【词汇大师】劳动最光荣(2/2)

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劳工律师给你讲解关于“Labor”的俚语
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本篇只听写嘉宾的话，主持人的话不需要听写。都是好建议哦。听了就知道。
主持人的话① Tom Dalzell is a labor lawyer, but when he's not doing that, his labor of love is writing about slang. We asked him if he found any terms that are especially difficult for non-native English speakers to understand.
HINTS
English-as-first-language speakerWith young people, with the advent of MTV in the early eighties, that really became a national media outlet for language. So I've seen homogenization, and there's something lost in that.
"And the other thing that one sees, beginning in the late nineteen thirties but certainly continuing on almost a linear way up is the influence of African-American vernacular, African-American slang on American slang in general. With the Swing movement and jitterbugs in the late thirties, there was a conscious attempt by white Americans to learn African-American slang, and it has just become more and more a part of mainstream American slang."
"Well, even among English-as-first-language speakers, there's a great deal of vagueness in slang