Neil: Hello, welcome to Real English from BBC Learning English, I’m Neil.
Feifei: 大家好，我是馮菲菲。
Neil: In Real English we look at words and phrases people use all the time which you might not find in your dictionary.
Feifei: 地道中介紹的一些表達(dá)， 你可能在課堂上學(xué)不到，但是它們?cè)谏钪袇s會(huì)經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)。So Neil, are you ready to start the programme?
Neil: Hang on. I just need to get my papers together (sound of rustling papers). Could you just pass me that, erm, ah, that whatchamacallit over there?
Feifei: A what?
Neil: You know, one of those whatchamacallits for holding papers together.
Feifei: A paperclip? Neil 說(shuō)他要一個(gè)曲別針 paperclip 把我們節(jié)目要用的稿子整理好，可是他一時(shí)忘了那個(gè)詞怎么說(shuō)，他就把它叫做 a whatchamacallit.
Neil: Yeah, a paperclip, thanks. I couldn’t remember the name for a second. In English, if there’s something we can’t remember the name of, we can call it a ‘whatchamacallit’. It comes from the words ‘what do you call it’ said very quickly.
Feifei: 這個(gè)詞是這樣拼寫(xiě)的 W-H-A-T-C-H-A-M-A-C-A-L-L-I-T，當(dāng)我們把 What do you call it 這句話很快的說(shuō)出來(lái)時(shí)，就變成了whatchamacallit。
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A: I’ve just bought this tin of beans for dinner but I haven’t got a… ah, whatchamacallit to open it.
B: A tin-opener?
A: Yeah, I don’t have a tin-opener.
Neil: How do you say ‘whatchamacallit’ in Chinese?
Feifei: 那個(gè)，就是那個(gè)什么來(lái)著；通常我們一時(shí)間忘了一樣?xùn)|西的名稱(chēng)時(shí)常說(shuō)，那個(gè)什么來(lái)著，whatchamacallit.
Neil: There are other ways of saying it too.
Feifei: Tell me.
Neil: You can say thingmejig, or thingmebob!
Feifei: Thingmejig and thingmebob 是另一種表示那個(gè)，那個(gè)東西的詞兒。
Neil: But I think we’ll stick to just whatchamacallit for now.
Feifei: 如果大家想學(xué)到更多英式的新新表達(dá)，都可以登陸我們的網(wǎng)站 www.bbcchina.com.cn.See you next time.
Neil: Bye.
Feifei: 大家好，我是馮菲菲。
Neil: In Real English we look at words and phrases people use all the time which you might not find in your dictionary.
Feifei: 地道中介紹的一些表達(dá)， 你可能在課堂上學(xué)不到，但是它們?cè)谏钪袇s會(huì)經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)。So Neil, are you ready to start the programme?
Neil: Hang on. I just need to get my papers together (sound of rustling papers). Could you just pass me that, erm, ah, that whatchamacallit over there?
Feifei: A what?
Neil: You know, one of those whatchamacallits for holding papers together.
Feifei: A paperclip? Neil 說(shuō)他要一個(gè)曲別針 paperclip 把我們節(jié)目要用的稿子整理好，可是他一時(shí)忘了那個(gè)詞怎么說(shuō)，他就把它叫做 a whatchamacallit.
Neil: Yeah, a paperclip, thanks. I couldn’t remember the name for a second. In English, if there’s something we can’t remember the name of, we can call it a ‘whatchamacallit’. It comes from the words ‘what do you call it’ said very quickly.
Feifei: 這個(gè)詞是這樣拼寫(xiě)的 W-H-A-T-C-H-A-M-A-C-A-L-L-I-T，當(dāng)我們把 What do you call it 這句話很快的說(shuō)出來(lái)時(shí)，就變成了whatchamacallit。
Insert
A: I’ve just bought this tin of beans for dinner but I haven’t got a… ah, whatchamacallit to open it.
B: A tin-opener?
A: Yeah, I don’t have a tin-opener.
Neil: How do you say ‘whatchamacallit’ in Chinese?
Feifei: 那個(gè)，就是那個(gè)什么來(lái)著；通常我們一時(shí)間忘了一樣?xùn)|西的名稱(chēng)時(shí)常說(shuō)，那個(gè)什么來(lái)著，whatchamacallit.
Neil: There are other ways of saying it too.
Feifei: Tell me.
Neil: You can say thingmejig, or thingmebob!
Feifei: Thingmejig and thingmebob 是另一種表示那個(gè)，那個(gè)東西的詞兒。
Neil: But I think we’ll stick to just whatchamacallit for now.
Feifei: 如果大家想學(xué)到更多英式的新新表達(dá)，都可以登陸我們的網(wǎng)站 www.bbcchina.com.cn.See you next time.
Neil: Bye.