点评:The house is beautiful! However, our tour guide (I think his name is Blaine?) was so awful, he made the experience awful. First of all, he is under the impression that we are there to learn all about him. I can tell you all about his family. (his mother had eight kids, two sets of twins.) I learned all about his interests (opera, art, interior design.) He threw in some information about the house and the family that built it, so that’s good. But he seemed a bit pompous and condescending. At the end of the tour I asked a question about the miniseries that was filmed at Stanton Hall in the 1980s, because I saw a picture of Patrick Swayze in the gift shop. He turned to me, made a disgusted face and said. “ I can’t stand those tacky movies.” it was rather humiliating to be shut-down that way, and angered me because I wasn’t asking his opinion of movies, I was asking about something relevant that happened in that home. If it wasn’t relevant, there wouldn’t be pictures of Patrick Swayze in the gift shop! This was so distasteful to me that it ruined everything about the beautiful house. Apparently, Blaine is under the impression that we all go on that tour to find out about his family, his interests, and to find out his opinions. That is not what I paid for!
翻译:房子真漂亮!然而,我们的导游(我记得他叫布莱恩?)太糟糕了,把整个体验搞得一团糟。首先,他以为我们来这里是为了了解他。我可以告诉你他的家庭情况。(他母亲有八个孩子,两对双胞胎。)我还了解了他的兴趣爱好(歌剧、艺术、室内设计)。他还介绍了一些关于这栋房子和建造它的家庭的信息,这很好。但他似乎有点自负和傲慢。参观结束时,我问了一个关于20世纪80年代在斯坦顿庄园拍摄的迷你剧的问题,因为我在礼品店里看到了一张帕特里克·斯威兹的照片。他转向我,做了个厌恶的表情说:“我受不了那些俗气的电影。” 被这样打断真是太丢脸了,而且让我很生气,因为我问的不是他对电影的看法,而是那栋房子里发生的事情。如果这无关紧要,礼品店里就不会有帕特里克·斯威兹的照片了!这太让我反感了,简直毁了这栋漂亮房子的一切。显然,布莱恩以为我们参加这次旅行都是为了了解他的家庭、兴趣爱好和他的想法。我花钱买的可不是为了这个!