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大家好,欢迎收听 BBC 英语教学的地道英语节目。 在每期节目中,我们都会介绍一个英语母语人士或讲英语流利的人会用到的习惯用语或者短语。
I'm Feifei and I'm joined by Georgie. How are you, Georgie? I'm feeling pretty good actually, Feifei. I've just had a little mooch around the shops in my lunch break and now I'm ready to get back to work. OK. You just used the word mooch, which I don't think I've heard before.
Why don't you explain it for our listeners? Of course. So, mooch, or mooch around, is an informal British English word or phrase which means to wander or stroll around casually. And what is the purpose of mooching around? Well, the point is there isn't really a purpose. We use it when we're exploring shops, markets or streets without the aim of reaching a specific destination. Let's hear from our BBC Learning English colleagues.
I really need some caffeine. I'm just going to mooch around the centre until I find a cafe. We landed at nine o'clock at night, so there wasn't really anything to do apart from mooch around the night market. There's a new art gallery that's opened up in town. I don't know a lot about it, but I'm just going to go and have a mooch and see what's there. MUSIC
你正在收听的是 BBC 英语教学的地道英语节目。 以上我们一起学习了 mooch 和 mooch around 的用法。
英式英语中的俗语 mooch 可以做动词,意思是没有目的的闲逛。 想要具体表达在某个地点闲逛的时候就可以说 mooch around。 Mooch 还可以做名词使用,比如 have a mooch 的意思就是去随便逛逛。 Yes, you can use the set phrase have a mooch in a similar way that we use have a look.
You can say, let's have a mooch if you want to invite someone to wander aimlessly somewhere without specifying the location. And if we want to specify where to mooch, we add around, like when you said you had a little mooch around the shops. Exactly. And you don't always need the verb have. Mooch can act as a verb itself. For example, I mooched around the shops in my lunch break.
是的,mooch 可以直接作为动词使用。比如,I want to mooch around the city at the weekend now. It sounds relaxing. You should. Come back next week for another episode. Thanks for joining us. Bye.
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