法國是公認的一個浪漫的國度，其中當你到法國旅遊時，巴黎一定是你不能錯過的城市。下面，跟着這則英語聽力材料，一起走進浪漫的巴黎吧。
Paris intrigues, astonishes, provokes, overwhelms... and gets under your skin. The City of Light is the apex of architectural beauty, artistic expression, and culinary delight. As drop-dead arrogant as the Arc de Triomphe, as disarmingly quaint as a lac-curtain bistro, it seduces newcomers with a Latin-lover style and its subtle siren song invites unhurried exploration of its picture-perfect streets.
巴黎既令人着迷，又讓人驚歎。它引人入勝，令人無法抗拒，難以忘懷。建築之美、藝術之語和烹飪之樂都在這座“燈火之城”裏達到了頂峯。像凱旋門一樣引人注目的高傲，像飾有蕾絲窗簾的小酒吧一樣令人放鬆的優雅，巴黎以其“拉丁戀人”般的情調吸引着新來的遊客，它深奧動人的歌聲召喚着人們慢慢欣賞它如畫的街景。
Paris is a city of vast, noble perspectives and intimate, ramashackle streets, of formal espaces vertes (green open spaces) and of quiet squares. This combination of the pompous and the private is one of the secrets of its perennial pull. Another is its size. Paris is relatively small as capitals go, with distances between many of its major sights and museums invariably walkable.
巴黎既有宏偉高貴的景觀，也有讓人倍感親切的破舊老街;既有規整開闊的綠地，也有幽靜的`廣場。這種恢弘與靜謐的融合是巴黎能永遠吸引世人的奧祕之一。另外一點是它的面積。作爲首都，巴黎相對來說面積不大。許多主要景點和博物館之間都相距不遠，步行即至。
A visit to Paris will never be quite as simple as a quick look at Notre-Dame, the Louvre, and the Eiffel Tower. You'll discover that around every corner, down every ruelle (little street) lies a resonance-in-wait.
巴黎之行絕不只是到巴黎聖母院、盧浮宮和埃菲爾鐵塔這些地方走馬觀花般地看看那麼簡單。幾乎在每一個角落附近，每一條小路上，你都能體會到那等待已久了的身心的共鳴。
You can stand on the rue du Faubourg St. Honore at the very spot Edmond Rostand set Ragueneau's pastry shop in Cyrano de Bergerac. You can read the letters of Madame de Sevigne in her actual hotel particulier, or private mansion, now the Musee Carnavalet. You can breathe in the fumes ofhubris before the extravagant onyx tomb Napoleon designed for himself. You can gaze through the gates at the school where Voltaire honed his wit and lay a garland on Oscar Wilde's poignant grave at pere Lachaise.
你可以駐足於福布·聖奧諾雷街上的拉格諾點心店，它曾是埃德蒙·羅思丹的戲劇《西哈諾·德·貝熱拉克》中的主要場景;你可以在塞維尼夫人的故居中閱讀她的書信，如今這裏已是卡納瓦萊博物館;你可以在拿破崙爲自己設計的奢華的縞瑪瑙墓前感受他的盛氣凌人;你可以在路過伏爾泰曾經埋頭苦讀的學校時，從大門向裏張望;你還可以到拉雪茲神父公墓，在令人唏噓的奧斯卡·王爾德的墓前獻上一個花環。
