英语听力精选进阶版 6598
时间：2019-01-16 作者：英语课 分类：英语听力精选进阶版
Neil: Hello, welcome to Real English from BBC Learning 1 English, I’m Neil.
Feifei: 大家好，我是冯菲菲。
Neil: In Real English we look at words and phrases people use all the time which you might not find in your dictionary.
Feifei: 地道英语中介绍的一些英语表达， 你可能在英语课堂上学不到，但是它们在生活中却会经常出现。So Neil, are you ready to start the programme?
Neil: Hang on. I just need to get my papers together (sound of rustling 2 papers). Could you just pass me that, erm, ah, that whatchamacallit over there?
Feifei: A what?
Neil: You know, one of those whatchamacallits for holding papers together.
Feifei: A paperclip? Neil 说他要一个曲别针 paperclip 把我们节目要用的稿子整理好，可是他一时忘了那个词怎么说，他就把它叫做 a whatchamacallit.
Neil: Yeah, a paperclip, thanks. I couldn’t remember the name for a second. In English, if there’s something we can’t remember the name of, we can call it a ‘whatchamacallit’. It comes from the words ‘what do you call it’ said very quickly.
Feifei: 这个词是这样拼写的 W-H-A-T-C-H-A-M-A-C-A-L-L-I-T，当我们把 What do you call it 这句话很快的说出来时，就变成了whatchamacallit。
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A: I’ve just bought this tin of beans for dinner but I haven’t got a… ah, whatchamacallit to open it.
B: A tin-opener?
A: Yeah, I don’t have a tin-opener.
Neil: How do you say ‘whatchamacallit’ in Chinese?
Feifei: 那个，就是那个什么来着；通常我们一时间忘了一样东西的名称时常说，那个什么来着，whatchamacallit.
Neil: There are other ways of saying it too.
Feifei: Tell me.
Neil: You can say thingmejig, or thingmebob!
Feifei: Thingmejig and thingmebob 是另一种表示那个，那个东西的词儿。
Neil: But I think we’ll stick to just whatchamacallit for now.
Feifei: See you next time.
Neil: Bye.