VOA流行美語 Unit 63: DUMB BLONDE / BIMBO

李華終于把明天要交的一份報告寫完了。她松了一口氣，想出去輕松一下。她決定先去看看Michael在干什么。今天，李華會學到兩個常用語：dumb blonde和bimbo。

M: Hey, Li Hua. What brings you here?

L: 沒事。剛寫完明天要交的報告，想休息一下。哎，你在看電視劇Friends呀？我看過，我很喜歡Pheobe. 就是那個金發女孩，她真滑稽。

M: Yeah, she's a real dumb blonde.

L: 你叫她dumb blonde? 什么意思呀？ Dumb不是指一個人很笨嗎？blonde是金發。很笨的金發女郎??？

M: You're right. Dumb blonde. We often joke that blonde women are usually pretty but not very intelligent.

L: 噢，原來你們老把金發女郎說成是很漂亮，可是卻很笨。 象Pheobe也一樣，很漂亮，但是老說傻話，也是個dumb blonde?？墒牵f人家笨不是很不禮貌嗎？

M: Yes, that's why we would never say this to someone's face. It's usually only used as a joke behind people's backs.

L: 原來這是作為笑話來講的，絕對不能當著一個金發女郎的面說dumb blonde. Michael，你真認為金發的女人真的都很笨嗎？

M: No, we often used the term as a joke. Most of the jokes about dumb blondes are not true.

L: 我想也是，有金發的人不見得就是比別人笨。Michael, 你給我講一個關于dumb blonde的笑話吧！

M: OK. A crying blonde asked a policeman for help to find her lost dog. The policeman suggested that she put an ad in the paper. The blonde responds: "I can't, because my dog can't read." Li Hua, do you understand the joke?

L: 聽懂了。一個金發女郎的狗丟了。她一面哭一面要一個警察幫她把狗找回來。警察建議她在報上登個廣告?？墒牵@個金發女郎說："不行，我的狗不識字。" Michael, 我才不信有這么笨的人。

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L: Michael, 那天我們上歷史課的時候，那個女學生問教授誰是美國的第一任總統。這可真傻，不過她不是金發女郎。那我該怎么說她呢？

M: Well, you can call her a bimbo. Bimbo is a very dumb woman, not necessarily a blonde.

L: 你的意思是，bimbo可以指笨的女人，不管她是不是金發女郎。

M: That's right. Remember last week in class, a girl asked who won World War II, the Germans or the Japanese? What a silly question, she's a real bimbo.

L: 對，我記得！她問第二次大戰是德國人勝還是日本人勝，提得出這樣問題的人才真是個bimbo。

M: Yeah, it's scary that an American did not even know who our first president was or who won World War II. But it's still not nice to call her bimbo, though.

L: 我知道，雖然提這樣的問題很傻， 不過也不能當她們的面叫她們bimbo. 這樣會傷害她們自尊的。

M: I know you wouldn't. Just want to warn you.

L: 喲，Michael, 我和一個朋友約好在中國城見面的，我得去搭地鐵了。我要來不及了！

M: To Chinatown? Two blocks away！You can walk there in 5 minutes, why do you want to take subway? You're such a bimbo!

L: 噢，再過兩條街就是中國城？我還以為要坐地鐵呢！嗨， Michael， 我路不熟這也算bimbo呀！你真沒禮貌！我走了！

M: Sorry, bye!

今天李華學到兩個常用語，一個是：dumb blonde, 這是用來笑話那些金發女郎，看起來很漂亮，但是腦子很笨。另一個是：bimbo。Bimbo是指笨的女人，不管是不是金發.