1. In the very heart of England lies the country town of Stratford-on-Avon.
在英国的中心地区有一座农村市镇，叫埃冯河畔的斯特拉特福。
2. Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry-William Shakespeare-but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches.
Stratford-on-Avon ，正如我们知道的，只有一个莎士比亚的工业，但却有两个分离和日益增长的敌对的分支。
3. Although married with two children, Shakespeare left Stratford-on-Avon at the age of about 30 and went to London alone.
尽管结婚后养了两个孩子，莎士比亚30岁时还是离开了埃文河畔斯特拉特福镇，只身去了伦敦。
4. Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry—William Shakespeare—but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches.
正如我们所知，埃文河上的斯特福特就只有一个行业——威廉·莎士比亚——但是却有两个界限清楚并各怀敌意的分支部门。
5. Stratford-on-Avon
5. Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry－William Shakespeare－but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches.
如我们所知，埃文河畔斯特拉特福德只有一种产业--威廉。
6. The Drake family soon moves to Bombay, but the tropical heat has a bad influence on Nick''s father Rodney''s heart condition. An apoplectic stroke in 1952 forces the Drake family to move to England, settling in Tanworth-in-Arden, south of Birmingham, not far from Stratford-on-Avon.
不久之后Drake一家搬到孟买，不过当地的热带气候对Nick drake 的父亲Rodney的心脏状况很不利。1952年他父亲的一次突然中风使他家不得不迁回英格兰，落脚于伯明翰南部的Tanworth-in-Arden，这地方离Stratford-on-Avon不远。
7. Shakespeare was born in 1564, in Stratford-on-Avon, attended school, married young, and went to London, around 1585, without his family, to seek his fortune.
年莎士比亚出生，在Stratford 在Avon，被出席的学校，结婚的年轻人，和去到伦敦，大约1585 年，没有他的家庭，寻找他的时运。