BBC地道英语｜Potty 啥意思？你肯定猜不到
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Hello and welcome to The English We Speak.
大家好，欢迎来到BBC地道英语！
I’m Helen and joining me today is Neil.
我是海伦，这是尼尔。
Hello everyone.
大家好。
Neil, tell me about your first ever job.
尼尔，跟我说说你人生的第一份工作吧。
I worked in a local supermarket stacking shelves when I was sixteen.
16岁那年，我在本地一家超市里整理过货架。
How was it?
感觉怎么样呢？
It was quite boring: just moving things from one place to another.
太无聊了，每天就是来来去去的搬东西。
But I was very happy when I got my first week’s pay.
但当领到第一个星期的薪水时真是高兴极了。
And how long did you stay in your first job?
你那份工作做了多久呢？
Not very long: about three months during the summer holiday.
不是很久，大概就暑假的三个月。
If I’d stayed there any longer, I would have gone potty.What? Potty? Did you have to get permission to use the toilet?Oh no, nothing like that.
如果我继续待在那里，会发疯的。什么？Potty（幼儿便盆）？你需要得到允许才可以用便盆吗？不，不是这样的。
Nobody needed permission to go to the toilet.
谁都不需要上个厕所都得经过允许。
Well, you said you would have gone potty.
额，那你说你要去找便盆（gone potty）。
My baby son has to be reminded about his potty every day.
我的小儿子才需要每天提醒大小便呢。
No, they are two very different things.
不，这是完全不同的事。
If someone is potty or is going potty, that means they are crazy or going crazy.
如果说某人“going potty”，那是说他要疯了。
Here are a few examples:
这有几个例句：
My boss wants me to work on New Year’s day for no extra money. He must be potty.
我老板让我新年那天无偿加班，他简直是疯了。
She’s potty to sell off her car so cheaply.
她低价卖掉了自己的爱车，真是疯狂。
There is another meaning to ‘potty’. If someone is really keen on something we can use the phrase ‘to be potty about something’.For example, I really like Japanese comic books, so I’m potty about them.
‘potty’还有另外的含义。如果某人很痴迷某事，我们可以用‘to be potty about something’来形容。例如，我喜欢日本动漫书，那就可以说我痴迷于（I’m potty about）日本动漫。
I see. I’m potty about miniature owls: I’ve got nearly one hundred of them at home.
我明白了。我很喜欢老鹰微型画，我在家里收集了近一百个老鹰微型画。
Well, I am glad we cleared up the meaning of that.
对啊，我很高兴我们弄清楚了potty 的含义。
It wouldn’t do us any good if people heard us arguing over potties.
若别人听到我们在讨论potties，可真有些别扭啊。
Oh no. They’d think we’ve gone potty.
哈哈，他们肯定以为我们俩疯了吧。
Bye.
再见。