2019英国留学常用俚语介绍
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1.Mate
经常用于亲密关系。和好朋友说话的时候可以用,类似于美国人用的“buddy,pal,dude”。例如:'Alright, mate'
2. Bugger All
相当于“nothing at all”,只不过这个说法更通俗一点。例如:'I’ve had bugger all to do all day.'
3. Knackered
用来形容一个很累,很疲惫,就是筋疲力尽的意思。例如:‘I am absolutely knackered after working all day.’
4. Gutted
这个是英国俚语中最悲伤的表达方式之一,表示很悲痛。例如:‘His girlfriend broke up with him. He’s absolutely gutted.’
5. Gobsmacked
难以置信,表示震惊。例如:‘I was gobsmacked when she told me she was pregnant with triplets.(三胞胎)’
6. Cock Up
犯错,而且这个错误比较严重。例如:‘The papers sent out to the students were all in the wrong language – it’s a real cock up.’ 也可以这么用:‘I cocked up the orders for table number four.’
7. Blinding
很棒,极好的。例如:‘That tackle(截球) from the Spanish player was blinding.’
8. Lost The Plot
这个表达方式可以表示很愤怒,如果是过去式的话,那就表示一个人很荒谬可笑。例如: ‘When my girlfriend saw the mess I’d made, she lost the plot.’
9. Cheers
这个在英国不同的郡有不同的意思。在有些地方就是朋友一起聚会喝酒时干杯,但有些地方则表示感谢,就是 ‘thank you’的意思了。例如:‘Cheers for getting me that drink, Steve’.
10. Ace
表示很精彩、优秀,也可以说考试大获全胜。例如:‘Jenny is ace at the lab experiments’; 也可以这样说:‘I think I aced that exam’.
11. Damp squib
字面上的意思就是“哑炮”,也就表示什么事失算落空了。例如:‘The party was a bit of a damp squib because only Richard turned up.’
12. All to pot
这个表达方式年代久远,但至今仍然有人在用。表示情况失控。例如:‘The birthday party went all to pot when the clown turned up drunk and everyone was sick from that cheap barbecue stuff.’
13. The bee’s knees
用来表示你很钦佩的人或事。例如:‘She thinks Barry’s the bee’s knees’
14. Chunder
这个是英国俚语里最不可或缺的表达,不仅表示喝醉呕吐,生病呕吐也可以用。例如:‘I ate a bad pizza last night after too many drinks and chundered in the street.’
15. Take the piss
现在许多英国人很喜欢吐槽,这个俚语就是嘲笑,吐槽的意思啦。例如:‘The guys on TV last night were taking the piss out of the government again.’
16. Bollocks
这个词有很多意思,如果你很失望,可以说‘Oh bollocks’;这个词还有嘲笑的意思;本身还表示男性生殖器官。例如:‘I kicked him right in the bollocks when he wouldn’t let me go past.’
17. Fortnight
这个用法很多英国人都会用,表示两周十四天。例如:‘I’m going away for a fortnight to Egypt for my summer holiday.’
18. Bollocking
这个跟之前提到的‘bollocks’ 意思可不一样,bollocking表示来自上司、同事或者是亲人的责骂。例如:‘My wife gave me a real bollocking for getting to pick up the dry cleaning on my way home from work.’
19. Nice one
表示讽刺意味,但是语境不同的话,也可以表示真诚的意思。例如:‘You messed up the Rutherford order? Nice one, really.’
20. Brass monkeys
表示天气很冷。字面意思就是冷得把铜猴都冻成球了。例如:‘You need to wear a coat today, it’s brass monkeys outside.’
21. Dodgy
英国俚语里,这个词表示什么事是错的,非法的,或者是坏的。例如:‘He just seems dodgy to me.’
22. Scrummy
如果某样东西非常非常好吃,就可以用这个词。例如:‘Mrs Walker’s pie was absolutely scrummy. I had three pieces.’
23. Kerfuffle
这个表示意见不同的时候发生的冲突。例如:‘I had a right kerfuffle with my girlfriend this morning over politics.’
24. Tosh
表示垃圾或废话。例如:‘That’s a load of tosh about what happened last night’还可以说: ‘Don’t talk tosh.’
25. Car park
这个英国随处可见,就是美国喜欢用的parking,停车场的意思。例如:‘I left my car in the car park this morning.’
26. Skive
如果有人假装生病逃班或逃课的时候,就可以用这个词。例如:‘He tried to skive off work but got caught by his manager.’
27.Rubbish
一般表示垃圾,有时候也表示讽刺,比‘bollocks’更轻一点。例如:‘Can you take the rubbish out please?’还可以说:‘What? Don’t talk rubbish.’
28. Wanker
这个是英国俚语中攻击对方用的最“友善”的表达方式,和朋友开玩笑就可以用,比“Jerk”还要适用噢~例如:‘That guy just cut me up in traffic – what a wanker.’
29. Hunky-dory
意味着情况良好,cool,或标准的。例如: ‘Yeah, everything’s hunky-dory at the office.’
30. Brilliant
这个词不是英国专属词,但是它是英国人惯用的表达方式。具体一点就是表示很令人兴奋、精彩的事,尤其是好消息。例如:‘You got the job? Oh, mate, that’s brilliant.’