The english we speak(BBC教學)第118期:Lairy 俗氣的

Neil: Hello and welcome to The English We Speak, I'm Neil.

尼爾：大家好，歡迎來到地道英語節目，我是尼爾。

Li: And I'm Li. Did you stay much longer last night at the office party?

李：我是李。昨天的辦公室聚會你又待了一會兒嗎？

Neil: Yes I did. After you left we went on to a bar in the City.

尼爾：是啊。昨天你離開以後我們又去了市裏的一家酒吧。

Li: Oh sounds good! We had an office party last night. I left early but Neil and a few colleagues went on to a bar in the city of London–the financial district. How was it?

李：聽起來真好！昨天我們有辦公室聚會。我提早離開了，不過尼爾和一些同事還去了倫敦市金融區的一家酒吧，那裏怎麼樣？

Neil: Actually it was pretty bad. There were all these traders getting drunk and shouting a lot about their cars and expensive clothes and holidays. You know, they were just really lairy.

尼爾：實際上非常糟糕。所有的商人都喝醉了，他們大聲炫耀着他們的車和昂貴的衣服還有假期。你知道，他們真的非常俗氣。

Li: They were what?

李：他們很什麼？

Neil: Lairy.

尼爾：俗氣。

Li: Lairy. This adjective is used to describe people, usually men, behaving in a loud, excited and slightly aggressive way. So it wasn't much fun?

李：俗氣。這個形容詞通常用來形容大聲說話、情緒激動又有些囂張的男性。所以沒有太多樂趣嗎？

Neil: No, they made it miserable for everyone else in the place, to be honest.

尼爾：沒有，說實話，他們讓在那裏的其他人都很痛苦。

Li: So the bar was full of drunk and noisy men. They were talking loudly about their expensive things. They sound very lairy. Here's another example of the word.

李：所以那家酒吧全是喝醉又吵鬧的男人。他們大聲地談論他們的貴重物品。他們聽上去很俗氣。下面有這個詞的其他例子。

Example

例子

A: Shall we go shopping in Kensington on Saturday afternoon?

A：週六下午我們去肯辛頓購物好嗎？

B: I'd love to but I hate getting the Tube to Kensington on a Saturday. It's always full of lairy Chelsea fans on their way to the football.

B：我很想去，可是我討厭週六坐地鐵去肯辛頓。地鐵裏擠滿了俗氣的去看足球比賽的切爾西球迷。

A: Yes, you're right. It's really scary when they're so drunk and shouting and singing. How about somewhere else?

A：你說得對。他們喝醉以後，又喊又叫真的很可怕。那去其他地方怎麼樣？

Neil: Those women don't want to get the Tube near the Chelsea football ground on a Saturday because the fans travelling to the stadium are often drunk and shouting and singing. They're lairy.

尼爾：那些女生不想週六在切爾西球場附近坐地鐵，因爲那些去球場的球迷經常處於喝醉的狀態，而且還會喊叫和唱歌。他們非常俗氣。

Li: Yes, I've been in that situation too. It's not much fun. So, this word 'lairy': is it common?

李：對，我也曾遇到過這種情況。沒那麼好玩。所以這個詞很常用嗎？

Neil: I'd say it's quite common, but slang. And you wouldn't often write it. But you'll hear British and Australian people using it; especially in the situations we've talked about.

尼爾：我得說非常常用，但它是俚語。通常寫作中不會經常用到。不過你會聽到英國人和澳大利亞人使用這個詞；尤其是剛剛我們談過的那些情況。

Li: Anything else I need to know?

李：還有其他我要知道的嗎？

Neil: Yes, you should use the word in combination with 'blokes'. This is British slang meaning 'men'.

尼爾：有，你可以和傢伙這個詞一起用。這個俚語在英語中的意思是男人。

Li: Lairy blokes.

李：俗氣的傢伙。

Neil: That's right. That's all from us, but we'll leave you with the sound of lairy blokes watching football.

尼爾：沒錯。這就是我們今天節目的所有內容，不過我們會把俗氣的傢伙觀看足球比賽的聲音留給你們。

Li: Bye!

李：再見！

Neil: Bye!

尼爾：再見！

(Angry football crowd)

（生氣的足球觀衆）

重點講解：
1. to be honest
老實說；說實在的；
eg. To be honest, I just don't want to go.
說心裏話，我真不想去。
eg. To be honest, I am not all that optimistic we will pass the exam.
老實說，我對我們能否通過考試不那麼樂觀
2. be full of
有大量…的；滿是…的；
eg. His songs are full of dirge.
他的歌充滿了憂傷。
eg. He was full of youthful idealism.
他滿腦子都是年輕人的理想主義。
3. in combination with
與…聯合，與…結合；
eg. He carried on the business in combination with his friends.
他與朋友們合夥做生意。
eg. They are most suitable when used in combination with the quick-acting chemicals.
要是與快速作用的化學藥品合用，它們是最合適的。