【英语趣味课堂】无赖-Hooligans

 Todd: You were saying that you once came across a hooligan!

 

Mark: Actually, I know quite a few hooligans, yeah, in my local area, there's quite a few guys who are affiliated¹ to my teams hooligan group, so in England most teams have their own hooligan group and they have bizarre names so actually my teams called Bradford city and the hooligan groups is called "the ointment²".

 

Todd: So why are hooligans so, I mean why does somebody become a hooligan?

 

Mark: OK, so there's a lot of pride involved being a hooligan I think. Most hooligans are very proud of their home city and their home team, and what usually happens, are when the away team come to the city their hooligans try to actually take over the other teams actual bars, pubs so it's a race to get in the bar for first.

 

Todd: Oh, wow!

 

Mark: Yeah and when that happens, when the actual away team is actually, if their supporters are drinking in your bar, then obviously you want to take your bar back, so there's usually a lot of violence.

 

Todd: So you've actually seen fights?

 

Mark: Oh, lots of fights, yeah, sure, sure. If you go to most games in England on a Saturday you can usually see the odd fight or maybe, I've been to some games where there has actually been full scale riots but usually not in the stadium, usually outside.

 

Todd: What happens when there's a riot?

 

Mark: So, one, the biggest riot I've seen, was actually at a stadium and it was two local rivals: it was my team and the local team called Leeds and basically the guys were all fighting in a field near the stadium so what all that happened was the police actually surrounded them with horses, and police dogs, and they just let the police dogs go off the leads, and then the horses charged in and basically the police where just hitting the supporters with the batons³.

 

Todd: Wow! Pretty intense.

 

Mark: Yeah, yeah, lots, usually a few arrests. So usually when there's a big riot the papers will report how many arrests there were. Sometimes a 100, 150.

 

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Learn Vocabulary from the lesson

hooligan

 

I once came across a hooligan.

 

A 'hooligan' is a rough young person who doesn't follow the law and is known to commit crimes. Notice the following:

 

Do you think that a group of hooligans did this?

He was a bit of a hooligan before he joined the Army.

local area

 

I know quite a few hooligans in my local area.

 

Your 'local area' is the area around where you live. Notice the following:

 

There are very few crimes in the local area.

My local area has many opportunities to be active.

bizarre

 

Hooligan groups have bizarre names.

 

A 'bizarre' name is one that is not normal, usual or common. It is unique or strange. Notice the following:

 

That's bizarre.  He's never late.

It is a really bizarre story and I don't know if I believe it.

take over

 

The hooligans try to take over the other teams' bars and pubs.

 

If you 'take over' something you conquer it and take it into your possession or control. Notice the following:

 

My parents took over responsibility for my cat when I left.

His company was taken over last year.

full-scale

 

I've been to some games where there has actually been full-scale riots.

 

Something that is 'full-scale' is fully⁴ functioning or complete.  This means that it is not just little fights that are happening, but complete chaos⁵ and riots. Notice the following:

 

We are hoping to have full scale factory running here next year.

What started out as a friendly discussion quickly turned into a full-scale fight.

1 affiliated   

adj. 附属的, 有关连的

参考例句：

• The hospital is affiliated with the local university. 这家医院附属于当地大学。
• All affiliated members can vote. 所有隶属成员都有投票权。

2 ointment   

n.药膏，油膏，软膏

参考例句：

• Your foot will feel better after the application of this ointment.敷用这药膏后，你的脚会感到舒服些。
• This herbal ointment will help to close up your wound quickly.这种中草药膏会帮助你的伤口很快愈合。

3 batons   

n.（警察武器）警棍( baton的名词复数 )；（乐队指挥用的）指挥棒；接力棒

参考例句：

• There were many riot policemen with batons. 有许多带警棍的防暴警察。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Chinese police fight? Number one is a person with batons to fight! 满街飘的中国国旗，是一个老华侨在事发时那出来分给大家的，很感动，真的，从来一向多一事不如少一事的中国人今天团结到一起站出来反抗。 来自互联网

4 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

5 chaos   

n.混乱，无秩序

参考例句：

• After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
• The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。