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The English We Speak是英国BBC的一档为英语学习者量身打造的英语学习节目，在上一期的节目中我们已经有所介绍。
我们知道，英语中的touch和feel都有“触摸”的意思，touch还有“感动”的意思，feel也有“感受”的意思，那么，你知道touchy和feely是什么意思吗？现在让我们跟随两位主持人的情景对话去学习一下这两个词。
Li: Hello and welcome to The English We Speak. I'm Yang Li.
William: (subdued) I'm William Kremer.
Li: So, what English are we speaking today, William?
William: (sigh) I don't know.
Li: Oh what a big sigh! What's wrong?
William: Oh, it doesn't matter.
Li: Oh, come on! I can see something's not right. What's wrong?
William: (sigh) It's... well, if you must know, it's Tigger... he's died.
Li: Tigger? Who's Tigger?
William: Tigger... Tigger is... Tigger was my beautiful cat. He was my best friend. I suppose you could say that. I'm going to miss his stripey face in the morning. And his purr, yeah, I'm going to miss that. But, you know, these things happen. I shouldn't get so upset...
Li: Why not? I think it's perfectly normal to be very sad when a pet dies.
William: No, no, it's silly! I'm getting upset over an animal! I'm not a baby! I should grow up.
Li: But you might find it helpful to talk about your feelings for Tigger.
William: No, no, no, no! I hate all of that touchy-feely stuff!
Li: Touchy-feely?
William: Yeah, if something is touchy-feely it's very emotional. If you are a touchy-feely person you don't mind talking about your feelings and maybe actually hugging people.
Li: I see. So is this a negative phrase, touchy-feely?
William: Yeah, a little bit. Let's hear a couple of examples of it in use:
例1：
Man: Do you know, I never once saw my mum and dad kiss or hug.
Man 2: Really? Gosh, that seems incredible.
Man: But I think they really loved each other. They just weren't all touchy-feely about it.
