So, you know, it is what it is, but Americans aretotally annoyed by the use of "whatever" in conversations。

也許你知道，這就是事實(shí)——美國(guó)人對(duì)日常交談中“無(wú)所謂”這句口頭禪為反感。

The popular slacker term of in difference was found "most annoying in conversation" by 47 percent of Americans surveyed in a Marist College poll。

一項(xiàng)由美國(guó)圣母學(xué)院開(kāi)展的民調(diào)顯示，47%的受訪者認(rèn)為這個(gè)帶有漠不關(guān)心意味的流行詞是“交談中令人討厭的用語(yǔ)”。

"Whatever"easily beat out "you know," which especially grated a quarter ofrespondents. The other annoying contenders were "anyway" (at 7percent)， "it is what it is" (11 percent) and "at the end of theday" (2 percent)。

"Whatever"輕松擊敗"youknow(你知道)"位居榜首，另有四分之一的受訪者稱討厭后者。其它入選惹人厭的用語(yǔ)還包括"anyway(總之；反正)(7%)"，"itis what it is(這就是事實(shí))"(11%)，以及"at the end of theday(到頭來(lái))"(2%)。

"Whatever"--pronounced"WHAT'-ehv-errr" when exasperated--is an expression_r_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"是一個(gè)帶有忍耐意味的表達(dá)，在語(yǔ)氣加重時(shí)，它常被說(shuō)成"WHAT'-ehv-errr"。涅磐樂(lè)隊(duì)于1991年演唱的一首歌曲使whatever這個(gè)詞被人們記住(其中出現(xiàn)歌詞ohwell, whatever,nevermind)。而在同一年代的后期，影片《獨(dú)領(lǐng)風(fēng)騷》中的山谷女孩又使這個(gè)詞廣為流行。如今，這一詞匯仍然很常用，它在年輕人中尤為流行。

It can be anall-purpose argument-ender or a signal of apathy. And it can reallybe annoying. The poll found "whatever" to be consistently disliked by Americans regardless of their race, gender, age, income or where they live。

"Whatever"可在結(jié)束爭(zhēng)論時(shí)使用，或者可用來(lái)表示漠不關(guān)心，這個(gè)詞的確令人反感。調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)，無(wú)論種族、性別、年齡、收入以及居住地，美國(guó)人無(wú)一例外地討厭這個(gè)詞。

"It doesn't surprise me because 'whatever' is in a special class, probably,"said Michael Adams, author of "Slang: The People's Poetry" and anassociate professor of English at Indiana University. "It's a word that--and it depends how a speaker uses it--can suggest dismissiveness."

《俚語(yǔ)：人們的詩(shī)文》一書(shū)的作者、印地安那大學(xué)英語(yǔ)副教授邁克爾·亞當(dāng)斯說(shuō)：“我并沒(méi)有感到驚訝，因?yàn)椤畐hatever’可能屬于一類比較特殊的詞。它帶有一種不屑一顧的意味，要看說(shuō)話者如何使用?！?br />
Adams, who wasnot involved in the poll and is not annoyed by "whatever," pointsout that its use is not always negative. It also can be used in place of other, neutral phrases that have fallen out of favor, like"six of one, half dozen of the other," he said。

亞當(dāng)斯指出，whatever這個(gè)詞的用法不一定都帶有否定意味，它還可用來(lái)代替其它一些過(guò)時(shí)的中性用語(yǔ)，例如“半斤八兩”。亞當(dāng)斯沒(méi)有參與該調(diào)查，他也不討厭whatever這個(gè)詞。

But then egative connotation might explain why "whatever" was judged moreannoying than the ever-popular "you know," which was recently givena public workout by Caroline Kennedy during her flirtation with the New York U.S. Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton. "You know," Adams notes, is a way for speakers to seek assent fromothers。

它的否定意味或許可以解釋為什么"whatever"要比一直流行的"youknow"更令人討厭。近卡羅琳·肯尼迪一時(shí)興起，有意競(jìng)選希拉里·羅德姆·克林頓離任后空缺的紐約州聯(lián)邦參議員席位，她在那段時(shí)期的一次訪問(wèn)中頻繁使用"youknow"這個(gè)詞。亞當(dāng)斯稱，"you know"這個(gè)詞是說(shuō)話者尋求贊同的一種方式。

Pollsters atthe Poughkeepsie, N.Y. college surveyed 938 US adults by telephone.The margin of error is 3.2 percentage points. The five choicesin cluded were chosen by people at the poll discussing what popularwords and phrases might be considered especially annoying, said spokeswoman Mary Azzoli。

紐約波基普西學(xué)院的調(diào)查者對(duì)938名美國(guó)成年人進(jìn)行了電話調(diào)查，調(diào)查的誤差率為3.2個(gè)百分點(diǎn)。該調(diào)查的女發(fā)言人瑪麗·阿左利稱，調(diào)查所列的五個(gè)選項(xiàng)是參加調(diào)查的人討論哪些流行詞和用語(yǔ)可能令人討厭之后選出的.