58. 苏格兰 / 苏格兰口音（与莱斯利一起）

你正在收听卢克的英语播客。

You're listening to Luke's English podcast.

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For more information, visit teacherluke.podomatic.com.

大家好。

Hello, ladies and gentlemen.

你正在收听卢克的英语播客。

You're listening to Luke's English podcast.

我叫卢克。

My name's Luke.

这是我的播客。

It's my podcast.

所以它被称为卢克的英语播客。

That's why it's called Luke's English podcast.

其中的‘英语’部分是因为它面向的是将英语作为外语学习的人。

The English part of it is because it's for people who are learning English as a foreign language.

没错。

That's right.

你们全世界有数百万之多。

There's millions of you all over the world.

你们都迫切需要提高英语水平。

You're all desperately needing to improve your English.

你们中的许多人生活在很难找到母语为英语的人的国家。

Many of you live in in countries where it's very difficult to find native English speakers.

所以你们需要一个真实的英语来源。

So what you want is an authentic source of real English.

你们可以听DVD里的电影，但你知道，那些电影都是有剧本的。

You could listen to movies on DVD, but, you know, they're they're all those movies are scripted.

那并不是真正的自然英语。

It's not really natural English.

比如说，你可以听收音机或互联网上的新闻，对吧。

Let's say you could listen to the news, couldn't you, on the radio or on the Internet.

但说实话，现实中大多数人并不是这样说话的。

But to be honest, most people don't speak like that in real life.

在新闻中，他们的说话方式不同，带点不自然，和大多数人日常生活中使用的英语并不一样。

On the news, they speak in a in a different way, in a slightly unnatural way, which is not really the same as the way most people in their everyday lives use English.

例如，在新闻中，不知为何，所有内容听起来都像这样。

For example, on the news, for some reason on the news, everything sounds like this.

这就是新闻里人们说话的方式。

That's that's the way people speak on the news.

显然，我们平时并不会这样说话，对吧？

Obviously, we don't normally talk like that, do we?

所以，你在寻找一个非常好的真实自然的英语对话资源。

But so you want you're you're looking for a great source of really natural conversational English.

也许是英式英语，因为你们通过电视节目和电影接触到的英语大部分是美式英语，这很好。

Perhaps some British English because most of the English that you probably come in contact with through TV shows and movies and so on is American English, and that's great.

我喜欢美式英语。

I love American English.

世界上说美式英语的人比说英式英语的人更多，但我知道我的许多听众非常想听一些英式英语，原因多种多样。

More people speak American English in the world than British English, but I know that a lot of my listeners really wanna hear some British English because of various reasons.

有些人更喜欢英式英语。

Some people prefer British English.

有些人认为它是英语的原始形式。

Some people consider it to be the original form of English.

我不确定这一点。

I'm not sure about that.

显然，语言一直在变化。

Obviously, the language changes all the time.

我们英国人说的英语和美国人说的英语有些不同，但这并不意味着哪一种更好。

The the English that we speak in Britain is a bit different to the English they speak in America, but doesn't necessarily mean one is better than the other.

我们来看看。

Let's see.

所以这些就是我的听众。

So those are my listeners.

我肯定你就是那种人。

I'm sure you're one of those people.

你需要一个优质的英语资源来练习听力。

You need a good source of English to practice your listening.

你还想更多地了解英语文化，比如英国的文化之类的。

You also want to kind of learn more about the culture of the English language, maybe the culture of The UK, that kind of thing.

你还希望听到各种不同的口音，以便了解我们说英语的多种方式。

You also, would like to hear a variety of different accents so you can get a sense of all the different ways in which we speak English.

而且，我肯定你也想掌握大量非常实用的词汇，地道的表达。

And also, I'm sure you want to pick up lots of really, really useful bits of vocabulary, natural things.

那你来对地方了。

So you've come to the right place.

这里就是你能找到所有这些内容的地方。

This is where you're gonna find all those things.

这是卢克的英语播客。

It's Luke's English podcast.

我利用自己的空闲时间独自做这件事。

I do it on my own in my free time.

我是一名在伦敦工作的英语教师。

I'm an English language teacher who works in London.

我已经教英语大约十年了。

I've been teaching English for about ten years now.

我拥有丰富的英语教学经验。

I've got loads of experience of English teaching.

我在伦敦霍兰德公园的一所语言学校任教，教授通用英语、考试课程、商务英语、法律英语以及其间的所有课程。

I teach in a language school in Holland Park in London, and I teach general English exam courses, business English, legal English, and everything else in between.

所以你知道，你可以信任我作为可靠的英语教学资源。

So you can you you know that you can trust me as a decent source of English language teaching.

我知道你在想什么。

So I I know what you're thinking.

你在想，这太棒了。

You're thinking, this is amazing.

都是免费的吗？

Is it all free?

这是免费的吗？还是需要付费？

Is this free or do you have to pay?

各位女士们、先生们，这是免费的。

Well, ladies and gentlemen, it is free.

完全是免费的，但请记住，我得支付网站托管费用。

It's completely free, but bear in mind that I do have to pay for the web space.

我得支付托管这个网站的公司费用。

I have to pay the the company that hosts this website.

我每个月都得付给他们钱。

I have to pay them every month.

因此，如果大家收听这个播客，我恳请大家捐一些钱，帮助我支付网站的运营成本。

And so I do ask people to if they listen to the podcast, I ask people to make a donation to me just to help me cover the cost of running the website.

如果我做这件事，每个月还倒贴钱，那岂不是太荒谬了？

It would be ridiculous, wouldn't it, if I did this and I actually lost money every month?

事实上，我确实经常亏钱。

Well, the fact is I do often kind of lose money.

我花钱做这个，是为了让你能免费获得在线英语课程。

I spend money on this so that you can get free English lessons online.

如果你是个商人，你可能会觉得这太荒谬了。

If if you're a business person, you'd probably be thinking that's ridiculous.

这完全违背了你可能拥有的任何商业理念，你知道的。

It defies every sense, every kind of business idea that you might have, you know.

显然，做生意的目的就是赚钱。

The the obviously, the idea is you make profit.

但我确实没有赚任何钱，所以我也不能把这称作生意。

But I'm not making any profit, that's for sure, so I I can't really call this a business.

相反，这对我来说更像是一种实验，也是一种爱好，让我有机会练习做演讲、用声音做广播之类的事情。

Instead, it's a kind of and it's it's an experiment really for me, and it's a kind of hobby and a chance for me to practice doing things like presenting, maybe using my voice on radio, that kind of thing.

这对我来说就是一点乐趣，一点小小的乐趣。

It's a bit of fun bit of fun for me.

此外，我知道世界上有些地方，比如印度或亚洲某些地区，人们根本无法获得学习资源，也没有母语为英语的教师，而市面上的所有教材都非常昂贵。

Plus, I know that there are people in in parts of the world, like in places like India or parts of Asia, for example, where they really have no access to facilities, no access to native English speakers who who teach English, and all of the materials that are out there are very expensive.

因此，我愿意相信自己某种程度上正在帮助这个世界。

So I like to think that somehow I'm helping the world.

那些身处艰难地区、发展中国家但拥有网络连接的人，可以免费收听并学习英语，这在我看来是非常好的事情。

People who are in the difficult parts of the world, the developing countries, who have an Internet connection, they can listen to this and learn English for free, which is a very good thing as far as I'm concerned.

所以我知道你在想什么。

So I know what you're thinking.

够了，够了，卢克，别再说这些了。

Enough of this enough of the chat, Luke.

你能不能直接说重点？

Get down to the point, will you please?

这一集是关于什么的？

What's this episode about?

这一集主要是关于苏格兰和苏格兰口音的。

Well, this one is about kind of Scotland and the Scottish accent.

我现在正在制作一系列播客。

Now, I'm doing a series of podcasts.

我做得非常慢，因为我的生活中还有其他很多事情在进行。

I'm doing it very slowly because I've got various other things going on in my life.

但我正在制作一系列关于英国不同地区口音的播客。

But I'm doing a series of podcasts about different regional accents in The UK.

所以在这集中，我们将探讨苏格兰和苏格兰口音。

So in this episode, we're gonna be looking at Scotland and the Scottish accent.

我采访了一位认识的老师，她和我在同一所学校工作。

Now, I interviewed a teacher I know who works in the same school as me.

她已经在不同国家教授英语多年。

She's been teaching English for years and years in different countries.

她原本来自苏格兰，但曾生活在巴西、英国以及其他国家，因此她可以说是位国际人士，但最初来自苏格兰，我认为她非常适合作为苏格兰以及苏格兰口音和文化的代表。

She comes from Scotland originally, but she's lived in Brazil and lived in England and lived in other countries in the world, so she's kind of an international person, but originally she comes from Scotland, and I'd say she's a pretty good spokesperson for Scotland and, you know, things like the Scottish accent and Scottish culture.

所以我想采访她。

So I thought I'd interview her.

她的名字叫莱斯利。

Her name is Leslie.

她人非常好，非常亲切，声音也很悦耳，有着动听的苏格兰口音。

She's really nice, really lovely, and she's got a lovely voice, very pleasant Scottish accent.

所以我问了莱斯利几个关于英国文化和苏格兰文化差异的问题，还问了她关于苏格兰口音的特点以及它听起来是什么样子。

So I asked Leslie a few questions about differences between English culture and Scottish culture, and I asked her questions about the Scottish accent and how does the Scottish accent sound.

莱斯利会谈到苏格兰口音的一些特征。

And Lesley talks about features of the Scottish accent.

当然，我无法真正描述苏格兰口音，因为那是一种笼统的说法。

Obviously, it's I can't really say the Scottish accent because that's a generalization.

实际上，苏格兰口音有多种不同类型，莱斯利会在访谈中为你详细讲解。

There are actually many different types of Scottish accent, and Leslie will tell you all about that in the interview.

现在我打算直接把这个内容发布到网站上，目前没时间写文字稿，但我会上线这段内容，等我有空时再补上文字稿。

Now I'm just gonna post this, on the site, and I don't have time to write a transcript for it now, but I'm going to post it up, and when I find the time I'll put a transcript on there.

我知道你们中有些人其实并不需要文字稿，单纯听就可以了。

Now, I expect some of you don't really need the transcript, and you're happy just to listen.

你听的时候不需要跟着读。

You don't need to read while you're listening.

你只是想练习听力。

You just want to practice your listening skills.

其他听这个的人可能想看文字稿，以便理解每一个词。

Others who are listening to this probably want to read the transcript so that they can understand every single word.

我理解这一点。

I understand that.

但因为这是免费的，我不能总是做所有繁重的工作，把整个文字稿打出来。

But since this is a free thing, I can't always do all of the hard work and type out the entire transcript.

但如果你觉得没有文字稿就无法使用这一集，请告诉我。

But let me know if you feel like you can't really use this episode without a transcript.

这很合理，但请告诉我，这样我就可以开始为你写文字稿了。

That's that's reasonable, but let me know and then I can start writing a transcript for you.

那么我们来看看。

So let's see.

这是与莱斯利的访谈，这是一次与来自苏格兰的母语者的真实访谈。

Here's the interview with Leslie, and it's a genuine interview with a native speaker from Scotland.

我们开始吧。

Here we go.

嘿。

Yo.

什么？

What?

什么？

What?

什么？

What?

好吧。

Alright.

让我给你介绍一下这个功能。

Let me tell you about this feature.

这是一次与母语者的访谈。

It's an interview with a native speaker.

如果你觉得困难，我会帮你的。

And if you find it difficult, I'll give you a hand.

最后，你会完全理解他们说的每一个词。

And then in the end, you'll completely understand every single word they said.

不错。

Nice.

你具体来自哪里？

Where whereabouts are you from?

其实我来自邓迪，那是苏格兰第三大城市。

Well, I'm actually from Dundee, is probably the third biggest city in Scotland.

是的。

Right.

它位于东海岸。

And it's on the East Coast.

它比爱丁堡再往北一点，其实大约一小时车程。

It's just a bit further north than Edinburgh, about an hour really in

对，好的。

the Right, okay.

但你目前住在英格兰吗？

But you're living in England at the moment?

是的，是的。

Yes, yes.

你在这里多久了？

How long have you been here?

我一直在伦敦，其实这是我第三次在这儿住了，但最近这次大概是第三年了。

I've been in London, well this is actually my third time here, living here, but more recently, this is probably year three

明白了。

Right.

住在这里。

Living here.

好的。

Right.

好吧。

Okay.

那我们来看看。

So let's see.

所以我想问问你，既然你已经在这里住了几年了，我觉得没问题，还在正常进行。

I thought that I'd ask you then, considering you've been living here for a few years, I think it's okay, it's still working.

好吧。

Okay.

是的，还在录制。

Yes, it's still recording.

嗯，明白了。

Uh-huh.

因为你已经在这里住了几年了，对吧？

Because you've been living here for a few years now, right?

你注意到英国和苏格兰的生活有什么不同吗？

What's have you noticed any differences between life in England and life in Scotland?

就我而言，情况有点复杂，因为我离开苏格兰时大约是大学毕业的时候，我记得那时我第一次来伦敦，大概21岁，待了几年后去了巴西。

Well, in my case it's a little complicated because I actually left Scotland when I was about, oh let me think, I finished university there and then I came to London for the first time and I was probably 21 at the time and I lived here for a couple of years and then I went to Brazil.

真的吗？

Really?

我在那儿待了二十年。

And I stayed there for twenty years.

我不知道这件事。

I didn't know that.

没错。

That's right.

真的吗？你在巴西具体住在哪里？

Really, whereabouts did you stay in Brazil?

我大部分时间都住在首都巴西利亚。

Most of my time I spent in Brasilia, the capital.

是的

Yeah.

但最近几年我们住在圣保罗。

But the last couple of years we were in Sao Paulo Okay.

在回到英国之前。

Before coming back to Britain.

你会说葡萄牙语吗？

Did you speak Portuguese?

哦，会的。

Oh, yes.

我在家说葡萄牙语。

I speak Portuguese at home.

真的吗？

Oh, you really?

在家？

At home?

是的。

Yeah.

所以你丈夫是葡萄牙人？

So your husband's Portuguese?

不是。

No.

情况更复杂一些。

It's even more complicated.

我在巴西认识了我丈夫，但他来自伊朗。

I met my husband in Brazil but he's from Iran.

他来自伊朗？

He's from Iran?

是的。

Yeah.

好的。

Okay.

但你们彼此之间说葡萄牙语吗？

But you speak Portuguese to each other?

我们彼此说葡萄牙语，因为当我遇见他时，他不会说英语。

We speak Portuguese to each other because when I met him, he didn't speak English.

我明白了。

I see.

我明白了。

I see.

所以我们俩刚开始交往时，都说得很糟糕的葡萄牙语。

So we both started the relationship both speaking horrific Portuguese.

对，但现在你们都说流利的葡萄牙语了。

Right, but now you speak fluent Portuguese.

现在我们俩都说流利的葡萄牙语，我们的孩子当然也是在那里长大的，所以他们实际上是双语者，但家里说的语言是葡萄牙语。

Now we both speak fluent Portuguese and our children of course were brought up there so they're bilingual really, but Portuguese is the language at home.

哇，这太棒了。

Wow, that's amazing.

所以你们说葡萄牙语时带苏格兰口音吗？

So do you speak Portuguese with a Scottish accent?

我不这么认为，但巴西人可能会说我们肯定是外国人，不过我说的葡萄牙语没英国人说得那么差，抱歉。

I don't think so, but a Brazilian would probably say that we are definitely foreigners, but I don't speak as bad Portuguese as an English person might speak I'm sorry.

没关系，因为我觉得苏格兰口音本身比较难，但对葡萄牙语反而更有利，因为它的发音比较有力，我觉得这反而更容易。

That's alright because I think basically because Scottish is a bit harder and it's much better for Portuguese, the sounds are quite strong and so I think it makes it easier.

对，我明白了。

Right, I see.

那么，你大部分时间都住在葡萄牙或巴西吗？

Well, so, okay, so you lived in Portugal, in Brazil for most of your time or

我的很多人生时光都是在那里度过的。

A lot of my life was spent there.

但回到英国后，我觉得有一件事让我印象深刻，那就是你的苏格兰口音根本不会消失。

But coming back to Britain, I think one thing that strikes me is that your Scottish accent never really leaves you.

不过我不确定这是否是故意的。

Now I don't know how deliberate that is.

我记得年轻时曾试图隐藏我的苏格兰口音。

I do remember as a young person trying to hide my Scottish accent.

为什么？

Why?

你为什么会

Why would you

那样做呢？

do that?

没错，这个说法确实成立，但我认为我只是想融入大家。

Exactly, this account really worked out but I think I probably just wanted to fit in with everybody else.

是的。

Yeah.

所以我试着弱化它一点，而且我当时在教书，所以必须确保自己没有教巴西学生说‘wee boy’而不是‘little boy’。

So I tried to dilute it a bit and also I was teaching, so I had to be sure that I wasn't teaching all my Brazilian students a wee boy instead of a little boy.

这确实很有趣，不是吗？因为它引发了我们应该教哪种英语的问题。

Okay, that's interesting though, isn't it, because it kind of raises that idea of what kind of English should we teach.

没错。

Exactly.

应该教标准的BBC英语吗？还是我们可以使用我

Should it be the standard BBC English or are we allowed to speak the English we I

假设。

suppose.

我的意思是，似乎大多数人都认为，应该教一种标准的BBC口音的英式英语，

I mean, it seems that most people, most of us teachers have decided that there's a kind of standard BBC style RP kind of English that

对吧？

we Right?

应该这么想。

Should think so.

但即便如此，想想当学生来到英国，或者他们听人们说英语时，有时会因为听不懂某些内容而感到震惊。

But nevertheless, think when students, for example, come to England or when they listen to people speaking English, sometimes they're kind of shocked by the fact that they don't understand something.

我觉得他们确实如此。

And I think they are.

我在酒吧遇到一个人，卢克，我能听懂你说的每一句话。

I met this man in the pub and I can understand everything you're saying, Luke.

但那个家伙，我完全听不懂他在说什么。

But this guy, I couldn't understand anything he was saying.

我觉得他可能是苏格兰人。

I think he was from Scotland.

人们总是这么说，哦，我想他一定是苏格兰人。

That's what they always say is that, oh, I think he must have been from Scotland.

他们听不懂的人，肯定都是苏格兰人。

The people that they don't understand must be Scottish.

没错。

Exactly.

是的。

Yeah.

对。

Yeah.

我知道。

I know.

我知道。

I know.

所以，从我们学生的角度来看，我们至少要让他们了解他们可能会遇到的各种英语变体。

So I guess from from the point of view of our students, we've got to at least show them all the different other variations of English that they're going to come across.

没错。

Exactly.

他们接触这些差异越多，就越有利。

And the more they're exposed to these differences, the better

越好。

it is

他们对于

They for

他们可能会选择说类似BBC英语那样的口音，但至少应该了解或意识到英语的不同风格。

might choose to speak in kind of BBC English style, but they should at least know or be aware of the different styles of English.

好吧，那我们现在是在谈口音，对吧？

Alright then, I guess now we're talking about accents, aren't we?

是的，我认为我们确实是在谈这个。

Yes, I think that's what we're doing.

当人们说有苏格兰口音时，比如有人说：‘我觉得他有苏格兰口音’，这样说是公平的吗？

Is it fair when people say that there's a Scottish accent, Like people say: oh I think he had a Scottish accent.

这样说公平吗？

Is that fair to say that?

我觉得这基本是对的，因为即使是我，当我听到有人明显是苏格兰人时，我也未必能准确说出他们来自苏格兰的哪个地区。

Well I think it's probably true because even I, when I'm listening to people and I know they're obviously Scottish, I don't necessarily know where they're from, which part of Scotland they're from.

但你能听出他们是苏格兰人吗？

But you know that they're Scottish?

我总是能听出来，哪怕是一点点苏格兰口音的语调，因为那非常有特色。

All the time and I will always recognise even a slight Scottish lilt because it is quite distinctive.

我认为苏格兰最大的区别在于东部和西部之间的差异。

Think I the biggest difference in Scotland is the difference between East and West.

对。

Right.

我认为这是明显的差异，任何接触过苏格兰英语的人都能察觉到这一点。

And I think that's the obvious difference and I think most people will pick that up if they're exposed to Scottish English in any way.

好的。

Okay.

格拉斯哥在西部，爱丁堡在东部吗？

Is Glasgow in the West and Edinburgh in the East then?

没错。

That's right.

暴露了我的苏格兰知识。

Revealing my knowledge of Scottish.

但任何来自西部的人，无论具体在哪里，我都不会自动准确判断出来；西部的人总会说类似这样的话：‘哦，你这个周末要出去吗？’

But anyone from the West, and it could be anywhere and I would never automatically get it right anybody in the West will always say something like, Oh, so you're going away for the weekend.

他们就是这种发音方式。

That's the kind of sound they would say.

它总是这样

It's always So

你是要出去过周末。

you're going away for the weekend.

就是这样。

That's it.

而在东海岸，我认为——我不确定我这样讲是否公平，因为我是个东部人，但我觉得东部口音更有旋律感。

Whereas on the East Coast, I think I don't know if I'm being fair here because I am an Eastern person but I think it's a bit more musical.

并不是特别明显，但更像在唱歌，语调会上下起伏更多一些。

It's not so much but it's more singing, so we go up and down a little more.

所以我们说话时会轻快地起伏，努力把每个词都发对音。

So we kind of bounce along and try to pronounce things in the right way.

所以听起来对耳朵来说更悦耳，

So it sounds a little more pleasant to the ear,

我觉得是这样。

I think.

你基本上是在说苏格兰东部比西部更好。

You're saying basically that the East Of Scotland is better than the West

当然了，卢克。

Well, of obviously, Luke.

这正是我表达这个观点的机会。

This is my opportunity to get it out there.

明白了。

Right.

好的。

Okay.

行吧。

Alright.

那么你可以说，东部的口音听起来更有旋律感，或者类似这样。

So you could say then that the East when East is a bit more sort of sing song or something like that.

是的，我觉得它更有音乐性，听起来也更悦耳，但当然了，我家乡有些人说的话我完全听不懂，因为他们根本不愿意说任何能被别人听懂的英语，那可真够糟的。

Yes, it's a little more musical, I think it's a little more pleasing to the ear, but of course there people from my home city that I cannot understand because they just refuse to speak any English that anybody can recognise and it can be horrible.

对。

Right.

所以，我想你也会发现，就像整个苏格兰各地一样，存在一些地域性较强的方言，当这些方言达到极端程度时，它们与标准发音相差甚远，以至于难以理解。

So you get, I suppose, are mean, just like there are all over the country in Scotland you get dialects which are kind of region specific to a certain extent and when you get those extreme dialects they can be they're so far removed from received pronunciation that they can be difficult to understand.

没错，没错。

That's right, that's right.

就像其他国家的其他地区一样，苏格兰也是如此。

And just like in any other part of the country, you get that in Scotland.

确实如此。

You do indeed.

我想你还得说，有些特定的词汇也是不一样的。

Think I you would also have to say that there are specific vocabulary words which are different.

就像我之前说的，'we'这个词。

Just as I said before, the 'we'.

是的，'we'，我听到过，这是我在苏格兰口音中能辨认出来的一个词。

Yeah, 'we', I hear that's something that I recognise in Scottish

是的。

Yes.

方言之类的。

Dialect or whatever.

而且这似乎正变得流行起来。

And it seems to be becoming fashionable.

我现在听到很多美国人这么说。

I hear a lot of Americans saying it now.

哦，是吗？

Oh, yeah?

一个小男孩。

A wee boy.

哦，是的。

Oh, yeah.

当美国人这么说时，听起来有点奇怪。

It does sound a little strange when an American says it.

我想很多美国人会这么想，哦，你知道，我要回到我的根源，我的曾祖父的叔叔是苏格兰人。

I guess the America a lot of Americans kinda think, oh, you know, I'm gonna get back to my roots and my, you know, my great my great grandfather's uncle was Scottish.

所以，你知道，我喜欢用‘we’，因为它能让我想起我的血脉传承。

So, you know, I like to use we because it it, you know, brings me back to my heritage.

我可能不太会说阿拉伯语。

I can't speak very good in Arabic perhaps.

是的。

Yes.

但这是真的。

But it's true.

我的意思是，奇怪的是，人们很喜欢认为自己有苏格兰血统。

I mean, people strangely enough love to think that they have Scottish origins.

我不确定为什么。

I'm I'm not sure why.

我有个来自新西兰的朋友，她总是说‘wee’这个词。

I had a a friend from New Zealand and she used to say wee things.

你知道吗？

Know?

她会用一些苏格兰英语的表达，我想这可能是因为新西兰有很多苏格兰后裔。

She to use bits of sort of Scottish English, I think that may be because in New Zealand there's a lot of Scottish people populated in New Zealand.

苏格兰人遍布世界各地，任何与苏格兰有联系的人，都会比我更深刻地感受到这一点。

The Scots have gone very far all over the world and I think anybody who has any kind of connection to Scotland will really appreciate it much more than I possibly would do.

所以。

So

这还挺有趣的。

it's quite funny that.

好吧。

Okay.

行了。

Alright.

那么你能再给我举一些例子吗？

So that can you give me any more examples of

是的。

Yes.

我认为苏格兰口音主要体现在发R音上，比如谈到我的新裙子，它是鲜红色的，苏格兰人通常会说‘bright red’。

I think the the Scottish accent is basically the R sound when we are talking about my new dress which is bright red, I think a Scottish person would quite normally say bright red'.

所以我们确实会稍微卷舌发R音。

So we do roll the Rs a little.

不过我们并不经常这样，你知道，喜剧演员们会谈论‘bright’。

We don't do it an awful lot, you know, you hear comedians talking about 'bright'.

我认为实际上没人真的会这么说，但我们确实会在‘bright’这个词上稍微卷一下舌。

I don't think anybody actually ever says that but we do do it once bright.

我们给它加了一点小小的卷舌效果，这么说吧。

We give it a bit of a sneak, if you like.

是的，稍微卷一下舌。

Yeah, a bit of a roll.

比我更明显，因为说到‘bright red’，我根本不会这么说。

More than me because I bright, I'd never say bright, bright red.

不，因为要把R音滚起来说‘bright, bright’其实需要很多舌头的运动。

No, because it's a lot of tongue work in fact when you have to roll the r into bright, bright.

所以这是其中一个特征

So that's one feature of

我认为苏格兰口音的另一个区别是，英语母语者可能会把四个词分成两组不同的发音。

the I Scottish think another difference might be there are four words that an English person might say in two different groups.

比如‘bath’这个词，我每天都会洗澡，我也喜欢和朋友们开怀大笑。

If you look at bath, every day I have a bath and I like to have a good laugh with my friends.

但在苏格兰，我们可能不会区分‘bath’和‘man’，因为我们会说‘bath’——我要洗个澡，我想大笑一场，我遇到了一个男人，那是个陷阱。

Now in Scotland we would probably not make the difference between bath and man because we say bath, I'm going to have a bath, I'd like to have a laugh and I met a man and it was a trap.

所以实际上，在苏格兰，这个‘a’音是完全一样的。

So in fact that 'a' sound is all the same in Scotland.

所以在英格兰，我们说‘bath’、‘laugh’，但会说‘man’和‘trap’。

So in England we say bath, laugh but then we say man and trap.

没错，你们有两种不同的发音，

That's right, you have two different sounds,

是的，在英格兰北部许多地方也是这样做的。

you Yeah, say so it's like in many parts of the North Of England as well, they do the same thing.

没错。

That's right.

他们不说 bath，我会去洗个澡。

They don't say bath, I'm going to have a bath.

就是这样。

That's it.

然后我会去酒吧，好好笑一笑。

And then I'm going out to the pub and have a laugh.

对。

Yeah.

我要和我的朋友们大笑一场，然后回家洗个澡。

I'm gonna have a right laugh with me mates and then I'm gonna go home and have a bath.

但他们还是会说 man。

But they but they would say man.

老兄。

Man.

是的。

Yeah.

没错。

Exactly.

所以

So

这实际上是贯穿整个英国的一个分歧点。

that that's actually something that divides the whole of Britain.

不只是我们这样。

It's not just us.

我的意思是，大概在南部某个地方，我觉得是分界线。

Well, it's I mean, it's somewhere in somewhere around South Divide, I think.

划分了南方和北方

Divides the South and North

整个英国的。

of Britain as a whole.

没错。

That's right.

没错。

That's right.

我觉得这是对的。

I think that's true.

南方人说bath和laugh，而北方人则说bath

People in the South say bath and laugh and in the North they'd say bath

和laugh。

and laugh.

没错，就是这样。

That's right, that's Alright.

还有别的吗？

Anything else?

最近我读到一个有趣的事情，苏格兰口音似乎比以往更受欢迎了。

Another thing I was reading about recently funnily enough, the Scottish accent seems to be becoming a bit more fashionable than it used to be.

我看到一项最近的调查，苏格兰口音在商业中很受欢迎，能传达出主人高于平均水平的诚实品质。

In a recent survey I saw that a Scottish accent is desirable in business, conveying above average honesty in the personality of the owner.

这真是个有趣的观点。

Now that's an interesting one.

这确实很有趣。

That is interesting.

考虑到银行业发生的灾难。

Considering the banking Disasters.

没错，尤其是最近苏格兰大型银行相继倒闭。

Exactly, more recently with the big Scottish banks collapsing.

是的。

That's right.

但这很有趣，因为我也听说过，苏格兰口音在涉及金钱时尤其能传递一种可信感。

But that's interesting because I heard that too, that the Scottish accent conveys a kind of sense of trustworthiness particularly around money.

没错，他们就是这么说的，确实，在任何财务报告或重大金钱事务中，他们更倾向于苏格兰口音，因为这似乎能传递出稳重感。

Exactly, that's what they say, yes, for any financial reports or serious money matters they do prefer a Scottish accent because it seems to promote sobriety.

这本身就很可笑。

Now that's a laugh in itself.

苏格兰人总是醉醺醺的。

Scottish people are drunk all the time.

关于苏格兰人爱喝酒，这是一个刻板印象或偏见。

That's a cliche or stereotype of the Scottish is that they drink a lot.

没错。

That's right.

但另一个刻板印象是，他们很吝啬。

But another cliche is that they hold on to their money.

哦。

Oh

是的，小气。

yes, stinginess.