The english we speak(BBC教學)第213期:Mind blowing 令人驚奇
Learn a phrase to describe amazing things while Feifei and Harry discuss the most amazing place Harry has ever travelled to.
菲菲和哈里在討論哈里旅行過的最神奇的地方,請通過對話來學習描述神奇事情的短語。Feifei: Hello and welcome to The English We Speak. I'm Feifei and Joining me is Harry.
菲菲:大家好,歡迎收聽地道英語節目。我是菲菲,今天和我一起主持節目的是哈里。Harry: Hello there! And the expression we are going to look at in this programme is 'mind-blowing', or, 'to blow your mind'.
哈里:大家好!
Feifei: To blow your mind! We'll look at what it means and when you can use it. So anyway, Harry, I've heard you really like travelling.
菲菲:我們要讓你們大吃一驚!我們將解釋這個短語的意思和如何應用。哈里,我聽説你非常喜歡旅行。Harry: Me? Yeah, I love travelling, to be free. Yeah, I've travelled.
哈里:我嗎?對,我喜歡旅行,自由行。我去過很多地方。Feifei: Where have you been?
菲菲:你都去了哪裏?Harry: All over: Europe, South East Asia, North Africa, Central America.
哈里:世界各地:歐洲、東南亞、北非和中美洲。Feifei: So, which was the best trip?
菲菲:哪個是最棒的旅行?Harry: Hard to say, they were all great in their own way, but I think my trip to Cambodia really stands out.
哈里:很難説,所有旅行都有美好的地方,不過我認為柬埔寨的那次旅行真的與眾不同。Feifei: Why's that?
菲菲:為什麼?Harry: Well, it's got scenery, beaches, nice food and all that stuff, but the temples at Angkor Wat — well, they just blew my mind.
哈里:美景、海灘、美食,所有的一切都很美好,吳哥窟的那些寺廟真的令我感到驚奇。Feifei: They blew your mind?!
菲菲:令你感到驚奇?!Harry: Yeah, it's an amazing place. It's got incredible statues, roads, waterways all abandoned in the forest. Truly mind-blowing.
哈里:對,那是個不可思議的地方。森林裏都是被遺棄的令人難以置信的雕塑、道路和水道。真的令人感到驚奇。Feifei: But what does it mean — mind blowing; it blew your mind?
菲菲:可是mind blowing是什麼意思?吹了你的思想?Harry: Oh right. Well, when something is so incredible, so surprising that we stop and wonder about how amazing it is, we can say it's mind-blowing, or that it blew our minds, as though our brains have broken down because they are so overwhelmed.
哈里:哦,如果某件事如此不可思議、如此令人驚訝,以至於我們會停下來想那是多麼神奇,我們就可以用mind-blowing來形容,或者也可以説blew our minds,因為它們太令人驚奇了,就像我們的大腦已經失靈了一樣。Feifei: I see. So what else can be mind-blowing?
菲菲:我明白了。那還有什麼事情可以用mind-blowing來形容?Harry: Anything amazing: a painting, a film, a story.
哈里:任何驚奇的事情:一幅畫、一部電影或是一個故事。Feifei: And what about nature — the ocean, the planets, the insect world?
菲菲:那海洋、星球、昆蟲世界等自然事物呢?Harry: Yes, the unexplored ocean depths, the size of the other planets, the huge number and variety of insects — those things are all totally mind-blowing if you stop and think about them.
哈里:當然可以,未探索的海洋深處、其他星球的體積、巨大的昆蟲數量和種類——如果你停下來思考,這些都可以用完全令人驚奇來形容。Feifei: Here are some more examples.
菲菲:下面再來看一些例句。Examples
例句The latest tablet computer has an incredible camera and loads of other mind-blowing features.
最新款的平板電腦配有令人難以置信的相機和大量令人驚奇的配件。One of the most mind-blowing things about the universe is the distance between the planets.
宇宙最令人驚奇的事情之一就是星球之間的距離。The battle scenes in the film were amazing. They just blew my mind.
電影中的戰爭場面太震撼了。太令我震驚了。Harry: So, to finish off, I thought I'd give you a mind-blowing fact about space and the universe — Something that will really blow your mind.
哈里:好,作為結束,我想我要告訴你一個有關太空和宇宙的驚人事實——這是一定會讓你大為震驚的事情。Feifei: OK, let's hear it.
菲菲:好,我們來聽聽看。Harry: Did you know that every hour, the universe expands by a billion miles in all directions?
哈里:你知道宇宙以每小時10億英里的速度在不斷向各個方向擴張嗎?Feifei: It gets bigger by one billion miles in all directions?! That is mind-blowing.
菲菲:宇宙向各個方向擴張10億英里?那真是太令人震驚了。Harry: I know — just mind-blowing.
哈里:我知道,令人震驚。Feifei: I've got a very different one for you about insects — cockroaches.
菲菲:我有一個關於蟑螂這種昆蟲的事情要告訴你。Harry: Cockroaches? Yuck! What is it?
哈里:蟑螂?好惡心!是什麼?Feifei: Well, Cockroaches can live for several weeks without their heads.
菲菲:蟑螂在沒有頭部的情況下還可以存活數個星期。Harry: They can live without their heads?! Well, that's just blown my mind. Join us again for more mind-blowing English on The English We Speak.
哈里:它們沒有頭也能活着?那真是太出乎我的意料了。請大家記得收聽我們下期更令人驚奇的地道英語節目。Feifei: Bye!
菲菲:再見!Harry: Bye!
哈里:再見!
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重點講解:
1. stand out
突出;出色;顯眼;
eg. The device clearly stands out among the others.
這個圖案在眾多設計中脱穎而出。
eg. The richly fig out young woman stand out at the party.
那位衣飾富麗的年輕女郎在宴會上引人注目。
2. break down
(討論、關係或系統)失敗,破裂,失靈;
eg. She broke down from lack of rest.
她因缺乏休息而衰弱。
eg. The telephone system has broken down.
電話系統失靈了。
3. finish off
結束;
eg. He began to tidy up his desk and finish off the week's work.
他開始整理書桌,結束一週的工作。
eg. He finished off the story in his usual manner.
他還像往常那樣結束了這個故事。