2012年商务英语考试中级口语对话练习(19)转自:考试网 - []

Li: I’m not sure I remember seeing this word yob on the BBC sites.

Callum: Well no. It’s a very negative and judgemental word. The BBC tends to avoid this kind of language in its reporting. But this is a piece of British slang that is very common in the UK. We also sometimes use the word yobbo.

Li: Yobbo 也是流氓，暴徒的意思。Hmm, 我想知道这些词语到底从哪里来的呢？

Callum: Well, interestingly what we have here is an example of backslang. If you read the word yob backwards, what do you get?

Li: Boy. 原来 yob 是男孩儿这个单词倒过来 Y.O.B., yob.

The word ’yob’ is British slang for ’a rude and violent man’.

Callum: Exactly. So, in the past the word yob meant boy. However, now, as I mentioned, it refers to a rude and violent man, often a young man but not always.

Li: 对不起 Callum, 刚才我把你也叫成了无赖了，其实你并不是那样的人 a yob. 你是一个绅士 you are a gentleman.

Callum: Oh, thanks Li.

Li: 不过我是绝对打不过你的，see how fit and strong you are. So don’t you ever frighten me again!

Callum: Alright. Well, you’d better be good then!

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