Name: 簡易英語詞彙：金錢俚語和表達法 (EASY ENGLISH VOCABULARY: Money Slang & Expressions)
Uploaded: 2025-07-22T18:48:28.000Z
Duration: 10 min 57 s

In today's video, we're going to talk about money.

在今天的視頻中，我們要談談錢。

Now, more specifically, we're going to talk about how we talk about money in terms of slang and in terms of certain expressions or idioms, right?

現在，更具體地說，我們要談談如何用俚語和某些表達方式或成語來談論金錢，對嗎？

And we're going to talk the way people refer to money in everyday life.

我們將討論人們在日常生活中提及金錢的方式。

So, you may have already heard some of these expressions, but what we call the different coins, the different bills, sometimes they have nicknames.

所以，你可能已經聽說過其中的一些說法，但我們所說的不同硬幣、不同鈔票，有時也有綽號。

So, for example, one cent, which is 0.01 dollar, is called a penny.

例如，1 美分（相當於 0.01 美元）被稱為 1 便士。

Now, for those of you who might not know, in Canada, we don't have pennies anymore.

現在，對於那些可能不知道的人來說，在加拿大，我們已經沒有便士了。

We got rid of them, and the numbers are just rounded up or down to the nearest nickel.

我們把它們去掉了，數字只是四捨五入到最接近的五分錢。

Now, most of these are both US and Canada.

現在，其中大部分都是美國和加拿大。

In US and Canada, we say pennies, nickels, 10 cents is a dime, 25 cents is a quarter, okay?

在美國和加拿大，我們說一分錢、五分錢，10 美分是一角，25 美分是 25 美分，好嗎？

Here, we got other slight differences in the dollar.

在這裡，美元還有其他細微差別。

是以，在加拿大，美元就是一枚硬幣。

是以，在加拿大，我們稱之為 "loonie"。

現在，它為什麼被稱為 "盧尼"？

Because if you look at a Canadian dollar, on one side, you will see a bird, just a bird floating in water.

因為如果你看加元的一面，你會看到一隻鳥，只是一隻漂浮在水面上的鳥。

It's called the loon, which is why we nicknamed the coin the loonie.

它被稱作 "loon"，這也是我們給硬幣起綽號 "loonie "的原因。

Now, a few years after the introduction of the dollar coin, the government introduced a two dollar coin.

現在，在推出一元硬幣幾年後，政府又推出了兩元硬幣。

Now, because we already had a loonie, of course, we needed a nickname for the two dollars, so we called it a toonie, just so they rhyme.

現在，因為我們已經有了盧尼（loonie），當然，我們需要為這兩美元取一個暱稱，所以我們叫它 "託尼"（toonie），這樣就押韻了。

In the US, they don't have a two dollar bill or coin.

在美國，他們沒有兩美元的紙幣或硬幣。

But, in both countries, you can say one dollar is a buck, or you can say any dollar amount, you can say buck or bucks.

但是，在這兩個國家，你可以說一美元是一塊錢，也可以說任何一塊錢，你可以說一塊錢或一塊錢。

Buck basically means dollar, so one buck or a buck, five bucks, ten bucks, a hundred bucks.

Buck 基本上是美元的意思，所以 1 塊錢或 1 塊錢、5 塊錢、10 塊錢、100 塊錢都有。

Loonie is only one dollar, toonie is only two dollars.

盧尼只有一美元，託尼只有兩美元。

A five dollar bill, both countries have bills, a common nickname is a fiver.

五美元鈔票，兩個國家都有鈔票，常見的暱稱是五塊錢。

But, again, not everybody uses it, but in case you do hear it, you understand a fiver means a five dollar bill.

不過，也不是每個人都會用這個詞，但萬一你聽到了，你就會明白五塊錢是指五美元的鈔票。

There's a company that sells products and services for five bucks or less, and it's called Fiver2.

有一家公司以五美元或更低的價格銷售產品和服務，它叫 Fiver2。

Some people call a ten dollar bill a ten spot, sometimes they'll say twenty spot, but not as common.

有些人稱 10 美元的鈔票為 10 點，有時也會說是 20 點，但並不常見。

And twenty dollars is twenty dollars, but notice that I don't say twenty dollars, I say twenty.

20 美元就是 20 美元，但注意我說的不是 20 美元，而是 20。

Most people will say twenty, they just take the t off because it's just shorter and easier.

大多數人都會說二十歲，他們只是把 T 去掉了，因為這樣更短更容易。

Okay, so that's how we talk about the money itself.

好了，這就是我們談論錢本身的方式。

The hundred dollar bill, you might hear people refer to as a C note.

你可能會聽到人們把百元大鈔稱為 C 紙幣。

From Latin, cent meaning one hundred, or even from French, meaning one hundred.

源自拉丁語，cent 意為 "一百"，甚至源自法語，意為 "一百"。

Or the Roman numeral C equals one hundred, so some people might call it a C note.

或者羅馬數字 C 等於一百，所以有些人會稱之為 C 註釋。

In the US, they might call it a Benjamin, because on one side of the hundred dollar bill, there's a portrait of a man, that's Benjamin Franklin, that's who's on the hundred dollar bill.

在美國，他們可能稱之為本傑明，因為在百元大鈔的一面，有一個人的肖像，那就是本傑明-富蘭克林，他就是百元大鈔上的人。

When people talk about the Benjamins, they're referring to money in general.

當人們談論本傑明時，他們指的是一般的錢。

So, now, we also have a few expressions that include money terms.

是以，現在我們也有一些包含貨幣術語的表達式。

So, if we're talking about dime a dozen, so dime, ten cents, dozen means twelve.

所以，如果我們說的是一毛一打，那麼一毛就是 10 美分，一打就是 12 美分。

If something's a dime a dozen, it means it's very common, nothing special.

如果某樣東西一打都沒有，那就意味著它很普通，沒有什麼特別之處。

So, for example, if you buy bagels in the old days, now you can't buy anything for ten cents, but in the old days, you could buy, like, twelve bagels for a dime.

所以，舉個例子，如果你在過去買百吉餅，現在 10 美分你買不到任何東西，但在過去，你可以用 1 美分買到 12 個百吉餅。

It was actually cheaper to buy a dozen than to buy individual items, right?

其實買一打比買單件便宜，不是嗎？

So, now, when we talk about something that's cheap and not very special, or very common, or it's everywhere, or nobody cares so much about it, it's a dime a dozen.

是以，現在當我們談論一些廉價的、不太特別的，或者很常見的，或者隨處可見的，或者沒人太在意的東西時，它就成了一打一打的硬幣。

我可以一打一角錢買到這些東西。

So, for example, somebody says, oh, my friend is a very good English teacher.

例如，有人說，哦，我的朋友是一位非常優秀的英語老師。

And you say, well, listen, I live in Canada, I could get English teachers at a dime a dozen.

然後你說，好吧，聽著，我住在加拿大，我可以一毛錢一打地找英語老師。

Means English teachers are very common, they're nothing special in Canada.

在加拿大，手段英語教師很常見，沒有什麼特別之處。

In some other countries where there aren't many English teachers, a Canadian teacher would be a very valuable asset.

在其他一些英語教師不多的國家，加拿大教師將是非常寶貴的財富。

So, nickel-and-dime, so nickel-and-dime, we use this expression in two ways.

所以，"一毛不拔"，"一毛不拔"，我們有兩種用法。

It could be an adjective, or it could be a verb.

可以是形容詞，也可以是動詞。

As an adjective, when you're talking about a nickel-and-dime store, or a nickel-and-dime production, it means very cheap, not very high quality.

作為一個形容詞，當你談論 "一毛錢商店 "或 "一毛錢產品 "時，它的意思是非常便宜，品質不高。

Because everything costs, like, a nickel or a dime, there was nothing expensive in it.

因為每樣東西的價格都差不多是五分錢或一角錢，所以並不昂貴。

To nickel-and-dime someone means to try to bargain a little bit too much for, like, little things that don't really matter.

斤斤計較是指在一些無關緊要的小事上討價還價。

So, if I go to buy a car, and the car is, let's say, $20,000, and I say, come on, just give me a discount, like a $100 discount.

所以，如果我去買一輛車，這輛車的價格是 2 萬美元，我說，拜託，給我打個折吧，比如 100 美元的折扣。

And he goes, why are you trying to nickel-and-dime me?

他就說，你為什麼要給我錢呢？

Just buy the car and get your value out of it some other way.

買下這輛車，然後通過其他方式來實現它的價值。

So, to nickel-and-dime means to try to get a discount, or to try to be cheap about something, or to try to get somebody to do something a little bit more, or for a little bit less.

所以，"斤斤計較 "的意思就是想方設法打折扣，或者在某些事情上耍小聰明，或者想方設法讓別人多做一點，或者少做一點。

But very little, it almost makes no difference.

Next, if somebody is counting pennies, so pennies, counting pennies means worried about everything they spend.

接下來，如果有人在數便士，那麼便士，數便士就意味著擔心他們所花的每一分錢。

So, if you go to the store, and you say, okay, you want to buy a can of tuna, let's say.

所以，如果你去商店，你說，好吧，你想買一罐金槍魚，比方說。

Okay, I'll buy this one because it's cheaper.

好吧，我買這個，因為它更便宜。

If you're counting pennies, you're already very worried about money, and maybe you don't have much money, or maybe you're just the type of person who worries for no reason, right?

如果你在數一分錢，那麼你已經非常擔心錢的問題了，也許你沒有多少錢，也許你就是那種無緣無故擔心的人，對嗎？

So, counting pennies, worried too much about money.

所以，數著一分錢，太擔心錢了。

A penny pincher, when we call somebody a penny pincher, it means they're pinching.

當我們稱某人為 "吝嗇鬼 "時，意思是他們吝嗇。

They don't like to let go of the money, so if you try to take their penny, they're pinching it really hard.

他們不喜歡放手，所以如果你想拿走他們的一分錢，他們會掐得很緊。

Very cheap person, a person who doesn't like to spend money, always tries to save as much as he can or she can.

非常摳門的人，不喜歡花錢，總是能省則省。

To give your two cents worth, if somebody offers their two cents worth, or asks you for your two cents worth, they're basically asking for your opinion.

如果有人提出他的兩分錢價值，或者問你的兩分錢價值，基本上就是在徵求你的意見。

If I want to give my two cents worth, I want to give my opinion.

如果我想發表自己的看法，我就想發表自己的意見。

For some reason, opinions are worth two cents.

出於某種原因，意見就值兩美分。

Cents basically means pennies, so two pennies.

美分的基本意思是便士，所以是兩個便士。

This must be a very old expression, because I think opinions are worth a lot more than two cents these days, but the expression stuck.

這一定是一個很古老的說法，因為我認為現在的意見比兩美分值錢得多，但這個說法還是被堅持了下來。

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