超可愛的倫敦人看完開幕式后……

卓張眾

2008年奧運會開幕式給了世界一個巨大的視覺盛宴，讓我們聽聽可愛的倫敦人是怎么評價的。順便可以學(xué)地道的英語表達(dá)啊。

看完奧運會開幕式，倫敦人們……

1. I cant wait for this, does anyone know if the BBC plans to show this in HD?我實在等不及了，誰知道BBC高清會不會播放這臺節(jié)目？ cant wait for sb. / sth.等不及

2. Those fireworks were breath?鄄taking.The London ceremony will be rubbish compared to this whatever we do. We just cant pull off this sort of thing very well.

焰火真的很壯觀。倫敦的開幕式與此相比將會是垃圾。我們根本無法完成這些事情。 breathtakingadj. 非常激動人心的, 壯觀的 pull off 勝利完成

3. Theyre letting nobody at all down right now.

他們沒有讓任何人失望。let sb. down 讓某人失望

4. Just see the little girl singing—awwww, the images of the Olympic rings made up of lightswas spectacular.

看看那個小女孩唱歌吧——哇嗚，奧運五環(huán)是光組成的？ 太好看了。 spectacular adj.壯觀的, 雄偉的, 引人入勝的

5. The London organisers will have a hard time beating this.

倫敦的組織者要想超過中國的話日子可不好過啊，。 have a hard time度過一段艱難時間

6. I like the scroll and the projection.

我喜歡卷軸畫和投影。 scroll n. 紙卷

7. Theyre basing it lots on ancient cultural stories and traditions, not something we have so much of to use in 2012. Think well put on a pretty good show though in a very British way.

他們的表演基于古老的文化和傳統(tǒng)積淀，我們自己可以在2012年用到的卻很少。想想我們該怎樣以英國的方式展示一臺美妙的表演呢。in a British way以英國自己的方式

8. I prefer to view this as taking the pressure off us for 2012. We cant hope to even come close so we probably shouldnt even bother trying as wed just waste money and embarass ourself. Just bring the athletes in and get on with it.

我感到這是件好的事情，替我們解除了壓力。我們甚至無法接近中國人的成功，因此也許不該做這方面的努力。否則既耗費錢財，又會讓自己難堪。直接把運動員帶進(jìn)場，然后開始比賽吧。 embarass v. 使尷尬

9. The Tai Chi men are amazing—in complete sync.

太極表演讓人嘆為觀止，動作完全一致。 sync n. 同時，同步

10. Its bloody spectacular.精妙絕倫！bloody adj.&adv.;太，十分，非常

11. Chinese: we can do it.

Brits: moan moan moan.

中國人：我能。

英國人：郁悶，郁悶，郁悶。moan v.抱 怨，悲傷

12. The London 2012 organisers are in crisis talks after watching that. Cancel the Spice Girls; were going to need something bigger.

倫敦2012組委會委員們看完后，感到了巨大的壓力：“取消火辣女孩的表演吧，整點大規(guī)模的?！?in crisis talks處于危機談話中

13. Absolutely spectacular opening ceremony. Heaven knows how we will beat it!

開幕式極其壯觀，天知道我們怎么才能超越！ beat v. 戰(zhàn)勝

14. Do the crowd get a toilet break at any point？ 5 hours is a long time when youve got (I presume) refreshments.

場內(nèi)的人有時間上廁所嗎？5個小時才方便方便怎么忍得啊？ refreshment n. 重獲活力、精神

15. Very boring outfits GBers.

咱們的衣服丑死啦。 GB：Great Britain 大不列顛

16. The Yanks look like a group of sailors, lol.

美國佬看起來像一群水手，嘿嘿。 Yanks = Yankees 美國佬（俚）；1o1laugh out loud 大聲地笑

17. I quite like the Chinese mens outfits. Not so sure about the womens.

我非常喜歡中國的男隊禮服，女的就不好說了。 outfits禮服

18. Im actually amazed by that. Im very rarely speechless.

我被驚呆了，我很少這樣的。 speechless adj. 由于震驚而說不出話來

19. Incredible. That is all I can say.

一言以蔽之，難以置信。 incredible adj. 難以置信的；不可思議的

20. Good old Britain—everyones so negative about something!It wont be as precise and epic as Chinas I dont think, but somehow I hugely doubt it will be a bad ceremony.

古老美好的不列顛——每個人對什么事都那么灰心喪氣！我們縱然不會像中國的（開幕式）那樣精確、壯麗，但總不會太差吧。 epic adj. 壯麗的、宏大的、大規(guī)模的

21. I will be glued to my TV for the next 2 weeks.

接下來的2周我要盯著電視不放啦。 glue v. 粘住 n. 膠水

22. Stunning, absolutely stunning.

牛B，揍是牛B。 stunning adj. 出色的，漂亮的，了不起的，妙的

23. My jaw hit the floor at several points throughout the ceremony.

在整個開幕式演出過程中有好幾處我佩服得五體投地。 jaw hit the floor （俚語）激動過頭(原意是下頜磕到地了)