【Winter】
Winters in Taipei are very cold during the evening and very windy during the daytime. I usually look forward to the day of Lunar New Year and the winter vacation when I can go to the village, where the climate is warmer during this holiday. Also, I look forward to seeing my grandmother, great-grandmother, and my friends in the village; I like my grandmother’s food very much. Winter is the time when everyone is in a festive mood. In the city, I usually do a lot of reading at home, because of the cold winter weather outside.

【單字及片語】
◆ look forward to... 期待⋯
◆ lunar (adj.) 農曆的；月的
◆ festive (adj.) 歡樂的，節慶的

【冬天】
台北的冬夜很冷，白天則多風。我總是期待農曆新年和寒假的到來，那時我就可以到鄉村去，在這個假期裡，鄉下的氣候比較暖和。同時我也盼望見到我的祖母、曾祖母和村裡的朋友；我非常愛吃祖母做的菜。冬天裡，每個人都充滿了歡樂的喜氣。在城裡過冬時，我通常會在家裡看很多書，因為外面的天氣很冷。

本文摘錄自《短篇英文作文120篇》

【suffer (v.) 受…折磨；忍受】
◆ 近義：如果要表達「（痛苦的）經驗」時，可以用 undergo（動詞，經歷；忍受）來替代。

◆ 例句：Since finding out he was HIV-positive, he has suffered the economic and social nightmare that many of those with AIDS experience.
（自從他發現自己是HIV 帶原者之後，他就飽受經濟無援及社會孤立的夢魘之苦，與其他愛滋病患者所經歷的一樣。）

本文摘錄自《英文搭配詞-單字這樣學就對了》(附1CD)

在聆聽音檔以前，助教先給大家一個內容的小提示：
Q. 除了一般行程，另外兩套鴨子船主題行程，分別是什麼？

※答案以粗體字表示

Um, once a month, uh, we have, uh, what we call the “D-Day Duck”, um, so this uses the ducks’ heritage —the ducks were used on the D-Day landings, 6th of June 1944—um, and what we do is we take people round London as if it’s 1940, during the Blitz , London’s darkest hour as it were. Um, and- and by contrast, the other themed tour we do is- is the James Bond tour. Uh, James Bond, uh, perperhaps the most iconic character, uh, th- that Britain hashas offered the world.

每個月還有一次D-Day 鴨子船特別行程，行程內容是回顧鴨子船的歷史背景。鴨子船原本是在 1944年6 月 6 日的諾曼第登陸行動中使用，因此這套行程將背景設定在遊覽 1940 年代的倫敦，也就是德軍發動倫敦大轟炸期間，是倫敦最黑暗的時代。另外一個完全不同的主題行程就是 007 之旅。詹姆斯．龐德應該是世界公認最能代表英國的人物吧。

本文摘錄自《聽，英國人在說話：THE RED BOOK英式英語實境秀》