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Hello everyone. I hope you are all well and have had a good week. So...sorry, I have my chair is in the way. There we are. Pushing it out the way. Doesn't look that nice to look at.

大家好。我希望你们都很好，并度过了愉快的一周。那么……抱歉，我的椅子有点碍事。好了。我把它推开。它在这不怎么美观。

Oh, and I didn't turn my light on. It's very dark here today. The clocks have changed. We change them in the United Kingdom, which means it's normally a little bit lighter in the morning, but it gets dark really early.

噢，我还没有把灯打开。今天这里天很黑。时钟发生了调整。在英国，我们调整了时钟。这意味着在通常情况下，早上的天色应该更亮一些，但是现在天黑得很早。

England is a funny country because in the summer doesn't get dark to about 10 o’clock at night. But in the winter, it can get dark at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. It's often dark in the morning.

英国是一个有趣的国家，因为在夏季的时候，直到晚上10点左右才会天黑，但是在冬季，下午4点左右就会天黑了。早上经常天色昏暗。

When the clocks change, in the autumn, the clocks go back one hour, in the spring, they go forward. It means it's lighter in the morning. But today, it's a really grey, wet and windy day. And it's really cold.

当时钟发生调整时，在秋季，时钟往后倒退一小时，在春季，时钟往前行进一小时。这意味着早上的天色会更亮些。但今天是一个非常灰暗、潮湿和多风的日子。而且真的很冷。

And you might sometimes think why do people in England always talk about the weather. Well, it's because it changes all the time. Sometimes we say England is a country that has four seasons in one day, meaning that in a day, it can feel...one minute, it feels like winter, then it can feel like autumn, then it can feel like spring and then summer.

你有时可能会想，为什么英国人总是在谈论天气。这是因为它一直在变化。有时我们会说，英格兰是一个能在一天内感受四季的国家，意思是说在一天中，它可以……前一分钟感觉像冬天，下一分钟就感觉像秋天，然后感觉像春天，接着又感觉像夏天。

Doesn't really mean all four seasons. What it means is that weather changes very, very quickly in England, and it depends which way the wind is blowing.If the wind is blowing in one direction, that we get the heat that comes up from Africa, it's called the Gulf Stream. And it actually makes England quite a warm country.

并不真的意味着所有的四季。它的意思是，英国的天气变化非常、非常快，而天气的变化取决于风的吹向。如果风往一个方向吹，我们就会得到来自非洲的热量，它叫做墨西哥湾暖流。它实际上使英国成为一个相当温暖的国家。

But if a wind is blowing down from the north, north of the world, then we get the really cold weather, or weather that comes over from the east, sometimes we get the weather from Russia. So sometimes it's really cold. Sometimes it's really warm, but it changes all the time.

但是如果风是从北方吹来的，从世界之北吹来，那么我们的天气就会变得十分寒冷。从东方吹来的风亦是如此，有时候俄罗斯的冷空气会来到我们这里。所以这里有时候十分寒冷，有时候十分暖和，但它变化无常。

So last week, I think I was teaching wearing shorts. Well, I wouldn't be wearing shorts today because it's actually really cold. So that's why the British talk about the weather so often.

所以在上周，我想我是穿着短裤给你们上课的，但今天我没有穿着短裤上课了，因为这里真的很冷。 所以，这就是英国人经常谈论天气的原因。

Our story today, take us on a little adventure. I'm going to share the screen with you. And I quite like the title of this book. It's called the Cat's Tale. So we use “the” , this called the definite articles. The Cat’s Tale.

今天的故事，带我们走进一次小小冒险。我将与你们分享屏幕，我相当喜欢这本书的书名。它叫做《猫的故事》。所以我们用"the"，这叫做定冠词。《猫的故事》。

And “Cat’s” has got an “’s”. We spoke about that a lot, it means the tale belongs to the cat. And you probably think that the cat's tale refers to the tail on its body. But it's not. It's spelled differently. It's spelled T-A-L-E. And that type of tale is a story.

而“Cat’s”，这里有一个“'s”。我们经常谈到这个问题，它意味着这个故事是属于猫的。你可能认为这里的“cat's tale”指的是猫身上的尾巴。但并非如此。它的拼写不一样。它的拼写是T，A，L，E。而“tale”指的是故事。

So we get these words in every language. Sometimes their words that mean two different things but they're pronounced the same. And with this one, they're spelt differently. So a cat has a tail at the end of its body. And a /teɪl/ is also a story. One is spelt T-A-I-L. The other one is spelt T-A-L-E.

我们在每种语言中都有这样的词语。有时候，这些单词有着两种不同的意思，但它们的发音却是一样的。但在这里，它们的拼写是不一样的。所以，猫在身体末端有一条尾巴（tail）。而意为“一个故事”的“tale”，也是/teɪl/的读音。“尾巴”的拼写是T，A，I，L。“故事”的拼写则是T，A，L，E。

We also sometimes get words are spelt exactly the same, but they're pronounced differently. That makes it really hard. We have to look for clues within the sentence to make sure that we pronounce it, we say it correctly. That would be like a “wind”, and“to wind”. To wind something up, or it was wind around the tree.

而有时候，我们会有拼写一样，但读音不一样的单词。这使其变得颇有难度。我们必须在句子中寻找线索，以确保我们的读音、我们的发音是正确的。比如“wind”这个单词，和“to wind”这个词组。把东西卷起来，或者说是缠绕在树上。

The ivy is going to wind, the plant is going to wind around the tree. It spelt W-I-N-D. And wind is spelt W-I-N-D. So they're exactly the same words, exactly the same. But they mean two different things, and they are pronounced, said differently.

常春藤要缠绕着生长，植物要缠绕在树上。它的拼写是W-I-N-D。而“风”的拼写也是W，I，N，D。所以它们的拼写完全一样，完全一样。但它们的意思却是不一样的，它们的发音也不相同。

So this is a clever idea here. The cat's tale. We think it's going to mean the “tail” on the end of its body. But actually, it's the cat's tale, meaning the cat's Story.

所以这个书名起得很巧妙。猫的故事。读书名的时候，我们以为指的是猫身体末尾的尾巴。但它实际上是“the cat's tale”，意思是猫的故事。

And in this story, we have an emperor, and an emperor is a king. Another name for a king. And in Britain, we have a king. His name is King Charles III. And he is the King of England. In countries in history like China, they used to have an emperor. And in some countries like Japan, they still do have an emperor. And they are very important people. Or in history, they were very important to people.

在这个故事中，我们有一个皇帝，而皇帝是一个国王。是国王的另一种称呼。在英国，我们有一个国王。他是国王查理三世。他是英格兰的国王。在历史上，像中国这样的国家，他们曾经有过皇帝。而在如日本这样的国家，他们至今仍有皇帝存在。皇帝是非常重要的人。或者在历史上，他们是非常重要的存在。

And most kings, queens, emperor(s), empresses are believed to have been chosen by a god. And in Britain, the Kings and Queens, go, back family, the dynasty, go back about a thousand years.

大多数国王、女王、皇帝、女皇都被认为是由神所选择的。而在英国，国王和王后的家族、王朝可以追溯到大约一千年前。

So they can look at King Charles III, the King of England, and work out who his mummy was, his mummy's mummy's mummy's...go back, go back, go back, go back...right the way through history. And the great kings like Henry VIII, Henry VII, Henry V. Right the way back to the early kings about a thousand years ago.

因此，他们可以根据英国国王查尔斯三世，知道他的妈妈是谁，他妈妈的妈妈的妈妈的妈妈……不断地追溯、追溯、追溯、追溯……在历史上一直如此。还有那些伟大的国王，如亨利八世、亨利七世、亨利五世。一直追溯到大约一千年前的早期国王。

So this story has an emperor in it. Let's have a little look. The Cat’s Tale.

所以这个故事里有一个皇帝。让我们来看看吧。猫的故事。

////故事正文开始////

「Long ago, in China, there lived an emperor. He wanted to count the yearsto see how old he was.」

「很久以前，在中国，有一个皇帝。他想根据年份数数自己已经多少岁了。」

「“If I give every New Year a name, I can count them,” he said.」

「“如果我给每个新年起一个名字，我就能数出来了。”他说道。」

「Then, the Emperor had an idea. 」

「然后，皇帝有了一个想法。」

「“I will give each New Year the name of an animal,” he said. “The animals must have a race. The first twelve animals to swim across the river will be the winners.”」

「“我将为每个新年以一个动物命名，”他说，“这些动物必须进行一场比赛。最先游到河对岸的12只动物将能获得命名权。”」

「So the Emperor called all the animals and told them about the swimming race.」

「于是，皇帝召来了所有动物，告诉他们游泳比赛的事。」

So our story takes us to China back in the times of the Emperor. And the emperor used to live in the Forbidden City, the Forbidden Palace in the Beijing. And here is a story about what to call the different names.

所以，故事把我们带到了中国，回到了有皇帝的时代。皇帝过去住在紫禁城，即北京的紫禁城。这是一个关于生肖年是如何得来的故事。

So in some countries, we have a year of the Rat, the Pig. In other countries, we just call it a calendar year, so we use numbers. In different countries, sometimes use more than one system, other countries will just use one system.

所以在一些国家，我们有鼠年，猪年。而在其他国家，我们只是把它称为日历年，我们以数字记录年份。在不同国家中，有的国家有时会使用多个纪年体系，而其他的国家则只使用一个纪年体系。

So in England, we count, and our counting comes from an old calendar for a religion called Christianity, and we call it BC, “Before Christ”, and AD, “Anno Domini”, which is Latin, it means“in the year of our Lord”.

所以在英国，我们以数字记录年份，我们的计数方式来自一个一个叫做基督教的宗教的古老历法。我们称之为BC，即“基督之前”，以及AD，即 “Anno Domini”，这是拉丁语，意思是“主的年份”。

And what it really means is that Christians believe that Jesus lived 2000 years ago. And our calendar is worked out from when Jesus was born. So we are in...we normally just say the year 2000, we can say 2022 nearly 2023, but that is where our calendar comes from.

而它的真正含义是，基督徒相信耶稣生活在2000年前。而我们的日历是从耶稣诞生日开始计算的。所以我们在……我们通常直接说“2000年”，我们可以说“2022年”，“接近2023年”，但这就是我们纪年方式的起源。

But other countries around the world can have different calendars or multiple calendars. So some might say it is the year of the and an animal, but it is also the year 2022.

但是世界上的其他国家，会使用不同的纪年方式，或多种纪年方式。因此，有些人可能会说今年是某个动物的年份，但它同时也是2022年。

So a little competition. Well, what animals can we see? We can see a pig, a rabbit, a chicken, a cat, a tiger, an ox, a snake, a monkey and a dragon. There we are. They're quite nice pictures, aren't they?

因此，一个小比赛。我们能在这里看到什么动物呢？我们可以看到一只猪、一只兔子、一只鸡、一只猫、一只老虎、一头牛、一条蛇、一只猴子和一条龙。就这些动物了。他们的画像相当不错，不是吗？

「Cat was not happy. She did not like to swim.」

「猫对从感到不高兴。她不喜欢游泳。」

「“I don't like water!” she said to Rat. “But I want to win the race and give the New Year my name.”」

「“我讨厌水！”她对老鼠说道，“但是我想赢得比赛，以我的名字给新年命名。”」

「“I want to give the New Year my name,” Rat said to himself. “I need a plan to help me win the race.”」

「“我想以我自己给新年命名，”老鼠自言自语道，“我需要一个计划来帮助我赢得比赛。”」

「After a while, he smiled.」

「过了一会儿，他笑了。」

So here we have the Cat, she. And the Rat, himself.

所以在这里我们有猫，雌性的猫。和老鼠，雄性的老鼠。

The Cat doesn't want to swim. Cats don't really like water very much. But the Rat wants to win the race. “I need a plan.” Let's see what happens next.

猫并不想游泳。猫其实并不怎么喜欢水。但老鼠想赢得比赛。“我需要一个计划。”让我们看看接下来会发生什么吧。

【未完待续……】