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This week' s program Up Your Street takes you to Harrogate, a small town in Yorkshire. Harrogate became a fashionable resort during Victorian times when people came to take a bath in the mineral waters. Today, few people come to visit the town for its mineral waters. Instead, Harrogate has become a popular town for people to retire to. Its clean air, attractive parks and the absence of any industry make this an ideal spot for people looking for a quiet life. Now, to tell us more about Harrogate, I have with me Tom Percival, president of the Chamber of Commerce. Tom, one of the things a visitor notices about Harrogate is the large area of open parkland right down into the middle of the town. Can you tell us more about it? Yes, certainly. The area is called the Stray. Why the Stray? It' s called that because in the old days, people let their cattles stray on the area which was common land. Oh, I see. Then, with changes in farming and in land ownership, the Stray became part of the land owned by Harrogate. And is it protected? Oh, yes, indeed. There' s a special law, no one can build anything on the Stray. It' s protected forever. So, it will always be parkland? That' s right. As you can see, some of the Stray is used for sports fields. I believe it looks lovely in the spring. Yes, it does. There' re spring flowers under all the trees, and people visit the town just to see the flowers. |
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běn zhōu de jié mù" zǒu shàng jiē tóu" jiāng dài nǐ zǒu jìn hā luó gài tè, zhè shì yuē kè jùn de yí gè xiǎo chéng zhèn. hā luó gài tè shì zài wéi duō lì yà shí dài chéng wéi yí gè zhù míng jǐng diǎn de, zài nà shí, rén men kāi shǐ xǐ huān dào kuàng zhì shuǐ zhōng qù xǐ zǎo. ér jīn tiān, jī hū méi yǒu jǐ gè rén yīn wèi tā de kuàng zhì shuǐ ér qù cān guān tā de. xiāng fǎn, hā luó gài tè shì yīn wéi rén men tuì xiū hòu qù nà ér chū míng de. tā nà qīng xīn de kōng qì, mí rén de gōng yuán, yǐ jí méi yǒu gōng chǎng shēng chǎn dōu shǐ zhè gè duì yú rén men lái shuō lǐ xiǎng de dì fāng kàn qǐ lái shì yī zhǒng níng jìng de shēng huó. xiàn zài ne, wèi le gào sù wǒ men hā luó gài tè de gèng duō fāng miàn, wǒ qǐng lái le shāng huì de zhǔ xí tāng mǔ pà xī wǎ ěr. tāng mǔ, yī míng guān guāng zhě zhù yì dào de guān yú hā luó gài tè de yí gè wèn tí jiù shì wèi yú chéng zhèn zhèng zhōng yāng de kāi fàng gōng yuán. nǐ néng duō gào sù wǒ men xiē shén me ma? dāng rán le, mù wèn tí a. zhè gè qū yù jiào zuò xù mù qū. wèi shí me ne? zhī suǒ yǐ jiào zhè shì yīn wèi zài gǔ dài shí qī, rén men jiù ràng zì jǐ de shēng chù zài zhè kuài pǔ tōng de tǔ dì shàng chī cǎo. ào, wǒ míng bái le. rán hòu, suí zhe gēng dì yǐ jí tǔ dì suǒ yǒu quán de biàn gēng, xù mù qū jiù chéng le yóu hā luó gài tè guī shǔ le. tā shòu bǎo hù le ma? shì de, nà shi bì xū de. chū tái le yī xiàng tè shū fǎ lǜ, rèn hé rén bù zhǔn zài xù mù qū jiàn zào dōng xī. tā yǒng yuǎn shòu bǎo hù. nà me shuō lái, zhè huì yī zhí shì fēng jǐng qū le. shì de, zhèng rú nǐ jiàn dào de, xù mù qū de yī bù fen bèi yòng zuò tǐ yù yòng dì. wǒ jué de zài chūn tiān tā yí dìng kàn qǐ lái hěn měi. shì de, suǒ yǒu de shù xià dū yǒu chūn huā, ér qiě rén men jiù shì wèi le lái kàn kàn huā. |