我们讲的英语第159期:Tastic 精彩的

Finn: Welcome to the slang-tastic programme, The English We Speak.
芬恩：欢迎收听精彩的俚语节目地道英语。

Wang Fei: Hello I'm Wang Fei.
王飞：大家好，我是王飞。

Finn: This is our word-tastic programme where you learn the latest English-tastic phrases.
芬恩：这是酷词节目，在这里你能学到最新的英语酷词。

Wang Fei: Yes… erm…
王飞：对……呃……

Finn: We hope you have a learning-tastic time with us today…
芬恩：我们希望大家今天和我们一起度过愉快的学习时间……

Wang Fei: Finn, sorry for interrupting you, but why do you keep adding 'tastic' to all these words?
王飞：芬恩，很抱歉打断你，不过你为什么在所有词后面都加tastic这个词呢？

Finn: Sorry Wang Fei, I should have said. Tastic is our new word, or should I say, new suffix, for the day.
芬恩：抱歉，王飞，我应该先解释一下的。Tastic是我们今天要学习的新词，或者说是新的后缀。

Wang Fei: A suffix is something you add onto the end of another word to change the meaning.
王飞：后缀是加在词尾来改变单词意义的词。

Finn: That's right.
芬恩：没错。

Wang Fei: So when we add tastic, what does that mean?
王飞：那加上tastic以后是什么意思呢？

Finn: Well, it's kind of related to the word fantastic. When you add tastic to a word, for example slang, it means 'fantastic in terms of slang'. So English-tastic means 'fantastic in terms of English'.
芬恩：意思类似于美妙的。在单词后面加上tastic以后，以俚语这个词为例，就是很棒的俚语。而English-tastic就是精彩的英语。

Wang Fei: And learning-tastic means fantastic in terms of learning?
王飞：learning-tastic就是美妙的学习蚂？

Finn: It does, absolutely. Let's hear a couple more examples.
芬恩：完全正确。我们再来听几个例子。

A: Did you hear Britney's new song?
A：你听小甜甜布兰妮的新歌了吗？

B: Yes. It's pop-tastic! I love it.
B：听了。是首精彩的流行歌曲。我很喜欢。

A: Did you have a good time yesterday?
A：你昨天过得愉快吗？

B: It was so much fun. Fun-tastic! Ha ha.
B：过得非常愉快。非常有趣！哈哈。

Wang Fei: Wow, very good examples. So can I say example-tastic?
王飞：哇，这些例子真好。那我可以说精彩的例句吗？

Finn: Example-tastic, you can! Now, this way of making new words is very informal–it comes from pop culture–so you probably wouldn't see it in a business letter.
芬恩：当然可以了！其实这种制造新词的方法是非正式的，来源于流行文化，所以你在商务信函中可能不会看到这种用法。

Wang Fei: So, it's not business-tastic?!
王飞：那这不是商业词汇吗？

Finn: It's not business-tastic. Not really, unless you work in an industry like fashion or pop music. Anyway, I think it's time to tell our listeners about our website.
芬恩：不是商业用语。除非你在时尚或是流行文化等领域中工作。好了，我想现在是时候告诉听众朋友我们网址的时间了。

Wang Fei: Yes, and our web-tastic site iswww.bbclearningenglish.com! You can learn English for free, and even download programmes to your mp3 player.
王飞：对，我们精彩的网址为www.bbclearningenglish.com！你可以免费学习英语，也可以下载节目音频。

Finn: Yes, it's download-tastic! Time to go, now. Bye!
芬恩：对，很棒的下载！现在该结束节目了。再见！

Wang Fei: Bye!
王飞：再见！

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