American VS British English Words

Hello everyone welcome back to

Hello,大家好欢迎来到

English with Lucy, today I want to talk to you

English with Lucy.今天我想和大家谈一谈

about ten vocabulary differences between

十个词汇的不同

American English and British English

在美式英语和英式英语中

So, Let's get started

让我们开始吧

The first one and a lot of you might know

这第一个,很多人可能是知道的

this one is what the British call football

这个单词，英国人读作football(足球)

and what the Americans call soccer

在美国人读作soccer（足球）

now of course we will understand each other

现在这节课我们去理解它们每一个意思

can get confusing because Americans have

经常会混淆，因为美国有

American football which is a completely different game

美式足球，它是完全不同的一个游戏（美式足球指的是"橄榄球"）。

Number two "Chips" and "Crisps"

第二个是"Chips" and "Crisps" （都是”薯片“的意思）

for us crisps are these, crunchy fried

我们这里是炸马铃薯片儿。油炸后松脆的

potatoes which usually served called

马铃薯，通常被这样命名

but the Americans call them "Chips" it's even

但是在美国它被叫做 "Chips"，

more confusing when we get on to number three

当我们来看第三个的时候，他会更加的困惑

because what Americans call "French fries" we then call "Chips"

因为美国人称作的 "French fries" （薯条），我们叫做“chips”（薯条）

so french fries for Americans and chips

因此，“french fries” 对美国人来说和“chips”

for the British are "Hot fried soft potatoes"

对英国人来说是“油炸软马铃薯条”

these

是这样

Number four what we call "Trousers"

第四个我们称作"Trousers"（裤子）

Americans call "Pants" however it gets even

美国人叫做"Pants" （裤子），然而

more confusing because when we gets to

更令人困惑的是

number five, what Americans call "Underwear"

第五个，美国人叫做"Underwear" （内裤）

we call "Pants" so pants for Americans

我们叫做"Pants“（内裤），因此，pants对美国人来说

are trousers, something you wear over your underwear

是裤子，你穿在你内裤外面的。

Number six, "Gas" versus "Petrol"

第六个， "Gas" 和 "Petrol"（都是“汽油”的意思）

for us petrol is the liquid petroleum that you put

对我们来说，petrol是液体的石油，你加在

into your car, and Americans call this gas

你的汽车里的，美国人叫做”gas“

Yes confusing because gas for us only refers to

令人困惑的是，因为gas（液化天然气） 对我们来说只是

something that is in its gaseous form

气体形状的东西

something neither a solid nor liquid a gas

不是一种液体和和固体的 gas （液化天然气）

The next one "Biscuit" and "Cookie"

下一个是 "Biscuit" 和 "Cookie"（都是饼干的意思）

for the British we refer to one of these

我们英国人认为这只是饼干，

as a biscuit and Americans call it a cookie

一种饼干饼干，美国人叫它cookie

Number eight, "Trunk" versus "Boot"

第八个，"Trunk" versus "Boot"（都是后备箱的意思）

us the compartment in the back the car is

我们把汽车后面的一个空间

called a boot, which is also a word that can

称作“boot”，它也是另一个单词

refer to a specific type of shoe, but

被认为是一种特别的鞋子（此处指长筒靴），但是

for Americans it's just trunk

对于美国人来说，它只叫做“trunk”

Number nine, what we call a "Jumper" Americans

第九个，我们称作“jumper”(毛衣),美国人

will call a "Sweater" so make sure you remember

称作“sweater”（毛衣），记清楚了

both these ones, so this for me is a jumper

它每一个意思，这对我来说是一件jumper

but for Americans, it would be a sweater

但是对美的国人来说，他被叫做sweater

Number ten, "High school" versus

第十个，"High school" 和

"Secondly school" in Britain we call the

"Secondly school"（高中），在英国，我们称

final school that you attend secondary school

你进入的第二所学校，

but in America they call it high school

但是在美国，它被称作“high school”

Alright guys, that it for today I hope

好啦，同学们，这就是今天的全部内容，我希望

you learned something new if you're

你学到一些新东西，如果你

interested in British English pronunciation

对英音感兴趣

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