鯊膽大話王——“Ｓａｄ無聊”Ｖｓ“Ｃｏｃｋｙ自高自大”

Sad 無聊

Jo: We will look at words and phrases that you might not find in your English textbooks. I'm Jo.

Helen: And I'm Helen. 地道英語中介紹的一些英語表達， 你可能在英語課堂上學不到，但是它們在生活中卻會經常出現。那 Jo， 今天的新表達是什么呢?

Jo: That word is sad. S.A.D.

Helen: Yes sad， 這個詞大家應該不陌生，就是“悲傷，傷感”的意思。 不過它還有另一個含義，我們在生活中也經常碰到。

Jo: The word sad might be used to mean something isn't very fashionable or interesting.

Helen: Sad 也可以做為一個通俗表達，用來形容那些無聊或者是沒意思的事情。你也可以用來形容自己或者是別人。

Jo: So， for example， I am a big fan， Helen， of a 1980s American TV show called Dallas. I thought it was a really entertaining show and I have started to buy the DVDs of every series to watch.

Helen: 你喜歡看 80 年代的肥皂劇，你還買了所有的碟片，我覺得沒這個必要吧。 So I could say you are sad.

Jo: Yes I'm afraid that part of me is quite sad. Now there must be something about you that's quite sad Helen.

Helen: 我對收集地圖很感興趣。 I love looking at maps— I could look at them for hours!

Jo: Now that is quite sad.

Helen: 不過大家留意 sad 在這種情況下幾乎是帶有開玩笑的語調。一般你不會當面嚴肅地告訴別人他很 sad， 他很無聊。

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A: What are you looking at on the computer there?

B: Oh no， you've caught me. I am looking at telescopes.

A: Telescopes?

B: Yes， I wanted to buy a telescope. I really like looking at the stars at night — really sad， I know.

Helen: 我們剛才聽到的對話里，有人為了滿足自己對天文學的愛好，在網上查天文望遠鏡的資料。這不是一個很熱門的愛好，所以他開玩笑形容自己比較無聊，是個呆子， sad。

Jo: And that's all from our BBC Learning English Real English programme for today. Bye for now.

Cocky 自高自大

Jo: I'm Jo.

Helen: And I'm Helen. 希望在接下來的時間里，你能學到英式英語中常用的一些表達方式。Jo， 你先說吧。

Jo: Today's word is cocky. C.O.C.K.Y. cocky.

Helen: 那這是什么意思呢?

Jo: Well a cocky person is someone who is very self-confident and perhaps a little arrogant.

Helen: Ah， 這個詞是用來形容一個非常自信，有點自高自大的人，cocky。

Jo: It's quite an informal word used in a disapproving way.

Helen: 這也是一個非正式表達，而且還帶有一點負面的意思，所以別用 cocky 來描繪自己是個充滿自信的人。

Jo: So for example， someone you work with might think they know everything really well and make you feel less important because you don't know how to do certain things.

Helen: 你的意思是說在公司經常會有那種自認為什么都懂，比其他人都能干的人。

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A: He really gets on my nerves— he thinks he's so wonderful!

B: Yeah he is a bit cocky isn't he?

A: Linda ran the marathon in four hours— I could easily beat that!

B: Don't get too cocky — it took you two and half hours to run a half marathon!

Jo: Actually Helen， I've been studying Chinese recently and I'm getting really good.

Helen: 哦，是嗎? 這么說你的中文現在是突飛猛進，看來過不了多久，你就可以獨立做這個節目了。

Jo: Erm 是的，你說對了。

Helen: Ha， 看來，她并沒完全聽懂我。Jo is getting a bit cocky!

Jo: Anyway that's all from Real English. If you want to learn more words and expressions like you have today. See you again soon.

◆編輯：夏天兒