我们讲的英语第118期:Lairy 俗气的

Neil: Hello and welcome to The English We Speak, I'm Neil.
尼尔：大家好，欢迎来到地道英语节目，我是尼尔。

Li: And I'm Li. Did you stay much longer last night at the office party?
李：我是李。昨天的办公室聚会你又待了一会儿吗？

Neil: Yes I did. After you left we went on to a bar in the City.
尼尔：是啊。昨天你离开以后我们又去了市里的一家酒吧。

Li: Oh sounds good! We had an office party last night. I left early but Neil and a few colleagues went on to a bar in the city of London–the financial district. How was it?
李：听起来真好！昨天我们有办公室聚会。我提早离开了，不过尼尔和一些同事还去了伦敦市金融区的一家酒吧，那里怎么样？

Neil: Actually it was pretty bad. There were all these traders getting drunk and shouting a lot about their cars and expensive clothes and holidays. You know, they were just really lairy.
尼尔：实际上非常糟糕。所有的商人都喝醉了，他们大声炫耀着他们的车和昂贵的衣服还有假期。你知道，他们真的非常俗气。

Li: They were what?
李：他们很什么？

Neil: Lairy.
尼尔：俗气。

Li: Lairy. This adjective is used to describe people, usually men, behaving in a loud, excited and slightly aggressive way. So it wasn't much fun?
李：俗气。这个形容词通常用来形容大声说话、情绪激动又有些嚣张的男性。所以没有太多乐趣吗？

Neil: No, they made it miserable for everyone else in the place, to be honest.
尼尔：没有，说实话，他们让在那里的其他人都很痛苦。

Li: So the bar was full of drunk and noisy men. They were talking loudly about their expensive things. They sound very lairy. Here's another example of the word.
李：所以那家酒吧全是喝醉又吵闹的男人。他们大声地谈论他们的贵重物品。他们听上去很俗气。下面有这个词的其他例子。

Example
例子

A: Shall we go shopping in Kensington on Saturday afternoon?
A：周六下午我们去肯辛顿购物好吗？

B: I'd love to but I hate getting the Tube to Kensington on a Saturday. It's always full of lairy Chelsea fans on their way to the football.
B：我很想去，可是我讨厌周六坐地铁去肯辛顿。地铁里挤满了俗气的去看足球比赛的切尔西球迷。

A: Yes, you're right. It's really scary when they're so drunk and shouting and singing. How about somewhere else?
A：你说得对。他们喝醉以后，又喊又叫真的很可怕。那去其他地方怎么样？

Neil: Those women don't want to get the Tube near the Chelsea football ground on a Saturday because the fans travelling to the stadium are often drunk and shouting and singing. They're lairy.
尼尔：那些女生不想周六在切尔西球场附近坐地铁，因为那些去球场的球迷经常处于喝醉的状态，而且还会喊叫和唱歌。他们非常俗气。

Li: Yes, I've been in that situation too. It's not much fun. So, this word 'lairy': is it common?
李：对，我也曾遇到过这种情况。没那么好玩。所以这个词很常用吗？

Neil: I'd say it's quite common, but slang. And you wouldn't often write it. But you'll hear British and Australian people using it; especially in the situations we've talked about.
尼尔：我得说非常常用，但它是俚语。通常写作中不会经常用到。不过你会听到英国人和澳大利亚人使用这个词；尤其是刚刚我们谈过的那些情况。

Li: Anything else I need to know?
李：还有其他我要知道的吗？

Neil: Yes, you should use the word in combination with 'blokes'. This is British slang meaning 'men'.
尼尔：有，你可以和家伙这个词一起用。这个俚语在英语中的意思是男人。

Li: Lairy blokes.
李：俗气的家伙。

Neil: That's right. That's all from us, but we'll leave you with the sound of lairy blokes watching football.
尼尔：没错。这就是我们今天节目的所有内容，不过我们会把俗气的家伙观看足球比赛的声音留给你们。

Li: Bye!
李：再见！

Neil: Bye!
尼尔：再见！

(Angry football crowd)
（生气的足球观众）