A true Cockney is born within (the) sound of Bow Bells. 一个人, 要是在他出生的地方能听得到伦敦鲍教堂的钟声, 那他才算得上是真正的伦敦人.
He speaks with a cockney accent. 他说话带有伦敦腔。
Depending on who he is talking to, Harry can flip over from a cockney accent to a posh cultured one. 根据说话的对像,哈里可以从说伦敦方言突然转为说优雅而有教养的语言。
cockney
[ noun ]
a native of the east end of London
<noun.person>
the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London
<noun.communication> [ adj ]
characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect
<adj.pert> cockney vowels
relating to or resembling a cockney
<adj.pert> Cockney street urchins
Cockney \Cock"ney\, a. Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.
Cockney \Cock"ney\ (k[o^]k"n[y^]), n.; pl. {Cockneys} (-n[i^]z). [OE. cocknay, cokenay, a spoiled child, effeminate person, an egg; prob. orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; OE. cok cock + nay, neye, for ey egg (cf. {Newt}), AS. [ae]g. See 1st {Cock}, {Egg}, n.] 1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. ``A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling.'' --Nash (1592).
This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. --Shak.
2. A native or resident of the city of London, especially one living in the East End district; -- sometimes used contemptuously. [1913 Webster +PJC]
A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. --Macaulay.
3. the distinctive dialect of a cockney[2]. [PJC]
Jack Dash, the Cockney Communist famous for his role in the strikes that plagued London's docks, died Thursday, London Hospital said.
Its promoters speak of how characters embody the "vibrant, tough, proud and sharply funny Cockney spirit."
"They got too hectic and things were getting dangerous," she explains in her Cockney chirp, plopped in a chair in her parents' living room.
The Fall In September, Mr. Maxwell's Cockney chauffeur observed a change in his boss's behavior.
Ms. Ullman lapses into Cockney sometimes, like Eliza Dolittle.
Despite warnings that the Cockney slang would prove unintelligible to Americans, the show still airs and has been snapped up by 10 other stations, said Ian Duncan of BBC's commercial arm.