全网最酷美语怎么说:第37期 Sick不是病

 　　Nick: Hi everybody, this is Nick. Welcome to teaching series "how do you say this in American English."

　　Nick:大家好，我是Nick.

　　Brad: 大家好，我是Brad

　　Nick: Sick在大家的词汇储备量之中，会觉得这是表示生病。当然了，他平常的用法是表示生病。但是在很多美国年轻人之中，（很多人喜欢用一些"奇奇怪怪"的词，用多了大家也都会去用）这个sick会表示很酷，很潮，很炫的一个意思，不仅仅只有生病。生病更多的用在于一个普通的情景，其他的一个特殊情境我们用sick表示很酷。下面我们来听听对话，看看sick怎么用。

　　Nick: Hey Brad, did you see that Ferrari outside?

　　Brad: You mean the red one?

　　Nick: Yeah the red one in the garage. It blows my mind!

　　Brad: I saw that one, too! That's really sick!

　　Nick: What? I was saying a car. How can a car have an illness?

　　Brad: Oh no it doesn't have an illness. The literal meaning of sick, which I'm sure you all know, is to be ill with some sort of disease.

　　Nick: Yeah that's what I thought. The disease, right?

　　Brad: But when we use the adjective sick to something that is inanimate, something without a heartbeat. The word changes to "cool" or "neat" or "awesome¹." Whether it be a car, a song, or a dance movement, maybe even a chair. As long as it doesn't have a heartbeat. As long as it's not living. It will translate as "being cool." An incorrect usage would be if you see a really cool dog, for instance. Even if you say it as "Yo! That dog is SICK!"

　　Nick: Sounds like Rap.

　　Brad: Yeah. You're still implying that the dog has some sort of disease, even if it is running around happily in a park

　　Nick: Oh right. In that situation like a dog. It's definitely a normal situation-the dog is sick. It's really sick.

　　Brad: Yeah. Because dog is a living thing and it has a heartbeat. It's living and breathing. So even if you say a rapper, "yo that dog is sick." You are saying the dog is having an illness and needs to go see a veterinarian or a doctor.

　　Nick: Sure. It sounds like the difference between the word we've talked about long time ago "sweet" and "awesome", like you don't say a sparkler awesome but you could say sweet.

　　Brad: Yeah it's similar. They are all pretty much the same. They are all synonyms². They are roughly the same.

　　Nick: Ok thank you.

　　Nick: Brad刚刚说，这个sick只要在用于无生命的东西里面，没有heartbeat，不能想象成生病的，就是说很酷的意思。但是用在有生命的物体上，就是指我们平常的一个意思，说生病了活着feeling bad. So this is pretty much it for this time. I'll see you guys next time, bye.

　　Brad: 再见

1 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.

2 synonyms   

同义词( synonym的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• If you want to grasp English, you must carefully discriminate synonyms. 如果你想掌握好英语，你必须仔细区分同义词。
• Study the idioms and synonyms l wrote down before your test. 学考试前我给你写的习惯用语和同义字。