BBC地道英語口語:Pants 差勁倒黴
Are this clown's pants "pants"?
Neil: Hello, this is Real English from BBC Learning English, I’m Neil
Helen: And I’m Helen. Hello!
Neil: In Real English, we look at words and phrases that you might not find in your dictionary.
Helen: 和漢語一樣，英語語言裏是充滿了成語和口語詞的，所以學習和了解這些短語和口語詞是非常有用的。尤其這些説法和語言都是英國人日常説到用到的。那Neil，我們今天要來學習的新詞是什麼呢？
Neil: Today’s expression is pants. P-A-N-T-S.
Helen: What? Pants, 不是短褲的意思嗎？
Neil: Well, yes pants is another word for underwear in British English but this is also a word that people use nowadays to mean rubbish.
Helen: Rubbish 就是沒用、差勁兒的意思，那pants也是這個意思嗎? Neil，你能給我們舉個例子説説嗎？
Neil: Well anything that you think is rubbish you can say 'pants'. I didn’t like the film, I thought it was pants.
Helen: 原來如果我們要説某件東西很沒用，很沒意思的話，我們就可以用Pants這個詞。
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A: Oh no, I’ve forgotten my train pass – pants!
B: Oh no, I guess you’ll have to buy a ticket today then.
A: Have you seen the news? The Madonna concerts have been cancelled!
B: Pants, I was really looking forward to that!
Helen: 這麼聽來，Pants這個詞的用法又不同了。就是如果某件不好的事情發生了，你可以用Pants來表達你胸中的不快或憤懣。就像咱們中國話説得“氣死我了”“太倒黴了”一樣。
Neil: I tell you what is pants Helen…
Helen: What’s that then Neil?
Neil: Well we’ve reached the end of the programme…
Helen: That is pants…好了讓我們來回顧一下，今天我們學到的英國通俗口語詞是pants，可以是很沒用、很差勁的意思，也可以當作一個感歎號一樣來宣泄一下不快的情緒“真氣人”“太倒黴了”都可以用pants來替代。
Neil: And that’s all we have time for today. You’ve been listening to Real English from BBC Learning English. We’ll see you next time.
Helen: Bye for now.
