All right, lovey. You have a nice day, won't ya?

好的 亲爱的 祝你今天愉快？

Now what's interesting is it's the spelling that's made this word so new, because there already was a word 'lovey' in the language, going back right to the 1960s, spelt l-o-v-e-y.

有趣的是，这个词新就新在它的写法比较新。因为实际上在20世纪60代，英语中已经出现过一个有相同语义的词：“lovey”。

I might say " oh, come on, lovey! " meaning ...you might hear from a bus conductor for instance, and it refers simply to you know, 'my dear', and it could be to a man or a woman, more usually to a woman.

我们可以这样用“拜托，亲爱的！”… … 意思是… … 假如你从一个票员口中听到这句话，它只单纯地表示——“亲爱的”，可以是对男说也可以是对女说，当然，大多数情况下只针对对女性用这个词。