Shakespeare in plain English

6 Minute English

语言学习

2015-10-29

6 分钟
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  • Six minutes English.

  • From bbclearningenglish.com Hello and welcome to Six Minute English.

  • I'm Finn.

  • And I'm Neil.

  • Hello.

  • Today we're talking about Shakespeare.

  • Oh yes.

  • To be or not to be.

  • That is the question.

  • Whether it is nobler in the moment.

  • OK, thank you.

  • Thank you very much, Finn.

  • But what does that famous Shakespeare line actually mean, Finn?

  • Yeah, well, it's quite hard to explain actually.

  • The English and Shakespeare's work is quite difficult.

  • Well, a Shakespeare festival in Oregon in the United States wants to change all of that.

  • They want to pay writers, they want to commission what they call translations of Shakespeare's plays.

  • Now, we usually use the word translation, of course,