非常英国化的问题——躲避人群



Very British Problems是第四频道的电视剧,观看起来很有趣,非常适合练习英语听说能力。对于那些正在准备的人来说特别有用 雅思, 剑桥 FCECAECPE

该剪辑来自《非常英国的问题》(第一季 - 第 1 集 - 其他人)的第一集。

Grace Dent, Tameka Empson, Jocelyn Jee Esien and James Corden muse on attempting to avoid human contact.

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I live on a street where — when I come round the corner, I often see some of my neighbours standing in their gardens and I sometimes just go and hide round the corner… and go on my phone for a bit because I don’t want to talk to them about the bins.

You know when you try to avoid somebody and you pretend you’re on the phone…?

“Sorry, I’ve got take this,” and it’s not ringing. It’s clearly…

“I have to take this.”

“Hello?”

“Sorry, my love. What did you say? Mm-hmm. Oh, wow.”

“Yeah, OK. Sorry, can you…”

(He mouths)

“Sorry, sorry… Hmm?”

(She titters)

I’ve done that a load of times and people will just believe you.

They will go, “Oh…” [HE MOUTHS]

That’s it. It’s a great one.

“Sorry, I’ve got to… Hello?”

Gone, see you later, bang.

That’s a real favourite of mine.

Yes, who but the British could see the mobile phone and realise that its main benefit would be as a means of AVOIDING conversation.