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Welcome to Easy Stories in English, the podcast that will take your English from OK to Good, and from Good to Great. I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show. Today’s story is for pre-intermediate learners.
欢迎来到Easy Story，这是一个能够把你的英语从“还可以”提升到“良好”，再从“良好”提升到“优秀”的播客。我是阿里尔·古德博迪，这个节目的主持人。
The name of the story is The Light at the Bottom of the Sea.
这个故事的名字是《海底之光》。
You can find a transcript of the episode at EasyStoriesInEnglish.Com/Light, where you can also download the episode as a PDF.
你可以在EasyStoriesInEnglish上找到这一集的文本以及PDF。
Just like the episodes The Kind-Hearted Pea and The Emu and the Kangaroo, this story comes from the book Storyworld.
就像《善良的豌豆》和《鸸鹋和袋鼠》这两个故事一样，这个故事来自《故事世界》这本书。
I promise I have written some original stories for the rest of this year! It’s just how the scheduling has worked out.
我保证我已经为今年剩下的时间写了一些原创故事！只是日程安排是这样的。
This story was originally collected by Saviour Pirotta.
这个故事最初是由萨维奥·皮罗塔收集的。
It is a story from Malta, a small island south of Sicily.
这是一个来自马耳他的故事，马耳他是西西里岛南部的一个小岛。
Because of Malta’s location, it has a long history of piracy, which explains where this story comes from. Of course, Malta today is a very different place!
由于马耳他的地理位置，它有着悠久的海盗历史，这也解释了这个故事的由来。当然，今天的马耳他是一个非常不同的地方！
It is a popular holiday destination for Europeans and for people around the world to study English.
它是欧洲人和世界各地的人学习英语的热门度假胜地。I learned a lot about Malta from an episode of English Learning for Curious Minds, where the host Alastair talks about his experience living in Malta.
我从《好奇之心英语学习》的一集中了解了很多关于马耳他的信息，主持人阿拉斯泰尔在其中谈到了他在马耳他的生活经历。
I’ll leave a link in the transcript – I really recommend the episode.
我会在文字记录中留下一个链接——我真的推荐这一集。
By the way, I apologise that my voice sounds a bit hoarse, a bit dry, in this episode.
顺便说一下，我为我在这一集里的声音听起来有点沙哑、有点干涩而道歉。
I did a vocal warm up before this episode, as I always do, and then I tried singing some songs I like, and I noticed that my singing has really improved a lot over the last few months, from being in choir and doing more serious vocal warm ups.
在这期节目之前，我像往常一样做了声乐热身，然后试着唱了几首我喜欢的歌，我注意到在过去的几个月里，由于参加了合唱团和做了更认真的声乐热身，我的歌唱水平真的提高了很多。
So I got really excited and I sang loads of challenging Broadway music, lots of musicals with strong, um, belting.
所以我非常兴奋，唱了很多具有挑战性的百老汇音乐，很多音乐剧都有很强的，呃，高音。
Belting is when you sing really loudly and you project your voice like, laaaa. That’s belting.
Belting是指你唱歌的时候非常大声，然后把你的声音投射出去，就像，啦啊啊。这就是Belting。
So yeah, really no good excuse for my voice being hoarse, other than I was just having fun.
所以，是的，我的声音沙哑真的没有什么好借口，除了我玩的真的很开心。
OK, I’ll just explain some words that are in today’s story.
好的，我来解释一下今天故事中的一些单词。
A portrait, P O R T R A I T, is a painting or a picture of a person.
肖像，PORTRAIT，是一幅画或一个人的图片。
In the past, before photography existed, portraits were the main way of making an image of someone, so rich and important people had many portraits painted of them.
在过去，在摄影术出现之前，肖像画是留下个人形象的主要方式，因此富人和重要人物有许多肖像画。
Mona Lisa, one of the most famous paintings in the world, is a portrait.
《蒙娜丽莎》是世界上最著名的画作之一，它是一幅肖像画。
Faithful means someone who is, well, full of faith!
Faithfu意味着某人是，嗯，充满信念的！
That can be faith in the religious sense, as in believing deeply in your religion.
那可以是宗教意义上的信仰，就像深深地信仰你的宗教一样。
Faithful can also mean loyal, or having unchanging beliefs.
Faithfu也可以表示忠诚，或具有不变的信念。
A faithful dog is a dog that will always love and support you.
一只忠诚的狗，是一只永远爱你并支持你的狗。
A faithful friend is similar, although some would argue that dogs are always more faithful than people! I don’t know what I believe, personally, but yes.
一个忠实的朋友是相似的，尽管有些人会争辩说狗总是比人更忠实！我不知道我个人相信什么，但是，是的。
A saint, S A I N T, is a person who has been recognised as being very holy, very close to God.
圣人，SAINT，是一个被认为非常圣洁、非常接近上帝的人。
Saints are usually people who have died, and the Church decides they were very good and holy people, so they make them saints.
圣人通常是已经去世的人，教会认定他们是非常善良和圣洁的人，所以将他们封为圣人。
Some examples of famous saints are St Francis of Assisi, who founded the Fraciscan Order of monks, and St Valentine, from whom we have Valentine’s Day.
一些著名圣人的例子是阿西西的圣方济各，他创立了弗朗西斯坎修道会，还有圣瓦伦丁，情人节就源自于他。
Kneel, K N E E L, and the past tense is knelt, K N E L T, is when you go down on your knees. You kneel when you pray in church. You might kneel down to talk to a child.
跪，KNEEL，过去式是knelt，KNELT，是指你双膝跪地。你在教堂祈祷时会下跪。你可能会跪下来和孩子说话。
You also kneel in front of a king or queen, to show respect.
你也会跪在国王或女王面前，表示尊敬。
Kneeling can hurt your knees if you’re not very active.
如果不经常运动，跪着会伤害膝盖。
The captain, C A P T A I N, of a ship is the leader of a ship.
船长，CAPTAIN，是一艘船的领导者。
The captain tells other people what to do and makes important decisions.
船长告诉其他人该做什么，并做出重要决定。
In films and TV shows, we often see pirate captains.
在电影和电视节目中，我们经常看到海盗船长。
Pirate captains have a wooden leg and an eyepatch, a piece of cloth over one eye, and they say, ‘Arrrrr!’
海盗船长有一条木腿和一个眼罩，一块布遮住一只眼睛，他们说，“Arrrrr！”
Unfortunately, real ship captains are not so interesting.
不幸的是，真正的船长并没有那么有趣。
Treasure, T R E A S U R E, is money, gold, jewellery – basically, expensive things.
财宝，TREASURE，指的是金钱、黄金、珠宝——基本上就是昂贵的东西。
But when we say ‘treasure’, we are usually thinking of fantasy and stories.
但是，当我们说“宝藏”时，我们通常想到的是幻想和故事。
For example, pirates put treasure in wooden boxes called chests and bury them under the ground. Kings sometimes give treasure to heroes. In many video games, you collect treasure.
例如，海盗们把财宝放在被称为宝箱的木箱里，然后把它们埋在地下。国王有时会把财宝送给英雄。在许多电子游戏中，你会收集财宝。
