英語趣味課堂：無賴 hooligans

Todd: You were saying that you once came across a hooligan!

Mark: Actually, I know quite a few hooligans, yeah, in my local area, there's quite a few guys who are affiliated to my teams hooligan group, so in England most teams have their own hooligan group and they have bizarre names so actually my teams called Bradford city and the hooligan groups is called "the ointment".

Todd: So why are hooligans so, I mean why does somebody become a hooligan?

Mark: OK, so there's a lot of pride involved being a hooligan I think. Most hooligans are very proud of their home city and their home team, and what usually happens, are when the away team come to the city their hooligans try to actually take over the other teams actual bars, pubs so it's a race to get in the bar for first.

Todd: Oh, wow!

Mark: Yeah and when that happens, when the actual away team is actually, if their supporters are drinking in your bar, then obviously you want to take your bar back, so there's usually a lot of violence.

Todd: So you've actually seen fights?

Mark: Oh, lots of fights, yeah, sure, sure. If you go to most games in England on a Saturday you can usually see the odd fight or maybe, I've been to some games where there has actually been full scale riots but usually not in the stadium, usually outside.

Todd: What happens when there's a riot?

Mark: So, one, the biggest riot I've seen, was actually at a stadium and it was two local rivals: it was my team and the local team called Leeds and basically the guys were all fighting in a field near the stadium so what all that happened was the police actually surrounded them with horses, and police dogs, and they just let the police dogs go off the leads, and then the horses charged in and basically the police where just hitting the supporters with the batons.

Todd: Wow! Pretty intense.

Mark: Yeah, yeah, lots, usually a few arrests. So usually when there's a big riot the papers will report how many arrests there were. Sometimes a 100, 150.

學(xué)習(xí)內(nèi)容：

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hooligan

I once came across a hooligan.

A 'hooligan' is a rough young person who doesn't follow the law and is known to commit crimes. Notice the following:

Do you think that a group of hooligans did this?

He was a bit of a hooligan before he joined the Army.

local area

I know quite a few hooligans in my local area.

Your 'local area' is the area around where you live. Notice the following:

There are very few crimes in the local area.

My local area has many opportunities to be active.

bizarre

Hooligan groups have bizarre names.

A 'bizarre' name is one that is not normal, usual or common. It is unique or strange. Notice the following:

That's bizarre. He's never late.

It is a really bizarre story and I don't know if I believe it.

take over

The hooligans try to take over the other teams' bars and pubs.

If you 'take over' something you conquer it and take it into your possession or control. Notice the following:

My parents took over responsibility for my cat when I left.

His company was taken over last year.

full-scale

I've been to some games where there has actually been full-scale riots.

Something that is 'full-scale' is fully functioning or complete. This means that it is not just little fights that are happening, but complete chaos and riots. Notice the following:

We are hoping to have full scale factory running here next year.

What started out as a friendly discussion quickly turned into a full-scale fight.

1 affiliated

adj. 附屬的, 有關(guān)連的

參考例句：

The hospital is affiliated with the local university. 這家醫(yī)院附屬于當(dāng)?shù)卮髮W(xué)。

All affiliated members can vote. 所有隸屬成員都有投票權(quán)。

2 ointment

n.藥膏，油膏，軟膏

參考例句：

Your foot will feel better after the application of this ointment.敷用這藥膏后，你的腳會(huì)感到舒服些。

This herbal ointment will help to close up your wound quickly.這種中草藥膏會(huì)幫助你的傷口很快愈合。

3 batons

n.(警察武器)警棍( baton的名詞復(fù)數(shù) );(樂隊(duì)指揮用的)指揮棒;接力棒

參考例句：

There were many riot policemen with batons. 有許多帶警棍的防暴警察。 來自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

Chinese police fight? Number one is a person with batons to fight! 滿街飄的中國國旗，是一個(gè)老華僑在事發(fā)時(shí)那出來分給大家的，很感動(dòng)，真的，從來一向多一事不如少一事的中國人今天團(tuán)結(jié)到一起站出來反抗。 來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)

4 fully

adv.完全地，全部地，徹底地;充分地

參考例句：

The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.醫(yī)生讓我先吸氣，然后全部呼出。

They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他們很快就完全融入了當(dāng)?shù)厝说娜ψ印?/p>

5 chaos

n.混亂，無秩序

參考例句：

After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停電后，城市一片混亂。

The typhoon left chaos behind it.臺(tái)風(fēng)后一片混亂。