Hangry: are you angry when you're hungry?

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写在前面
最近突然想好好学习（笑）觉得 BBC learning English 的 六分钟英语很不错 就拿它做精读材料和听力材料

这是BBC Six Minute English 五月十号的一期podcast，讲的是hungry这个混合词的由来，以及为什么人会在饥饿的情况下变得愤怒。

开头问的问题很有意思：
English has quite a few words which are made by joining two different words together like ‘hangry’, for example: brunch, motel, Brexit. What do we call these words? Are they…
a) Suitcase words
b) Portmanteau words, or
c) Backpack words
我特地去查了suitcase words 什么意思，有个人写的很不错：

suitcase words—words that contain a variety of meanings packed into them, such as conscience, emotions, consciousness, experience, thinking, morality, right, and wrong.

这个比喻很形象 suitcase 意为手提箱，那suitcase word就指代那些有丰富意思的单词，比如他举得例子 experience 既有经历也有经验的意思。
选项B则是合成词的意思，这种合成词在英文的文章里很常见，尤其是在社交媒体上，比较流行。
选项C我查了一会儿没找到什么意思，backpack是背包的意思，我猜可能是后缀词？？？

这一篇podcast除了他给的一些language points ，我先说一下我自己发现的其他的language points。

• grumpy 麦克米伦的解释是：unhappy and dissatisfied, often for no obvious reason
  意为脾气坏，强调无缘无故的坏脾气。
• kind of oxford 的解释是 slightly ；in some ways 即稍微 有点儿
  它的近义词是 sort of
• smarty pants 根据urban词典 意为someone who displays intelligence in an annoying way
  翻译中文可能是故意卖弄炫耀自己聪明的人。
• kick in 麦克米伦的释义 ： INFORMAL to start to have an effect
  非正式的 用来表示某事开始生效

官方的一些language points：

• hangry
  angry because of hunger

• irritability 易怒 动词（v) irritate 使烦恼
  getting annoyed very easily

• merge （使）合并，结合，并入
  join different things together

• fight or flight hormones
  chemicals in the body that prepare us for aggression or escape

• rage 暴怒 狂怒
  a state of being very angry
  （补充一个短语: be all the rage 十分流行；风靡一时)

• impulsive 容易冲动的
  without control; without thinking about the consequences of an action
  当然文章还有许多有意思的句子值得揣摩，比如：

• And she says that it was the wonderful world of social media that joined the two words together.
  这是一个 it is ...that 引导的强调句，用于强调说话人的语气

• Hormones are the chemicals we make in our bodies that control certain biological and psychological functions.
  这个长句子 we make in our bodies 是一个插入语，总体是一个定语从句，荷尔蒙是一种化学物质，什么样的化学物质呢？一种可以控制某种生理和心理功能的化学物质

其他还有许多有意思的句子就等待你去发现了

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