To nick
Helen: Hello, and welcome to The English We Speak. My name is Helen.
大家好，欢迎收听“日常英语”。我是Helen。
Rob: And I'm Rob.
我是Rob。
Helen: I saw you looking for your headphones earlier; did you find them?
我先前 看到你在找你的耳机,找到了吗?
Rob: No, Helen. I looked for them everywhere. Someone must have nicked them.
我什么地方都找过了，还是没找到呢。肯定是被谁给“nick”掉了。
Helen: Nicked them? What do you mean?
Nick掉了？呃，什么意思呢？
Rob: Oh, sorry, what I mean is someone stole my headphones. To nick something means to steal something.
哦，不好意思，我是说也许有人偷 （nick）了我的东西。 Nick是偷的意思。
Helen: That's terrible. But how is it spelt?
简直太霉啦。这个词是怎么写的呢？
Rob: It's spelt N.I.C.K. nick, to nick something.
是这样写的“N-I-C-K”,nick,偷。
Helen: My son's best friend is called Nick. It's the same spelling, isn't it?
我好友的名字就叫nick。是同一个单词对吗？
Rob: It is, but not the same meaning. Here the word 'nick' is a verb and it's British slang too.
对，是同一个词，但是意思是不一样的。 我们这里所说的nick是个动词，是个英式俚语。
Helen: Let's hear a couple of examples. What items have been stolen?
让我们来听听例句，看看到底是什么东西被偷了。
Man: Someone nicked my bike this morning. Lady: Oh,no.Did you report it to the police?
今天早上，我的单车被人偷了。 不会吧？有报案吗？
Man:Yes,I did.
是的，报案了。
Man 1: Where are the chocolate biscuits I was saving? I am sure I saw them yesterday.
我收好的巧克力饼干都去哪了？ 我确定昨天还见过的。
Man 2: Sorry,I don't know.Blame Dave,he's always nicking things.
不好意思，我不知道。应该怪Dave。他老是拿别人的东西。
Rob: So, one of them lost a bike and the other one lost his chocolate biscuits.
例子中，一个单车被偷一个巧克力饼干不见了。
Helen: Unlucky chaps. Maybe the police can help them.
倒霉的家伙们。也许警察能帮上忙吧。
Rob: Yes. The police can definitely help them by nicking those petty thieves.
没错。警察肯定能够把这些卑鄙的家伙都nick住。
Helen: That's very confusing. The police can nick too? They can steal?
我听不懂了。 警察也会行窃？ 他们也偷东西？
Rob:No, no, no,no.The police can't nick things from people. But when they arrest someone, we can say the person is nicked. It means they're arrested by the police.
不不不!警察不会偷人们的东西。 但是他们会抓人,被抓叫做被“nicked”。 也就是说,他们被警察逮捕（nick)了。
Woman: Have you heard from Inspector James?
有James探长的来信吗？
Man: No. He's working on a big case. I think they have just nicked the main suspect!
没有。他正在忙一个大案子。 好像已经抓到主嫌犯了。
Helen: So if a criminal is caught by the police, then we can say he's nicked.
也就是说，我们可以用nick来表示罪犯被警察抓住了。
Rob: That's right. Let's go over the two meanings of the verb “to nick”. First, if something is nicked, it means it's stolen.
没错。让我们再来复习一遍动词nick的用法。 首先，如果某物被nick了，意思是，这个东西被“偷”了。
Helen: Like my pen got nicked.
就像是我的钢笔一样--被偷了。
Rob: Yes, that's right. But if a person gets nicked, we mean he's arrested by the police.
是的。但是当我们指人的时候，如果一个人被nick了的话，那这个人是被警察给抓了。
Helen: A comedian got nicked for throwing a pie at Rupert Murdoch.
一个喜剧因为朝鲁珀特默多克 （新闻集团主席）扔肉馅饼而被捕。
Rob: Yes, he did. Helen, you've got it. Just remember it's not a formal expression.
好像确实是被抓了。Helen，你经学会这个词啦。 不过要记住，这个词可不是个正式表达。
Helen:Thank you.I'll keep that in mind. Bye for now.
谢谢。我会记住的。再见！
Rob: Bye!
再见！！