色非常红，上面长满了各种热带水果，比如香蕉和番石榴等等。
lines and there's like peacocks that are just there.
那些线条……还有那些孔雀，它们就那么静静地待在那里。