Stockings for sale in Portobello Market

Zo?: It’s full of stalls.

Helen: And it’s one of the best known street markets in the UK.

Zo?: 這條街就是倫敦的Portobello Market, 真正的street market. 市場。

Helen: Hello, I’m Helen. Welcome to On the Town from BBC Learning English.

Zo?: 大家好，我是劉佳。在我們今天的BBC Learning English節目當中，我們回來給大家好好介紹一下倫敦市中心最有名的二手貨市場Portobello Market 波多貝露市場。

Helen: What does Portobello Market mean to people? Here’s what one of them had to say.

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Portobello Road Market is a very lively, very vibrant, quite raw, quite over priced, very multi cultural, very ethnic, long winding road, where you can buy anything, providing it’s old and second hand.

Zo?+Helen: 這位先生說到點上了。他用了很多個非常來形容波多貝露市集的特點。非常熱鬧充滿了生氣 (very lively)，有著動感（very vibrant），比較原始 (quite raw), 多元文化 （multicultural ）, 民族色彩 (ethnic)。 不過他也覺得波多貝露市集上有的東西標價過高 (overpriced)。 最重要的特點是你在這兒什么東西都能買到 (you can buy anything)，只要是二手舊貨 (that’s right, this is a market for old and second hand goods.)

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Portobello Road Market is a very lively, very vibrant, quite raw, quite over priced, very multi cultural, very ethnic, long winding road, where you can buy anything, providing it’s old and second hand.

Helen: The market has lots of stalls selling all kinds of things.

Zo?: Stall 就是小攤，這些小攤雖然地方不大，可能只有幾平米，可是也都掛滿了各種各樣稀奇古怪的東西。

Helen: Jonathan has an antique map stall in the Portobello market. So what sort of unique interesting things can you find at the market? Jonathan gave us some ideas.

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Well, as I said, anything and everything. There are some shops stalls that are very expensive, and they have wonderful furniture, paintings, or pieces of pottery or porcelain.

Zo?+Helen: 有些商店是古董專家，所以價格不便宜。像家具 (furniture), 畫 (paintings), 陶瓷 (pottery and porcelain) 都有不少的選擇。

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And then there’ll be a store selling what we call in this country bric-a-brac, and that can be anything from a little cup, to a tin, to a glass to an old game, to a toy, you name it. And that’s the great thing about going to Portobello Road, you are never sure what you are going to find.

Zo?+Helen: Jonathan 也提到很多小攤買的是二手雜貨, 英語里有個特別的名字 (it’s called bric-a-brac) bric-a-brac 這類的東西一般都比較小，像杯子，小盒子，紀念品，玩具之類的。（You are never sure what you are going to find.）逛Portobello Market 的樂趣就是你永遠不知道你會發現什么。

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It’s full of surprises. For a few pounds you’ll come away with a wonderful memento of London and something that’s probably unique.

Zo?: 大家都說倫敦消費貴，可是你到了Portobello, 沒準就花幾鎊錢就能買到好東西。

Helen: That’s right, for a few pounds you could have something wonderful to remind you of London.

Zo?: 而且是獨一無二的紀念品 a unique memento。這才是最有意思的。

Helen: A couple of other things about Portobello Market. Firstly, the main market is only open on Saturdays.

Zo?: 這個二手市集只有星期六才有。平時只有少數的商店才開門。

Helen: And secondly, don’t be afraid to haggle.

Zo?: haggle 就是討價還價，只有在這種地方，才有機會和攤主談談價錢。不過可別殺價太狠了。

Helen: Well I hope you now know more about the famous second hand market in London -- Portobello Market.

Zo?: 波多貝露市集, 倫敦最有名的古董二手貨市場。

Helen: So until the next time, it’s goodbye from both of us at BBC Learning English.

Zo?: Bye.

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