考满分 ielts

1 .Oh good morning.

早上好，

2 .You must be James.

你一定是James吧，

3 .I'm Beth Cartwright - please call me Beth.

我是Beth Cartwright，你可以叫我Beth。好的，

1 .Thank you.

谢谢。

1 .Now as this is your first tutorial since you started on the Scandinavian Studies course,

鉴于这是你开始学习斯堪的纳维亚研究课程的第一次指导课，

2 .I'd like to find out something about you.

我想了解一下你的情况。

3 .Why did you decide to take this course?

你为什么决定要学习这门课程？

1 .Well. my mother is Danish, and although we always lived in England,

我的妈妈是丹麦人，虽然我们一直住在英格兰，

2 .she used to talk about her home a lot, and that made me want to visit Denmark.

但她常常谈到她的家乡，那让我想去丹麦看看。

3 .We hardly ever did, though - my mother usually went on her own.

不过我们从来没一起去过，我妈妈通常是一个人去。

4 .But whenever her relations or friends were in England they always came to see us.

但无论什么时候，只要她的亲戚或是朋友在英格兰，他们总是会来看我们。

1 .I see. So I assume you already speak Danish. one of the languages you'll be studying

我了解了。那我想你已经会说丹麦语了吧，这是你将要学习的一门语言。

1 .I can get by when I talk to people, though I'm not terribly accurate.

跟人们聊天还过得去，但不是特别准确。

1 .Now you probably know that you'll spend the third year of the course abroad.

你可能已经知道课程的第三年是在国外度过的。

2 .Have you had any thoughts about that?

关于这一点你有什么想法？

1 .I'm really looking forward to it.

我很期待。

2 .And although Denmark seems the obvious place to go, because of my family connections,

虽然因为家庭的关系，丹麦看起来是很明显的选择，

3 .I'd love to spend the time in Iceland.

但是我想去冰岛度过这一年。

1 .Oh, I'm sure it can be arranged.

嗯，我相信这个可以安排。

2 .Do you have any plans for when you graduate?

毕业后有什么计划吗？

3 .A lot of students go on to take a master's degree.

很多学生会继续读一个硕士学位。

1 .I think the four years of the undergraduate course will be enough for me.

我想四年的本科课程对我来说已经足够了。

2 .I'm interested in journalism,

我对新闻业感兴趣，

3 .and I quite like the idea of moving to Scandinavia and writing for magazines.

很想搬去斯堪的纳维亚，为杂志撰稿。

4 .I'd find that more creative than translating,

我觉得这比翻译更具创造性，

5 .which I suppose most graduates do.

我想大部分毕业生毕业后都会做翻译吧。

1 .OK. Now how are you finding the courses you're taking this term, James?

好的，这学期要学的课程你觉得怎么样？

1 .Well, I'm really enjoying the one on Swedish cinema.

我非常喜欢瑞典电影这门课。

1 .That'll continue next term,

这门课下学期还会有，

2 .but the one on Scandinavian literature that's running at the moment will be replaced by more specialised courses.

但目前还在上的斯堪的纳维亚文学课程会被更加细分的课程取代。

3 .Oh, and by the way,

顺便提一下，

4 .if you're interested in watching Danish televison programmes - there's going to be a course on that the term after next.

如果你对丹麦电视节目感兴趣，下下学期会有一门相关的课。

1 .That sounds good.

听起来不错。

1 .Have you started thinking about the literature paper that you have to write in the next few weeks?

你已经开始构思接下来几个星期要写的有关斯堪的纳维亚文学的论文了吗？

1 .Yes, my first choice would be to do something on the Icelandic sagas.

是的，我的首选是写有关冰岛传奇故事的东西。

1 .Hmm.The trouble with that is that a lot of people choose that topic,

嗯，这么做的问题是很多人都选择了这个主题，

2 .and it can be difficult to get hold of the books you'll need.

而且要找到你需要的书可能会有困难。

3 .Why not leave that for another time?

为什么不把它留到以后再写呢？

1 .Right.

对。

1 .You might find modem novels or 19th century playwrights interesting.

你或许会发现现代小说或是19世纪的戏剧都很有趣。

1 .I've read or seen several plays in translation, so that would be a good idea.

我已经读过或是看到过好几部戏剧译著，所以这是个好思路。

1 .Fine. I'll put you down for that topic.

好的，我会记下你选择了这个主题。

1 .Right. So what would you advise me to aim at in the paper?

好的。那您建议我的论文聚焦什么呢？

1 .First I suggest you avoid taking one writer and going into a great deal of detail.

首先我建议你不要选了一个作者就对其太过详述。

2 .That approach certainly has its place,

这种方法当然有它的道理，

3 .but I think you first need to get an understanding of the literature in the context of the society in which it was produced - who it was written for,

但我认为你首先应该在作品产生的社会背景下对它有所了解，它是为谁写的

4 .how it was published, and so on.

怎么出版的等等。

5 .I also think that's more fruitful than placing it within the history of the genre.

同时，我认为这样做比把它置于该类风格作品的历史中更有成效。

1 .OK, that sounds reasonable.

嗯，感觉很有道理。