Learn English Vocabulary Daily #17.2 — British English Podcast · English Like A Native
本集介绍5个英式英语词汇，涵盖形容词和名词，适合练习词汇积累和语境理解。内容包括mindless、prophetic和conformity等实用表达。
Hello, and welcome to The English Like a Native Podcast.
你好，欢迎收听《像母语一样说英语》（The English Like a Native Podcast）这个播客节目。
My name is Anna and you're listening to Week 17, Day 2 of Your English Five a Day.
我的名字是安娜，您现在正在收听《Your English Five a Day》节目的第17周、第2天的内容。
This is a series that attempts to
这是一个试图……的系列作品。
enrich or enlarge your active vocabulary by deep diving into five pieces every day of the week from Monday to Friday.
通过每周一至周五每天深入学习五篇相关文章，来丰富或扩大你的主动词汇量（即那些你能主动使用的词汇）。
We're going to start today's list with the adjective mindless, mindless.
我们今天要列出的单词是从形容词“mindless”（愚蠢的、无意识的）开始的。
We spell this M I N D L E S S.
我们把这个词拼写为“MINDLESS”。
Mindless.
毫无意义的；愚蠢的。
If something or someone is described as mindless, I think you can guess, it means that they are stupid or they have no meaning.
如果某物或某人被描述为“毫无意义”或“愚蠢至极”，我想你应该能猜到：这意味着他们很愚蠢，或者他们的存在毫无价值（即他们的行为或存在没有任何实际意义）。
So, if an act is mindless, then it's a pointless act.
因此，如果某个行为是毫无思考、盲目做出的，那么这个行为就是毫无意义的。
It's got no reason, no good reason behind it.
这件事毫无道理可言，根本没有任何合理的解释。
Like if someone comes and sets fire to a wooden hut for no reason, just for fun, just because they're bored.
就好比有人无缘无故地放火烧了一间木屋——只是为了好玩，或者只是因为觉得无聊罢了。
And that hut contained the objects, the possessions of an elderly couple.
那个小屋里摆放着一些物品，属于一对老年夫妇的财产。
And for them, it was all very important stuff.
对他们来说，所有这些事情都非常重要。
It was their memories, their photographs, their life's work.
这些都是他们的回忆、他们的照片，也是他们毕生的心血结晶。
And someone's just come and destroyed it.
刚才有人过来把它毁掉了。
That would be a mindless act.
那将是一种毫无理智、愚蠢至极的行为。
And you could even refer to that person as being mindless.
你甚至可以将那个人称为“没有头脑的人”。
Here's another example sentence,
这是一个另一个例句：
"Have you noticed how many songs out at the moment are full of mindless lyrics?
你有没有注意到，现在市面上有很多歌曲的歌词都很空洞、毫无意义？
I remember when songs used to mean something."
我记得过去，歌曲确实承载着某种意义（即它们能够传达特定的情感或信息）。
Next on our list is an adjective, it is prophetic, prophetic.
我们列表上的下一个词是一个形容词，它的含义是“预言性的”（prophetic）。
We spell this P R O P H E T I C, prophetic.
这个词的正确拼写是“PROPHETIC”，意为“预言性的”。
So bearing in mind here that PH often represents the sound /f/ like in French, fry, fish, prophetic.
需要注意的是，字母 “PH” 通常代表发音为 /f/ 的音素，类似于法语中的 “fry”、“fish” 或 “prophetic” 这些单词中的 “f”。
Prophetic means saying correctly what will happen in the future.
预言性”的意思是指能够准确地预测未来会发生的事情。
So, almost predicting something that's going to happen.
这几乎就像是提前预测了某件事情将会发生一样。
You just say it like it's a prophecy, prophetic.
你说话的方式就像是在宣读预言一样，充满了预言般的意味。
Have you ever had a prophetic dream?
你曾经做过一个具有预言性质的梦吗？
Sometimes we do, don't we?
有时候我们确实会这样做，不是吗？
We dream something that feels prophetic, or somebody comes to you and says, "I've got a great idea.
我们会做一些感觉像预言一样的事情；或者会有人来找你，对你说：“我有一个很棒的主意。
I'm going to do this."
我打算这么做。
And you say, "Oh, it will come to nothing."
然后你说：“哦，这件事最终会不了了之的。
Or, "That's fantastic.
或者：“那太棒了。
I can really imagine that working out for you.
我真的能够想象那种锻炼方式对你来说有多么有效（或者：多么适合你）。
You're going to start your own business and everything.
你打算自己创业，做各种事情。
I can just see it now."
我现在就能想象到那一幕了。
And then it really happens.
然后，这一切真的发生了。
And then you look back at what you said and think, wow, that was a really prophetic statement to make.
然后你回过头来看自己说过的话，不禁会想：“哇，那真是一句具有预言性的话啊。
Here's an example sentence, "His predictions about how computer technology would revolutionise the workplace were completely prophetic.
这是一个例句：“他对计算机技术将如何彻底改变工作方式的预测完全应验了。
I wonder if he can predict next week's winning lottery numbers!"
我想知道他是否能够预测出下周彩票的中奖号码！
Next on our list we have the noun conformity.
接下来我们列表中的词是名词“conformity”（一致性/遵从）。