【BBC六分钟】为什么我们很难准确描述一种“气味”？（手绘课
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:07 | Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. | 你好,这是6分钟英语 从BBC学习英语。 |
| 0:11 | I'm Neil. | 我是尼尔。 |
| 0:11 | And I'm Georgie. | 我是乔治 |
| 0:13 | In English, there are many ways to describe smells. | 在英语中,有许多描述气味的方法. |
| 0:16 | Poet Michael Rosen | 诗人迈克尔·罗森 |
| 0:17 | wanted to find words describing bad smells and asked listeners of his BBC Radio 4 programme | 想要找到描述恶臭的词 问他的BBC电台4号节目的听众 |
| 0:23 | Word of Mouth for some suggestions. | 嘴里有些建议 |
| 0:25 | Foosty, reeking, toiking, honking, humming, funky. | 发臭 发臭 鸣叫 哼哼 哼哼 |
| 0:28 | Smells are everywhere, whether they're bad smells like rotten eggs and sweaty feet, | 臭味无处不在 臭味是否像烂鸡蛋和汗脚 |
| 0:33 | or pleasant ones like lavender and freshly baked bread. | 或者像薰衣草和新鲜烤面包一样的美味 |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. | 你好,这是6分钟英语 从BBC学习英语。 |
| 2 | I'm Neil. | 我是尼尔。 |
| 3 | And I'm Georgie. | 我是乔治 |
| 4 | In English, there are many ways to describe smells. | 在英语中,有许多描述气味的方法. |
| 5 | Poet Michael Rosen | 诗人迈克尔·罗森 |
| 6 | wanted to find words describing bad smells and asked listeners of his BBC Radio 4 programme | 想要找到描述恶臭的词 问他的BBC电台4号节目的听众 |
| 7 | Word of Mouth for some suggestions. | 嘴里有些建议 |
| 8 | Foosty, reeking, toiking, honking, humming, funky. | 发臭 发臭 鸣叫 哼哼 哼哼 |
| 9 | Smells are everywhere, whether they're bad smells like rotten eggs and sweaty feet, | 臭味无处不在 臭味是否像烂鸡蛋和汗脚 |
| 10 | or pleasant ones like lavender and freshly baked bread. | 或者像薰衣草和新鲜烤面包一样的美味 |
| 11 | What smells do you especially | 你闻起来特别臭 |
| 12 | like or dislike, Georgie? | 喜欢还是不喜欢,乔治? |
| 13 | Well, I really enjoy the smell of leather, but something I really love is the smell of rain, | 嗯,我真的很喜欢皮革的味道, 但我真正喜欢的是雨水的味道, |
| 14 | which has a name. | 它有一个名字。 |
| 15 | Do you know it, Neil? | 你知道吗,尼尔? |
| 16 | I don't think I do, actually. | 我其实不觉得 |
| 17 | It(学名:Petrichor)为 pet科 pet属下的一个种. | |
| 18 | It's that smell of the ground just after it's rained. | 即雨后净土香. |
| 19 | Neil, what about you? | 尼尔,你呢? |
| 20 | Which smells do you like? | 你喜欢哪种味道? |
| 21 | Well, I don't think you can beat the smell of a freshly opened packet of ground coffee. | 嗯,我不认为你能够 打破气味 一包刚打开的地面咖啡。 |
| 22 | Oh, that's a good one. | 哦,这是一个很好的。 |
| 23 | In this episode, we'll be learning the language of smells using some | 在这个剧集里,我们将学习 气味的语言使用一些 |
| 24 | useful new words and phrases. | 有用的新词和短语。 |
| 25 | And remember, you can find all the vocabulary plus a quiz | 记住,你可以找到所有的词汇 加上一个测验 |
| 26 | 和我们网站上的工作表, bbclearningenglish.com. | |
| 27 | But first, I have a question for you, Georgie. | 但首先 我有个问题要问你 乔治 |
| 28 | One smell many people love is the smell of old | 闻起来很多人爱的都是古老的味道 |
| 29 | books and the sentimental feeling it gives them for second-hand bookshops. | 书籍和它给二手书店带来的情感 |
| 30 | In fact, | 事实上, |
| 31 | there's even a word for it. | 乃至有语. |
| 32 | But what is it? | 但这是什么? |
| 33 | Is it a. Velichor, b. Petrichor or c. Nida? | 是威力高手、柏里夏还是尼达? |
| 34 | Well, we already know that petrichor is the smell of the ground after rain. | 好了,我们已经知道,彼得里奇尔 是地面的气味 雨后。 |
| 35 | I'm going to go with a. Velichor. | 我将去与a。 威利彻 |
| 36 | Well, we'll find out at the end of the programme. | 好吧,我们会发现 在节目的最后。 |
| 37 | Listening to Michael Rosen's list – funky, reeking, humming and the rest – you might | 听迈克尔·罗森的榜单 — — 风趣、臭味、哼哼以及其他 — — 你可以 |
| 38 | think English is good at describing smells. | 认为英语擅长描述气味. |
| 39 | But in fact, all those words really mean is bad smelling. | 但事实上,这些词都意味着 臭味不好。 |
| 40 | In English, we often describe smells by comparing them to other objects. | 在英语中,我们经常通过比较其他物体来描述气味. |
| 41 | For example, | 举例来说, |
| 42 | something nice might smell like a rose, while something bad might smell like rotten eggs. | 不错的东西可能闻起来像玫瑰, 而坏的东西可能闻起来像烂鸡蛋。 |
| 43 | But there are few words to describe the actual smell itself. | 但形容实际气味本身的文字很少. |
| 44 | Oxford University psychologist Asifa Majid has researched the subject of smell extensively. | 牛津大学心理学家阿西法·马吉德(英语:Asifa Majid)对嗅觉这个话题进行了广泛的研究. |
| 45 | Here, she tells Michael Rosen a little of what she's found out on BBC Radio 4 programme Word of | 在这里,她告诉迈克尔·罗森 她发现了一些 在BBC广播4节目Word of |
| 46 | 口th. | |
| 47 | So if we think about things like stinky or fragrant, they're definitely telling us that | 所以,如果我们想的东西 像臭或香, 他们肯定告诉我们 |
| 48 | something is good or bad. | 东西是好是坏。 |
| 49 | But unlike colour terms, it doesn't really seem to be about the object it's | 但与颜色不同的是,它似乎并不真正与对象有关 |
| 50 | describing. | 说明。 |
| 51 | It seems to be a subjective thing. | 这似乎是一个主观的东西。 |
| 52 | I could say, oh, this perfume you think is really | 我可以说,哦,这香水 你觉得真的 |
| 53 | I think is stinky, and both can be true. | 我觉得很臭 两者都是真的 |
| 54 | Describing smell is not like describing | 说出臭味可不像说 |
| 55 | other senses. | 其他感觉。 |
| 56 | I might think a perfume is stinky – an adjective meaning bad smelling – while | 我可能觉得香水很臭 形容词的意思是臭味 |
| 57 | Neil might find the same perfume, fragrant, meaning pleasant smelling. | 尼尔可能找到同样的香水,香味,意思是愉快的气味. |
| 58 | Both can be true. | 二者皆能真实. |
| 59 | The point is that neither stinky nor fragrant say anything specific about the perfume's actual smell. | 关键是香水的香味和香味 都没有具体表达 |
| 60 | With our sense of taste, it's different. | 我们的品味不同 |
| 61 | Words like spicy, | 像辣味一样的词 |
| 62 | sweet or salty create a common idea that we can all agree on, but that's not the case for smells. | 甜味的或咸味的创造出一个我们都同意的共同想法,但气味并非如此. |
| 63 | Asifa thinks this is because unlike tastes and colours, smell words are subjective – they're | Asifa认为这是因为与味觉和颜色不同,嗅觉文字是主观的——它们是 |
| 64 | based on personal opinions and feelings rather than objective truth. | 基于个人意见和感情,而不是客观的真理。 |
| 65 | This might explain why our | 这也许能解释为什么我们 |
| 66 | attitude to talking about smells is so different. | 谈论气味的态度是如此不同。 |
| 67 | Here's Asifa again sharing some examples of how | 这是Asifa再次分享一些例子 |
| 68 | we talk about smells with BBC Radio 4. | 我们跟英国广播公司广播四台谈过气味 |
| 69 | So if we compare how often people talk about | 所以,如果我们比较 人们谈论的频率 |
| 70 | visual things or auditory things or tastes or smells, what we find is we talk a lot about what | 视觉或听觉 味觉或气味 我们发现我们经常谈论什么 |
| 71 | we see and very rarely about what we smell. | 我们很少看到我们闻到的东西 |
| 72 | Young children in the UK are often interested in the | 联合王国的幼儿往往对教育感兴趣。 |
| 73 | sense of smell and their remark on it and their parent will shut it down. | 嗅觉和他们的言语 他们的父母会关闭它。 |
| 74 | They'll say, that's | 他们会说,这就是 |
| 75 | disgusting, put it down. | 恶心,放下它。 |
| 76 | Asifa's research shows that, here in the UK at least, people talk about | 阿西法的研究表明,至少在英国,人们谈论 |
| 77 | visual or auditory things much more than they talk about smells. | 视觉或听觉的东西 比他们谈论的气味。 |
| 78 | The adjective visual means related | 形容词视觉表示相关 |
| 79 | to seeing and auditory means related to hearing. | 和听力有关 |
| 80 | The adjective for things related to smelling is | 与嗅觉有关的东西的形容词是: |
| 81 | olfactory. | 闻闻. |
| 82 | Maybe this is because of how we're raised by our parents. | 也许是因为我们被父母抚养长大 |
| 83 | When children start talking | 当孩子开始说话 |
| 84 | about smells, especially unpleasant ones, parents often react by shutting the conversation down. | 闻起来特别令人不快 父母经常通过 关闭谈话作出反应 |
| 85 | The phrase to shut something down means to stop it. | 关闭某种东西的短语意味着阻止它. |
| 86 | Along with other European languages, | 与其他欧洲语言一样, |
| 87 | English doesn't have much vocabulary dedicated to the different qualities of actual smells. | 英语没有太多的词汇专门用来表达实际气味的不同品质. |
| 88 | There are many ways of talking about smells, especially unpleasant ones, but only a few words | 气味有很多种说法,尤其是不愉快的,但只有几句话 |
| 89 | which describe actual smells themselves. | 说明真实的气味 |
| 90 | A good example of a word which does this is musty – a | 一个很好的例子,一个词 做这个是... ... |
| 91 | stale smell you might find in an old bookshop. | 在旧书店你可能发现的臭味。 |
| 92 | And Neil, that reminds me of your question. | 尼尔 让我想起你的问题 |
| 93 | That's right. | 没错 |
| 94 | I asked you what the word is which means the smell of old books. | 我问你这词是什么意思 旧书的味道 |
| 95 | I said it was velachor. | 我说是雪花 |
| 96 | Well, Georgie, you are absolutely right. | 乔治,你说得对 |
| 97 | Petrichor, as you said earlier, is the smell of the earth after rain and neither is the smell | 彼得里夏尔,正如你刚才所说, 雨后大地的气味, 也不是气味 |
| 98 | of cooking meat and fat. | 烹饪肉和脂肪。 |
| 99 | OK, it's time for a recap of the vocabulary we've learned. | 好了,是时候重述一下我们学到的词汇了。 |
| 100 | The adjective stinky means foul smelling, while the adjective fragrant means pleasant smelling. | 形容词的臭味意为臭味,而形容词的香味意为愉快的味道. |
| 101 | Subjective things are based on your own personal opinions and feelings | 主观的事物是建立在你个人的意见和感情之上的 |
| 102 | rather than objective facts. | 而不是客观的事实。 |
| 103 | The adjective visual describes things related to seeing, | 形容词的视觉描述 与看到, |
| 104 | while auditory means related to hearing. | 而听力意味着听力 |
| 105 | Things related to smelling are called olfactory. | 与嗅觉相关的事物被称为嗅觉. |
| 106 | And finally, the phrasal verb to shut something down means to stop it. | 最后,关闭某种东西的词性动词意味着阻止它. |
| 107 | Once again, our six minutes are up, but there's still time to head over to our website, | 我们的六分钟到了 但还有时间去我们的网站 |
| 108 | bbclearningenglish.com,一个包含我们讨论过的所有词汇的问答和工作表. | |
| 109 | See you again soon, but for now, it's goodbye. | 很快再见,但现在,这是再见。 |
| 110 | Goodbye. | 再见 |
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