美国国家公共电台 NPR From 'Bonk' To 'Bombs' And 'Fly Swat': A Guide To Olympic Slang

 

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:

Olympic sports have their own special vernacular¹, slang terms that NPR's Melissa Block has been collecting throughout the games.

MELISSA BLOCK, BYLINE²: Seems a lot of the lingo³ has to do with disaster, which strikes often in these high-speed, high-amplitude sports. Take aerials, where skiers fly 60 feet in the air, flipping⁶ and spinning their way back to earth. If they're unlucky, they might crash-land in what's called a reverse suitcase.

TODD OSSIAN: (Laughter) The reverse suitcase is twisting past the flip⁵ and having too much rotation⁷. So if you land on your chest, then your head goes one way and your feet come the other.

BLOCK: Like a suitcase that's opened up too far, as head aerials coach Todd Ossian says. And there are all kinds of disaster possibilities. Say you catch the edge of your ski. It could lead to a fly swat.

OSSIAN: Just the force makes you go to the ground quick and there's a lot of impact there when you do that.

BLOCK: Just slaps you down.

OSSIAN: Slaps you down.

TIM BURKE: If you have a bad crash, a lot of times we call that a yard sale.

BLOCK: In a yard sale, biathlete Tim Burke explains...

BURKE: You're on the downhill. You fall. Your skis and poles are all headed in different directions.

BLOCK: Yard sale.

BURKE: Yard sale.

BLOCK: And how would you use that in a sentence?

BURKE: I had a serious yard sale on that big downhill over there.

BLOCK: You don't want that.

BURKE: No. That's never a good time except for your teammates and the camera crew.

BLOCK: Maybe you've seen cross-country ski racers collapse⁸ on the snow, totally spent, as soon as they cross the finish line. They routinely work themselves to the point of exhaustion⁹. And there's a word for that. Gold medalist Jessie Diggins told me it's bonk.

JESSIE DIGGINS: If you bonk, it means you've just run out of energy. There's nothing left in the tank. And suddenly your body can't go anymore because you run out of blood sugar. So if you hear someone say, oh, I bonked in that race, it means they just, like, boom, hit the wall. They're done.

BLOCK: I ran into the Japanese women's hockey team and picked up a bit of their lingo from Akane Hosoyamada.

AKANE HOSOYAMADA: In Japanese, there's one. It's called donche (ph). In Japanese that means don't check. When you collide it's like doh (ph) and it's like donche. Donche.

MELISSA BLOCK AND AKANE HOSOYAMADA: Donche (laughter).

BLOCK: Freestyle skier⁴ Aaron Blunck boils his sport's attitude down to four letters.

AARON BLUNCK: Stee (ph) is short for steeze (ph), like steezy (ph) run, like style. It's short for style. We just say stee.

BLOCK: How do you spell it?

BLUNCK: S-T-E-E. Stee. Pretty much whatever word you can think of shortened into the shortest way possible is what we like to say.

BLOCK: And when things go wrong on the course, typically it's just a swear word, Blunk told me, laughing. It's just the F-bomb, straight up, all the time. Melissa Block, NPR News, Pyeongchang.

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1 vernacular   

adj.地方的，用地方语写成的；n.白话；行话；本国语；动植物的俗名

参考例句：

• The house is built in a vernacular style.这房子按当地的风格建筑。
• The traditional Chinese vernacular architecture is an epitome of Chinese traditional culture.中国传统民居建筑可谓中国传统文化的缩影。

2 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 lingo   

n.语言不知所云，外国话，隐语

参考例句：

• If you live abroad it helps to know the local lingo.住在国外，学一点当地的语言自有好处。
• Don't use all that technical lingo try and explain in plain English.别尽用那种专门术语，用普通的词语解释吧。

4 skier   

n.滑雪运动员

参考例句：

• She is a skier who is unafraid of danger.她是一名敢于冒险的滑雪者。
• The skier skimmed across the snow.滑雪者飞快地滑过雪地。

5 flip   

vt.快速翻动；轻抛；轻拍；n.轻抛；adj.轻浮的

参考例句：

• I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
• Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。

6 flipping   

讨厌之极的

参考例句：

• I hate this flipping hotel! 我讨厌这个该死的旅馆！
• Don't go flipping your lid. 别发火。

7 rotation   

n.旋转；循环，轮流

参考例句：

• Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion.农作物轮作有助于防止水土流失。
• The workers in this workshop do day and night shifts in weekly rotation.这个车间的工人上白班和上夜班每周轮换一次。

8 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

9 exhaustion   

n.耗尽枯竭，疲惫，筋疲力尽，竭尽，详尽无遗的论述

参考例句：

• She slept the sleep of exhaustion.她因疲劳而酣睡。
• His exhaustion was obvious when he fell asleep standing.他站着睡着了，显然是太累了。