Name: Numpty、Gobsmacked 是什麼？英國人才懂的用語一次搞懂！ (How well do you know your British terms? | A-Z of ISMs Episode 2 - BBC Ideas)
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Duration: 2 min 49 s

情態副詞

Britishism, a term denoting a word or phrase that only functions properly and without footnotes in the United Kingdom, but

英式語彙：一種只有在英國本土才能順利運作、且無需註解的詞語或片語，

which has begun to spread across the globe like a cup of tea spilt over a map of the world.

但如今它們開始像灑在世界地圖上的一杯紅茶般，向全球蔓延。

Numpty - for a person you consider to be not as clever as you.

Numpty —— 用來形容你認為比你笨的人。

Muppet - for a person you consider to be not as clever as you.

Muppet —— 用來形容你認為比你笨的人。

Fancy —— 如同「I fancy you」（我喜歡你）。

Gobsmacked - for being startled or amazed.

Gobsmacked —— 表示震驚、驚訝。

I'm gobsmacked that you fancy that numpty would have been unfathomable a few years ago,

「我震驚於你居然喜歡那個笨蛋」這句話在幾年前還難以想像，

but even Obama has used the word gobsmacked, and he's no numpty.

但連歐巴馬都用過 gobsmacked，而他可不是笨蛋。

A British person in that vast area of the Atlas that he calls abroad.

一位英國人來到他稱為「國外」的廣大地區。

Someone behind a counter in a shop says, "How are you?"

店裡櫃台後的人問：「你好嗎？」

And the British person replies,"Fine, thanks. How are you?"

而那位英國人回答：「很好，謝謝，你呢？」

Which, of course, the person behind the counter wasn't expecting.

當然，櫃台後的人完全沒預料到這種回答。

To the British person, it's a genuine question.

對英國人來說，那是一個真誠的問題。

To the rest of the world is just a little flag in the foothills of the day's conversation.

對世界其他地方的人來說，那只是一天對話中的小小開場旗子。

Although the word Britishism was first uttered in the 19th century,

雖然「Britishism」這個詞在 19 世紀便已出現，

it's become more prominent in recent years for reasons that are hard to fathom, but

但近年來變得更普遍，原因難以理解，不過

which may have something to do with the international spread of Englishers and the way that when they rub against each other, sparks can fly.

也許與英語使用者在全球的流動有關，當他們互相接觸時，就會產生語言火花。

Every country, every region will have its own isms, of course.

當然，每個國家、每個地區都有自己的「主義」。

There'll be Frenchisms and Australianisms, and Canadianisms, and

有法式語彙、澳式語彙、加拿大式語彙，等等。

they begin, I guess, with the micro languages within national borders that don't travel too far, or didn't travel too far before we all began to travel.

我猜，它們可能都從國家內的小語系開始，那些語用在地理上不會傳得太遠， 或至少在大家開始大量旅行之前不會傳太遠。

Within Britain, there are various local words that are their own postcode versions of Britishisms,

英國內部也有許多地方性用語，它們是帶有郵遞區號特色的英式語彙，

not moving far across what linguists call an isogloss, a place where language use changes over a small geographical space.

不會跨越太遠的語言邊界——語言學家稱之為「等語線」， 一個語言在很小地理範圍內就會變化的地方。

So in the British Isles you could say, "Come in, pal, mate, mucker, lovey."

因此，在英國群島你可以說：「進來吧，pal、mate、mucker、lovey。」

「進來吧，flower、petal，坐下。」

Sit down on the sofa or the settee in the front room, the sitting room, the living room, the other room, the lounge.

坐在 sofa、settee、front room、sitting room、living room、other room、lounge。

The essence of the Britishism is perhaps the essence of the British psyche.

英式語彙的本質，也許就是英國人性格的本質。

Eccentric, self-effacing, gently poking fun at itself.

古怪、自謙、溫和地嘲弄自己。

To be a train spotter with your notebook scribbling down the numbers of the engines as they trundle by is a very British thing.

拿著筆記本記錄火車頭經過時的編號，這件事非常英國。

Spotting last one with an open notebook is a numpty.

最後一個拿著打開筆記本記錄的人是個笨蛋（numpty）。