The script of this programme 本節(jié)目臺詞
    Producer/Presenter: Vicki Sullivan
    Vicki: Hello, this is Real English from BBC Learning English, I’m Vicki
    Lilly: Hi. I’m Lilly, 歡迎收聽《地道英語》
    Vicki: In Real English, we look at words and phrases that you might not find in your dictionary.
    Lilly: 和漢語一樣，英語里也是有著非常多的成語和俗話的，所以要想能聽懂英國人日常的說話聊天，就一定要知道他們常用的通俗詞語。
    Vicki: And today’s word is whip-round W-H-I-P hyphen R-O-U-N-D
    Lilly: Whip-round. 什么意思？
    Vicki: Well if you do a whip-round, you collect money from a group of people – everyone puts some money in.
    Lilly: 阿，原來就是召集大家交錢，湊份子，沒錯吧？
    Vicki: For example, you might do a whip-round to buy a joint present for someone.
    Lilly: 這的確是個好主意，中國人其實也經(jīng)常采取湊份子的方法，把錢集中起來，以集體的名義為某人買件像樣的禮物，比如，結(jié)婚、或生孩子等等
    Vicki: Or you could do a whip-round to pay for something as a group
    Lilly: 我們來聽聽下面的生活對話.
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    When I was at university we wanted to get a kettle so we could make our own tea in between lectures, so we did a whip-round all the students in my class and bought one easily.
    Lilly: 從用法上來說，whip-round 是個名詞短語，可以說 to do a whip-round.
    Vicki: That’s right, you say “to do a whip round”.
    Lilly: Vicky ,你說說，什么樣的人喜歡參與A whip-round? 湊份子呢？
    Vicki: Well often we do them at work – if somebody is leaving, or unwell we do a whip-round to buy them a present or some flowers.
    Lilly: 前面的對話中還提到湊份子買禮物的做法在大學生中也特別流行。
    Vicki: Yes, people who don’t have much money individually, like students might do a whip-round to buy something they couldn’t afford unless they all contribute.
    Lilly: 好了，大家來說說看，我們今天的新詞語是什么？
    Vicki: whip-round
    Lilly: 對了，就是大家湊份子，一塊為某人買禮物的意思。Vicki: That’s all we have time for today.
    Lilly: 別忘了，大家可以隨時登陸B(tài)BC學英語網(wǎng)站，了解更多信息和資料，我們的網(wǎng)址是
    Vicki: www.bbc.co.uk/china
    Lilly: 大家還可以通過電子郵件和我們聯(lián)系，郵箱地址是：
    Vicki: chinaelt@bbc.co.uk
    Lilly: 當然，我們還可以在下周的節(jié)目中再會了！