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. Hi everyone, my name is Brad.
Nick:今天呢我們又是非常開心請到了Brad來跟我們講解一下關于隔音。那隔音呢,比如房間隔音非常好，可能我們是常說這句話用中文，那英文它的相對應的表達叫做sound-deafening or reduces (the sound).等會呢我們將會詳細的講解這兩個詞是應該怎么用. Brad, do you play indoor activities a lot?
Brad: Yeah. The most common indoor activity I do is I listen to a lot of music. Maybe playing TV …
Nick: Or games?
Brad: Yeah, games for sure.
Nick: So the door can prevent the sound from spreading, right? How do you say the feature, this function of that door?
Brad: This is little tricky. But we could say that the door is sound-deafening. If we are saying that the room is preventing noise from escaping. Then say "oh, the wall is sound deafening"
Nick: Or you can say the door reduces the sound, right?
Brad: Yeah, that works, too.
Nick: Yeah make it as a verb
Nick:那Brad剛剛就是說如果你是在房間里面去做一些游戲，放音樂，玩游戲之類的，這個門可以封鎖住這個聲音，可以去隔音，讓外面聽不到。這種情況下我們可以叫做"sound-deafening." "The door is sound-deafening."它是一個形容詞，可以用來形容這個門隔音非常好,它就是sound-deafening. 然后呢,如果你是要說動詞的話，你可以說reduces as a verb.那你就可以說門的隔音效果非常好"The door reduces sound well",我們還是知道有另一種東西我們經常常見叫隔音耳塞 The headphones we use, there is one type called what?
Brad: Noise canceling
Nick: Exactly. When you wear the head phones you can't hear the noise from outside
Brad: Yeah like if you are wearing a noise canceling headphones you won't be able to hear the person next to you talking. You could say noise reducing, you could say that are sound deafening headphones but the way these headphones are marketed as noise canceling. And the public American speakers just followed calling headphones noise canceling.
Nick: So it's from the commercials I guess?
Brad: Yeah how they advertise the marketing, I mean, it all means the same thing. But if you want people to truly understand is noise canceling headphones.
Nick: The company staged to call this noise canceling. Sounds more fancy.
Brad: So if you are going to a headphone store, and if you say "hey, I'm looking for sound deafening headphones, they are goona look at you, like "don't you mean sound noise canceling?" it's the same thing.
Nick: Thank you.那Brad剛剛就跟我們講述了有一種耳機我們大家都知道叫隔音耳機，很多耳機牌子都有。這個隔音效果戴上去外面可能稍微聽不見,只能聽到音樂。那這種耳機呢廠家是把它叫做noise canceling.Cancel就是取消, "Noise"大家都知道就是噪音. Noise canceling直譯過來就是取消噪音的耳機，這就是一個隔音耳機。它是一個廠家做commercial, 做廣告的一個說法，它可能也可以被叫做Sound-deafening headphones但是一般廠家不會這么叫。它叫做這個Noise Canceling. 所以大家也就跟著叫Noise Canceling. 所以這就是一個隔音耳機的叫法。總結一下，門隔音效果好叫做Sound-deafening 或者是The door reduces sound well. 隔音耳機的話可以叫做Noise Canceling headphones. This is pretty much for today, I'll see you guy next time.
Nick、Brad:再見！