英语听力精选进阶版 11221

Phwoar! 

Professor David Crystal 

Interjections are words which express emotions and some of 

them are very old:  words like 'cooer', 'gosh' or 'phew'. You don't 

get new interjections very often, but one did arrive in the 1980s. It 

was a sort of expression of enthusiastic desire - usually by a man 

about a woman.  

Easy to say 'phwoar!' like that - less easy to write. How do you 

spell such a thing? All interjections have this kind of problem. Well, 

I've seen it spelled f-o-o-o-a-r for instance…all sorts of things 

beginning with 'f'. But the one that is most widely used these days 

is p-h-w-o-a-r:  'phwoar!' like that.  

Well it's becoming very frequent¹, in all kinds of television 

programmes I've heard it used recently. Interestingly, although it 

was originally² a male noise, it's now being used by women. Women are using it 

back to the men. 'Phwoar' these days could be a man looking at a woman in an 

enthusiastic way, or a woman looking at a man in an enthusiastic way. Nobody's 

ever said it to me; I just can't be an object of enthusiastic desire I suppose! 

1 frequent   

adj.经常的，频繁的；vt.常到，常去

参考例句：

• There are frequent contacts between the peoples of the two countries.两国人民之间交往频繁。
• Rains are frequent here in spring.这儿春季雨很频。

2 originally   

adv.本来，原来，最初，就起源而论，独创地

参考例句：

• Originally I didn't want to go.我本意不想去。
• After much discussion they settled on the plan originally proposed.他们讨论了很久，然后确定了原来提出的那个计划。