Common Expressions to Sound More American 🇺🇸 · Interactive English
学习美国特色口语表达，提升日常对话能力。适合练习旅行、社交和日常交流场景。
Today, I am going to teach you some very American expressions that's coming up.
今天，我要教你们一些非常具有美国特色的表达方式。
What's up everyone?
大家好，最近怎么样？
Welcome to interactive English, which is the place you want to be to practice and improve your English skills.
欢迎来到“互动英语”（Interactive English）平台——这里正是您练习和提高英语技能的理想之地。
And the way we're going to do that today is I am going to teach you some
那么，我们今天要实现这个目标的方法是：我会教你们一些相关的内容。
expressions that are very common in the US and these expressions may be used in other English speaking countries as well,
这些表达在美国非常常见，也可能在其他英语国家中使用。
but some of them are very specific to the US and as we go through them, I will let you know which ones those are.
不过其中有些内容仅适用于美国；在讲解这些内容时，我会告诉你们具体是哪些内容。
So let's begin with our first expression.
那么，让我们从第一个表达式开始吧。
And that is it's, it's one of my favorite expressions.
这就是我最喜欢的表达方式之一了。
It's very easy.
非常简单。
It's just one word.
它只是一个单词而已。
And that is whatever.
就是这样，没什么别的了。
Now, as a pronoun, we can use this word to mean well, a lack of restriction or limitations.
现在，作为一个代词，我们可以用这个词来表示“良好的状态”或“没有限制或约束”的意思。
And people might say something like, well, you can do whatever you want.
人们可能会说：“嗯，你想做什么就做什么吧。
You can say whatever you want in those comments down below, you can write whatever you want.
在下面的评论区里，你可以想说什么就说什么，想写什么就写什么。
No, I mean you're in good shape and you can eat whatever you want.
不，我的意思是你的身体状况很好，你可以想吃什么就吃什么。
Take whatever you want.
你可以拿走任何你想要的东西。
Tell you what.
告诉你吧……
You play whatever you want.
你可以玩任何你想玩的游戏。
But we can also use this word as an informal exclamation to show a reluctance to continue talking or to,
但我们也可以把这个词用作非正式的感叹词，用来表达不愿继续交谈的意愿。
to continue having a discussion.
继续进行讨论。
And it kind of just shows a bit of indifference.
这其实只是表现出一种漠不关心的态度罢了。
Like, you know, I don't care.
其实，我根本不在乎。
It doesn't matter to me.
对我来说，这并不重要。
So when I think about the word being used like this, I think about people having an emotional conversation,
因此，当我想到这个词被这样使用时，我就会联想到人们正在进行一场充满情感的对话。
maybe even an argument and one person just doesn't want to talk about it anymore.
甚至可能会发生争吵，之后其中一方就再也不想谈论这件事了。
They may just say, you know what, whatever I'm done talking, whatever, Believe what would you want to believe?
他们可能会这样说：“你知道吗？无论我说了什么，都随你便吧。你愿意相信什么，就相信什么吧。
I don't even care.
我甚至都无所谓了。
Whatever.
随便吧。
You want to mount it on the left or the right or the middle?
你想把它安装在左边、右边还是中间呢？
Whatever.
随便吧。
The next expression is one that I use a lot.
下一个表达式是我经常使用的。
I like using this expression and it is informal and it's just my bad.
我喜欢使用这个表达方式，虽然它比较随意（或者说不够正式），不过这确实是我的失误（或者说我的表达习惯有问题）。
And when somebody says my bad, they are acknowledging that that they made a mistake, they did something wrong and it's not really a really,
当有人对我说“对不起”时，他们其实是在承认自己犯了错误、做错了事。这其实并不是什么值得大惊小怪的事情……
really horrible mistake because then I think you want to be a little more apologetic.
这确实是一个非常严重的错误；因此，我觉得你应该更加诚恳地表达你的歉意。
But if it's just something small and you're know, oh, okay, I did something wrong.
但如果只是个小问题，而且你自己也意识到“哦，好吧，我确实做错了什么”，那么这种情况也就还好处理。
My bad.
是我的错。
Often I think it's used quite frequently in sports.
我经常觉得这种技术（或工具）在体育领域中被频繁使用。
When you're having a competition and you play on a team and somebody makes a mistake and they'll just say,
当你们参加比赛、组成一个团队共同作战时，如果有人犯了错误，其他人通常只会简单地说……
oh, okay, my bad.
哦，好吧，是我的错。
You will see this in basketball, soccer, football, and any team sport, somebody makes a mistake.
在篮球、足球、橄榄球以及任何团队运动中，你都会看到这样的情况：总有人会犯错。