美國之音之流行美語jack / kaput

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Popular American - #95

流行美語-第九十五課

jack

kaput

今天李華和Larry在談暑假里打算干什么，李華會學到兩個常用語：jack和kaput。

LH:  Hey Larry, 你知不知道紐約附近哪個地方可以釣魚呀？

LL:  Fishing, huh?  I'm sorry Li Hua,  I don't know jack about fishing.

LH:  哎，我問你釣魚的事，你怎么說你不認識Jack? 

LL:   I'm not talking about a guy named Jack.  When I say  "I don't know jack about fishing", that means "I don't know anything about fishing".

LH:  噢，原來jack在這里不是人的名字,你說 I don't know jack about fishing 意思就是“你對釣魚一無所知”。這么說，jack在這里就表示 "nothing", right? 

LL:   That's right.

LH:   I don't know jack about fishing,  那不就成了I don't know nothing about fishing. 英文里是不能用雙重否定的，不是嗎？

LL:  OK, you're right, we don't use double negatives in proper, formal English.  But this is slang!  "I don't know jack" means "I don't know anything".

LH:  我也經(jīng)常聽人說 I don't know nothing, 我知道在正規(guī)英語里面是不應該這么說的。這樣說來，在口語里是這么用的，那"I don't know jack" 就表示“我什么也不知道”。對了，Larry,  那你暑假不準備釣魚，你打算干什么呢？

LL:  Well, I may just sit around.  In other words, I don't do jack!

LH:  You don't do jack! 我知道，你是說你什么也不干啊。除了"I don't know jack" ，原來你還可以說：I don't do jack!  好不容易到了暑假，你卻打算什么都不干？我才不會這樣白白浪費時間。

LL:  Well, the reason vacation is so valuable is because I can sit around and don't do jack all day.  Usually I'm a very busy guy.

LH:  你說得也有道理，就是因為放假了，才有可能懶散一點兒;什么事情也不做。平時又要學習又要打工，是夠忙的。

LL:  Well, anyway, I need to get home and start on the term paper.  I haven't written jack yet!

LH:   什么？你的期末論文一點兒還沒動手?。堪?，那你趕緊回家去寫吧！

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LH:  Larry, 你不是在家寫論文嗎？怎么又跑到學校圖書館來啦?

LL:  Well, I got home and started to work on my term paper, but my computer went kaput!

LH:  你說你的電腦怎么啦？Went kaput? 聽起來就好象是電腦出問題了，是不是??？

LL:  Yes,  "kaput" means "broken, ruined or not working properly." My computer went kaput, so now I have to work on my paper in the library.

LH:  Oh, 原來 kaput 意思就是“壞了，沒法正常工作”。你是說你的電腦壞了，Larry,  你最近好像運氣不太好嘛.前些天，你的手機電話不是也出故障了嗎？

LL:  Oh man, that's a real problem!  My cell phone really went kaput and nobody could reach me.

LH:  就是啊，我給你打電話留言，你也沒收到。

LL: During that time, I was out of touch with everyone. It felt like my whole life went kaput.

LH:   有那么嚴重嗎？你因為手機壞了，和所有人失去了聯(lián)系，讓你覺得整個生活都完蛋啦？哎喲，還是先說說你的電腦吧 - 你的電腦 went kaput，那你有沒有丟掉什么重要文件呢？ 

LL:  Well,  I'm hoping it wasn't the hard drive that went kaput.  That would be terrible!

LH:  你先別著急，即使是hard drive went kaput,  我想有的信息還是可以找回來的啦！

LL:   Let's hope so.  If I can't get my computer fixed soon, I won't have jack to show them in my term paper. 

LH:   但愿你的電腦趕快修好。學期論文要是交白卷可真是太糟糕了。

今天李華從Larry那兒學到了兩個常用語，一個是jack, 在英語口語里 I don't know jack的意思是“我什么也不知道”。李華學到的另一個常用語是kaput, 就相當于中文里所說的“壞了”“出了問題”。