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Hi, everyone and welcome back to Britain Under the Microscope.
欢迎回来【闲话英伦】.
Hi 安澜.
Hi, lulu. Hi everyone.
And welcome back to the studio.
Thank you.
So how was your holiday?
Really really good. Very wet, very cold, there were two storms in the UK, but I stayed at home .
Binge eating and binge drinking
Pretty much.
I think all holidays around the world are pretty much the same, food oriented, family oriented, that's about it.
Exactly. When I came back to china, I did find that my clothes were a little bit snug, let's say snug. That's better than saying I’ve got fat.
So what are we going to talk about today?
As I was struggling to put on my clothes,
Okay.
I started thinking about something from British history and I started thinking about the dandies.
The dandies, the best dressers. 首先解释下 dandies, 你知道在中文里其实不是特别好翻译这个dandy. 我看过直接音译的叫 “丹迪主义”, 我也看过它被翻译成 “绅士”, 或者有一种直接翻译成”纨绔子弟”.
翻译是也有点奇怪.
Yeah, because a very specific type of men and it's got its own context, historical context.
Yeah. I would also say, but even British people and English speakers don't really quite understand what a dandy is or what a dandy was.
Well, I guess it's just part of the history. Nowadays nobody really says that, I mean would they say he's such a dandy, you wouldn't say that, would you ?
Well, you would say he's such a dandy, but it's always negative.
So what does that mean now if you say he's such a dandy.
If you say he’s such a dandy, then you are saying he cares too much about his appearance. He worries too much about how he looks, how he dresses. It has the connotation of he's acting a little bit girly.
okay, 精致男那种感觉, but you know let's dive in history and let's go back to the origin of these words and then let's start from there.
Okay. So I would say first of all, that what a dandy originally was is very different to what we perceive them as today (okay). I would say that dandies were the original metrosexual men.
Metrosexual. For our listeners you probably heard of heterosexual, homosexual, sapiosexual, but what is metrosexual? Do you know back in university when I was doing my translation degree, (yeah) we actually had this huge discussion, two-hour discussion as in how to translate the word metrosexual.
It’s a difficult word to translate.
Metro means metropolitan right? (yeah) City, urban life; and sexual, just sexual. Metrosexual的那个意思, 我们最后决定把它翻译成“都市欲男”或者”都市花美男”.
