The members of the band were all British, which is important in understanding that “pissing the night away” essentially means “drinking the night away” or even just “wasting time all night long”.
乐队成员都是英国人,这一点很重要,因为他们所理解的“pissing the night away”本意上就是“喝了一晚上酒”或甚至只是“消磨一晚上的时间”。
In the US, pissing means “urinating”.
在美国pissing的意思是“小便”。
I had a really hard time trying to figure out why anyone would want to spend all night peeing.
有一段时间我真的是很费劲地想弄明白为什么有人想要尿一整晚。
Another possible confusion arising from the very same verb is the fact that a person who is “pissed” is drunk in Britain, but really really angry in the US.
这个动词可能造成的另一个误会是在英国“一个pissed的人”是指“一个喝醉了的人”,但在美国是指这个人“非常非常生气”。
That leads to another common misunderstanding.
还有另一个常见的误会。
In the US, if I said that so-and-so was “mad”, I would mean that that person was angry.
在美国如果我说某某人“mad”,可能我的意思是这个人很生气。
In Britain, the word mad is the common term for [en]“crazy”.
而在英国,“mad”这个词通常指“crazy(疯了)”。
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