我们讲的英语第109期:Easy tiger 放轻松

Rob: Hello, I'm Rob. And here comes Helen. Wow, she's changed her hair colour! It looks, well, different. Hi Helen I like your hair.
罗布：大家好，我是罗布。海伦来了。哇，她换了发色！看起来，有点儿不同。海伦，你好，我喜欢你的发型。

Helen: Don't say a word!
海伦：什么都别说！

Rob: Whoa!
罗布：哇！

Helen: I don't want to talk about it.
海伦：我不想谈这个。

Rob: About what? The fact you dyed your hair?
罗布：谈什么？你染发了这件事？

Helen: Enough!
海伦：够了！

Rob: Whoa! Easy tiger!
罗布：哇！放轻松！

Helen: I do not look like a tiger!
海伦：我看起来可不像老虎！

Rob: I never said you did. It's just an expression. Though come to think of it, your hair is kind of stripy orange now.
罗布：我可没说过你像老虎。这只是个表达方式。虽然想一下的话，你现在的头发是有点儿像桔黄色条纹。

(Helen starts sobbing)
（海伦开始抽泣）

Rob: OK, you really don't look like a tiger though. I said "easy tiger!" which is just a way of saying "calm down".
罗布：好啦，实际上你并不像老虎。easy tiger的意思是冷静下来。

Helen: It's all the hairdresser's fault. He told me I would look beautiful with copper highlights, then he did this to me. Now I have orange stripes, I look like a jungle animal.
海伦：这全是理发师的错。他告诉我要是把头发染成铜色我会看起来很漂亮，然后他就这么做了。可是现在我头发上是橙色的条纹，我看起来像是野生动物。

Rob: No, you don't look like a jungle animal. Listen to me. We say "easy tiger" when we want someone to calm down, to not get over-emotional, or not to rush into something.
罗布：不，你看起来并不像野生动物。听我说，我们说easy tiger，意思是我们需要某个人冷静，不要情绪化，不要草率行动。

Helen: Oh. You're talking about tigers because of the way I'm behaving, not because of my hair?
海伦：哦。你谈到老虎只是因为我的行为，而不是因为我的头发吗？

Rob: That's right. It's an expression that's usually used in informal situations, between friends. Here are some more examples.
罗布：没错。这是通常用于非正式场合的表达方式，通常在朋友之间使用。这里有更多的例子。

Girl 1: I've just met the perfect man–he is tall, handsome, kind... I'm going to marry him and have children-we'll live together in a house by the sea, we'll -
女孩1：我刚刚遇到了一个完美男人——他身材高大、英俊、善良……我要和他结婚并生儿育女，我们要一起生活在海边的房子里，我们要……

Girl 2: Easy tiger! Do you even know his name?
女孩2：慢慢来！你知道他的名字吗？

Man: Right, this food is disgusting, we're leaving the restaurant right now!
男：这个食物真令人恶心，我们现在就要离开这个餐厅！

Woman: Easy tiger! I quite like it here. Let's wait until the main course comes.
女：放轻松！我非常喜欢这里。我们等主菜上来吧。

Helen: I understand. Maybe my hair is not so bad after all.
海伦：我明白了。也许我的头发还不是那么糟。

Rob: No, it's just unusual. It doesn't make you look like a tiger... I'd say more of an orangutan than a tiger...
罗布：对，只是有点特别。你的头发看上去并不像老虎……我觉得比起老虎，更像猩猩……

Helen: What! An orangutan!
海伦：什么？猩猩！

Rob: Orangutans are very handsome creatures; they're a kind of rich auburn-copper colour.
罗布：猩猩是非常帅气的生物；猩猩是红褐色的。

Helen: How dare you!
海伦：你怎么敢！

Rob: Don't bare your teeth like that, that's scary. Please…
罗布：别像那样呲牙，那很可怕。请……

(Sound of a real growling tiger!)
（听起来像真的老虎在咆哮）

Rob: Easy tiger, easy!
罗布：放轻松，轻松点！

(Tiger growling and huge roar).
（老虎咆哮发出巨大的吼声）