What British People Think About British People | Easy English 77 · Easy English
本视频探讨英国人对本国人的看法,涵盖幽默、文化差异和国家认同等内容,适合练习口语和听力。
Hello, welcome to Easy English.
你好,欢迎来到“简易英语”(Easy English)节目。
Today, I want to know what Brits, think about Brits, let's go.
今天,我想了解一下英国人对其他英国人的看法。让我们开始吧。
What do Brits think about Brits?
英国人对其他英国人有什么看法?
- I’m actually not too sure.
- 其实我也不太确定。
No?
不?
- I'm really not too sure.
- 我其实也不太确定。
What do you think about other British people?
你对其他英国人有什么看法?
Well, I'm kind of proud of them.
嗯,我为他们感到有点自豪。
- Yeah?
- 是吗?
- And I feel part of them.
——而且我觉得自己是他们中的一员。
Okay.
好的。
- But I'm aware that there's obviously many Brits that…
- 但我知道,显然有很多英国人……
I don't know, probably xenaph…
我不知道,可能是“Xenaph”吧……
you know, you got bad...
你知道吗,你做得太糟糕了……
bad ones, you've got a good ones.
有些东西很糟糕,但同时也有一些非常好的东西。
- And what is it about…
那么,关于……到底有什么特别之处呢?
what are you kind of, proud of?
你到底为哪件事感到自豪呢?
Is it about there nature, about how…
这是关于它们的本质,关于它们是如何形成的……
how we sort of, generally behave or our history or…
我们通常的行为方式、我们的历史等等……
- Yeah, I think so, I think generally, we’re quite a funny nation.
- 是的,我也这么认为。总体来说,我们确实是一个相当有趣的国度。
- Yeah, okay.
- 好的,明白了。
Good sense of humour, we've lived abroad in different countries.
我们都有很好的幽默感,而且曾在不同的国家生活过。
Where abouts have you lived?
你之前住在哪些地方呢?
- Lived in Germany, Holland, America.
曾在德国、荷兰和美国生活过。
Wow, okay.
哇,好吧。
- And er…
- 嗯,还有……
we always missed it, that's for sure.
我们确实总是忽略了这一点。
Well we missed…
嗯,我们错过了……
we missed home and we missed the people as well.
我们想念家乡,也想念那些陪伴我们的人。
I think the humour is unique isn’t it?
我觉得这种幽默风格确实很独特,不是吗?
- Absolutely.
- 绝对可以。
Right, well I think…
好吧,我想……
I think we're such an insular country you know, with the…
我觉得我们这个国家真的非常封闭、与世隔绝……
Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England.
苏格兰、爱尔兰、威尔士和英格兰。
And I just think we all…
我只是觉得,我们所有人……
we all think we rather marvellous because of the industrial revolution for a start, we started all that off.
我们都觉得自己非常了不起——这首先要归功于工业革命;毕竟正是我们开启了这一切变革的进程。
You know, Erm…
你知道的,呃……
and we…
而我们……
we were well ahead at that point.
在那个时候,我们已经遥遥领先了。
I do think we have an inflated view of being English, some people just think it's the best thing in the world.
我确实认为,我们对“作为英国人”这一身份的认知有些过于夸大了;有些人甚至认为这是世界上最美好的事情。