1970's
七十年代
对话 Dialogue
Hey man! How’s it hanging?
嘿，哥们！最近咋样？
Hey man! Everything is just groovy baby!
嘿，哥们！一切都棒呆了，兄弟！
Did you go to the roller rink on Saturday? I heard it was far out, man!
你周六去溜冰场了吗？我听说那里超酷的，老兄！
I wanted to, but I ran into this foxy lady that just moved to my block! I was chatting her up a bit and then we mellowed out at her place.
我本来想去的，但碰到了一个刚搬到我家街区的辣妹！我跟她搭了会儿话，然后就在她那儿放松了一下。
Right on, right on! Well, Jim went to the rink with Sherry and he said it was dy-no-mite! He was low on bread, but Sherry paid for everything.
没错，没错！好吧，吉姆和雪莉去了溜冰场，他说那简直是太棒了！他手头紧，但雪莉付了所有钱。
Gravy! Jim is such a jive turkey man. He is always hitting me up for cash. Anyway, you wanna book and go grab some grub?
好嘞！吉姆真是个讨厌鬼。他老是找我借钱。算了，你想不想溜出去搞点吃的？
Yeah man, I’m starving!
是啊，哥们，我饿死了！
完整节目 Full Program
Hello English learners! Welcome back to another edition here with us at EnglishPod! My name is Marco.
And I’m Erica.
And today we are doing the third part of our old English seriesand today we’re transported back to the nineteen seventies(1970’s).
That’s right, so, we’re gonna learn some nineteen seventies’ slang, um, some phrases that were really popular back in the seventies, but are also still in use today.
Exactly, so, it’s gonna be a very, uh, cool lesson today and before we start with th e dialogue, let’s take a look at some of the words that we’re gonna find in “vocabulary preview”. Voice: Vocabulary preview.
Well, we have two words for you in vocabulary preview and they’re both found in the dialogue. The first one – roller rink.
A roller rink.
A roller rink.
Okay, so, a roller rink, let’s break that down and let’s look at the first part.
Alright, so, roller – we might recognize this from rollerblades orroller-skates.
Okay, so, yeah, when you go rollerblading, roller-skating, those things that you put on your feet to skate.
Right, wheels not… not like a blade or a knife.
Exactly, so, that’s roller.
Uhu.
And what about rink?
Rink is the place where you do skating.
Okay, so, if you go to a roller rink, it’s this big area, where everyone can rollerblade or roller-skate.
That’s right.
Okay. And what about the next word?
A block.
Block.
A block.
Okay, so, this is a noun - a block.
Uhu. And a block is a part of a city that is surrounded by four streets.
Okay, so, a city is made up of many blocks.
Yeah.
And everyone lives on a block.
Exactly, so, it’s a square within the city.
Alright, very good, so, these are the two words that we previewed and we’re gonna listen to them now in the dialogue; we’re gonna hear two guys just talking about normal everyday things, but we’re gonna be listening to them in nineteen seventy.
Okay, groovy dialogue.
Yeah, really nice, ha?
Alright, so, some interesting language in here and like we said it sounds a bit strange, but a lot of this is still used today in modern English, so, why don’t we look at some of these words in “language takeaway”? Voice: Language takeaway.
Alright, on language takeaway today we have the first word – far out.
Far out.
That was far out.
To be far out.
Okay, so, it’s just another way of saying…
Cool.
Cool.
Yeah.
That was nice.
Yeah.
It was really cool. So, they went to the roller rink, it was far out, it was really cool, but the other guy couldn’t go because he saw a foxy lady.
A foxy lady.
Okay, foxy lady.
So, basically, a foxy lady is a really good looking or sexy woman.
Right, commonly you would hear some men refer to a[n]… attractive women as a fox.
Okay, so, foxy lady.
Okay.
Now, Marco, can we say “a foxy man”.
No, this is a phrase that you would only use for women.
Okay, so, foxy lady.
Foxy lady.
So, after he met up with the foxy lady, they both just decided tomellow out at her place.
To mellow out.
To mellow out.
Okay, so, mellow out, what does this mean, exactly?
Basically, just to relax.
Right, so, to relax, to take it easy.
Uhu.
To mellow out.
So, what did you do on the weekend?
Oh, nothing, I just stayed at home and mellowed out.
Okay. Alright, and so the response to that was…
Right on.
Right on, right on.
Right, right on, right on.
And, so, basically, they’re saying “okay”, “good”, “I agree”.
Yeah, this phrase is… you can say as “good”, “yeah, that’s nice” or you can also say it as well “correct”, “correct, I agree”. So, why don’t we listen to some examples of how we can use this word in other situations? Voice: Example one.
Can you believed Patrick? He came up to me a month ago and tried to hit me up for some money. Voice: Example two.
When I was a kid, I used to always hit my dad up for lunch money. Voice: Example three.
This is the last time I lend you money; don’t even try to hit me up for more.
Okay, so, I think that’s pretty clear; we can see how it means – “correct” or also “okay, good”.
Alright, right on. And now we also have another word that’s similar to far out.
Uhu.
He said gravy.
Gravy.
Gravy.
Gravy.
Now, if you look it up in a dictionary, it… it’s gonna tell you something else, right?
Yeah… gravy is a sauce you put on meat.
Right, but in this case we say gravy is cool.
Uhu.
It’s nice.
Yeah.
Right, so, gravy.
That was gravy.
Uhu.
Now, finally, at the end of their conversation, they said “wannabook”.
Okay, let’s book.
Book.
So, to book… as a verb.
Yeah, interesting verb, it basically means to leave a place quickly.
Okay, so, “we have to book, the police are coming”.
Right, or “I gotta book guys, I’m late”.
Aha, so, book – to leave quickly, to leave suddenly.
Yeah, and that word is used quite commonly today, isn’t it?
Yeah, yeah, it’s used among like younger people. You would say “yeah, let’s book, this party is dead”.
Okay, great, so, there’s a lot of pretty cool phrases in this dialogue, pretty groovy phrases.
Mmm, yeah.
Why don’t we hear them again in context? DIALOGUE, SECOND TIME (slow)
Alright, so, now that we understand these six words that we saw in language takeaway, it’s time for us now to take a look at some great phrases that we can use today in “fluency builder”. Voice: Fluency builder.
Okay, so, at the start of the conversation there was an interesting way he started talking to his friend, right?
Alright, he said how’s it hanging?
How’s it hanging?
How’s it hanging?
Okay, so, basically, how is it going?
How’s it going?
Yeah.
How are you?
Uhu.
Now, you noticed in the spelling that we do have a G at the end,-ing, right?
Yeah, but usually you don’t really pronounce the G in this context, cause it’s very informal, so, how’s it hangin’?
How’s it hangin’? So, he sad everything was just groovy and then he started telling him about how he met a girl and he chat her up a bit.
Ch… to chat her up.
Okay, so, to chat somebody up.
So, when you chat someone up, um, you… you talk with them, right?
Yeah, you… you’re making conversation.
But it’s… it’s sort of… it’s more than just conversation, isn’t it?
Yeah, you’re trying to be a little bit flirty and maybe saying nice, romantic phrases or something like that.
Yeah, so, usually it’s between a woman and a man.
Yeah.
Right?
Uhu.
And it’s the man who chats up a woman.
Yeah, exactly.
So, a little bit of a sexist phrase here.
Hehe. To chat someone up or to chat up a girl, right?
Uhu.
Okay, so, he was chatting her up.
That’s right, and, so, they were talking about how Jim went to the roller rink, but he didn’t have any money, right? Because Jim is always hitting his friends up for cash.
Okay, so, to hit someone up.
To hit someone up.
So, before we explain this word, let’s listen to some other examples, so then we can maybe understand the meaning. Voice: Example one.
Right on, you got a high score, that’s amazing. Voice: Example two.
You got the job? Right on! Voice: Example three.
Jenny was right [on] when she told me she thought Rick was no good for me; I should have listened to her.
Alright, so, when you hit someone up for something, you ask for it.
So, usually, it’s to ask for money, right?
That’s right.
Okay, so, to hit someone up. And now, for our last phrase – let’s book and let’s go grab some grub.
To grab some grub.
Grab some grub.
Okay, let’s break this one down. With the final word grub what are we talking about?
Grub is an informal way of saying food.
Okay, so, to grab some grub is to get some food quickly.
Yeah, let’s go get some food.
Alright, so, maybe it’s time for us to grab some grub, um, and while we’re doing that, you can listen to the dialogue one last time.
Alright, so, some interesting phrases and even though some of these words you may not really commonly hear anymore, they might still be used in movies or something that’s related to the disco era, because it’s very, very popular still, right?
Yeah, that’s right, some of our more advanced users could even use a lot of these phrases in a kind of funny way to reference back to nineteen seventy (1970).
Yeah, exactly, so, it’s fun and well, you will use them or you will hear them from time to time even today.
And remember if you have any questions about the language you hear in these lessons, check [out] our website at englishpod.com.
Exactly, we’re there to answer any questions and, uh, we’ll see you guys there.
Thanks for listening and until next time… Good bye!
Bye! ***
复习 Review
The EnglishPod audio review, listen to the meaning, then say the vocabulary word.
Popular dance music, especially of the late 1970s, disco, house, crib, a performance
especially by a band, gig used to say that something makes sense, right on, an authority
figure like the boss or government, the man, a negative situation, bummer, how's it
going? How are you? How is it hanging? Cool, excellent, enjoyable, groovy and closed
place for roller skating, roller rink, the latest, cool, far out, sexy, attractive,
sexy, part of a neighborhood surrounded by four streets, block, talk informally to
a person you're attracted to, chat someone up, relax, mellow out, money, informal and
old-fashioned, bread, all right, cool, gravy, a person who is unreliable or irresponsible,
jive turkey, asks someone for money, hits someone up for, leave quickly, book, food,
informal, grub, let's try that faster, a person who is unreliable or irresponsible, jive
turkey used to say that something makes sense, right on, food, informal, grub, popular dance
music, especially of the late 1970s, disco, part of a neighborhood surrounded by four
streets, block, an authority figure like the boss or government, the man, a negative situation,
humor, leave quickly, book, money, informal and old-fashioned, bread, a performance especially
by a band, gig, and closed place for roller skating, roller rink, the latest, cool,
far out, sexy, attractive, foxy, house, crib, talk informally to a person you're attracted
to, chat someone up, asks someone for money, hits someone up for, cool, excellent, enjoyable,
groovy, relax, mellow out, all right, cool, gravy, how's it going, how are you, how is
it hanging, now say the word and hear it in a sentence, groovy, where did you buy that groovy
shirt, I really like it, groovy, the party at Paul's house last night was groovy, groovy, James has a
groovy new motorcycle and he said he would let me ride it, far out, I went to the cinema and saw
the new star track movie, it was far out, far out, you got a job at Morgan Stanley, that's far
out man, congratulations, far out, did you see how fast that car went, that was far out, mellow out,
I don't feel like going out tonight, I think I would just mellow out here at home, mellow out,
chopen really mellows me out when I'm feeling tense, mellow out, after final exams, let's go down to the
beach and mellow out, ride on, ride on, you got a high score, that's amazing, ride on, you got the
job, ride on, ride on, Jenny was right on when she told me she thought Rick was no good
for me, I should have listened to her, book, this party is really boring, let's book and go to another
bar, book, the police arrived and started arresting people so my friend and I booked as fast as we could,
book, Dan saw his ex girlfriend the restaurant and started to get nervous and ended up booking,