So "the John" is just sort of...I don't know...maybe friends would use it with each other,
所以 "the John"这个说法可能在朋友之间使用比较频繁
so a polite way to say it if you're at someone's house, you could say "Could I use your bathroom?"
如果你在别人家里做客 想去洗手间的话 你就可以这样说"Could I use your bathroom?"
That's very nice and polite.
那样说显得比较友好和礼貌
But like I said, if you're at your friend's house, and it's a casual situation, you can just say "Hey, I need to use the John."
不过就像我前面所说的 如果你是在你要好的朋友家里 你可以直接说Hey, I need to use the John.
Okay, I don't know why it's called the John,
好吧 我也不知道为什么会叫the John
because that's a nice name that's people are named John,
因为这个名字很好听 人们都喜欢以John来作为名字
so it's a little bit disrespectful to people named John to name the bathroom after.
所以我感觉 以John来称呼洗手间有点不太尊重人
I don't know, I don't know where that comes from.
我不清楚 我不知道这个称呼是从哪来的
So when you're in the bathroom, you're gonna do one of two things.
当你上洗手间时 你会做其中的一件或两件事
You're gonna go poo or pee.
你要么上大号 要么上小号
So you could say "I need to go pee or I need to go poo."
所以你可以说 我需要上小号或上大号
Now there's a lot of different words we can also use for these things.
我们还有其他的单词来表达小号或大号
For example,
举个例子
"Poop, crap, dung, shit, dump, feces, bowel movement."
以上说法可以用来表示上大号
"Pee, piss, leak, urine."
以上说法可以用来表示上小号
Now in an official set, like if if you're at a doctor, the medical words for this is "urine, bowel movement or feces."
在看医生的情况下 医学术语只能用"urine，bowel movement，feces"来表达
Okay, those are sort of your official words.
那些是专业术语
but the rest of these words are just for like normal people.
剩下的那些表达就是我们日常使用的了
Now for some reason, we use the verb "take."
由于某些原因 我们会用到take这个动词
when we talk about doing a lot of things in the bathroom.
在浴室里做很多事情时 我们可以用take来表达
For example, I'm going to take a shower.
举个例子 我要去洗澡了
I'm going to take a bath.
我要去洗澡
I'm going to take a dump.
我要去上大号
I'm going to take a piss.
我要上小号
That's interesting, why do we use the verb "take"?
有点意思 我们为什么会用take呢
When we're not taking anything we're leaving something behind, right？
我们不是"拿走"什么东西 对吧
It doesn't make any sense, but this is English, English doesn't make sense.
这说不通 但这就是英语 英语就是说不通的
So this is called toilet paper,
这个叫厕纸
