民意测验：最反感“Whatever”一词

 

Whatever you think about using grating words, at the end of the day it's actually better not to say whatever, if you know what I mean.

不管你怎么看待那些听起来刺耳的词语，最好还是不要用“whatever”这个词，如果你知道我的意思的话。

For the second consecutive year "whatever” topped a Marist poll as the most annoying word or phrase in the English language.

美国圣母学院近日评选出英文中最令人反感的词汇或短语，“whatever”连续两年位居榜首。

Nearly 39 percent of 1,020 Americans questioned in the survey deemed it the most irritating word, followed by "like" with 28 percent and the phrase "you know what I mean’' at 15 percent.

1020名参与此项调查的美国人中有近39%的受访者认为“whatever”是最令人反感的词汇，“like”一词以28%的选票位居第二，短语“you know what I mean”以15%的投票率排在第三。

"Perhaps these words are introduced through popular culture, for example movies ... so they catch on," said Mary Azzoli, of Marist. "It has a lot to do with how accepted and how popular they become in every day speech."

美国圣母学院的玛丽•阿左利说：“这些词也许来源于从大众文化，比如电影，所以变得时髦起来。这与在日常交谈中，人们对这些词的接受程度，以及它们本身的流行程度有很大关系。”

Azzoli said words like "whatever" can be quite dismissive depending on how they are used.

阿左利表示，像“whatever”这样的词可以表达非常不屑一顾的语气，取决于使用的语境。

"It's the way they are delivered and inherent in that delivery is a meaning.

“说话方式可以表现这种不屑的态度是，说话方式本身就暗含不屑。”

The phrase "to tell you the truth" and "actually" were also unnerving to many people. But for younger Americans, aged 18 to 29, "like" was the word that annoyed them most.

对很多人来说，“to tell you the truth”和“actually”也令人不愉快。但对18岁至29岁的美国年轻人来说，“like”最让他们讨厌。