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BBC都市掠影:伦敦一位鲜花店老板A London Florist

Yang Li: 大家好我是杨莉,欢迎收听《都市掠影》节目。Who do you think are the most romantic people in the world? The French, the Italians or the Chinese? In fact a lot of people here believe that the British are much more romantic than people think they are. Let’s meet one whose job is to help people’s romantic relationships, a florist. 我采访了一位鲜花店老板Adrian Shaw.

。Now here are the two general questions: Adrian 喜欢自己的工作吗?他喜欢同顾客打交道吗?

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Hi my name's Adrian and I'm a florist here in Hammersmith in London. I've been doing this for quite a number of years. Originally when I did start I only imagined myself doing this for a few months while I was looking for another contract –as I used to work in the corporate environment – but I fell in love with flowers.

And I think the attraction to this is being able to spend time with lots of different kinds of people that we have in our London culture, from just the housewife all the way through to executives in the city – and even, on occasion, the odd film star who buys flowers off us as well.

There are moments when you'll have the oddest of conversations with people who you've only just met. On one occasion there was a woman who was speaking of saying goodbye to her partner. And as we sold flowers I turned her frown into a smile and by the end of the conversation she walked away happy with her flowers and went home. It was only weeks later that I discovered – by a letter that she sent me, and a gift to say thank you for the conversation –that she told me she was getting married and having a baby with the same person.

You will find that classically about 70% of my clientele – my customers –are women. When it comes to the female customers, they'll buy a whole myriad of flowers but guys cannot help themselves – most times they'll buy roses.

Many customers will come, you'll see them buy flowers to make themselves happy because they have a baby on the way, then you meet the baby, then the baby becomes a little child and you watch them grow. And that's a wonderful experience.

Yang Li: That was Adrian talking about his job as a florist. 他喜欢自己

Yes he loves his job but what was the phrase he used to describe his passion? 请听下面一段,寻找关键词语。

"Originally when I did start I only imagined myself doing this for a few months while I was looking for another contract – as I used to work in the corporate environment – but I fell in love with flowers."

Yang Li: 他说,he fell in love with flowers. 他爱上了鲜花。第二个问题呢?他喜欢同顾客打交道吗?回答也是肯定的,yes he does. He enjoys meeting and talking to his customers. In fact one customer even sent him a card and a gift, but why? Listen again.

"On one occasion there was a woman who was speaking of saying goodbye to her partner. And as we sold flowers I turned her frown into a smile and by the end of the conversation she walked away happy with her flowers and went home. It was only weeks later that I discovered – by a letter that she sent me, and a gift to say thank you for the conversation –that she told me she was getting married and having a baby with the same person."

Yang Li: The magic of flowers! 通过卖花交谈,Adrian 让一位女顾客破涕为笑。He turned her frown into a smile,本来要分手的两个人重归于好,喜结良缘。She ended up getting married and having a baby with the same person! 谢谢收听,我们下次节目再会。

BBC媒体英语:心痛与身痛,孰更痛?

You've broken up with your girlfriend or boyfriend, your wife or husband has left you and you feel rejected, dejected, broken-hearted. Well, new research suggests that intense feelings of rejection are as hurtful as physical pain.

The lead author of the study Ethan Kross said the reason is because the same regions of the brain that become active in response to painful sensory experiences are also activated during intense experiences of social rejection.

The researchers hope their findings will offer new insight into how the experience of intense social loss may lead to various physical pain symptoms and disorders.

They also confirmed the notion the people from different cultures all around the world use the same language, words like "hurt" and "pain", to describe the experience of both physical pain and social rejection.

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