Look like the back end of a bus

看起来像公共汽车的后端

Learning English Conversations

2014-08-11

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If someone says you look like 'the back end of a bus', is it a good thing?
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  • Hello, Fei Fei.

  • Hi, Helen.

  • Getting ready for the English We Speak?

  • Well, kind of.

  • Oh, look at you.

  • Are you going somewhere special later?

  • Yes, I am, as it happens.

  • I'm going for an audition for a new TV programme.

  • What new program is it?

  • It's called the Analysis.

  • It's all about current affairs and, you know, serious news items.

  • Really?

  • I would have thought you would be auditioning for a celebrity chat show.

  • You're looking awfully glamorous for a news programme.

  • Well, you can't look like the back end of a bus when you go on tv, no matter what kind of TV program it is.

  • What back end of a bus?

  • What's a bus got to do with tv?

  • Oh, you know what I mean.

  • What do you see on the back of a bus?