William: Hello and welcome to bbcukchina.com. You're listening to Authentic Real English. I'm William Kremer.

Feifei: I'm Feifei. What's today's word, William? 今天要學(xué)的俚語(yǔ)是什么？

William: Well,there's a footballing theme to this week's question, or at least a sporting theme. Let me ask you, Feifei, what characteristics do you associate with British people? 嗯，這次的主題是足球，不管怎么樣，是和運(yùn)動(dòng)有關(guān)的主題。問你個(gè)問題，菲菲，你覺得英國(guó)人的特點(diǎn)是什么？

Feifei: 我把什么特性和英國(guó)人能聯(lián)系在一起呢？Um... well, you're all a bit cynical 憤世嫉俗的，有點(diǎn)兒冷嘲熱諷的。

William: Ye-es. That's... That is probably fair. But what about more positive characteristics? 是的。你的說(shuō)法可能是公正的，還有什么積極的特征嗎？

Feifei: Um... 嗯……

William: To do with sport... 和運(yùn)動(dòng)有關(guān)……

Feifei: 你們英國(guó)人善于發(fā)明體育項(xiàng)目，不過雖然很多體育項(xiàng)目是你們發(fā)明的，可是在比賽中水平反而不及其他國(guó)家，哎。

William: Yeah, that's also probably fair as well. But what about our sportsmanship, Feifei? In particular, our sense of fair pay? Fair play on the football pitch? 是，這樣說(shuō)也有道理。但是有想過運(yùn)動(dòng)員精神嗎，菲菲？特別是我們觀念里的公平的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)？

Feifei: Maybe. Fair play 的意思就是公平比賽，公平競(jìng)爭(zhēng)。英國(guó)人向來(lái)都認(rèn)為在體育競(jìng)技和每日生活中，fair play 是非常重要的一個(gè)原則。But what about the phrase, fair play? When do we use that, William? 什么時(shí)候使用這個(gè)短語(yǔ)呢？

William: Well, that's a little bit tricky to explain. But we tend to say "fair play" when somebody does something annoying or perhaps a little negative but we shouldn't criticise them because they were sticking to the rules of the game, or to the spirit of the rules. 嗯，說(shuō)起來(lái)很微妙，但是當(dāng)有人做出一些讓人厭煩的事時(shí)，我們用這個(gè)詞。這個(gè)詞有些消極，當(dāng)人們堅(jiān)守比賽規(guī)則或者條例的時(shí)候，也用這個(gè)詞來(lái)說(shuō)明。

Feifei: Right. That is a little tricky to understand. Can you give us an example? 對(duì)的。是有點(diǎn)難以捉摸。能舉個(gè)例子嗎？

William: I'd be delighted to, Feifei. This example is from two men watching a football match. A goal has just been disallowed because the scorer was offside.我很愿意，菲菲。這個(gè)例子是正在看足球比賽的兩個(gè)人的對(duì)話。這一球是不合規(guī)矩的，因?yàn)樗?/span>越位了。

Feifei: 下面對(duì)話中兩位男士在觀看一場(chǎng)足球比賽。一個(gè)進(jìn)球剛剛被判無(wú)效，因?yàn)橐幻?duì)員越位了。Offside 越位。他們對(duì)裁判 ref 的這一判決很是不滿。

Example
Man: Oooooh! Ref, I can't believe it?! 哦！裁判，我簡(jiǎn)直不敢相信？！
Man 2: That is a shame. That is a shame. 真丟人，真丟人。
Man: What a joke! This referee needs to get some glasses. 笑話！裁判的眼睛應(yīng)該放大一點(diǎn)。
Man 2: Yeah, but fair play to him, that player was offside. 是的，但是公平的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)，運(yùn)動(dòng)員越位了。

Feifei: 雖然這兩位男士對(duì)裁判的判決很是不滿，但是其中的一位還是說(shuō)了"fair play to him, that player was offside".

William: Yeah, fair play to him. Now although this phrase comes from sport, we don't just use it to discuss football and so on. So let's hear another example. 是的，對(duì)他來(lái)說(shuō)是場(chǎng)公平的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)。現(xiàn)在盡管這個(gè)短語(yǔ)來(lái)自運(yùn)動(dòng)，我們還可以用在別的場(chǎng)合。

Example
Man: Have you heard about Gary? 你聽說(shuō)過蓋里嗎？
Man 2: No... 沒有……
Man: He's kicked his son out of his house. 他把他的兒子趕出家門了。
Man 2: No, what, Kevin?! 不，說(shuō)什么，凱文？
Man: Yeah, he's kicked him out. I mean, fair play to Gary, Kevin is 42 now.是的，他的兒子被趕出家門了。我是說(shuō)，對(duì)于蓋里來(lái)說(shuō)，凱文已經(jīng)42歲了。
Man 2: Yeah and he crashed Gary's car, remember? 記得嗎，他曾撞到蓋里的車？

Feifei: Hmmm. 在上面的這個(gè)例子中兩位男士在談?wù)撽P(guān)于他們朋友 Gary 把自己的兒子 Kevin 趕出家門的事情。

William: One of the men says, "Fair play to Gary, Kevin is 42 now."

Feifei: 因?yàn)樗麄兣笥训膬鹤右呀?jīng)42歲了，而且他還把自己父親的汽車給撞壞了，所以父親一氣之下就把他給趕出去了。Fair play to him.

William: Maybe not everyone understood that clip, but then, fair play to them, it was quite hard. Let's listen again. 也許還有人不是很理解這個(gè)片語(yǔ)，再來(lái)看下面的例子。

Feifei: William 我注意到剛才上面兩個(gè)例子里都是男士們?cè)谡f(shuō)話。

William: Yes, I think this might be a phrase that men are a little bit more likely to use than women. Maybe that's because it comes from sport. 是的，這個(gè)短語(yǔ)男性比女性更常用，也許是因?yàn)樗从谶\(yùn)動(dòng)。