But for much of its history, Polari was somewhat of a secret code.

但在其历史的大部分时间里，Polari 有点像是一个密码。

Gayle, like Polari, employs a common feature of lavender languages.

盖尔和 Polari 一样，采用了薰衣草语言的共同特征。

Polari speakers would rhyme or reverse words or borrow from other languages to create new slang.

说Polari的人会押韵或颠倒单词，或者借用其他语言来创造新的俚语。

One of the most famous and well-documented gay argots is Polari, which was used by gay men in England until the late 1960s.

Polari 是最著名且有据可查的同性恋隐语之一，直到 20 世纪 60 年代末， 英国男同性恋者仍使用该术语。

Gayle, an argot that arose in apartheid South Africa among gay men of color, also borrows from Polari and mixes it with English and Afrikaans.

盖尔（Gayle）是南非种族隔离时期有色人种男同性恋者中出现的一个暗语，它也借用了Polari， 并将其与英语和南非荷兰语混合在一起。

Polari also had slang names for police like Lily Law or Jennifer Justice, so that gay men could warn each other that police were around without them noticing.

Polari 还给警察起了俚语， 比如 Lily Law 或 Jennifer Justice，这样男同性恋者就可以在他们不注意的情况下互相警告警察就在附近。

When homosexuality was criminalized in the UK, slipping Polari phrases into everyday speech could help you identify who else around you was also gay without being obvious to straight people.

当同性恋在英国被定为犯罪时，将 Polari 短语融入日常用语中可以帮助您识别周围的其他人也是同性恋， 而不会被异性恋者明显察觉。

Polari started to fall out of regular use in the gay community, suffering a significant blow when many of the remaining Polaris speakers died in the AIDS crisis of the 1980s.

Polari 开始不再在同性恋群体中被经常使用，许多剩余的使用 Polaris 的人在 20 世纪 80 年代的艾滋病危机中死亡， 这给他们带来了重大打击。

Some Polari words that we still use are naff, meaning tacky or unfashionable, or zhuzh, the verb for sprucing up your hair or outfit that's fun to say, but impossible to spell.

我们仍然使用的一些Polari单词是naff，意思是俗气或不时尚， 或者zhuzh，动词，用于修饰你的头发或衣服， 说起来很有趣，但无法拼写。