Name: 成年人購買兒童玩具 ⏲️ 6 Minute English (Grown-ups buying kids’ toys ⏲️ 6 Minute English)
Uploaded: 2025-09-02T14:51:29.000Z
Duration: 6 min 16 s

Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Phil.

您好。這裡是 BBC Learning English 頻道的 6 分鐘英語。我是菲爾 I'm Phil.

And I'm Beth. Action figures, building bricks, stuffed cuddly animals – there's a whole world of toys that many of us have forgotten since we were children. Do you still have any toys from when you were a boy, Phil?

我是貝絲。玩偶、積木、毛絨玩具--這些玩具的種類繁多，我們中的許多人已經忘記了自己的童年。你還有小時候的玩具嗎，菲爾？

有幾個，但我把它們給了我的孩子們。

Well, nowadays, grown-ups playing with toys is more common than you might think. Recent estimates suggest that adults buying kids' toys for themselves account for between 30 and 40 per cent of the entire toy market. So many that advertisers have come up with a term for them – kidults – adults who are interested in toys and games intended for children.

如今，大人玩玩具比你想象的要普遍得多。據最新估計，為自己購買兒童玩具的成年人佔整個玩具市場的 30%至 40%。成年人的數量之多，以至於廣告商為他們想出了一個術語--"大人"（kidults）--對兒童玩具和遊戲感興趣的成年人。

Between last October and December alone, American kidults spent over $1.5 billion on toys for themselves. Among the most popular were plush toys, or plushies for short – toy dolls or animals made from cloth and filled with soft material. And like other recent trends, the toy trend is being driven by online shoppers and social media.

僅在去年 10 月至 12 月間，美國兒童為自己購買玩具的花費就超過了 15 億美元。其中最受歡迎的是毛絨玩具，簡稱 "毛絨玩具"--用布料製成並填充柔軟材料的玩具娃娃或動物。與最近的其他趨勢一樣，玩具趨勢也是由網上購物者和社交媒體推動的。

In this episode, we'll meet a children's toy maker and an online influencer who were both involved in the increasing trend of adults interested in kids' toys. We'll also learn some useful new vocabulary and remember you'll find a transcript for this episode, along with all the new words and phrases, on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.

在本集中，我們將認識一位兒童玩具製造商和一位網絡影響者，他們都參與了成年人對兒童玩具越來越感興趣的趨勢。我們還將學習一些有用的新詞彙，請記住，您可以在我們的網站 bbclearningenglish.com 上找到本集的文字記錄以及所有新詞和短語。

But first, I have a question for you, Beth. Lego remains one of the most popular and expensive children's toys. So, according to MSN News, what was the most expensive Lego set ever made? Was it… a. The Lego Harry Potter Hogwarts School b. The Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon c. The Lego Eiffel Tower

但首先，我要問你一個問題，貝絲。樂高仍然是最受歡迎和最昂貴的兒童玩具之一。那麼，根據 MSN 新聞，有史以來最昂貴的樂高套裝是什麼？是...... a. 樂高哈利波特霍格沃茨學校 b. 樂高星球大戰千年隼 c. 樂高埃菲爾鐵塔

I'm going to guess Hogwarts, because I like Harry Potter.

我猜是霍格沃茨，因為我喜歡《哈利-波特》。

OK, well, we'll find out the answer later in the programme.

好吧，我們稍後會在節目中找到答案。

Lisa Lee is a toy maker based in Vancouver and the owner of Leather Monsters, a brand of leather plushies which she advertises online. Here, Lisa tells BBC World Service programme

麗莎-李（Lisa Lee）是溫哥華的一名玩具製造商，也是皮革怪獸（Leather Monsters）品牌的擁有者。在這裡，麗莎向英國廣播公司世界服務節目

Business Daily how she reconnected with her love of toys as an adult.

商業日報》介紹了她成年後如何重新找回對玩具的熱愛。

Once I kind of had a stable job with disposable income, I kind of rediscovered my love for soft toys and I started buying them again because I've always loved collecting things because, you know, they bring me happiness, they bring me joy and I think also a big pillar of my channel and my content is reconnecting with my childhood and healing that inner child and I think the toys also play a part in that.

一旦我有了一份穩定的工作，有了可支配收入，我就重新發現了自己對軟體玩具的熱愛，我又開始購買它們，因為我一直喜歡收集東西，你知道，它們給我帶來快樂，給我帶來喜悅，我認為我的頻道和內容的一大支柱就是重新與我的童年建立聯繫，治癒內心的童年，我認為玩具也在其中發揮了作用。

Lisa started collecting toys as an adult with a job and disposable income. Disposable income is the money you have left over after paying all your expenses. You can use it to buy whatever you like.

麗莎是在有工作和可支配收入的成年人時開始收集玩具的。可支配收入是指支付所有開支後剩下的錢。你可以用它買任何你喜歡的東西。

Soft, cuddly toys make Lisa happy and help her reconnect with her inner child. A term from psychology which describes the part of your adult personality that still feels and reacts like a child.

柔軟可愛的玩具能讓麗莎感到快樂，並幫助她重新與內心的孩子建立聯繫。這是心理學中的一個術語，描述的是成人人格中仍像孩子一樣感覺和反應的部分。

Besides the adults who sell kids' toys are the adults who buy them. Jay Glatfelter is an enthusiastic toy collector and influencer who makes YouTube videos under the name Geek

除了賣兒童玩具的成年人，還有買兒童玩具的成年人。Jay Glatfelter 是一位熱情的玩具收藏家和有影響力的人，他以 Geek 為名在 YouTube 上製作視頻。

Dad Life. Here's Jay talking about the link between Covid lockdowns and the rise in adults' toy collecting to BBC World Service's Business Daily.

爸爸的生活以下是傑伊向英國廣播公司世界服務頻道《商業日報》（BBC World Service's Business Daily）談及 Covid 封鎖與成人玩具收藏興起之間的聯繫。

And then what happened was a whole bunch of new collectors kind of jumped into toy collecting and for those of us that were into it before, we saw the prices, the secondary market prices like explode once the pandemic happened because you had people that had time on their hands, maybe they had extra money because they're not spending it by going out and now they're putting it into collecting toys.

然後發生的事情是，一大批新的收藏者加入了玩具收藏的行列，而對於我們這些以前從事玩具收藏的人來說，我們看到，一旦大流行發生，價格、二級市場價格就像爆炸了一樣，因為人們手上有了時間，也許他們有了多餘的錢，因為他們沒有把錢花在外出上，現在他們把錢花在了收集玩具上。

During the pandemic, people had time on their hands, an idiom meaning to have a lot of free time and nothing to do with it. Many adults went online hoping to find the toys they remembered from childhood.

在大流行病期間，人們手頭 "空閒"。"空閒 "這個成語的意思是有很多空閒時間卻無事可做。許多成年人上網，希望找到兒時記憶中的玩具。

As a result, a whole bunch, meaning a large number, of people started collecting toys and slowly but surely demand increased and prices went up.

是以，一大批人開始收集玩具，慢慢地，需求增加，價格上漲。

Yes, it seems that the feeling of rediscovering your childhood, reported by many adult toy collectors, comes at a price with the cost of collectible items like Pokemon cards and

是的，許多成人玩具收藏者都說，重新找回童年的感覺似乎是要付出代價的，比如口袋妖怪卡和 "小精靈 "等收藏品。

Jebby Cat plushies increasing dramatically during the pandemic.

大流行期間，傑比貓毛絨玩具急劇增加。

And speaking of expensive toys, Phil, isn't it time you reveal the answer to your question?

說到昂貴的玩具，菲爾，你是不是該揭曉問題的答案了？

Ah yes, I asked you what was the most expensive Lego set ever made? You said it was the Lego

對了，我問你史上最貴的樂高套裝是什麼？你說是樂高

Hogwarts School. Well, I'm afraid the answer is actually the Lego Star Wars Millennium

霍格沃茨學校。恐怕答案是樂高《星球大戰千年之戰》。

Falcon, which had a UK retail price of £734.99, according to MSN News.

據 MSN 新聞報道，Falcon 在英國的零售價為 734.99 英鎊。

OK, it's time to recap the vocabulary we've learned, starting with Kidult, an adult who likes playing with toys and games intended for children.

好了，是時候回顧一下我們學過的詞彙了，首先是 Kidult，一個喜歡玩兒童玩具和遊戲的成年人。

Plushie is short for plush toy, a toy doll or animal stuffed with a soft cloth filling.

Plushie 是毛絨玩具的簡稱，是一種用柔軟的布填充的玩具娃娃或動物。

Your disposable income is the amount of money you have left to buy whatever you want after paying your expenses.

您的可支配收入是指您在支付開支後，還能用來購買任何您想要的東西的錢。

Someone's inner child refers to the part of their adult personality that still feels and reacts like a child.

一個人的內在小孩指的是其成人人格中仍有小孩感覺和反應的部分。

A bunch is a number of things, often a large number of things.

"一堆 "是指很多東西，往往是很多東西。

And finally, the idiom to have time on your hands means having free time and nothing much to do with it.

最後，"空閒 "這個成語的意思是有空閒時間，但沒有什麼事情可做。

But remember, you'll find episodes about plenty more trending topics, along with a quiz and worksheet for this episode, on our website bbclearningenglish.com.

但請記住，您可以在我們的網站 bbclearningenglish.com 上找到有關更多熱門話題的劇集，以及本劇集的測驗和工作表。

See you there soon, but for now, it's goodbye!

我們很快就會在那裡見面，但現在，我們要道別了！