Name: 【聽Podcast學英文】6 分鐘學「俚語」！ (English Rewind - 6 Minute English: Slang)
Uploaded: 2025-09-09T21:01:10.000Z
Duration: 6 min 35 s

Hello. Catherine here from BBC Learning English.

你好。我是 BBC 學英文的凱瑟琳。

程度副詞

Just so you know, this programme is from the BBC Learning English Archive and was first broadcast in September 2016 on our website.

請注意，本節目來自 BBC 英語學習檔案，於 2016 年 9 月在我們的網站上首次播出。

Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I'm Alice.

大家好，歡迎來到 6 Minute English。我是愛麗絲。

You're sounding a bit strange today, Alice.

你今天聽起來有點奇怪，愛麗絲。

Slang, or informal language used by a particular group, is the subject of today's show and I was just demonstrating a couple of slang words that mean money.

俚語，即特定群體使用的非正式語言，是今天節目的主題，我剛才示範了幾個表示錢的俚語。

Dosh is a general term for money and a smacker is a British pound or US dollar.

Dosh 是貨幣的統稱，smacker 是英鎊或美元。

OK, so Cockney rhyming slang is a type of slang.

"倫敦腔押韻俚語 "是俚語的一種。

It's a coded language invented in the 19th century by Cockneys so they could speak in front of the police without being understood.

它是一種由倫敦考克尼人（Cockneys）在19世紀創造的密碼語言，讓他們能在警察面前說話而不被理解。

And still on the subject of money, I have a question for you, Alice.

還是關於錢的話題，我有個問題要問你，愛麗絲。

什麼是表示錢的考克尼押韻俚語？

是 a. 麵包、b. 蜂蜜還是 c. 麵糰？

I bet you didn't know, Neil, that I'm a Cockney.

我打賭你不知道我是個倫敦佬。

Oh, don't Adam and Eve it, Alice. That's a pork pie.

哦，不要亞當和夏娃，愛麗絲。那是豬肉餡餅。

Adam and Eve means believe and pork pie means lie.

亞當和夏娃意味著相信，豬肉派意味著謊言。

Actually, you're right, I'm not a Cockney.

事實上，你說得對，我不是倫敦人。

To be considered a Cockney, you need to be born within hearing distance of the bells of St Mary-le-Bow church in what is now the city of London.

要被認為是考克尼人（Cockney），你必須出生在倫敦市內聖瑪麗勒博教堂（St Mary-le-Bow）鐘聲能夠傳到的範圍內。

Indeed. Now, slang, as we've said, is colloquial or informal language and it's characteristic of specific social groups.

的確如此。我們已經說過，俚語是口語或非正式語言，是特定社會群體的特徵。

We usually use it in informal conversation rather than in writing or more formal situations like a job interview.

我們通常在非正式談話中使用它，而不是在寫作或求職面試等更正式的場合。

We change the way we speak so that what we say is appropriate for a particular situation.

我們改變說話的方式，使我們所說的話適合特定的情況。

So you surprised me earlier, Alice, by talking about dosh and smackers because it didn't seem appropriate for presenting the show.

愛麗絲，你剛才說到 "鈔票 "和 "小錢 "讓我很吃驚，因為這似乎不適合主持節目。

Slang use is often frowned upon or disapproved of.

俚語的使用往往受到人們的鄙視或反對。

Let's listen to Jonathan Green, a lexicographer of slang, talking about who uses slang and how this has changed.

讓我們聽聽俚語詞典編纂者喬納森-格林（Jonathan Green）講述誰在使用俚語以及俚語是如何變化的。

Here he is on the Radio 4 programme Word of Mouth.

下面是他在第四電臺節目 Word of Mouth 中的發言。

Slang does have a bad reputation and I would say this comes from its earliest collection which was of criminal slang in the 1500s, in the 16th century, and it was associated with bad people and inevitably that has lingered.

俚語的名聲確實不好，我認為這源於它最早的版本，即 15 世紀（16 世紀）的犯罪俚語，它與壞人聯繫在一起，不可避免地流傳下來。

But now, in the last 40, 50 years, it's changed.

但現在，在過去的四、五十年裡，情況發生了變化。

The definitions tend to stress different and jocular, funny, humorous, inventive, that kind of thing.

這些定義往往強調與眾不同、戲謔、滑稽、幽默、別出心裁，諸如此類。

So we have records of 16th century slang in collections or dictionaries, words used by criminals as a code so they could talk without being understood, and this bad reputation has lingered or been slow to disappear.

我們在藏書或字典中看到了 16 世紀俚語的記錄，這些詞被罪犯用作暗語，以便他們說話時不被人聽懂。

But for the last 50 years we've been using slang to be funny and creative as well as to show belonging to a particular group.

但在過去的 50 年裡，我們一直在使用俚語來表現自己的幽默感和創造力，以及表明自己屬於某個特定群體。

And apparently we're very creative when talking about drinking and being drunk.

顯然，我們在談論喝酒和醉酒時很有創意。

The slang word booze, meaning alcohol, comes from the 13th century Dutch word boezen.

俚語 booze 的意思是酒精，來自 13 世紀的荷蘭語 boezen。

And there are hundreds of slang expressions to talk about drink and being drunk – on the sauce, in your cups, half-cut, hammered, squiffy, tipsy, wasted, legless and many, many more that are far too rude to mention in this programme.

還有數以百計的俚語來形容喝酒和喝醉的樣子--蘸醬、杯中物、半截、錘子、眯眯眼、微醺、浪費、無腿，還有很多很多，在本節目中就不一一贅述了。

Yes. So while these terms might not be strictly acceptable or appropriate in formal contexts, they aren't offensive.

雖然這些術語在正式場合可能並不被嚴格接受或恰當，但它們並不具有攻擊性。

They are often amusing and help people bond in social groups.

它們通常很有趣，有助於人們在社會群體中建立聯繫。

By contrast, swear words, or profanity, means rude language that offends or upsets people.

相比之下，髒話或褻瀆是指冒犯或使人不快的粗魯語言。

And I'm not going to give any examples because that would be inappropriate and impolite, Alice.

我不打算舉例說明，因為那樣做不合適，也不禮貌，愛麗絲。

OK. Let's listen now to Jonathan Green and presenter Michael Rosen talking about jargon, another type of in-group language.

好，現在讓我們來聽聽 Jonathan Green 和主持人 Michael Rosen 談談「行話」，這是另一種類型的圈內語言。

Jargon, what I would call is small o occupational, small p professional slang.

行話，我會稱之為小寫的「職業性」（occupational）、小寫的「專業性」（professional）俚語。

You get legal jargon, you get naval jargon.

I've been reading Patrick O'Brien recently and that's awash with futtock plates and fiddying the deck.

我最近一直在讀派崔克・歐布萊恩（Patrick O'Brien）的作品，裡面充滿了像是 futtock plates 和 fiddying the deck 這類術語。

這裡是第四臺，喬納森小心點。

Jonathan Green in another segment of the BBC Radio 4 programme, Word of Mouth.

喬納森・格林（Jonathan Green）在 BBC Radio 4 節目《Word of Mouth》的另一個單元中登場。

So he says jargon is occupational and professional, meaning people speak it at work, for example, lawyers and sailors.

他說行話是職業和專業用語，意思是人們在工作中使用，例如律師和水手。

A futtock plate is, I believe, an iron plate attached to the top of a ship's mast.

我認為，Futtock 板是連接在船桅頂端的鐵板。

But I don't know much about this subject.

Jargon is the technical language belonging to a specific group and to outsiders this jargon is often hard to understand.

行話是屬於特定群體的技術語言，外人往往難以理解。

Yes, and here in the studio I can use all the radio jargon that I like.

是的，在錄音室裡，我可以隨心所欲地使用廣播術語。

Look at my faders here, Alice, going down and up and up and I'm just testing our levels.

愛麗絲，看看我這裡的音量推桿，一下降、一下升，我只是在測試我們的音量等級。

It controls the level of sound on a studio deck.

它用來控制錄音室控制台上的音量大小。

Now it's time for the answer to today's quiz question, Neil.

現在該回答今天的問答題了，尼爾。

I asked you, what's Cockney rhyming slang for money?

我問你，考克尼押韻俚語中「錢」的說法是什麼？

是 a 麵包、b 蜂蜜還是 c 麵糰？

Cockney rhyming slang uses just the first word of a phrase that rhymes with the word we're trying to disguise.

倫敦腔押韻俚語只使用短語中與我們要偽裝的單詞押韻的第一個單詞。

So money becomes bread and honey, but we just say bread.

錢變成了麵包和蜂蜜，但我們只說麵包。

OK, so let's recap on the words we've learnt today.

好了，讓我們來回顧一下今天所學的單詞。

slang, dosh, smacker, Cockney rhyming slang, colloquial,

俚語、錢、一英鎊/一美元、倫敦押韻俚語、口語、

frowned upon, lingered, booze, swear, profanity, jargon.

皺眉、逗留、酗酒、咒罵、褻瀆、行話。

Well, that's the end of today's 6 Minute English.

好了，今天的 6 分鐘英語到此結束。