向友人描述亚洲之行函

February 8, 2005
Dear Joyce,
Here I am in Asia! I’m still in Thailand now; I’ve been here for two weeks already. I went to an island in the south called Phuket for a little over a week. It has really great beaches. I spent my days lying on the beach and my nights drinking beer and watching videos in the bars. After that I came back here to Bangkok. It’s crowded and polluted, but there are some really interesting temples and palaces. I’ve never seen anything like them. One has a two-ton Buddha made of solid gold!
Yesterday I took a day trip to Ayuthaya, the former capital. It has some incredible ruined temples. I’m getting ready to fly to Nepal next week; my next letter will probably be from there. If you write to me, send your letters to me poste restante at the Bangkok General Post Office. I’ll pick them up when I get back to Thailand at the end of next month.
Sincerely,
Vincent Smith

亲爱的乔依丝：
我到亚洲了！现在我还待在泰国；我已经到这里两个星期了。我去了南部一个叫普吉的小岛一个多星期。那里有很棒的海滩。我白天躺在海滩上，晚上到酒吧里喝啤酒、看录像带。之后我便回到曼谷。这里很拥挤而且污染严重，不过有一些挺有趣的庙宇和宫殿。我从未看过任何类似的建筑物。其中有一间庙有一座由两吨纯金打造成的佛陀。
昨天我到故都阿犹他亚玩了一天。那里有一些令人难以置信的荒废庙宇。我下星期准备飞到尼泊尔；下次给你的信可能就会从那里寄出。你如果要写信给我，把信寄到曼谷邮政总局邮件留局待领处，等我下个月底回到泰国时会去领。
文森‧史密斯　敬上
2005年5月8日

字词解说：

1) lay另可作原形及物动词，表“放置”、“生(蛋)”。
三态为lay, laid, laid;现在分词或动名词为laying 。

2) lie另可作原形不及物动词，表“说谎”。
三态为lie, lied, lied;现在分词或动名词则为lying 。
例:The sick woman竺in bed all day.
(那个生病的女人整天躺在床上。)
He laid the book there.
(他把书放在那里。)
He lied to me, which made me angry.
(他对我撒谎，那令我生气。)

6. video 电视录像带节目
=video tape

7. bar 酒吧

8. Bangkok 曼谷(泰国首都)

9. crowded .拥挤的
crowded with. . .挤满了……
例:The department store was crowded with shoppers.
(百货公司里挤满了采购的人群。)

10. pollute .污染
pollution 污染
air pollution空气污染
water pollution水污染
noise pollution噪音污染
environmental pollution环境污染
例:Those factories have polluted the river.
(那些工厂已污染了该条河流。)

11. temple 寺庙

12. palace 宫殿

13. Buddha 佛陀

14.…a two-ton Buddha made of solid gold !
=…a two-ton Buddha which was made of solid gold!

15. solid 固体的，坚硬的

16. gold 黄金
solid gold纯金

17. take a trip to+地方名词到某地旅行
例:I would like to take a trip to Mongolia someday.
(我想有一天能到蒙古去旅行。)

18. Ayuthaya 大城

19. former 从/以前的，前者的
the former. .。the latter…前者……后者……
例:`Sarah is Paul，s sister and Mike is his brother. The former is a lawyer and the latter is a chef.
(莎拉是保罗的妹妹，而麦克是他的哥哥。前者是个律师，后者是个主厨。)