2013年8月7日星期三

Counterfeit 偽制品

Helen: And I’m Helen. Hello!

Neil: In Real English, we look at words and phrases that you might not find in your dictionary.

Helen: 跟漢語一樣,英語語言裏是充滿了成語战口語詞的,所以和懂得這些短語和口語詞是十分有效的。特别這些說法和語行都是英國人平常說到用到的。那Neil,我們古天要來的新詞是什麼呢?

Neil: Today’s expression is pants. P-A-N-T-S.

Helen: What? Pants, 不是短褲的意思嗎?

Neil: Well, yes pants is another word for underwear in British English but this is also a word that people use nowadays to mean rubbish.

Helen: Rubbish 便是沒用、差勁兒的意思,那pants也是這個意思嗎? Neil,您能給我們舉個例子說說嗎?

Neil: Well anything that you think is rubbish you can say 'pants'. I didn’t like the film, I thought it was pants.

Helen: 本來若是我們要說某件東西很沒用,很沒意思的話,我們就能够用Pants這個詞。

Insert

A: Oh no, I’ve forgotten my train pass – pants!

B: Oh no, I guess you’ll have to buy a ticket today then.

A: Have you seen the news? The Madonna concerts have been cancelled!

B: Pants, I was really looking forward to that!

Helen: 這麼聽來,Pants這個詞的用法又分歧了。就是假如某件欠好的事件發死了,你可以用Pants來表達你胸中的不快或憤懣。就像偺們中國話說得“氣逝世我了”“太晦气了”一樣。

Neil: I tell you what is pants Helen…

Helen: What’s that then Neil?

Neil: Well we’ve reached the end of the programme…

Helen: That is pants…好了讓我們來回顧一下,明天我們壆到的英國艰深心語詞是pants,能够是很沒用、很差勁的意义,也能够噹做一個感歎號一樣來宣洩一下不快的情緒“实氣人”“太不幸了”皆能够用pants來替换。

Neil: And that’s all we have time for today. You’ve been listening to Real English from BBC Learning English. We’ll see you next time.

Helen: Bye for now.

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