Virgin Media, and Sir Richard Branson’s monumental ego, had taken a stranglehold on the country and its lexicon, with the result that a cheesy, simpering, faux-friendly, off-key, faintly Essex hail-well-met affectation (Never just plain “Hello,” always “Well, hellooo there”) was near universal. I have found that it never stops grating. In the toilet of a Virgin train, an announcement in that voice asks you not to flush tampons, old phones — or your dreams. You get the picture.
维珍媒体(Virgin Media)和理查德·布兰森(Richard Branson)爵士的极端自负深深影响这这个国家和它的词汇表。其结果是,给人以低级庸俗、装疯卖傻、虚情假意、荒腔走板之感,还带着点埃塞克斯(Essex)式自来熟的矫揉造作(绝不会平铺直叙地说出“Hello”[你好],而是把“嘿,Well, hellooo there[你好哦]挂在嘴上)几乎无所不在。我发现,这种让人火大的矫揉造作永远不会有所收敛。在维珍公司运营的火车上,卫生间里的提示语以同样的腔调要求你别把卫生棉条、旧手机——或者你的梦——扔进马桶冲走。你懂的。
I was at an event the other day. An English woman was presenting a documentary movie on the Arab Spring. She talked about the incredible commitment and courage of the young people behind the uprisings. “When I look at them, I am in awe,” she said, “I realize most of us are such weeds. Yes, we really are weeds.”
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