婚后重回澳大利亚定居

“公主”号：MT英语（ID:mtkouyu)

专辑：【学英语看世界】

主播：Malcolm

文本：Leeven

翻译：Jade

文本校对：Dawn、Doris

So, hello everybody! This is Malcolm again and I would like to tell you a little bit more about the time around our marriage and moving back to Australia. Well, for my wife Saphia, it was a big move from Taipei to a very small country town as I mentioned, only 23,000 people and this was a town in a beautiful setting, scenic, and it had extinct Volcano Lakes, the Blue Lake, The Valley Lake and the Leg of Mutton Lake. And the whole countryside was very...emmm, I described it is being very English in some ways, but very nice comfortable place to live.

大家好！又是我Malcolm,我想要跟大家分享更多关于我婚姻生活的故事以及为了我的老婆萨菲亚搬回澳大利亚的事情。从台北搬到一个我之前提过的非常小的乡村小镇是一次大搬家，小镇只有23000人口，坐落在风景如画的地方，并且有几个已灭绝的火山湖，分别是蓝湖，山谷湖和羊腿湖。整个乡村非常……嗯，我说过，在某些方面是非常英式气息的，但住在这里非常舒适。

But for my wife, it was a huge culture shock because I think as I mentioned earlier. She initially lived in Taipei for 10 years, and then she moved to Japan, Tokyo specifically. And in that city, she had a profession business and stayed there for totally 5 years and then moved back to Taipei.

但对我妻子来说，这是一个巨大的文化冲击，我想我之前提到过。她最初在台北住了10年，然后搬到日本，具体点是东京。在那个城市，她有一份工作，在那里呆了整整5年，然后搬回了台北。

There where she was living as I explained when we met in Adelaide, but all in all the second time, she had a total of 12 years. So 22 years in Taipei and which is a pretty big city and of course Tokyo, the bustling Japanese city of Tokyo to then go from those two cities Taipei and Tokyo to a very quiet almost quaint small Australia country town of 23,000 people was a little bit of a culture shock.

我们在阿德莱德相遇时，她就住在台北（这我解释过），所以总的来说第二次（回台北），（在台北住了）有12年。所以，在台北这个美丽的城市住了22年，以及在东京这个繁华的日本城市也呆了几年的她，去到一个只有23000人口的安静且古雅的澳大利亚小镇上，对她而言是有些文化冲击的。

But I had promised to her as my new wife, my new second wife I suppose I should say that if she could stick it out in the small country town for 12 months and then we would both move to Adelaide for various reasons. Of course I wanted her to be happy and enjoy a new life together. And then she felt she still needed to be perhaps in a city environment rather than the countryside.

但是我曾对她承诺过，我的新妻子，我的第二任妻子（我想我应该这样说），如果她能在这个小镇里坚持一下生活12个月，那么我们可以因为各种原因而搬去阿德莱德。我当然是希望她快乐，并且喜欢我们的在一起的新生活。相比住在乡下，后来她觉得可能她始终需要生活在城市的环境里更好。

But also from my point of view because I had lived in Mount Gambier (芒特甘比尔) for a total a bit like Saphia had a total of 22 years in Taipei. I’ve also had two stays in Mount  Gambier with about 10 years in between in Adelaide. So in all I had 28 years in Mount Gambier, so it was time to move back to Adelaide, which is a city of 1.25 million people, and it’s the capital of South Australia.

但从我的角度来看，因为我在芒特甘比尔生活的时间很长，就如同萨菲亚在台北一共生活了22年那样长。我曾两次生活在芒特甘比尔，还有一段大概10年的时间我是芒特甘比尔和阿德莱德两地来回跑。所以总的来说我有28年的时间是生活在芒特甘比尔的，所以是时候该搬回有125万人口居住的南澳大利亚州的第一大城市——阿德莱德了。

And my parents were there and my two brothers and all my children and my grandchildren, were also in Adelaide so it was the right time to move there. In that 12 months, we were in Mount Gambier, and one of the reasons why I also wanted to stay in Mount Gambier for 12 months after settling getting married was that I had something like 80 piano students, most extremely busy and I was a company of three choirs on piano and you know, vocal groups in adult, vocal groups in some school, vocal groups, so I had a very very very busy life and plus doing some other teaching as well.

并且我的父母，我的两个兄弟，和我的孩子，我的孙子们都在阿德莱德，所以这是一个合适的时机搬回去。在那12个月里，我们在芒特甘比尔。在婚礼事宜办好后，其中一个我想留在芒特甘比尔12个月的原因是我有80个学钢琴的学生，我非常忙碌，并且我还是三个合唱团的钢琴伴奏员，你知道的，一些成人合唱团，一些学校合唱团，所以我有一个非常非常忙碌的生活，额外还有一些其他的教学工作。

But some of my music students would do in exams that he is so ...I didn’t want to just by allow owe them and suddenly disappear to Adelaide I wanted to give them plenty of notices and prepare them well for their music exams. So to Saphia’s credit, knowing that we’ll going to be in Mount Gambier for 12 months she enrolled herself at an adult education course, a little bit like a university by the slightly lower level and she studied English for 12 months and really really improved her English as well as meeting many people from different nationalities there at the course. Okay, until next time. Talk (to) you soon, bye bye.

但是我的一些声乐学生会有考试，我不想因为我突然消失去了阿德莱德而亏欠他们，我想给他们留下很多学习笔记，注意事项让他们能够好好准备音乐考试。在这里还要好好赞扬萨菲亚，因为她知道我们会在芒特甘比尔生活12个月，所以她参加了一个成人课程，有一点像大学课程但是比大学的课程的级别稍低一些，她学习了12个月的英语课程，通过这种课程她的英语真的提高了很多，并且在课堂上她认识了很多来自不同国家的人。好了，我们下次再聊，再见！