体会美式英语与英式英语大不同 - 学会地道的英语

体会美式英语与英式英语大不同

Man: Hey! Nice pants!

嘿！很棒的裤子

Woman: Excuse me?

什么？

Man: I said nice pants.

我说这裤子不错

Woman: You can’t see my pants, can you?

你看得到我的底裤？！

Man: Of course I can.

我当然可以

Woman: How can you see my pants?

你怎么能看到的

Man: They’re on your legs!

它们在你的腿上啊

Woman: Ha. You haven’t been to America recently, have you?

啊，你最近去过了美国是吗？

Man: Oh I er …I er actually just got back from LA! That’s “Los Angeles” by the way....

哦，事实上我刚从LA回来，就是洛杉矶

Woman: I know.

我知道

Man: Yeah, I picked up some of the American words, and now I forget which ones to use! So confusing!

我学了一些美国的单词，现在我忘了该用哪一种，好困惑啊

Woman: We call these “trousers” in Britain.

在英国我们管这叫trousers

Man: Of course we do...you know there are so many things …that’s it’s exactly a completely different language sometimes!

当然，你知道有很多东西...有时这根本像是完全不同的语言

Woman: Really?

真的吗

Woman: Would you like a crisp?

你想吃薯片吗

Man: Crisps? In the States, they’re“chips”!

crisps?在美国，薯片叫chips

Woman: Oh. So if I want to order our chips in America, what do I ask for?

噢。所以如果我想要在美国点薯条，我应该说什么

Man: French fries!

应该说French fries

Woman: I see.

我明白了

Man: And you know what that is, don’t you?

你知道那是什么吗

Woman: A fizzy drink.

汽水

Man: That’s a “soda”!

那叫作”soda”

Man: You know the lift over there?

知道那个电梯吗

Woman: Yeah?

嗯？

Man: That’s an elevator.

那叫做elevator

Woman: Oh really?

真的吗

Man: You know in the States, you don’t go to watch a film...

要知道在美国，看电影不是说watch a film

Woman: You “watch a movie”!

是watch a movie！

Man: Exactly! And you don’t walk on the pavement…

没错！你走的人行道也不叫pavement

Woman: You walk on the “sidewalk”!

那叫sidewalk吧

Man: You got it!

你答对了

Woman: I’ve watched a lot of films...oops...movies! 我看过很多电影呐