英语听力精选进阶版 20135

Potty 疯了

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家里有小朋友的朋友们可能听说过 potty 这个词。不过它的意思在这里是不一样的，什么事情能让Neil 不停的说potty? 快来听听吧。

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Helen

Hello and welcome to Authentic¹ Real English. I'm Helen and joining me today is Neil.

Neil

Hello everyone.

Helen

Neil, tell me your first ever job?

Neil

I worked in a local supermarket stacking² shelves when I was sixteen.

Helen

How was it?

Neil

It’s quite boring, just moving things from one place to another. But I was very happy when I got my first pay check.

Helen

And how long did you stay in your first job?

Neil

No very long, about three months during the summer holiday. If I stayed there any longer, I would have gone potty.

Helen

What, potty? Did you have to get permission to use the toilet?

Neil

Oh no, nothing like that. Nobody needed permission to go to the toilet.

Helen

Well, you said you would have gone potty. My baby son has to be reminded about his potty every day.

Neil

Helen! I used the word ‘potty’ to mean that I would be ‘going crazy’ if I had to work in the supermarket forever. It’s not baby poo, wee-wee potty.

Helen

Oh, I’m sorry. 我是习惯反映，一听到 potty 就想到小朋友们用的小尿盆。但你说的不是这个意思。

Neil

No, they are two very different things. If someone is potty or is going potty, that means³ they are crazy or going crazy.

Helen

Neil 说的 potty 或者 go potty 意思是疯癫的，发疯了。 让我们来听几个例句吧。

Examples

My boss wants me to work on New Year’s day for no extra money, he must be potty.

我老板让我元旦加班，还不付加班费，他疯了吗？

She’s potty to sale off her car so cheaply⁴.

她肯定疯了才会这么便宜的把车给卖了。

Neil

There is another mean to ‘potty’. If someone is really keen⁵ on something we can use the phrase⁶ ‘to be potty about something’. For example, my brother potty about comic books, he spent all his savings⁷ collecting them.

Helen

Neil 说potty 还有另一个意思是“对什么东西着迷‘。比如他的弟弟对漫画特别着迷，他把所有的存款都花在收集漫画上了。

Neil

Well, I am glad we cleared up the meaning on that. It won’t do us any good if people heard us arguing over potties.

Helen

Oh no. They’d think we’ve gone potty.

1 authentic   

a.真的，真正的；可靠的，可信的，有根据的

参考例句：

• This is an authentic news report. We can depend on it. 这是篇可靠的新闻报道, 我们相信它。
• Autumn is also the authentic season of renewal. 秋天才是真正的除旧布新的季节。

2 stacking   

n.堆垛v.堆积( stack的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The firm is stacking up pretty well these days. 公司近来情况相当不错。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Mother is stacking the plates in the kitchen. 母亲在厨房里把盘子一个个叠起来。 来自辞典例句

3 means   

n.方法，手段，折中点，物质财富

参考例句：

• That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
• We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。

4 cheaply   

adv.廉价地；粗俗地

参考例句：

• Old bikes can be bought quite cheaply.旧自行车很便宜就能买到。
• This apartment rents cheaply.这套公寓租价便宜。

5 keen   

adj.热心的；敏锐的；激烈的；锋利的

参考例句：

• There is keen competition between the two motorcar firms.两家汽车公司之间存在着激烈的竞争。
• The children are mad keen to go to the zoo.孩子们非常想去动物园。

6 phrase   

n.短语，词组；成语，习语

参考例句：

• The phrase was caught on and immediately became popular.这个短语被采用后很快就流行了。
• That's exactly the phrase I was looking for.这就是我一直找的那个短语。

7 savings   

n.存款，储蓄

参考例句：

• I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假，那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
• By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时，他的存款已全部用完。