时髦英语口语词汇讲解第51期:Yummy-scrummy

Yummy and scrummy -childhood terms for the taste of food.
Yummy (美味)和 scrummy（好吃）是小孩用来形容食物味道的词语。

I remember using them when I was a kid.
我还记得当我是个小孩的时候，用过这两个词。

They're actually quite old - well, a hundred years or so - they're late 19th century - is the first time I've found a reference to them from 'yum, yum' - 'yummy' from 'yum, yum' - first, referring to delicious food, of course, and then to attractive people.
这两个词已经存在很长时间了--大概有一百年了 --在19世纪末的时候--yummy这个词应该就是从那个时候开始被人们使用的(而它的前身应该是yum，首先是用来描述好吃的东西，当然，后来又用来指有魅力的人。

That became a usage in the 1990s, which was quite fashionable for a while.
指人的这种用法在20世纪90年代很是风行一阵。

People talked about 'yummy mummies' - that is, the perfectly-groomed woman who goes to yoga classes, stays slim, has clean children and has a four-wheel-drive.
人们提得最多的是yummy mummies-- 也就是那些打扮精致，练瑜伽有着纤瘦身材，干净小孩和私家车的年轻妈妈们。

And other usages came in too - 'I've got a very yummy job', people might say, and recently, I heard somebody talking about somebody who had a very yummy blog on the internet - in that sense, it means, sort of, delightful and attractive, rather than delicious.
Yummy之后又有了其它的一些用法，如人们会这么说：I’ve got a very yummy job（我有一份好工作）；最近我甚至听见有人议论说在网上某人的博客很yummy（精彩），yummy在此处的用法是“招人喜欢；很精彩”而不是delicious（好吃）。

Well, 'scrummy', anyway became modeled on 'yummy'.
Scrummy在某种程度上跟yummy的演变历程相似。

It developed in the early 20th century some years later, again, originally with reference to food - scrumptious, you see, it's a derivation from that word, which means delicious.
Scrummy在20世纪早期开始出现并慢慢演变（成今天的样子）， 同样，这个词来源于跟食物味道有关的单词scrumptious（好吃），看见了吧，scrummy是由scrumptious演变而来的;

People talked about 'scrummy cakes' and 'scrummy recipes', and then, started using it as an adjective too, more than 'yummy' did, you know, 'that was scrummier', 'this is scrummiest'.
人们会聊到“美味的蛋糕”，“美味烹煮秘方”就这样这个词开始带有形容词性；出现的频率甚至比yummy还大，随处可听到that was scrummier （那个更好吃） 或是this is scrummiest （这个最好吃）。

I have heard 'yummier' and 'yummiest', but 'scrummier' and 'scrummiest' seems to be more common!
经常也会听到人们说yummier（更好吃） 或是yummiest（最好吃），但是scrummier （更好吃） 和 scrummiest（最好吃）要更常见一点。

Something 'sounds scrummy'. There are 'scrummy TV shows' now.
（你会听到这样的句子）“某事听起来很scrummy（挺有味的）” 。或者是“现在正播放scrummy(好看的)电视节目”。

The word, evidently, has moved on!
很明显，这个词的用法在随着时间而变化。