The english we speak(BBC教學)第69期: hunkydory一切都好
Helen: Hi, I'm Helen, and welcome to The English We Speak. Sorry, I'll be with you in a minute, Chris – I'm just on the phone to Rob...
海倫：大家好，我是海倫，歡迎來到我們所說的英語。抱歉，我一分鐘就回來，克里斯，我正和羅伯打電話呢。Chris: Sure.
克里斯：好的。Helen: Rob, do you need me to come and record with you in the studio this afternoon?
海倫：羅伯，你今天下午需要我來和你一起到演播室錄音嗎？
Rob: No, don't worry – I've got Neil coming over to record with me. Everything's hunky-dory.
羅伯：不用，別擔心。尼爾和我一起來錄音。一切都很好。Helen: Everything's wha-?
海倫：一切都什麼？Rob: Gotta go. Speak to you later – bye!
羅伯：得掛了。待會再說，再見！Helen: OK, b- … Oh, he hung up.
海倫：好吧，再...哦，他掛了。Chris: Having a busy day, Helen?
克里斯：很忙的一天啊，海倫？Helen: Yes, it's been so busy – I've got to move all these boxes. How is your day going?
海倫：是的，太忙了——我得把這些盒子移走。你今天怎麼樣？Chris: No problems really. I've finished my script and I've already recorded another programme with Rosie... I'm hunky-dory.
克里斯：沒什麼問題。我寫完了我的腳本，而且我已經錄完了另一個和羅西的節目...我一切都好。Helen: Hunky-dory? That's what Rob just said to me. Neither of you is very hunky though…
海倫：一切都好？這是剛纔羅伯和我說的。但你們都不是魁偉的人。Chris: What?!
克里斯：什麼？Helen: Well, hunky means muscular doesn't it?
海倫：這是魁偉的意思不是嗎？Chris: Well yes, hunky is a slang word for describing someone who is muscular…
克里斯：是的，魁偉是描述某人很有肌肉的俚語。Helen: So, you're not telling the truth when you say, 'I'm hunky… Dory'. My name's not 'Dory' though – why do you call me that?
海倫：所以,當你說你很“魁偉”的時候並沒有說實話。而且我的名字也不是“多裏”，你爲什麼這麼叫我？Chris: I wasn't lying and saying 'I'm hunky'… and I wasn't calling you 'Dory' either. The phrase hunky-dory doesn't have anything to do with being muscular – it's an informal way of saying something's fine or satisfactory.
克里斯：我說“我很魁偉”的時候沒有撒謊，而且我也不是在叫你“多裏”。這個短語和肌肉沒有任何關係——這是一個不太正式的說法形容某事很好或很令人滿意。Helen: Ohhhh… It's a bit of a strange phrase though.
海倫：哦，但這是個有點奇怪的短語。Chris: Yes, it is. No-one really knows where it comes from, other than it's believed to be an American phrase.
克里斯：是的。沒人知道它怎麼來的，只知道是一個美式短語。Helen: I see. So how can you use it?
海倫：我知道了。那麼怎麼用呢？Chris: Well, here are some examples:
克里斯：以下是一些例子：I was really worried I'd lost her, but everything's hunky-dory now – she was waiting for me by the car.
我真的不擔心我會失去她，但是現在一切都很好，她正在車旁等我。Our washing machine broke last night. An engineer is coming to take a look at it today, so it should be hunky-dory soon.
我們的洗碗機昨晚壞了。一個維修師今天會來看一下，所以應該一會兒就好了。Chris: So you can use hunky-dory as an informal way to say that a situation is fine.
克里斯：所以你可以用一切順利作爲不正式的形式來說某個情景很好。Helen: Now I understand! … Well, sadly nothing is hunky-dory for me… I've got all these boxes to move.
海倫：現在我理解了！那麼不幸的是我什麼事都不好....我得把這些盒子都搬走。Chris: Is that why you invited me here?
克里斯：這是你請我來這的原因嗎？Helen: Maybe…?
海倫：或許？Chris: Hmm… right then, let's get on with it. Right, where do you want them?
克里斯：嗯...那麼好吧，讓我們來一起對付它吧。好的，你想把它們弄到哪裏？Helen: Just over there, thanks.
海倫：那裏，謝謝。Chris: OK…
克里斯：好的。Helen: Haha! My work will soon be done! … Join us again for another edition of The English We Speak and visit our website, . Bye!
海倫：哈哈！我的任務不久就會完成了！加入我們來獲取其他版本的我們所說的英語並訪問我們的網站，.再見！
