The english we speak(BBC教學)第159期:Tastic 精彩的
Finn: Welcome to the slang-tastic programme, The English We Speak.
芬恩：歡迎收聽精彩的俚語節目地道英語。Wang Fei: Hello I'm Wang Fei.
王飛：大家好，我是王飛。Finn: This is our word-tastic programme where you learn the latest English-tastic phrases.
芬恩：這是酷詞節目，在這裏你能學到最新的英語酷詞。
Wang Fei: Yes… erm…
王飛：對……呃……Finn: We hope you have a learning-tastic time with us today…
芬恩：我們希望大家今天和我們一起度過愉快的學習時間……Wang Fei: Finn, sorry for interrupting you, but why do you keep adding 'tastic' to all these words?
王飛：芬恩，很抱歉打斷你，不過你爲什麼在所有詞後面都加tastic這個詞呢？Finn: Sorry Wang Fei, I should have said. Tastic is our new word, or should I say, new suffix, for the day.
芬恩：抱歉，王飛，我應該先解釋一下的。Tastic是我們今天要學習的新詞，或者說是新的後綴。Wang Fei: A suffix is something you add onto the end of another word to change the meaning.
王飛：後綴是加在詞尾來改變單詞意義的詞。Finn: That's right.
芬恩：沒錯。Wang Fei: So when we add tastic, what does that mean?
王飛：那加上tastic以後是什麼意思呢？Finn: Well, it's kind of related to the word fantastic. When you add tastic to a word, for example slang, it means 'fantastic in terms of slang'. So English-tastic means 'fantastic in terms of English'.
芬恩：意思類似於美妙的。在單詞後面加上tastic以後，以俚語這個詞爲例，就是很棒的俚語。而English-tastic就是精彩的英語。Wang Fei: And learning-tastic means fantastic in terms of learning?
王飛：learning-tastic就是美妙的學習螞？Finn: It does, absolutely. Let's hear a couple more examples.
芬恩：完全正確。我們再來聽幾個例子。A: Did you hear Britney's new song?
A：你聽小甜甜布蘭妮的新歌了嗎？B: Yes. It's pop-tastic! I love it.
B：聽了。是首精彩的流行歌曲。我很喜歡。A: Did you have a good time yesterday?
A：你昨天過得愉快嗎？B: It was so much fun. Fun-tastic! Ha ha.
B：過得非常愉快。非常有趣！哈哈。Wang Fei: Wow, very good examples. So can I say example-tastic?
王飛：哇，這些例子真好。那我可以說精彩的例句嗎？Finn: Example-tastic, you can! Now, this way of making new words is very informal–it comes from pop culture–so you probably wouldn't see it in a business letter.
芬恩：當然可以了！其實這種製造新詞的方法是非正式的，來源於流行文化，所以你在商務信函中可能不會看到這種用法。Wang Fei: So, it's not business-tastic?!
王飛：那這不是商業詞彙嗎？Finn: It's not business-tastic. Not really, unless you work in an industry like fashion or pop music. Anyway, I think it's time to tell our listeners about our website.
芬恩：不是商業用語。除非你在時尚或是流行文化等領域中工作。好了，我想現在是時候告訴聽衆朋友我們網址的時間了。Wang Fei: Yes, and our web-tastic site ! You can learn English for free, and even download programmes to your mp3 player.
王飛：對，我們精彩的網址爲！你可以免費學習英語，也可以下載節目音頻。Finn: Yes, it's download-tastic! Time to go, now. Bye!
芬恩：對，很棒的下載！現在該結束節目了。再見！Wang Fei: Bye!
王飛：再見！
重點講解：
1. be related to
相關；有關聯；
eg. It's always been clear that their intense reactions have been directly related to their emotional wiring.
有一點總是顯而易見，他們強烈的反應與他們的情緒極限直接相關。
eg. It may also be related to childhood.
它也有可能跟童年有關。
2. add to
添加；增加；摻加；
eg. If the tea is too strong, add some hot water to it.
如果茶太濃,加點開水。
eg. His comments are bound to add fuel to the debate.
他的話必將爲爭論推波助瀾。
3. have a good time
過得愉快，玩得痛快；
eg. I hope you have a good time on Christmas Day.
祝你聖誕節玩得開心。
eg. I'm sure we'll have a good time.
我相信我們會很開心的。
