【我们说的英语】Is silence golden?(3/6)
A noisy street scene in Bangkok, Thailand
In this week's programme, we talk about noise and its opposite: peace and quiet.
Living in a city can be a noisy experience. Some people find the sounds comforting, while others move to the countryside to get away from it all. But even those who seek tranquillity can never find complete silence.
Rob and Finn discuss solutions to the problem of noise as well as words and phrases related to the subject.
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http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201304/201304301152116214394.mp3We're here looking at the London soundscape, and as ever there is a fire engine going by, just as I'm talking. That is just as loud as it would be on a motorway but we're on a side street, so it's quite deafening for the pedestrians.
That's Stephen Dance experiencing a typical London soundscape – a soundscape is a mix of sounds heard in a particular location. And one of the sounds was that of a fire engine which was very loud!
It was – he described it as deafening for pedestrians – so, extremely loud and possibly causing deafness. But how would we know a fire engine was on its way to an emergency without such a sound?
Yeah. It's a good point. Sometimes a loud noise is needed so it can be heard over other noises. And in other situations we sometimes make more noise to drown out – or cover up – the sounds we don't want to hear. So we turn our music up to drown out the sound of the washing machine for example!
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