Edinburgh Festival 愛丁堡藝術節
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Natalie: Hi I'm Natalie and welcome to On the Town. Today I'm at the world-famous Edinburgh festival. Now the festival runs every year and attracts many tourists from all over the world. So let's go and talk to some performers and find out a bit more.
Feifei: 今天的《都市掠影》我們跟隨 Natalie 一起來到了一年一度的愛丁堡藝術節。愛丁堡藝術節是世界大型綜合性藝術節之一，每年受邀來參加的除了有著名的音樂家和劇團以外，還有很多喜劇表演藝術家也前來為成千上萬的觀眾獻上他們的精彩藝術表演。
My name's Lucy Elcliff and I'm doing two fantastic comedy musicals, one called Plague about the Black Death and we're also doing a brand new musical about pirates, called Piromania. And it's tongue-in-cheek, the songs are fantastic - very catchy, there're some beautiful ballads in there, some duets, there's a romantic story as well as comedytastic full-blown in-your-face panto.
Lucy Elcliff, a performer at the festival
Natalie at the festival
Feifei: Lucy 說她參加演出的這兩個喜劇音樂劇都是 tongue-in-cheek, 就是說這些音樂劇都是鬧著玩兒的，不能當真的玩笑。
她用單詞 catchy 來形容這些音樂劇。Catchy 在這里的意思是說一個曲調或歌曲容易記住。
Lucy 還說這些喜劇音樂劇 comedytastic. 這是一個由 comedy 和 fantastic 組成的合成詞。
咱們再來聽一次，注意聽我們上面講到的詞。
And it's tongue-in-cheek, the songs are fantastic, very catchy there're some beautiful ballads in there, some duets, there's a romantic story as well as comedytastic full-blown in-your-face panto.
Lucy Elcliff, a performer at the festival
Feifei: 下面請聽 Natalie 在街頭的采訪，注意聽單詞 togas 寬大的外袍和單詞 premise 前提。
Natalie: Ok I'm just standing here on the Royal Mile and I've just gone past a lot of people wearing togas, so can you tell me more about what you're promoting here today?
So we're doing a show called When In Rome, which is a new musical comedy which is set in ancient Rome, it's got like eighties and nineties kind of cheesy music and it's just a lot of fun and that's the premise really and that's why we're wearing bed sheets and singing silly songs.
A performer at the Edinburgh Festival
Feifei: 原來這是以古羅馬為背景的一個喜劇音樂劇。Set in 是以什么為背景；ancient Rome 是古羅馬。這個音樂劇的音樂非常 cheesy, 我們通常用 cheesy 來表示過時的但是大家仍然很喜歡的東西。
咱們來接著聽 Natalie 的采訪，這次請注意聽單詞 flyering 發送傳單。在藝術節有很多人在街頭發送傳單來 promote 宣傳他們的演出。
Natalie: Now I can hear the rest of the cast in the background there singing away, I mean this really does bring a great atmosphere to Edinburgh doesn't it?
Yeah absolutely. I think we're really lucky in the sense that we've got a really big group so we can have a lot of fun all singing together and flyering like that, which I think makes a big difference but I think we've all really really enjoyed the festival, it's been so much fun.
A performer at the Edinburgh Festival
Natalie: So let's go and talk to some people who are visiting the festival.
Feifei: Natalie 接下來采訪了一些來參加這次藝術節的觀眾。不知道大家對今年的藝術節有什么看法？注意聽單詞 vibrant 和短語 thriving with culture.
It's really vibrant and there are so many people from so many different countries here.
A visitor to the Edinburgh Festival
We definitely want to come back, I mean this whole place is thriving with culture around here.
A visitor to the Edinburgh festival
Feifei: 聽清楚了嗎？上面受采訪的一位觀眾說今年的藝術節 really vibrant 活力十足，人氣很旺。
It's really vibrant and there are so many people from so many different countries here.
A visitor to the Edinburgh Festival
Feifei: 最后一位受采訪的觀眾說他一定會再來，還說今年的藝術節 thriving with culture 文化氣息非常濃厚。
We definitely want to come back, I mean this whole place is thriving with culture around here.
A visitor to the Edinburgh Festival
Feifei: 下面我們一起來復習一下今天學到的單詞和短語：
你還記得用來形容鬧著玩兒的，不能當真的玩笑的那個短語是什么嗎？對了，是 tongue-in-cheek.
我們還學習到了兩個用來形容音樂的單詞 catchy 和 cheesy.
Vibrant 用來形容藝術節活力十足，人氣很旺。
Natalie: Well that's all from the Edinburgh festival but don't forget to check out the website: that's www.bbcukchina.com for more On the Town programmes. Bye!
