Learn English Small Talk to use at Work and with Friends, Family and Strangers · Learn English with Bob the Canadian
学习如何在职场和日常生活中进行简单轻松的英语闲聊，适合练习基础会话技巧。
Hi Bob the Canadian here.
嗨，我是来自加拿大的鲍勃。
As you learn English you'll want to get really good at something that we call small talk.
在学习英语的过程中，你会希望自己在一种被称为“闲聊”（small talk）的社交技能上变得非常熟练。
Small talk is a kind of conversation where the topic is very light, where it's very simple to have a conversation with someone.
闲聊是一种话题非常轻松、与他人交谈起来非常简单的谈话方式。
So in this video I'm going to help you learn a little bit about small talk that you can use with people you don't know,
在这段视频中，我将帮助你学习一些用于与不认识的人交谈的闲聊技巧。
small talk that you can use with people at work, and small talk that you can use with friends and family.
这些都是可以在工作中与人交谈时使用的闲聊话题，也可以用来与朋友和家人交流。
Hey Bob the Canadian here and we're
嘿，我是来自加拿大的鲍勃。我们正在……
going to talk about small talk today
今天我们要讨论一下闲聊的话题。
but before we get started if this
但在我们开始之前，如果这个……
is your first time here don't forget
这是你第一次来这里，别忘了哦。
to click the subscribe button below and give me a thumbs up at some point during this video if it is helping you learn English.
请点击下方的“订阅”按钮；如果这个视频对您学习英语有帮助的话，请在观看过程中随时给我点个“赞”。
So small talk.
那么，就聊点闲话吧。
Really small, simple conversations that you can have with either people you don't know, people you work with,
这些对话非常简短、简单，你可以与不认识的人或同事进行交流。
or friends and family.
或者朋友和家人。
Let's start with people you don't know.
我们先从那些你不认识的人开始吧。
I'm going to imagine that all of you have spent time in a line, like at the grocery store,
我假设你们所有人都曾在排队等候的过程中待过一段时间，比如在杂货店排队时。
or in a waiting room, like at the doctor's office, where you are either standing with, or sitting with people that you don't really know.
或者在候诊室里，比如在诊所里，你要么和那些你并不真正认识的人站在一起，要么坐在一起。
And it's nice to have a little bit of a conversation with them.
和他们聊一会儿也是件愉快的事情。
There's really two things that you can talk about if you are at the grocery store or in the doctor's office.
如果你在杂货店或医生办公室，其实有两件值得讨论的事情。
The first form of small talk would be talking about the weather.
闲聊的第一种方式就是谈论天气。
Isn't it gorgeous out today?
今天的天气不是非常美好吗？
or Wow, it's really coming down out there!
哇，真的开始下雪了！
- If it was raining for instance.
比如说，如果当时正在下雨的话。
So the weather is number one topic to, to engage in small talk with people who you don't know.
因此，天气成了与陌生人闲聊时最常谈论的话题。
The second is just to talk about the situation.
第二点就是简单地讨论一下当前的情况。
So you could say in the doctor's office, "Have you been waiting here long?"
因此，你可以在医生办公室里这样问：“您在这里等了很久吗？
and someone might reply and say, "No.
然后可能会有人回复说：“不。
I've only been here for a few minutes."
我才来这里几分钟而已。
Or in the grocery store you might just start by commenting on how long the line is.
或者在杂货店，你可能会先评论一下排队的人有多长。
So you could say something like, "Wow!
那么你可以这样说：“哇！
This line is really long today!"
今天这条线路的乘客真的非常多啊！
So that’s the first kind of small talk.
这就是第一种类型的闲聊内容。
Small talk that you would have with people who you really don't know.
那些你与根本不认识的人之间进行的闲聊。
It's a good way to open up a conversation or to start a conversation.
这是一个很好的方式，可以用来开启或继续一场对话。
The second situation you might be in where you want to use small talk is at work.
第二种可能需要使用闲聊的场合是在工作中。
So sometimes you work with people and you don't know them that well, but you do see them every day,
有时候你会和一些人一起工作，其实你对他们了解得并不是很深入，但你们每天都会见面。
and I have five topics, five things
我有五个主题，也就是五件需要讨论的事情。
that you could talk to people at work about in order to engage in a small conversation or to have small talk.
你可以在工作中与他人交谈，进行简短的对话或闲聊。
The first is sports.
首先是体育。
So if you are living in Canada for instance, and you are working with people, you can always ask about the game of hockey.
例如，如果你住在加拿大，并且需要与人交流或合作，你随时都可以询问关于曲棍球的相关信息。
I'm sure if you're living in another country there is another sport that everyone has as their favourite sport,
我敢肯定，如果你生活在另一个国家，那里肯定也有另一种运动，会成为所有人最喜爱的运动项目。