The script of this programme 本節目臺詞

Yang Li: 大家好我是楊莉，歡迎收聽《都市掠影》節目。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. 我采訪了一位鮮花店老板 Adrian Shaw.

這個節目是為幫助大家提高聽力的，所以我首先提兩個籠統的問題，測試大家的總體理解力，后面我再提兩個具體問題，測試重點詞匯。Now here are the two general questions: Adrian 喜歡自己的工作嗎？ 他喜歡同顧客打交道嗎？

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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.

BBC Learning English

Yang Li: That was Adrian talking about his job as a florist. 他喜歡自己的工作嗎？

回答是肯定的。Yes he loves his job but what was the phrase he used to describe his passion? 請聽下面一段，尋找關鍵詞語。

Yang Li: 他說，he fell in love with flowers. 他愛上了鮮花。第二個問題呢？他喜歡同顧客打交道嗎？ 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.

Yang Li: The magic of flowers! 通過賣花交談，Adrian 讓一位女顧客破涕為笑。 He turned her frown into a smile，本來要分手的兩個人重歸于好，喜結良緣。She ended up getting married and having a baby with the same person! Well if this programme has got you in the mood for love get on bbcukchina.com for more programmes about romance. 謝謝收聽，我們下次節目再會。