跟读练习: Brooke and Jubal Second Date Update - EP#73 First date Background Checks! - 通过视频学习英语口语
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It is always a good sign when you continually ask somebody out and they constantly say, I'm busy.
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That's not a good sign.
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And then never try to make an effort to go out with you.
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That's always a plus.
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Yeah, that's good.
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That's good, Jubal.
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That's what's happening to David, who wants to call a girl today for a second date update.
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They met on Match, had a good time.
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and then doesn't go like I'm busy but We could do this.
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It's just, I'm busy.
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I hate that.
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That's what you're getting, right, David?
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That's right.
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Yeah, David, you're not one to read signs or take hints very well, are you?
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You know, every once in a while.
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Tell us a little bit about the girl you want us to call first.
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Well, her name's Alicia, and we met on .com.
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Okay.
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You know, she was really cool.
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She was funny.
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She was cute, all that stuff.
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So we ended up meeting up and going out for drinks for a happy hour, and we had a good time, you know.
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Remember, was the conversation good?
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Everything normal?
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Did anything strange happen?
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On your date?
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No, not at all.
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It was actually a really good time.
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You know, we were just sitting around drinking and got on the topic of liking to try new things.
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And we both like to do that and started ordering each other drinks that we never had before.
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And, of course, that, you know, that went well.
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Nobody got sick or anything like that.
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How much alcohol was consumed?
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It was only like three drinks apiece.
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Okay, that's not too bad.
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You know, I had like our initial drink and then she got me something like a blue Hawaiian drink.
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and an Alabama slammer and I got her a Midori Sour and she'd never done an Irish car bomb so...
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- Yeah, you guys kept it classy on your date, didn't you?
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- Is that all that you did was go to happy hour and do the like, "Hey, try this drink thing?" Well, you know, you do that pretty quick in an hour.
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Yeah.
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We got pretty drunk pretty quick.
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Yeah.
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And realized it was probably a good idea to slow down there.
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Yeah.
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Maybe order some food, too.
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At the end of your hour of drinking.
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What did you guys do?
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Did you go get something to eat or?
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Well, you know, you can't always do drinks and dinner on a first date.
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Maybe a good idea to combine the both.
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I'm thinking you needed something to sop up the alcohol.
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That second date idea, I can't do that on first.
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I don't have a lot of ideas.
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First date drink, second date.
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Dinner and drink well, it's not like you were slamming down bottles
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and bottles you bitch had like three or four drinks each You weren't completely hammered right?
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Everyone's a raging alcoholic like you three or four drinks.
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You probably still be okay Yeah, I felt good David can I ask?
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When you made plans with her the first time, was it hard?
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Was she always, quote, quote, busy?
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Or did she have a lot of free time?
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No, she was really open for it.
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And did she did she give you any indication on her date
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that she has like a really busy schedule or crazy job or anything like that?
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You know, not really.
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Um, You know, it seems like she's, I'm going to be honest, I don't, we really didn't talk about what each other, what we both do for work.
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How did the date end with her?
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Did you guys make out?
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No, we didn't make out.
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I was a pretty smooth operator.
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I got a kiss on the cheek.
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That's not smooth, David That's a friend peck, dude No, no, no, that was a gentleman peck It was a nice hug,
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it wasn't a side hug Regular, good, linger and hug and that it from the tree did i'm just gonna say
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Throw it out there.
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Anytime I've ever told a guy or even a friend that I'm busy, it's because I don't want to hang out with them.
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If I'm busy and I make plans, like alternate plans, then it means, yeah, go for it.
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Well, she still responds, like, if I text her or send her a message on Facebook or anything, you know, she's still responding.
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She's not, like, completely boring me off.
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Yeah.
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So that's why I'm confused as to, you know, I've been in that position where I've said I'm busy, and then I just don't respond to text.
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Yeah, but some people don't do that.
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Like, I know for me, if I tell somebody I'm busy and they keep doing it, like, eventually I'll break down and still respond to them, and then they'll be like, okay, so let's go out.
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And you're like, no, I'm still busy.
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Yeah.
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I don't want to see you, but you just keep bugging me, so I will answer.
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If you like a guy, you make time.
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That's all I'm saying.
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- I or girl.
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you know i mean like if you pull me off i would like to know the reason why Okay.
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To me, we had a really great time.
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Okay.
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Well, we'll play a song, come back, call her, and get your second date update, okay?
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Cool.
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If we're not too busy.
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Hang on, all right?
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All right.
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Yep.
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We were going to do your second date update, but honestly, something just came up.
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Can we make the phone call for you like next week or something?
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I promise we'll get around to it.
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If you're just tuning into the second date update, I'm telling David that because the girl
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that he wants us to get a hold of keeps giving him the I'm busy treatment.
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Not I'm busy.
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We could maybe try next Thursday when I'm not busy.
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Just...
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I'm busy, which usually means I don't want to see you.
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Yeah.
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So we're about to call her and find out why.
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They met on match, went out for happy hour, had some drinks, maybe too many drinks, I don't know.
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And he said everything went well, so he doesn't understand why she would say that she's busy and doesn't want to see him again.
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But she is responding immediately.
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To like all of his texts and everything.
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Yeah, to be nice, maybe.
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Maybe, yeah.
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David, I mean, you got a kiss on the cheek when you left.
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Was there any talk then of seeing each other?
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I don't remember.
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I'm gonna go with no. Alright, you ready to give her a call?
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Here we go.
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Beep.
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Phone ringing.
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Hello?
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Hi, can I speak to Alyssa, please?
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Yeah, this is Alyssa.
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Hey, how are you?
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This is Jubal from Brook and Jubal in the Morning.
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I'm moving 92 .5.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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What's going on?
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um...
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This is really weird.
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Do you listen to our show?
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I catch it once in a while.
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In the morning, I kind of have to focus on hard news stuff just so I'm ready for work.
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I like to think of us as hard news.
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We report on the hard -hitting things.
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No, I mean, like solid news, like nothing but news.
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I would so much rather have some good music in the morning, but it doesn't really work for a few.
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Well, yeah, you want good music.
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You're not coming to the right place by listening to us.
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We do have music.
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I mean, whatever.
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All right, Alyssa, listen, I'm calling you because you recently went out with someone else
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our show and they wanted us to get a hold of you.
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So this is like a social call?
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yeah I like that name it is social call can do a social call
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or a second date update as we like to call it it's where if you go out with someone
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and you end up blowing them off, they email us to call and ask why.
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David, who's a friend of the show, feels like you've been giving him the runaround just telling him that you're busy.
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Are you really busy or do you actually want to see David again?
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Uh...
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Yeah, that's a really interesting question.
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It's not that interesting.
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You're just trying to be nice.
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Yeah.
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You don't want to see David again, do you?
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Um, No, I mean, I guess he told you?
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What did he tell you?
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He said you guys went out for a happy hour, started talking about things you haven't tried before, and then were suggesting drinks to each other and had a few drinks.
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And he said he got a kiss on the cheek from you.
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That's a big deal, right?
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He said we had a few drinks.
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We had a lot of drinks.
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Okay.
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He said you had...
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It was like a lot of drinking.
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It was like I was feeling really buzzed.
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Okay.
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All right.
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So you were pretty drunk on the date.
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Yeah, I mean, I'm guessing that he was, too.
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I don't know.
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Did he do something weird then, or did he.. you know, try to make a move on you or...
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No, I mean, it was fun.
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We were like talking and laughing and trying these drinks.
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And then like, you know, we were just talking about...
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stuff from the past and like, I mean, it was kind of awkward because he, said that a long time ago he got in trouble with the law in another state,
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which is like kind of a strange thing to say.
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Did he tell you what he did?
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No, he like, there must have been a weird look on my face
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because I think he like kind of caught himself
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and he just like tried to like play it off like it was no big deal, you know, like...
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Oh, he just, you know, he said something like, oh, I was kind of wild when I was younger.
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Okay.
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Like, that really stuck with me, what he said, and I just...
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But you don't even know what he did, though, because he never told you what he did.
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That's exactly, and that's why I didn't know what to make of it.
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So I was talking to my friends about it, and they're worried about safety and stuff.
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So they're like, look, you know, you should really do a background check just to be safe.
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Like, anyone can go online and, like, put up a profile.
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You don't know who this guy is.
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So did you do a background check?
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Yeah.
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You actually paid to have a background check done on him.
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Oh.
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Yeah, I mean, it's not that exciting.
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Expensive.
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I just, I was really surprised by what I found out, and that's why I haven't said yes to a second date.
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What did you find out?
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Well...
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He was basically like a serial arsonist.
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What?
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He was flying things on fire?
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A serial arsonist?
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Whoa!
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Like how bad?
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What?
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Well, I don't know all the details.
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Like, you don't get every single everything.
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But when the information came back, it just was like he...
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things on fire like more than once wow that's intense like
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how many counts of setting things on fire did he have uh this mentioned
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Four and there were there were allegations about a fifth.
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I guess
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that wasn't proven now Alyssa We did this phone call for him to find out why you weren't calling him back now.
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I'm scared if things don't go well He's gonna burn my house down or something.
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Seriously?
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I'm worried for her!
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Yeah, I'm sorry for that.
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Alyssa, I know you probably never want to talk to David again.
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Yeah.
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But I should tell you that he's actually been on the other line this whole time listening to everything you said.
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Hey.
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Okay, this is really awkward.
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I don't even know what to say now.
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First of all, that is really weird that you would do a background check on me.
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I can't believe that people actually do that.
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Don't deflect.
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How can you have a complaint that I did a background check?
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There was something to find.
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That seems to be more of an issue.
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Yeah.
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You could have asked me.
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Well, I did ask you after you mentioned that you got in trouble with the law and you blew off the question.
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You kind of just shut down and obviously didn't want to answer it.
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So I did try that.
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I don't really care about you talking to each other right now.
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All I want to know is, David...
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Are you really a serial arsonist?
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Serial arsonist is a really strong way to label it.
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I set a couple old cars on fire and like a shed.
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In the wood.
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Why would you do that?
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We were just kids goofing off.
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It's not like someone lived in the shed.
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It's not like it was like a car in someone's driveway.
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There's just some old stuff out in the field and we set it on fire.
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I don't know that I feel better about that, David.
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I...
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Sadly, I can see where David's coming from.
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Sometimes you just want to light things on fire.
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At least it wasn't like houses or anything like that.
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Animals.
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Yeah.
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It's not like we did it because I was crazy.
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We did it because we were bored and it happened to belong to somebody, which we didn't know, and then, uh...
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I got to go to the car.
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Buildings usually do belong to someone, David. And cars.
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How much time did you serve?
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I just finished high school, I was like 18, I was supposed to serve two years, but I was out in like six months.
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Nice.
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Not nice.
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That's all you get for burning down a couple cars.
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So you served two years in jail for arson.
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I was supposed to serve two years.
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I was done in six months.
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You were done in six months.
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So Alyssa, he's not that hardened of a criminal.
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He was only in jail for six months.
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Silver lining, good behavior.
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Does that make it any better, Alyssa?
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Okay.
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I'm really, really uncomfortable.
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I don't blame you at all.
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Yeah.
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Well, Alyssa, it was i was just hanging out with some bad people and made a super mistake
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and I learned from it, and I moved away from there.
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I'm in a new state.
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I started a new life.
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You know, I haven't had any other problems with the cops, not even a speeding ticket.
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You know?
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I think people can change here.
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How old are you, David?
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28. And no problems in the last like 10 years.
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Come on, you guys.
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Yeah, it was 10 years ago.
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Everybody makes dumb mistakes when they're young.
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Four times?
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It doesn't matter how long ago it was.
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I don't want to date someone who was in jail.
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I think that that's an okay standard to have.
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I don't think so.
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I really do.
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You got to try a felon at least one time in your life.
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That's what I always say.
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That's what my grandma told me and I listened.
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So listen, we can't convince you to go out on a second date with David.
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We will pay for it.
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I'm just - I'm not the right girl.
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David, I'm sorry you did not get your second date.
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But at least you know why Alyssa's been telling you that she's busy.
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Yeah, that's a plus.
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She doesn't want her property burned down.
✨ 推荐视频
本课的词汇与口语要点
这节 B1 级别的口语课以视频“Brooke and Jubal Second Date Update - EP First date Background Checks!”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有:busy, drink, date, David。 这段视频共有 304 个句子、2615 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 13:19。 说话人语速较快,每分钟约 196 个词,会出现较多连读和弱读。 87% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词,词汇容易理解。 全部 304 个句子中有 52 个是问句,适合练习疑问语调和简短回答。
视频中的重点词汇
视频中最难的 15 个单词,附发音和释义:
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| arsonist 名词 | /ˈɑɹsənəst/ | 縱火犯 /纵火犯, 放火犯 |
| cheek 名词 | /t͡ʃiːk/ | 臉頰 /脸颊, 腮 |
| peck 动词 | /pɛk/ | 啄 |
| bore 动词 | /boɹ/ | 煩擾 /烦扰 |
| awkward 形容词 | /ˈɔk.wɚd/ | 彆扭 /别扭 |
| excite 动词 | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | 激動 /激动 |
| linger 动词 | /ˈlɪŋɡɚ/ | 逗留, 流連 /流连 |
| allegation 名词 | /ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/ | 斷言 /断言, 主張 /主张 |
| harden 动词 | /ˈhɑɹdn̩/ | 硬化 |
| driveway 名词 | /ˈdɹaɪvˌweɪ/ | 車道 /车道, 專用支路 /专用支路 |
| classy 形容词 | /ˈklɑːsi/ | 優等的 /优等的 |
| whoa | /woʊ/ | 吁 |
| consume 动词 | /kənˈsum/ | 耗費 /耗费, 消耗 |
| alcoholic 名词 | /ˌæl.kəˈhɔ.lɪk/ | 酒精成癮者 /酒精成瘾者 |
| slam 动词 | /ˈslæm/ | 甩, 甩上 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| find out 动词 | 找出, 查明 | |
| burn down 动词 | 燒毀 /烧毁, 焚毀 /焚毁 | |
| come back 动词 | 回來 /回来, 返回 | |
| end up 动词 | 到达 | |
| make out 动词 | /meɪk aʊt/ | 派遣 |
| break down 动词 | 壞了 /坏了, 出故障 | |
| come up 动词 | 上來 /上来 | |
| go out 动词 | 出, 出口 |
值得反复跟读的句子
视频中简短而完整的句子,可以直接用在日常对话里:
- What did you guys do?
- Did you go get something to eat or?
- Did you guys make out?
- Alright, you ready to give her a call?
- Do you listen to our show?
视频中的语法
说话人最常用的结构,并附上视频中的原话:
| 结构 | 视频中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事 | I've ever told · I've been · haven't tried |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么,而不是谁做的 | was consumed · wasn't proven · was done |
| 过去进行时 was/were + -ing — 过去某一时刻正在进行的动作 | were just sitting · were slamming · were suggesting |
| 动词 + -ing enjoy、keep、stop… + -ing — 后接 -ing 形式的动词 | started ordering · keep bugging · keeps giving |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 102 次缩略和弱读形式,例如 I'm, don't, you're。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: allegation /ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/, indication /ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: allegation /ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/, continually /kənˈtɪnjuəli/, alcoholic /ˌæl.kəˈhɔ.lɪk/, indication /ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/
如何用这段视频练习
- 先完整听一遍视频,不要开口,记下不认识的单词。
- 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟读,熟练之后再回到正常速度。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比,特别注意 arsonist, cheek, peck 这类单词。
什么是跟读法?
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧,最初开发用于专业口译员的培训,并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大:您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同,跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性,语调,节奏,连读,听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。











