美国人成功了 Americans work it out
他们会说 等等 我要给你点报酬 They go: wait, I want to give you a gratuity --- Yes
他们会给10%的酬金或者其他 They work it like 10% or something like that. ----yes
对一些美国人来说 这是挺不容易的 And For some of the Americans, that could be difficult. You know? ---yes
我觉得他很温顺 I think he's taking it meekly.
我驾驶出租车很长一段时间了 I've been cab driving very long.
我经过霍斯斯尔丽剧院的时候 I came passed the Crosstheory Theater
那里正在上演俄克拉荷马式州的表演 and there was doing a re-showing of Oklahoma.
是霍华德 克尔这类明星主演的 And Howard Keel was starring in it.
他说还有四个人 所以这里总共有五个人 So he said that four more came in so we get 5 of us in the cab you know.
一个高大威猛的家伙和霍华德?克尔进来了 So it was an enormous guy came up with Howard Kneel
从口袋里拿出一瓶苏格兰威士忌 and a bottle of scotch in his pocket.
他们把车厢的两边窗户拉下 They pulled down both windows in the caper loge.
我说我没有钱 但是我可以唱首歌 I said I've got no money, it’s of sure I can sing a song.
车一路行驶 我唱得五音不全 When driving down this strand, sing sorry with fringe on top,
简直就像有个大音响在后面 like a megaphone coming out the back.
一个声音说 司机 我们付你钱吧 他的高音值得一英镑 It got a voice said that: pay you, driver? Give him a pound on top.
如果你想要在伦敦找一处地方可以感受当地精神 If you have to choose an area that captures the spirit,
游览中捕获更多事物的话 苏豪区无疑是最好的选择 and drive and infinite variety of London, you couldn’t do better than Soho.
对于伦敦以外的大多数人来说 To most people outside London,
这是一个到处都是高消费场所和少女俱乐部的地方 it's a place of clip joints and girly clubs.
事实上，苏豪区是一个充满历史韵味 In fact, Soho is full of history
也布满高消费场所和少女俱乐部的地方 as well as clip joints and girly clubs.
对我来说 我对伦敦印象最深的是它的历史 I think it's the history most of all that impresses me about London.
我喜欢游走在街道上 因为这里几乎每条街道在过去都有历史名人不时地走过 I love the way that nearly every street had been touched by the importants at sometimes in the past.
给 --谢了 史蒂芬 OK, here we get ---thank you very much, Stephen.
为你服务很愉快 --谢谢 Always a pleasure ---Thanks
--注意点啊 ---Look out this up, hah
爱你们美国人 Love you Americans.
在这历史性的城市里最明显的就是 The most visible reminders of this historical dimension to this city
你会发现到处都有这些蓝色饰板 are of course the blue plagues you find everywhere.
我最钦佩的是 I have the greatest admiration for the fact
它们用来记录有成就的人们 that often times they can memory people, whose achievement were
他们的成就或历史久远 或被珍藏着 亦或被掩埋 what might be turned, cherished and obscured.
这里写着 汉德尔的朋友和秘书 Handel's Friend and Secretary.
它们仍可令人真实地感受到英国历史的富裕 Still, they do give you a vivid scent of the rich
和它那愉快的骚动 and delightful tumults of British history.
菲兹街是苏豪区最好的代表 There’s no better example of this than in Fitz Street in Soho,
在这有着25码的空间里，虽然…… where in this space, 25 yards, even though from…
献给给予我们这些的人… To the man who give us this…
约翰·洛基·巴雷德 John Logie Baird.
伦敦一直都吸引着外地人 London’s always been a magnet for outsiders,
几乎一整条街现在都是豪华饭店 one street over, above what is now a posh restaurant.
一位年轻的德国流亡者 卡尔·马克思 A young German exile named Karl Marks
带着他的妻子和8个孩子 lived here for 5 years with his wife and 8 children
还有一位女佣在这里生活了5年 and their maid,
我们不难想象 他们的住处是又小又嘈杂 and too small and it must be imagined very noisy rooms.
不知何故 查奥斯的女仆提到 Somehow, a maid of all that Chaos asked
他努力设法将 资本论 发展成他的主业 he managed to develop theories to become his master work, Das Capital
也不知何故 也提到了他和女仆有染 and also somehow to conducting a fair with the maid.
我不知道哪一个更有压力或者更让个人满足 I don’t know which is the more stressful or personally satisfying.
但我知道是哪一个改变了这个世界 But I do know which one changes the world.
革命贯穿了英国政治史 Revolution has never been high on the British political agenda.
登上皇位必经历一两次激烈斗争 并以加冕而告终 Sure you have a tussle or two to see who wear the crown,
之后 内战使皇权转移 and then it was civil war re-agenda with the crown whose head was on
登上皇位的也不再是皇家名士 being separated permanently from the royal personage.
接下来一部分就是盖伊福克斯的追随和其他一些小事情 That a part it was only that Guy Fox followed and one other little incident.
正是在这个房间里 16个人试图 It was here in this house then a staple that 16 men had to plot
谋杀所有内阁成员并统治整个国家 to murder the entire cabinet and take over the country.
如果这件事成功了 当今的英国将会迥然不同 Had this succeeded, Britain today would be a very different place
这间房屋也会成为神殿 and this house would be a shrine
而非只是历史上难忘的一页 instead of an unforgotten footnote to history.
他们由前任国家特工亚瑟 费斯陶 伍德领导 They were led by one Arthur Thistle Wood, a former state agent,
目的誓死要枪杀整个内阁 whose intension was to shoot the entire cabinet as they settle down to dying.
这队人马的领导者发起强攻去侵占大笔财产 The precede of his group men to storm and capture a number of desirable properties,
例如英格兰银行，伦敦塔和库普斯银行 the bank of England, Mansion House, the Tower of London and Coops Bank.
令人惊讶的是 他并不是这215名国家特工之一 What I find amazing in all this wasn't a state agent among the 215 friends.
在这个事件中，计划被告失败 In the event, the plan came hopelessly a cropper
因为其中一个成员背叛了同谋集团 the conspirators were betrayed by one of their member
并遭到分遣士兵和警察的围捕 and rounded by a detachment soldier and police officers.
五月贸易就在一英里外的地方 While a mile away in May fair,
而当时内阁成员却只关注他们的饮食 the members of Cabinet were just talking into their steak and kidney pudding.
在州长广场44号这里， No. 44 of Governor Square
国家代理未能完成交易这事或许就是个典型的例子 perhaps is the classic example of the state agent failing to complete a deal.
费斯陶 伍德被带走并绞死后 Thistle Wood was taken away and hanged
这个地方才稍微变好 and the world became a slightly better place.
是时候改善医疗减少不幸的结局了 It was time of medical somewhere with rather less happy ending.
每当我去到利物浦的第一个问题就是 The first question that strikes to me every time I got to Liverpool is
人们都到哪里去了，几乎没有答案 where is everybody, the answer is mostly elsewhere.
利物浦曾经是工业大城市， Once Liverpool was an industrial power house,
而现在，其出口最多的却是人口 today its main export is people.
其人口基数下降的速度是惊人的 The decline of its population basis is staggering.
20世纪三十年代 利物浦人口为9,000,000 1306 In 1930s there were 900 thousand Liverpudlians,
到今天减少了一半 today is barely half faired.
在二十世纪里，当其他城市都蓬勃发展的时候 While other old industrial cities had boomed in the 1990s,
利物浦却似乎陷入了经济下滑的境况 Liverpool seems stuck in a spare of decline.
在曼切斯特 格拉斯哥 纽卡斯尔和利兹市这些城市 In Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, and Leeds,
你会感觉充满活力，一切皆有可能 you get the sense of dynamism and possibility.
在利物浦里，你会 In Liverpool, you get the plastic palm tray.
***************************** Any number of reasons has been given for the decline,
********** for loss of jobs in the darks, the wide spate demise of traditional industries,
******* the absent serve in the International airports.
无论何原因，不可否认的是距离天堂还有很长一段距离 Whatever the reason is there is no denying that it’s a long way from paradise.
不要误解我的意思 我喜欢利物浦 Don’t get me wrong, I like Liverpool,
非常喜欢 或者这是我在英国最喜爱的城市 like it very much, it’s probably my favorite city in England.
这里充满智慧，高大的建筑物和无数的雕像营造令人愉悦的气息 It has great wit, a pleasing air of monumentality in its buildings and statues,
口音纯正悦耳 多种多样的语句 a wonderful accent and rich ton of phrase,
还有其永不动摇的自身感觉 and a non-shakable sense of itself.
如果说英国某些地方存在战斗精神 If there’s any place in Britain has the bulldog spirit,
那就是这里了 this is it.
让利物浦运转并为利物浦工作的是墨西河。 What make Liverpool work and what work for Liverpool was the Mersey.
在墨西溪谷旅行还是能令人惬意地度过早晨。 A trip on the Mersey valley is still in an agreeable way to pass morning,
这有点像悉尼港，但不是悉尼。 It’s a bit like the Sydney harbor coops, but without Sydney.
************************ Throughout turn on board commentary crackles on about Liverpool’s glory days.
这仅仅是研究了这曾是一座大城市，而今天是利物浦。 It just studied that this was once a great city, and today is Liverpool.
在某一代利物浦出现了衰落。 The decline happened in a single generation.
1966年 利物浦仍然是英国第二大热闹的港口 In 1966，Liverpool was still the second busiest port in Britain
仅排在伦敦后 after London.
到了1985年 一切转变太大 利物浦还比不上 By 1985, things are fallen so far and it was less important than even
Teas Hartley Goonesbey M&M等港口重要 Teas and Hartley port, Goonesbey, and M&M.
**************** But in …… was really something special,
沿海来者充斥着这座城市，他们并不仅仅为了找工作而来。 maritime comers blocked the city not just well for employment.
但在世界大同主义上，世界上很少城市能与之竞争。 But the cosmopolitanism that few cities in the world can rival.
但现在 But now...
如果你要离开我们利物浦 我们希望你能享受你的小空间 “if you leaving us here in Liverpool, we hope you enjoy your coops
并期待着欢迎你不久再次到来 and look forward to welcoming you on board again soon.”