Wang Fei: 大家好，欢迎收听《都市掠影》节目。我是王飞。
Alice: And I'm Alice. Wang Fei, today we're talking about a very special Christmas tree in London. It's an interactive Christmas tree.
Wang Fei: Interactive Christmas tree, 互动圣诞树。What is it?
Alice: Well it's also called the Kissing Christmas Tree. Let's hear from Fay who works with this special Christmas tree. Pay attention to two words before you listen. Plinth...
When the couple are kissing under the Christmas tree, it lights up.
Wang Fei: 底座、平台。
Alice: And mistletoe...
Wang Fei: Mistletoe 槲寄生，是一种植物的名字。
Fay: Every year, Covent Garden has a big Christmas tree but this year we have the interactive Christmas tree! This tree works by – we get couples, or friends, or whoever, to come up onto the plinth under the mistletoe and we get each of them to hold a bit of mistletoe and when they kiss the tree lights up! It's very magical.
Alice: This Christmas tree is interactive because when two lovers kiss under the mistletoe below the Christmas tree, the tree lights up.
We get each of them to hold a bit of mistletoe and when they kiss the tree lights up! It's very magical.
Fay, staff at Covent Garden
Wang Fei: 当情侣在树下接吻的时候，圣诞树就会被点亮。真是太浪漫了。But Alice, what's the meaning of kissing under the mistletoe?
Alice: Well kissing under the mistletoe is a Christmas custom. Mistletoe plants have little white berries. And they're thought to be the seeds of love.
Wang Fei: Mistletoe 槲寄生的白色浆果被认为是爱情的种子 the seeds of love.
Alice: So kissing under the mistletoe is a symbol of love and romance.
Wang Fei: 所以在槲寄生枝叶下接吻，是一个很浪漫的圣诞风俗。Ben 和 Jo 是来自英国 Sheffield 的一对儿年轻人, 他们对这棵互动圣诞树非常感兴趣。
Ben: Yeah, it is interesting, yeah, because I didn't realise that it sent electricity through you to light up the tree. I thought maybe you just stepped on a pressure plate and it switched the tree on.
Jo: We should give it a go. Let's give it a go.
Man: Let's do it. Let's do it.
Alice: Ben is very surprised that it sends electricity through the kissers and lights up the tree.
It is interesting, yeah, because I didn't realise that it sent electricity through you to light up the tree.
Ben from Sheffield
Wang Fei: 通过两个人的接吻，接通电路，然后点亮树上的灯。
Alice: So they've decided to give it a go.
Wang Fei: Give it a go! 尝试一下！
Fay: Right, you use that hand on there and you use that hand on that one. And then kiss towards the front so they can get a good picture.
(People cheering)
Ben: You don't feel any electricity. Obviously kissing my girlfriend is kind of nice.
Jo: It's good. It's like magic.
Alice: Ben says he can't feel any electricity.
Wang Fei: Ben 没有感觉到电流。因为这棵树的电流是非常安全的。
Alice: His girlfriend Jo says it's like magic.
Wang Fei: It's like magic. 像魔术一般。
Alice: There are many people kissing under this Christmas tree every day. Let's hear from more of them.
(kissing sound and laughter)
Fay: That's beautiful!
Man: We have a short (short circuit) already!
(How do you feel?)
Man: Wonderful! If you are in love you always feel wonderful!
Woman: I've never kissed a man before under the mistletoe, so it's special for me!
Alice: The two people we just heard are an old couple in their 50s, and they might be tourists from another country.
Wang Fei: So they would like to take this special opportunity to kiss under the mistletoe.
Alice: Yes, and they had a wonderful romantic kiss under the Christmas tree. The man said if you are in love you always feel wonderful.
Wonderful! If you are in love you always feel wonderful!
A tourist
Wang Fei: 如果你们相爱，你们总会觉得非常美妙。
Alice: Let's hear from another girl talking about her kiss under the mistletoe.
Woman: It was romantic, it was cute. It's a good idea, it's innovative. It's definitely in the Christmas spirit, with love and charity and Christmas lights and romance. So yeah, definitely!
Wang Fei: She's very excited, isn't she?
Alice: She wants to use all the beautiful words to describe this wonderful moment. Romantic -
Wang Fei: 浪漫的。
Alice: Cute -
Wang Fei: 可爱的。
Alice: Innovative -
Wang Fei: 有创意的。
Alice: And it's definitely in the Christmas spirit.
Wang Fei: 绝对具有圣诞的感觉和心情。
Alice: Well I hope you our listeners have also got a bit of the Christmas spirit from our programmes.
Wang Fei: I hope so. Before we go, let's hear some of the interviews again.
Both: Bye!
Ben: You don't feel any electricity. Obviously kissing my girlfriend is kind of nice.
Jo: It's good. It's like magic.
Woman: It's definitely in the Christmas spirit.
Man: Wonderful! If you are in love you always feel wonderful!
The snow may fall but I don't mind at all,
Because you keep me winter warm.
It's cold and wet but I won't get upset,
With you, I'm always winter warm …
发表于 2011-6-27 06:20
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