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外国人最不喜欢听见的英语口语 So, you know, it is what it is, but Americans are totally annoyed by the use of whatever in conversations. 也许你知道，这就是事实——美国人对日常交谈中“无所谓”这句口头禅最为反感。 The popular slacker term of indifference was found most annoying in conversation by 47 percent of Americans surveyed in a Marist College poll. 一项由美国圣母学院开展的民调显示，47%的受访者认为这个带有漠不关心意味的流行词是“交谈中最令人讨厌的用语”。 Whatever easily beat out you know, which especially grated a quarter of respondents. The other annoying contenders were anyway (at 7 percent), it is what it is (11 percent) and at the end of the day (2 percent). Whatever 轻松击败you know（你知道）位居榜首，另有四分之一的受访者称最讨厌后者。其它入选最惹人厌的用语还包括anyway（总之；反正）（7%），it is what it is（这就是事实）（11%），以及at the end of the day（到头来）（2%）。 Whatever--pronounced WHAT-ehv-errr when exasperated--is an expression_r with staying power. Immortalized in song by Nirvana (oh well, whatever, nevermind) in 1991, popularized by the Valley girls in Clueless later that decade, it is still commonly used, often by younger people. Whatever是一个带有忍耐意味的表达，在语气加重时，它常被说成WHAT-ehv-errr。涅磐乐队于1991年演唱的一首歌曲使whatever这个词被人们记住（其中出现歌词oh well, whatever, nevermind）。而在同一年代的后期，影片《独领风骚》中的山谷女孩又使这个词广为流行。如今，这一词汇仍然很常用，它在年轻人中尤为流行。 It can be an all-purpose argument-ender or a signal of apathy. And it can really be annoying. The poll found whatever to be consistently disliked by Americans regardless of their race, gender, age, income or where they live. Whatever可在结束争论时使用，或者可用来表示漠不关心，这个词的确令人反感。调查发现，无论种族、性别、年龄、收入以及居住地，美国人无一例外地讨厌这个词。 It doesnt surprise me because whatever is in a special class, probably, said Michael Adams, author of Slang: The Peoples Poetry and an associate professor of English at Indiana University. Its a word that--and it depends how a speaker uses it--can suggest dismissiveness. 《俚语：人们的诗文》一书的作者、印地安那大学英语副教授迈克尔·亚当斯说：“我并没有感到惊讶，因为‘whatever’可能属于一类比较特殊的词。它带有一种不屑一顾的意味，要看说话者如何使用。” Adams, who was not involved in the poll and is not annoyed by whatever, points out that its use is not always negative. It also can be used in place of other,