全網最酷美語怎麼說:第3期 熊孩子別作了

Hi Everyone, my name is Nick. Welcome to teaching series "how do you say this in American English"
Nick:大家好,我是Nick.
Brad:大傢伙,我是Brad.
Nick:那今天呢請到了我們的老朋友Brad來講解今天的節目。那今天呢我們給大家講一個"作"要怎麼表達。我們英文有個比較對應的表達,叫做Act up. 那這個時候呢"作"其實是說你在做一些很不恰當的事情在一個不恰當的時間，爲了去吸引注意力。比如說熊孩子，你在做作業或者玩電腦，熊孩子在遍地打滾要你帶他出去玩。你說我沒有時間我正在做作業但他不聽，他一直在遍地打滾，在鬧。這個就是很明顯"作"。那這個時候你就可以說 Stop acting up, I really hate this. 我真的很不喜歡這樣,你不要"作",那讓我們再來聽下Brad對於這個"作"是怎麼講解的. Hi Brad, I've heard that"act up" can be used for describing either a person or a thing, right?
Brad: Of course
Nick: How do you use that for a person.
Brad: In this example for using it, for a person. In example, we could use is… Let's say you have a younger sibling and they are being disobedient as they often are. You are watching TV and they wanna watch TV, too. So they are throwing trash everywhere. Maybe they are dumping water on you
Nick: This is so unbelievable.
Brad: Not really unbelievable just very crazy and annoying, then they are"acting up"
Nick:那Brad剛剛和我解釋的就差不多,說如果你有一個Younger brother,你有一個弟弟或者妹妹的時候，你想看電視他也想看電視但是你不讓他看，他就到處扔東西，這種非常惡劣的行爲就是"作"。聽起來也非常像我們常說的熊孩子，不讓人喜歡。這個時候就要教育一下。另外一種呢就是我們所說的某個物品它壞了我們也可以說"Act up"。例如說我做作業電腦壞了就可以說My laptop is acting up. 當然也可以說It doesn't work都是可以的. Brad, a couple days ago, I did homework called CSE program
Brad: Oh yeah Computer Science Engineering, I'm familiar.
Nick: Yeah that's a class I have to take. When I was doing my homework, the excel didn't work. At that time, I was like"OMG" coz it was due that night. I was so afraid.
Brad: that's an example of a thing that can acted up. You have a computer that works that acts well online. You can search things on Google. You can do this say you have a software program that might be out of date. That's old and if you are unable to do certain formulas on it and it's glitching. You can say that the computer's then acting up.
Nick: Thank you
Brad:不客氣
Nick:不客氣, that was very good.那Brad剛剛就是說他在做Excel的時候可能因爲沒有更新，因爲我們知道Excel要更新的嘛。我在做我的作業的時候我發現沒有更新,然後它就不讓你編輯。那些公式Formula也就輸入不了這就會很煩，這個就Acting up. 這就是和某個東西壞了是一樣的，或者是用着不好，不一定是壞了. Not necessarily. 也可以是用着非常不舒服。以上呢就是今天關於Acting up的講解, 用在"作"和東西壞了或是東西不好用的一個表達上. So this is pretty much for this class, I'll see you guys next time.
Brad: Thank you, Goodbye.