喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to hold it: posh points at the marks of the upper class — and at things that wear those marks. Picture a hotel lobby with a and a , or someone whose tell you which school they went to. Posh is not simply 'good' or 'expensive'; it is 'this belongs to the world of rich, well-born people', and the speaker is usually standing slightly outside that world, looking in.

「一眼看得出是上流社會那一掛的」。想像一間飯店大廳：門口有穿制服的門僮、天花板吊著水晶燈、地毯厚得踩下去沒有聲音；或…更多收起「一眼看得出是上流社會那一掛的」。想像一間飯店大廳：門口有穿制服的門僮、天花板吊著水晶燈、地毯厚得踩下去沒有聲音；或者想像一個人一開口，那個腔調就告訴你他念的是哪一種學校。posh 指的不只是「好」或「貴」，而是「這東西／這個人屬於有錢、出身好的那個世界」。而且很關鍵的一點：說 posh 的人通常站在那個世界外面往裡面看，語氣裡可能帶著羨慕、也可能帶著一點揶揄——這是個英式口語詞，不是正式的讚美。

Two branches

人與階級：出身上流的樣子

這一家就是核心畫面本身：posh 最根本是在描述「上流階級的那一套」——出身、腔調、舉止。

upper-class · adjective · B2

Belonging to a high social class, or speaking and behaving in the way people from a high social class do.

上流的；貴族氣的

只活在 talk posh 裡的副詞用法

同一個上流畫面，只是這裡不是形容人或物，而是形容「講話的方式」——而且被鎖死在一個固定說法裡。

talk posh · r · B2

Used only in the phrase talk posh: to speak in the way that people from a high social class speak.

（talk posh）講話帶上流腔

原始詞典資料11 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Poshname

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    slangball-gamesgameshobbiesPeterborough United F.C., a football club from Peterborough, England.

    • Peterbough United have been playing at Lincoln, in something of a local derby. EMR has put on a six-car Class 158 as an additional train, to take 'Posh' fans home (Posh is the team's nickname, by the way).

poshadj詞源 1/pɑʃ/

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    Associated with the upper classes.

    • She talks with a posh accent.
    • In antenatal clinic, an extremely posh patient attends for a routine appointment. All is well with her extremely posh fetus. Her extremely posh eight-year-old asks her a question about the economy (!), and before she answers, she asks her extremely posh five-year-old, ‘Do you know what the economy is, darling?’ ’Yes, Mummy. It’s the part of the plane that’s terrible.’
  • 2

    Stylish; elegant; exclusive; luxurious; expensive.

    • Near-synonym: plush
    • After the performance, they went out to a very posh restaurant.
  • 3

    offensiveSnobbish, materialistic, prejudiced, under the illusion that one is better than everyone else.

    • We have a right posh git moving in next door.

poshintj詞源 1/pɑʃ/

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    An exclamation expressing derision.

    • The czar! Posh! I slap my fingers--I snap my fingers at him.

poshnoun詞源 1/pɑʃ/

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    obsoleteslangA halfpenny or other coin of little value.

  • 2

    obsoleteslangMoney.

poshverb詞源 1/pɑʃ/

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    To make posh or posher (more posh).

poshnoun詞源 2

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    dialectalA sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain or water.

    • Did yer see what a posh the water came down the bruck ater the thaw, and no wonder the snow was a fut deep.
    • There has been quite a posh of rain.
  • 2

    Fragments produced by an impact.

  • 3

    Slush.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。