BBC 6分钟英语学习 粉丝们如何谈论他们的激情

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I'm Beth, and I'm Neil. If you really love something, maybe a sport or a hobby, a music or a TV show,

you might call yourself a fan.

Nowadays, thanks to the Internet, fans from around the world can meet the online to share their passion.

And this has led to a new word fandom.

Fandom is more than simply being a fan.

It's a whole culture created by a community of people to share their love of the same thing.

What's more, phantom has started to develop its own language.

In this program, will be taking a trip into the world of fandoms, and as usual, will be learning some new and useful vocabulary to But before that, I have a question for you, neil.

The original word fan was 1st used about Americans in the early 20th century.

But what were these Americans fans of?

Was it a Hollywood movie? Stars, b baseball, or see Disney cartoons?

I'll guess they were fans of Disney cartoons.

OK, neil, we'll find out later in the program.

Michael Bond is the author of a new book, fans.

Here, he discusses the meaning of phantom with BBC radio for program.

Word of mouth. Kings rule their kingdoms, fans certainly all their randoms.

It taps into that ancient human impulse to belong to a group of like minded people.

And of course, being a fan by yourself can be a challenging thing, because Spanish pursuits can look quirky and odd to obsessive, yes, obsessive, often mocked.

And I mean, if you're Jane Austen fan and and you want to dress up in bonnet and gown of the regency era, it's difficult to do that by yourself in public.

But once you join a fandom, there's no problem.

Fans are groups of like minded people.

They share similar opinions, ideas or interests.

They do all kinds of weird and wonderful things together, such as dressing up as Harry Potter characters, behavior, which might be called quirky an adjective, meaning odd or unusual, but in an interesting way.

Unfortunately, this quirky behavior also means fans sometimes get mocked.

To mock somebody means to insult them by laughing at them in an unkind way.

But this hasn't discouraged fans, who have started using new words and phrases to show they belong to a particular fandom.

His Michael Bond again explaining the meaning of two new words about the behavior of football fans to BBC Radio four programme Word of mouth academics who study phantoms, they love to use acronyms and abbreviations, and they've got several phrases which they used to describe the behavior of football.

Thousand Burging. Yeah, so that means basking in reflected glory.

Ooh. I love that when your team wins, everyone wants a bit of the action.

You take to the streets, dance around.

And so the antithesis of that is cool thing, which means cutting off reflected failure.

And that is what people sometimes do when their team lose loses, and they don't want to be associated with that loss, that sense of failure.

Berging is made of an acronym of the words basking in reflected glory.

It means feeling good about yourself when the football team you support wins, fan say, we won, even though it was the players on the pitch, not the fans who scored the goal.

When their team wins, fans cheer and want a piece of the action.

An idiom, meaning that they take part in celebrations and other exciting group activities, and feel the success of the team as a personal success.

The opposite of berging is coughing.

Another acronym, this time of the words cutting off reflected failure.

Coughing involves distanceing yourself from the team you support when they lose.

Instead of saying, we won, you say they played rubbish.

Of course, true fans never cough.

In fact, some football fans take a kind of strange pesimistic pleasure when their team loses week after week.

I can't imagine that's true of the Americans you mentioned, beth.

So what was the correct answer to your question?

I asked who the original word fan was used to describe.

You said it was fans of Disney cartoons, which was the wrong answer, I'm afraid.

Actually, it was baseball fans, or fanatics, as they were called at the time.

OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learnt, starting with like minded an adjective

describing people who share similar opinions, ideas or interests.

Quirky means odd or unusual, but in an attractive or interesting way.

If you mock someone, you insult and laugh at them in an

unkind way. Berging is short for basking in reflected glory.

It means feeling good about yourself when the team you support wins.

The opposite of this is coughing, an acronym of cutting off reflected failure, which means distancing yourself from your favorite team when they lose.

And finally, if you want a piece or a slice of the actions, you want to take part in a celebration or other exciting group activity, to include yourself in a collective successes.

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