13 American Words Brits Always Notice · Evan Edinger
视频介绍了13个美国人常用但英国人常觉奇怪的词汇，适合练习日常英语表达和文化差异理解。
What's the word you would use to refer to this room?
你会用哪个词来指代这个房间呢？
It depends, right?
这要看具体情况，对吧？
Well, when you've lived abroad for long enough, you reach this funny point where you think you've nailed the local language,
嗯，当你在国外生活了足够长的时间后，就会进入这样一个奇怪的阶段：你会觉得自己已经完全掌握了当地的语言。
you feel like, oh, I've really fit in.
你会觉得：“哦，我终于融入这个群体了。
And then some old Americanism jumps out your mouth and immediately gives you away.
然后，某个老式的美国英语表达就会脱口而出，立刻暴露了你的身份（即你是一个使用这种表达方式的人）。
My name is Evan Edinger, and despite living in the UK for over a decade now,
我的名字是埃文·埃丁格（Evan Edinger）。尽管我已经在英国生活了十多年，
there are still some American words and expressions I find myself saying, for better or worse.
无论好坏，我还是会时不时使用一些美式英语中的词汇和表达方式。
These are the 13 American words I still use over the British ones after 13 years of living in London,
这些就是我在伦敦生活了13年后仍然更倾向于使用的13个美式英语单词，而不是英式英语单词。
including one that always makes Brits look at me as if I've said something completely insane.
其中有一个（表情或行为）总是让英国人看着我，仿佛我说了什么极其荒谬的话。
So the annoying thing about the first word is even though I know it sounds so incredibly American,
这个单词最让人恼火的地方在于：尽管我知道它的发音带有非常明显的“美国风格”，但实际上……
and oftentimes I don't even want to use it, it just sounds so polite and fitting that I just end up saying it anyway,
很多时候我其实根本不想使用这句话；不过它听起来实在太礼貌、太得体了，以至于我还是会不由自主地说出来。
and that's restroom.
那就是洗手间。
If I'm in a restaurant, a museum,
如果我在餐厅或博物馆里……
anything like that, and I gotta go, well, my brain defaults to what the most polite version of the word is.
任何类似的情况出现时，我都得立刻离开。嗯，我的大脑会自动选择那个词语最礼貌的表达方式来使用。
Even though my brain may flag up the word restroom as, whoa, that might not be the best word to use here.
尽管我的大脑可能会觉得“restroom”这个词不太合适（或者说：“哇，这个词可能不太适合用在这里”）。
And then my brain is frantically trying to spit out the next word in the related list.
然后我的大脑就开始疯狂地试图想出相关列表中的下一个单词。
That one also sticks out over here, bathroom.
那个东西在这里也很显眼，就在浴室里。
You'll pretty much never hear the word restroom in the UK unless it's from the mouth of an American.
在英国，你几乎永远不会听到“restroom”这个词，除非是美国人说的。
And when it comes to the word bathroom,
当谈到“bathroom”这个词时……
well, Brits I know will rarely ever use that word unless specifically referring to a room in a house that has a bath or a bath.
嗯，我认识的英国人很少会使用那个词，除非他们特指房子里装有浴缸的房间。
When it comes to a public restroom, Brits use a selection of what I can only describe as,
当谈到公共厕所时，英国人会使用多种不同的设施或用品——我只能用这样的方式来描述它们……
well, uncharacteristically more vulgar words.
嗯，这次使用的粗俗词汇比平时要多得多，这确实有些反常。
The main word I hear around these parts is simply toilet.
在这个地区，人们最常使用的词汇就是“toilet”（厕所）。
Where are the toilets?
厕所在哪里？
Can I use your toilet?
我可以使用你们的洗手间吗？
Not the room for the toilet, because for Brits, the word toilet means both where you relieve yourself and the room where the toilets are.
这里并不适合放置马桶；因为对英国人来说，“toilet”这个词既指用来排便的设施，也指存放马桶的房间。
My first year here, I had quite
我来到这里的第一年，情况相当……（不过原文并未具体说明“情况相当”是什么。）
an awkward faux pas where I asked my manager at Urban Outfitters where I was meant to wet the cleaning rag.
我犯了一个令人尴尬的失礼错误：我竟然问 Urban Outfitters 的经理，应该在哪里将清洁布弄湿。
I couldn't see a sink anywhere.
我在任何地方都找不到水槽。
And with a straight face, he told me to use the toilets.
他一本正经地告诉我，让我去使用厕所。
You can only imagine the look on my face trying to explain to him, I do not think I'd be comfortable doing that.
你只能想象我当时脸上的表情——我实在无法想象自己该如何向他解释这件事；说实话，我觉得那样做会让我感到非常尴尬（甚至不舒服）。
I mean, what kind of operation you're running here in the UK?
我的意思是，你们在英国到底在进行什么样的行动（或项目）呢？
Or hey, maybe they've just got really clean toilets, it wasn't used to store, I don't know.
或者，也许他们的厕所非常干净；那些厕所本来就不是用来存放东西的……我也不太清楚。
And if my manager had used the other word popular over here, it wouldn't have done me any better, lose.
如果我的经理用了这里更常用的另一个词（“lose”），对我的情况也不会有任何改善。
Where are the lose?
那些丢失的东西在哪里？
I've got to go knit to the loo.
我得去趟洗手间（顺便织点东西）。
To me, loo seems quaint, cute, and a little bit silly at the same time.
在我看来，loo（这个概念或事物）既古朴可爱，又带有一丝傻气。
I also have heard gents like where the gents or where the ladies,
我也听说过一些关于男士或女士的说法……
that to be fair, sounds a little bit less vulgar than the other ones.
公平地说，这个表达听起来确实比其他几个表达要文雅一些（或者说不那么粗俗）。
But while I still use the more American word, toilet paper almost exclusively,
不过，虽然我仍然更倾向于使用那个更具“美国风格”的词汇（“toilet paper”），但实际上我几乎只使用这个词来指代卫生纸。