听播客学英语 285 情人节
时间：2013-10-21 03:00:53
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Tomorrow, 14 February, is Valentine’s Day. Saint Valentine is the patron saint of people in love. On Valentine’s Day, many people send a Valentine card to their boyfriend or girlfriend, or to their husband or wife. Sometimes people send Valentine cards anonymously1, so that the person who receives the card has to guess who sent it. Some people even send several Valentine cards to different people, but this is a risky2 strategy and I do not recommend it!
Before I tell you the rest of this story, I need to explain about a different sort of cards – playing cards. A pack of playing cards contains 52 cards; there are 4 different suits with 13 cards in each. There are two red suits called hearts and diamonds, and two black suits called clubs and spades. Hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades – these words have ordinary meanings in English as well as being the names of suits of cards. Look them up in a dictionary if you need to.
Back to Valentines Day. My wife is a teacher. Last week the children in her class made Valentine cards, and wrote a poem or a message inside the card. Some of the poems were, well, not very good. For example:
“Roses are red
Violets are blue
You’re not very pretty
But I love you!”
But one girl wrote:
“A relationship with a man is like a pack of cards.
You need a heart to love him with
A diamond to marry him with
A club to hit him with
And a spade to bury him with.”
An interesting thought!
The music is today is called My Irish Valentine by the Brobdingnagian
Bards3 and it comes to you from the Podsafe Music Network.
More romance in the next episode.
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