Name: 私密生活. 第5集 | BBC Learning English (Private Lives. Part 5. | BBC Learning English.)
Uploaded: 2026-02-26T12:58:37.000Z
Duration: 9 min 28 s

At the moment I like boys with quite long hair also.

我現在也喜歡頭髮比較長的男生。

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They'd have to be quite a lot like me, like the same things, but

他們要跟我很像，喜歡一樣的東西，但是

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not treat me like a girl, treat me like more like a friend.

不要把我當女生，把我當成比較像朋友。

I have seen the perfect boy actually who I walk past every day as I go to school.

其實我每天去學校都會經過我理想中的男孩。

But boys in general, as long as they've got a good personality, although that sounds like a cliche, it is true, that is the only thing that really matters.

不過男生總的來說，只要他們個性好，雖然聽起來有點老套，但這是真的，那才是真正重要的。

But good taste in music and clothes also helps.

不過好的音樂和穿著品味也有加分作用。

Anna is 15 years old and she goes to Prendergast School, a secondary school in South East London.

Anna 15 歲，就讀位於倫敦東南區的 Prendergast School 中學。

Like most teenagers, Anna's very interested in pop music and clothes and she juggles school studies with spending time with her friends.

就像大部分的青少年一樣，Anna 對流行音樂和服裝很有興趣，她會在課業和與朋友相處的時間之間取得平衡。

During the program we'll hear Anna talk about where she lives and her favourite pop bands.

在節目中，我們會聽到 Anna 聊聊她住的地方和她最喜歡的流行樂團。

First, Anna describes her bedroom at home.

首先，Anna 描述了她家裡的臥室。

In one corner there are the treasures of a much younger Anna, dolls and teddy bears.

其中一個角落擺著小時候的 Anna 的寶貝，也就是娃娃和泰迪熊。

But there is plenty of evidence of her current passions for fashion magazines and pop music, especially a kind of American pop music called grunge.

不過，也有很多證據顯示她對時尚雜誌和流行音樂的熱情，特別是一種叫做 grunge 的美式流行音樂。

Anna even describes herself as a grunger.

I've got loads of posters on the walls of my favourite bands which are grunge bands and metal bands and.

我的牆上貼滿了我最喜歡的樂團海報，像是 grunge 樂團和 metal 樂團。

And I have a desk with my work concealed inside.

我還有一張書桌，裡面藏著我的功課。

And next to my bed I've got a CD player and speakers and a radio.

床旁邊有 CD 播放器、喇叭和收音機。

As you'll notice on my floor we have a lot of magazines spread everywhere which I haven't tidied up yet.

你會注意到我地板上到處都是雜誌，我還沒整理。

And in the corner of my room I still have my doll's house which I've had since I was about 4.

房間角落裡還有我的娃娃屋，是我大概四歲時就有的。

This is kind of a memory of days gone by when I was a little girl and not a grunger.

這有點像是小時候還不是走龐克風時期的回憶。

I also have dolls and teddies which I still love very much and I can't bring myself to get rid of them so they have to stay there.

我也有很多我還是很喜歡的娃娃和泰迪熊，我捨不得丟掉，所以就讓它們留在這裡。

In another corner of Anna's bedroom is her guitar and she's recently learnt to play several pop songs.

在 Anna 臥室的另一個角落，放著她的吉他，她最近學會了彈奏好幾首流行歌曲。

So on a typical weekday evening before she settles down to do her homework, Anna practises playing songs like Live Forever by Oasis.

所以，在一個典型的平日晚上，在她開始寫功課之前，Anna 會練習彈奏像 Oasis 的〈Live Forever〉這樣的歌。

Oasis is one of the most successful British pop bands of the 1990s.

Oasis 是 1990 年代最成功的英國流行樂團之一。

As well as playing the guitar, Anna listens to something from her CD collection almost every day.

除了彈吉他，Anna 幾乎每天都會聽她 CD 收藏裡的一些音樂。

When I get in from school I generally like to put some music on and listen to rock music, grunge or metal, which is kind of guitar based music.

我放學回家後，通常會放點音樂來聽，聽搖滾樂、龐克或金屬樂，那種以吉他為主的音樂。

I like to listen to Nirvana, Bush, placebo, but

我喜歡聽 Nirvana、Bush、Placebo，但

I also like Oasis, which I've liked quite, quite a few years now.

我也喜歡 Oasis，我喜歡他們已經好、好幾年了。

And I also like to play the music on the guitar and sing it and live forever.

我也喜歡用吉他彈奏這些音樂並跟著唱，還有唱〈Live Forever〉。

Biosis is one of the first songs I actually learnt to play on the guitar, which I'm quite proud of and memories of that song often come back to me.

Biosis 是我學會的第一首吉他曲之一，我為此感到很驕傲，這首歌的記憶也常常回到我腦海裡。

Now Anna introduces us to her best friend, Rebecca.

現在 Anna 要介紹她的好朋友 Rebecca 給我們認識。

They're both in the same class at school and they both face GCSE exams in a few weeks time.

她們同班，而且幾週後就要面臨 GCSE 考試了。

GCSE stands for General Certificate in Secondary Education.

GCSE 是 General Certificate in Secondary Education 的縮寫。

These are the major public exams taken by students at the age of 15 or 16 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

這是英格蘭、威爾斯和北愛爾蘭十五、六歲的學生參加的主要公開考試。

To get a place at college, you have to achieve good results in about six GCSE exams.

要在大學就讀，你大約要在六科 GCSE 考試中取得好成績。

So for students like Anna and Rebecca, the pressure is on.

所以對 Anna 和 Rebecca 這樣的學生來說，壓力很大。

The girls first met when they were 11 years old.

她們兩個第一次見面是在十一歲的時候。

We've known each other for going on about four or five years now.

我們認識彼此大概已經有四年或五年了。

we first met at this school when we both started in the first year.

我們第一次見面是在這間學校，那時候我們都剛升上一年級。

I don't remember exactly how we met, but I think we were talking about subjects.

我不太記得我們是怎麼認識的，但我記得我們那時候在聊功課。

It was one of the first days of school and I think we just hit it off occasionally.

那是開學的頭幾天，我覺得我們好像就這樣偶爾聊了起來。

There are clashes and we have occasional tiffs, I think.

我們也會有意見不合，偶爾會吵架，我想。

But underneath it all we are very good friends and I think the fact that we do occasionally fight shows how close we are to each other.

但說到底我們還是非常好的朋友，我覺得我們偶爾會吵架反而證明瞭我們感情有多好。

It's more like almost sisters than friends because we can talk about anything and we do a lot of stuff together.

我們比較像是姐妹，而不是朋友，因為我們可以聊任何事情，而且我們也會一起做很多事。

I think we're alike in that we both know what we want and we're both quite determined to get that.

我覺得我們很像，因為我們都知道自己想要什麼，而且都很堅定要去達成。

Also, we like the same music and have the sort of same tastes in boys and clothes and a lot of things really television programs.

另外，我們喜歡一樣的音樂，在喜歡的男生、穿著打扮，還有很多事情，像是電視節目上，品味也很像。

But the differences are that perhaps Becca is more forceful and I sometimes stand back a bit.

但不同的是，也許 Becca 比較強勢，而我偶爾會稍微退讓一點。

Rebecca and Anna are wearing their school uniform, but

Rebecca 和 Anna 穿著她們的制服，但

they talk about the kind of clothes that they like to wear out of school, such as heavy boots and baggy trousers.

她們聊到放學後喜歡穿的衣服，像是厚重的靴子和寬鬆的褲子。

Anna explains why they reject girly girl clothes and and dress like tomboys.

Anna 解釋了為什麼她們不喜歡打扮得像個小女生，而是穿得像個假小子。

The reason we want to wear these kind of almost boyish clothes is because we don't want to look like a typical girl with sort of pink dresses and being very good and looking pretty and everything.

我們想穿這種有點像男生的衣服，是因為我們不想看起來像個典型的女生，穿著粉紅色的洋裝，表現得乖巧又漂亮。

We want to take the boys on and show them what we're made of because we can take them on any day and it's a matter of just really throwing away the old kind of girly girl things which your grandma would like and Looking more like a kind of rebel and this is what we want and this is what we do and that's why we wear those clothes.

我們想跟男生一較高下，讓他們知道我們的能耐，因為我們任何時候都能跟他們拚，這只是要拋開奶奶輩喜歡的那種傳統女生風格，看起來更像個叛逆者，這就是我們想要的，這也是我們做的，這就是為什麼我們穿這些衣服。

Anna went on to say that most of the clothes in her bedroom wardrobe are practical unisex clothes like jeans and T shirts.

Anna 接著說，她臥室衣櫃裡的大部分衣服都是實用的中性服飾，像是牛仔褲和 T 恤。

However, she likes boys who look quite feminine and her ideal boyfriend sounds quite extraordinary at the moment.

不過，她喜歡看起來有點陰柔的男生，她理想中的男友聽起來很不尋常。

I like boys with quite long hair who wear makeup and nail varnish, which is a big fashion, as there is a band called Placebo who do and all of them are men but they all look quite feminine, which I find quite attractive and so do a lot of people these days.

我喜歡留長髮、化妝和擦指甲油的男生，這現在很流行，因為有個叫 Placebo 的樂團，他們都是男生，但看起來都很陰柔，我覺得這很有吸引力，現在很多人也是這麼覺得。

Also, they'd have to be quite a lot like me, like the same things, but

另外，他們必須跟我很像，喜歡一樣的東西，但

不要把我當成女生，把我當成比較像朋友。

I have seen the perfect boy actually, who I walk past every day as I go to school.

我其實已經遇見了完美的男孩，每天去學校時都會經過他。

He is absolutely gorgeous and has all these features.

他真的非常帥氣，有著所有這些特徵。

But boys in general, as long as they've got a good personality.

但總體來說，男生只要個性好就好。

Although that sounds like a cliche, it is true, that is the only thing that really matters.

雖然聽起來很老套，但這是真的，那才是唯一真正重要的事。

不過，有好聽的音樂和穿搭品味也會加分。

Next, Anna describes how she would spend an ideal Saturday with her friend Rebecca, shopping, listening to music and talking.

接著，Anna 描述了她會如何和她的朋友 Rebecca 一起度過一個理想的週六，一起購物、聽音樂和哈拉。

They'd talk about life, the universe and everything, especially what's bugging them, irritating them.

她們會聊生活、宇宙萬物，特別是讓她們煩惱、irritating 的事情。

The ideal Saturday, well, it would have to be probably going out to a market, one of London's many, where they sell the clothes that we like and the jewellery, which is kind of small, earrings, rings and bracelets with also colourful nail varnish and good shoes.

理想的週六，嗯，應該會是去逛逛倫敦的市集，那裡有賣我們喜歡的衣服和飾品，像是小巧的耳環、戒指和手鍊，還有色彩鮮豔的指甲油和好看的鞋子。

After that we'd probably go back to one of our houses and then listen to some music for a while and generally talk about life, the universe and everything, our friends, boyfriends, school and everything that's bugging us.

之後我們可能會回到其中一個人的家，然後聽一陣子音樂，聊聊生活、宇宙萬物、我們的朋友、男友、學校，以及所有讓我們煩惱的事情。

In the evening, Anna and Rebecca would go out to a club, a club for under 18 year olds where there are no alcoholic drinks sold.

晚上，Anna 和 Rebecca 會去一個未滿 18 歲的夜店，那裡不賣酒。

They'd listen to a band or dance and then they'd go back to stay at one of their houses.

她們會聽樂團表演或跳舞，然後回到其中一個人的家過夜。

After getting back at a reasonably late time, we'll probably get into bed and then talk for a few more hours until the early hours of the morning, in which case we'll probably wake up at about midday the next day, very tired but very happy.

回到家時間已經不早了，我們可能會上床，然後再聊好幾個小時到天亮，這樣的話我們隔天中午才會醒來，雖然很累但會很開心。

And on Sunday afternoon there would be homework to tackle for school the next day.

週日下午，我們得處理隔天要交的學校功課。

Anna and Rebecca both want to go on to university or art college and they encourage each other with their school studies.

Anna 和 Rebecca 都想上大學或藝術學院，她們會互相鼓勵課業。

Both Rebecca and Anna have very supportive families and the girls do their best to take growing up in their stride.

Rebecca 和 Anna 的家人都很支持她們，兩個女孩也盡力順其自然地長大。

And Anna says she feels very happy to know that her mother is always ready to listen and easy to talk to.

Anna 說，知道媽媽隨時都願意傾聽、很好聊，讓她覺得很開心。

She's not at all worried about talking to me about, well, I suppose the facts of life and how I'm growing up and everything.

她一點也不擔心跟我聊，嗯，我想是關於生命的真相，以及我如何長大等等的事情。

I remember not so long ago when she was giving me the speech about boyfriends and advice that she could give me.

我記得不久前，她還跟我講了關於男朋友的談話，給了我一些建議。

And I remember telling her, look, you don't have to be cool.

而且我記得跟她說，妳不用這麼「酷」。

And I don't think anything's going to happen in the near future.

而且我覺得短期內應該不會發生什麼事。

But I'm very grateful to her anyway because I like to know where I stand with my mother and to know that she's cool enough to talk with me about these things, which some, I'm sure, wouldn't.

但我還是很感謝她，因為我喜歡知道我在我媽心裡的定位，也知道她夠「酷」，願意跟我聊這些事，我相信有些人可能就不行。

And she told me that if I ever needed any advice, then she would be there for me.

她告訴我，如果我需要任何建議，她都會在我身邊。

And, you know, she didn't mind what I did as long as I was okay and happy.

而且，你知道的，她不在意我做什麼，只要我過得好、開心就好。

And so I told her, thank you very much, and

所以我就跟她說，非常謝謝妳，

I don't think anything will happen, but I'm very grateful to know that you are there.

而且，我覺得不會發生什麼事，但我很感謝知道妳會在。