英语学习者被电影中经常听到或在漫画中阅读的“华纳”或“gona”等表达所迷惑。

如果它们在字典里查找这些表达,它们可能找不到,这进一步增加了困惑。

事实上,这些表达确实存在,它们是“非正式缩略语”或人们在随意说话时使用的其他单词的缩写形式。它们不完全是俚语,但有点像俚语。

以下是一些最常见的非正式缩略语,并附有例句:

GIMME = give me

  • Gimme your money.
  • Don't gimme that rubbish.
  • Can you gimme a hand?

GONNA = going to

  • Nothing's gonna change my love for you.
  • I'm not gonna tell you.
  • What are you gonna do?

GOTTA = (have) got a

  • I've gotta gun.
  • I gotta gun.
  • She hasn't gotta penny.
  • Have you gotta car?

INIT = isn't it

  • That's smart, init?
  • Init strange?

KINDA = kind of

  • She's kinda cute.
  • Are you kinda mad at me?

LEMME = let me

  • Lemme go!
  • He didn't lemme see it.

WANNA = want to

  • I wanna go home.
  • I don't wanna go.
  • Do you wanna watch TV?

WANNA = want a

  • I wanna coffee.
  • I don't wanna thing from you.
  • Do you wanna beer?

请记住,这些是非正式的收缩。我们只在快速随意地说话时才使用它们,例如与朋友交谈时,我们几乎从不在写作中使用它们。

还要注意的是,上面的句子可能是人为的,因为当我们使用一个缩略语时,我们也可能在同一个句子中使用其他缩略语,甚至完全删除一些单词。例如:

Do you want a beer?
Do you wanna beer?
D'you wanna beer?
D'ya wanna beer?
Ya wanna beer?
Wanna beer?