跟读练习: ENGLISH CONVERSATION ⎢ I TOOK MY FAMILY ON A ROAD TRIP - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Are we there yet?
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Are we there yet?
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Today we'll study phrases and idioms
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and we'll do a little listening comprehension quiz as we study conversation
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that came up on a road trip I took with my two kids,
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my husband, and our friend Steve.
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Alright, let me buckle up. Did everybody buckle up?
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Yep.
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Steve?
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We're buckled in.
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I did buckle up.
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Buckle up.
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That's a phrasal verb that means to put on your seatbelt.
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I noticed with my kids' car seats,
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sometimes I use the phrase buckle in.
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Hold still so I can buckle you in.
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Then I'll buckle up.
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Did everybody buckle up?
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Yep.
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Steve?
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We're buckled in.
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I did buckle up.
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Buckle up.
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Buckle down.
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The meaning of the phrase buckle down is completely unrelated.
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It means to really focus on something,
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to work hard on it.
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I need to buckle down and study for this exam.
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I don't feel like doing my homework.
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Just buckle down and get it done.
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Now, about four minutes into the car ride,
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Stoney started asking if he could watch a video.
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He knows he gets to watch one with his headphones
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when Sawyer needs to take his nap to help keep the car quiet.
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The next 20 seconds of video won't have subtitles,
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so see if you can understand what we're saying.
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There's going to be a one question quiz at at the end of the 20 seconds.
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How long is the car ride?
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So we're here.
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You can watch after lunch.
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No. What?
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I want to watch in the car.
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Yes, after lunch we're still going to be in the car.
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It's a long, it's a long car ride.
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Because it's a really long trip,
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Stoney, how many miles do you know, David?
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271, that's all.
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So 271 miles, that's why we're going to still be driving after lunch.
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OK, do you know the answer?
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How long is the car ride?
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David said it once more clearly,
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and then I repeated it less clearly.
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I said it faster.
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271, that's all.
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So 271 miles, that's why we're gonna still be driving after lunch.
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271 miles.
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Oh, I hope this slowdown doesn't last too long.
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One thing you hope you never have on a road trip with two small children is a delay.
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I hope we don't hit many delays.
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The GPS says that it's clear sailing, knock on wood.
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We'll stay that way.
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Okay.
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Clear sailing, knock on wood, guys.
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David used two phrases there,
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clear sailing and knock on wood.
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Clear sailing.
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We use this not just with sailing,
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but also driving to mean nothing in the way,
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no obstacles, nothing to delay us on a trip.
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But we also use it in general to mean no problems or obstacles with the situation.
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It doesn't just have to be transportation.
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It could be something like completing a project.
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For example, now that we got the new budget approved,
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it should be clear sailing to finish the project.
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That is, we foresee no problems,
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no issues, and no obstacles arising.
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The other phrase he used was knock on wood.
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Both of these phrases are really common.
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Have you heard them before?
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Knock on wood is a superstitious expression.
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If you comment out loud on something that's going well,
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you might say, knock on wood,
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as a way to say,
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and I hope things keep going well.
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I hope my having mentioned it doesn't mean it ends.
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For example, hey Rachel, how's the baby sleeping?
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He sleeps through the night, knock on wood.
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I've run out of gas more than once on a road trip.
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Actually, years ago, I made a video on another road trip where I did run out of gas.
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I'll link to that video at the end of this video.
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There's a lot to learn about American English in that lesson.
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David and I have also run out of gas on a road trip before.
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Run out is a phrasal verb with more than one meaning.
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It can mean to do an errand that won't take very long.
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Can you run out and get some milk?
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Or, I'm going to run out and pick up the kids from school.
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But it also means to deplete something, to have nothing left.
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I ran out of time.
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I couldn't finish the test.
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We ran out of gas on the highway.
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So now I pay more attention to how much gas we have.
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How are we doing on gas?
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Just over three quarters.
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Okay.
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How we doing on?
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I dropped the word R there.
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This is somewhat common in casual English after how.
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How you doing?
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How we doing on gas?
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How we doing on time?
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How we doing on gas?
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Have you ever taken a road trip with two small kids?
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So, Stoney is asking when we're getting out of the car.
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How long have we been in the car?
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We've been in the car for about 12 minutes.
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10?
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10 minutes.
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We have about 5 hours.
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5 hours?
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Five hours?
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Mm-hmm.
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Yep.
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So we have 300 minutes to go.
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It can get long, but really the boys did great.
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Some of you have asked about English books,
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videos, songs, and so on to expose your kids to English.
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One thing that Stoney loves to do is listen to audiobooks.
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So now is a great time to talk about Audible,
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who has so kindly sponsored this video.
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I've really gotten into audiobooks lately,
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and they do have a selection for kids.
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You can choose by age,
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so Sony's just three, and there are so many fun audiobooks.
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Sony, what are we listening to?
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The Link Burning Earth.
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Do you like it?
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Yeah!
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The one we listened to in the car was Lori Berkner's Song and Story Kitchen.
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If you have young kids and they love music,
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this would be a great audiobook to listen to with them.
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Audible is giving to you your first audiobook free plus two free Audible originals when you try Audible for 30 days,
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visit audible.com slash rachelsenglish or text rachelsenglish to 500 500 in the US.
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The Audible Originals are exclusive audio titles that you can find only on Audible,
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created by celebrated storytellers.
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They're really fun, I've enjoyed listening to them.
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And when you're an Audible member,
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you get two free every month.
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So again, to try Audible for 30 days and get a free audiobook plus two Audible Originals,
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visit audible.com slash Rachel's English or text Rachel's English to 500 500 in the US.
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After, are we there yet?
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Maybe the most common thing a kid says on a road trip is, I'm hungry.
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Mom, I'm gonna go, I gotta eat lunch in here.
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No, we'll probably eat lunch somewhere outside of the car.
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Mom, where are I gonna eat?
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Because I'm very hungry.
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You're very hungry.
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Well, you'll probably, we're probably not going to eat for about an hour.
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And then it'll be a quick,
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quick bite so we can get back on the road.
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Quick bite.
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Have you ever heard the word bite to mean meal or snack?
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A bite is singular.
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It's a noun.
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Mmm, this is so good.
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Do you want a bite?
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It's also sometimes a verb.
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I have to tell my one-year-old, don't bite me.
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But we also use it to mean food in general.
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I said, it'll be a quick bite so we can get back on the road.
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A quick bite.
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A meal that you hope doesn't take long.
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I'm going to grab a quick bite and then stop by.
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You might also hear it in the phrase, a bite to eat.
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Hmm, it's almost lunchtime.
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Do you want to get a bite to eat?
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I don't mean one bite of food, of course.
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I mean a meal.
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David, remember when we were in Italy and you couldn't figure out the gas pump?
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What was the deal with that?
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It's just different from what we're used to and the,
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you finally, finally some other guy pulled up to fill up and be healthy.
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Yeah, you had pity on me,
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but I don't remember what was so different.
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I don't either, but we should,
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we should take the camera out when we fill up.
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Okay.
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And explain how it works.
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Because that's intimidating, I feel like,
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when you're in another country,
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you're not totally sure how something like that works.
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Yeah.
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Okay, so a quick rundown about getting gas in the US.
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Rundown, one word, this is a noun,
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it means an analysis, a summary.
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As two words, it's a phrasal verb with various meanings.
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But I said let's do a quick rundown about getting gas in the US.
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Let's do a quick summary.
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There are two kinds, self and full.
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Self means you pump your own gas,
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and full means someone else pumps your gas for you,
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and you don't have to get out of your car.
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It's short for full service.
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And the gas pumps will be marked self or full.
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Now almost everywhere in the US is self-serve,
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except for New Jersey, where it's all full,
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and also some spots in Oregon and a few towns elsewhere.
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If you're at a self-serve spot,
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and you use a credit or debit card,
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you just insert it, you'll usually have to enter your zip code,
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select the grade, that is the quality or purity of the gas you're using,
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and sometimes you have to flip up part of the pump.
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If you're paying cash, you usually have to do that before you start pumping.
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So you'll find the cashier inside,
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tell them how much you want and what is your pump number.
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You can say something like, $20 on four.
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Now, when you're on a long road trip,
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there's a chance you're going to have to stop for food.
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We found a service plaza.
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That's something that caters only to people coming on and off the highway.
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And the idea is that it's faster than getting off at an exit and driving to a restaurant.
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But it's pretty easy to get pretty terrible food there.
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Oh, your beans and rice are good?
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How's your burrito?
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Honestly, the first bite was really bland.
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Oh no, okay.
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Bland.
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That is tasteless, not flavorful, not very good.
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You can also use this to describe a person.
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He's got a bland personality.
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That means he's not very interesting, pretty boring.
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Luckily, I made Sawyer some really tasty corn puree so he was happy.
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Now, if we're not eating food,
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often we're talking about food.
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We tried to go to Loco Pez last night,
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and it was so on fire.
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Was it a dollar taco thing?
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I don't know, but it was something.
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They were slammed.
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Yeah.
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So we had to bail,
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and we went to Cedar Point, which was totally empty. Did you enjoy it?
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It was okay.
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I didn't think it was.
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We were not blown away, were we babe?
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What's that?
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We weren't blown away, were we?
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I wasn't.
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Loco Pez.
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That's a local restaurant in Philadelphia,
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Mexican inspired food, Spanish inspired name with the old American twist and pronunciation.
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Did you hear some of the words we used to describe this restaurant?
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And it was so on fire. On fire.
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No, the restaurant was not burning down.
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It was very, very busy, very popular.
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We can use this term to mean really good.
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Maybe you're at a family wedding and your uncle is dancing all night.
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He's got great moves.
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You could say, he's on fire.
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You could say this in sports too.
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Basketball.
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Someone just keeps making shot after shot you could say, she's on fire.
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We tried to go to Loco Pez last night,
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and it was so on fire. Was it?
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It was like a dollar taco thing.
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I don't know, but it was something.
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They were slammed.
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David said, they were slammed.
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So that means really busy.
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Actually, you may have already learned that in a video I did earlier this month on ways to say you're busy.
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That was one of the terms we learned.
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Slammed.
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So we had to bail.
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I said we had to bail.
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That means we had to give up.
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We had to do something different than what was planned.
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We were going to eat there,
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but it was so busy,
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we had to bail and go somewhere else.
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And we went to Cedar Point, which was totally empty. Did you enjoy it?
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It was okay.
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I didn't think it would.
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We were not blown away, were we babe?
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What's that?
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We weren't blown away, were we?
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I wasn't.
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No. And the place we went,
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we were not blown away.
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Blown away is a good thing.
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You get blown away by something that exceeds expectation.
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Just dropped off our friend,
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gonna head home the final three minutes of the drive.
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Went well.
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Everyone's in one piece.
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No blown out tires.
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One tipped camera, however. Was that?
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What's her name?
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What is her name?
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If you can't think of someone's name,
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you can call her, what's her name?
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Notice I'm dropping the H there,
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what's her, what's her name?
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Or, what's his name?
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Again, dropping the H, what's his, what's his name?
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What's her name?
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What's his name? that?
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What's her name?
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What is her name?
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We made it!
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Good road trip everybody!
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Yay!
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That's it and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.
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That's not even my ending anymore.
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I don't know why I did that.
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I was being crazy.
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Next week's video was also shot on this road trip and its driving vocabulary.
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It covers terms like blind spot,
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shoulder, tailgate, and backseat driver.
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Be sure to join me here next Tuesday to see it.
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Now I promised you the video where I ran out of gas on a road trip,
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and that's a fun one, do check it out.
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If you've already seen it,
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please watch another Rachel's English video from the suggested videos.
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I love teaching you English.
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Thank you for joining me here.
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Now I will say it.
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That's it, and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.
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