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英语课

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: July 17, 2003


AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- names used in slang 1.


RS: Take "Johnny come lately." That's an opportunist who tries to gain from something started by others.


AA: We certainly wouldn't call our buddy 2 Slangman David Burke in Los Angeles a Johnny come lately. But we did ask him to put together a report about names used in slang ...


RS: And what he did was put together a completely fictional 3 interview with movie actress Reese Witherspoon. The only thing real about this story is that Reese Witherspoon is the star of a brand-new sequel to "Legally Blonde," a comedy in which she plays a young lawyer who becomes politically active.


SLANGMAN: "Well, I want to welcome you to Slangman's Slang Hollywood Report. Yesterday I spoke 4 with Reese Witherspoon over a cup of joe."


RS: "A cup of joe."


AA: "A cup of coffee."


SLANGMAN: "A cup of coffee. A few years ago we didn't know Reese Witherspoon from Adam, we didn't know her at all. Now she's known as the star of the new movie 'Legally Blonde 2.' I told her that I don't mean to be a doubting Thomas (that's someone who's always very doubtful, doesn't believe anything), I don't mean to be a doubting Thomas but jeez Louise (now jeez Louise is an expression of surprise), but jeez Louise I really wondered if John Q. Public was ready for another movie. Now John Q. Public simply means the average person, John Q. Public."


AA: "Right."


SLANGMAN: "It could be anyone. I wondered if John Q. Public was ready for another movie about a former plain Jane. That's a woman who's not ugly, she's not pretty, she's just plain. So I wondered if they were ready for a movie about a plain Jane who grows up to be a rich, beautiful Jack 5 of all trades."


RS: "Someone who does everything."


AA: "Or in this case, a Jill of all trades."


SLANGMAN: "You know, that's interesting. For some reason some of these expressions we have -- for example, Joe Blow, which is an expression for men meaning anyone: 'Every Joe Blow thinks he can become president.'"


RS: "There's not a Jill Blow."


AA: "No, because it doesn't rhyme."


SLANGMAN: "Right, there's no feminine 6 form of that. So oftentimes we do use the masculine 7 form, even though it refers to women. Well, now I mean there's nothing Reese's character can't do -- that's why she is a Jack of trades. In the movie, she tries to change some United States laws. Now, I don't know jack about politics."


RS: "I don't know anything."


SLANGMAN: "I don't know anything. It means absolutely nothing. I don't know jack about politics, but if someone asked me if one young girl could change the law, I'd say: 'No way ... '"


RS: "Jose! (Laughter)"


SLANGMAN: "Jose. Of course, that comes back to the rhyming slang, no way Jose. It means absolutely not. But Reese manages to get enough people to put their John Hancock -- "


RS: "Their signature."


SLANGMAN: "Their signature, because John Hancock -- one of the people who signed the Declaration 8 of Independence -- signed his name very largely, very big. So she got a lot of people to put their John Hancock on an important bill, resulting in a new United States law. True -- I'm not jacking you around. Now to jack someone around means to mislead them.


"Well, I asked Reese the following question: You've made millions of dollars in the movies 'Legally Blonde' and 'Legally Blonde II,' what comes next. 'Well,' she responded, 'probably Uncle Sam.'"


RS: "Uncle Sam."


SLANGMAN: "Right, the tax man, the tax person, Uncle Sam. Well, I'm afraid that's all the time we have, for Pete's sake."


RS: "For Pete's sake."


SLANGMAN: "Well, for Pete's sake is something you simply say out of amazement 9, out of surprise, out of frustration 10, out of disappointment. 'For Pete's sake, I broke my computer.' 'For Pete's sake, how are you!' So anything -- surprise, disappointment -- it's just another way to say, I have a lot of emotion here."


AA: And that's what makes him the one and only Slangman, David Burke. In fact, his book "The Slangman Guide to Street Speak Two" has a whole chapter on names used in slang. You can find out more about his materials at slangman.com.


RS: And you'll find our programs at voanews.com/wordmaster and our e-mail address is word@voanews.com. With Avi Arditti, I'm Rosanne Skirble.



n.俚语,行话;vt.使用俚语,辱骂;vi.辱骂
  • The phrase is labelled as slang in the dictionary.这个短语在这本字典里被注为俚语。
  • Slang often goes in and out of fashion quickly.俚语往往很快风行起来又很快不再风行了。
n.(美口)密友,伙伴
  • Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气,老兄。有什么麻烦吗?
  • Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了,你这家伙!
adj.小说的,虚构的
  • The names of the shops are entirely fictional.那些商店的名字完全是虚构的。
  • The two authors represent the opposite poles of fictional genius.这两位作者代表了天才小说家两个极端。
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
adj.女性的,女子气的
  • He has a very feminine voice.他的声音非常像女人。
  • She was a very feminine person.她是个很有女性气质的人。
adj.男性的,男子的,男子气的
  • She has a rather masculine voice.她的声音有点男性化。
  • The ceremony is exclusively masculine.典礼上清一色的全是男人。
n.宣布,宣告,宣言,声明(书),申报
  • We read the declaration posted on the bulletin board.我们读了贴在布告板上的声明。
  • At the recent convention a declaration was adopted.在最近举行的大会上通过了一项宣言。
n.惊奇,惊讶
  • All those around him looked at him with amazement.周围的人都对他投射出惊异的眼光。
  • He looked at me in blank amazement.他带着迷茫惊诧的神情望着我。
n.挫折,失败,失效,落空
  • He had to fight back tears of frustration.他不得不强忍住失意的泪水。
  • He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration.他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。
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abrasive roll rice polishing macing
addicted
aleuronate
algolagnic
ammonolysis reaction
angiolymphatic
appreciation
atticsful
Bactrian camels
Bellis perennis
bill murray
bismutosmaltineb (bismutosmatite)
Bobandana
Carrowkeel
chasing behavior
chonglou
cock body
coded extension character
constitution day
coverage interest arbitrage
cowpea aphid
descriptive lexicology
diameter runout
direct current heating
double-platform
drinking water vendor
dynamic duty
elbow scissors
emergency forces
encaustics
environmental consequences
ethylene thiourea
fileout
flanchard
flux-cored welding
forfair
freescan
gallager codes
general subroutine
giggle stick
grandniece
gunroom
hematopathological
hemisystole
herringbone tooth (double helical tooth)
homosteroids
Hypocomatina
idle air bleed
ifa
intramedullary nail fixation instruments set
keep to themselves
kirpal
lamb's quarters
LeukotrieneE
Manol, R.
mercedesbenz
metalammonia
nayab
norm-enforcements
opium eater
outflew
paged memories
paracentesis cordis
Pareto law of income distribution
pineal bodies
pitter patter
pod dehiscence
postplenic
Punta del Este
push-button switch
quickopener
religionaries
remote gain amplifier
remote-control switching system
reother
rury
sector gear bearing
sex show
shaping property
sidhes
sisters-german
smelt up
sprayed-metal bonding
St-Rome-de-Cernon
star jellies
steel sheet edge folded
stick knocker
template milling
text angle
thiazepines
Tikhvinskiy Rayon
tootin
triplex chain block
uteroplacental
venture-backeds
versene-9
vertical centering alignment
walking out of mesh
water yield from snow
white-collar
wiping
yingjiangite (phosphurany)