Jo: You're listening
Real English from BBC Learning English. I'm Jo.
Helen: And I'm Helen. 地道英语中介绍
些英语表达, 你可能在英语课堂
学
到,但
它们在生活中却会经常出现。那Jo, 今天
新表达
什么呢?
Jo: Well today, we're talking about WAGS.
Helen: 这


动词吗?摇尾巴 – WAGS – like
dog 'WAGS'
tail?
Jo: Well that
one explanation
'WAGS' but today's WAGS
an abbreviation.
Helen: 今天
词
样,
缩写?
Jo: Wives
girlfriends.
Helen: 谁
太太和女朋友啊?
Jo: Footballers wives
girlfriends. Let me explain. These days certain footballers are famous
have quite glamorous lifestyles.
Helen:
错,
些顶级足球明星
光名气特别响,他们
生活也非常令人羡慕。
Jo: And
lot
them have glamorous wives
girlfriends. When
players play
wives
girlfriends often sit
watch
players. Some
the wives
girlfriends are famous.
Helen: 像 Victoria Beckham 曾经
辣妹之
,而英格兰国家队
Ashley Cole
太太 Cheryl 她
'Girls Alound'
领唱。 很多球星
女朋友都
模特儿。
Jo: When England played
the World Cup
2006
lot
the newspapers
the UK reported
the wives
girlfriends
the players.
Helen: 所以后来报纸就把足球明星们
太太和女朋友们缩写为 WAGS。
Insert
A: I'm really fed up
seeing WAGS
the TV – you see more
them than you do
footballers.
A:
love Victoria Beckham –
she's so lucky
be married
David Beckham!
B:
know, I'd love
be
WAG – all that money
oh
be that beautiful!
Helen: So Jo would you like
be
WAG?
Jo: Well
would like
money and
would love
be that pretty – but I'm not sure I'd want
be
WAG
be
the newspapers all
time.
Anyway that's all from BBC Learning English
today.