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Today you're coming with me around the city so
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that you can learn 20 everyday really useful English expressions like this
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and this helps us remember the expression make a splash
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and idioms like this this big fella behind me leads us to our next expression the lion's share and even this
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so you would probably say he's naked or you could use this next expression he's starkers hi i'm steve
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now this city is unusual
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because it's got two cathedrals this is what's commonly known as the old one
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and this one which as you can see is a lot more modern
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and you could say these two cathedrals are like chalk and cheese, which is our next expression.
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Chalk and cheese.
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This is used when two things are very different, like this.
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One of my kids likes riding their bike, but the other prefers reading.
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They're like chalk and cheese.
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If you look behind me, you can see lots of rope on this boat,
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which leads us nicely to our next expression, money but old rope.
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This means money that's easy to come by.
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You can get it without much effort.
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Use it like this.
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She's a television reviewer.
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Her job is money for old rope.
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Behind me is the only natural spring in the whole of this city.
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And it leads into this tiny little pond.
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And this helps us remember the expression, make a splash.
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To make a splash means to attract attention.
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Do something that makes you stand out.
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He really made a splash at the party by wearing a fancy jacket.
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Now behind me is grass.
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And that takes us to our next expression.
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The other man's grass is always greener.
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This means that other people always seem to be in a better situation than you are.
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It's used like this.
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He said that he wanted to change his job, but I warned him that the other man's grass is always greener.
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These stones that I'm walking on are called cobbles, and that should help us with the phrase cobble together.
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This means to make or build something quickly, using whatever you already have.
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Chews like this.
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They cobbled together a meal from what was already in the fridge.
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And now I'm in the underground to bring you the next English expression. On the right track.
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To be on the right track means to be acting or thinking in a way that's likely to lead to success.
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She checked her notes again and realised she was on the right track for the test.
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Now we're inside the railway station, and behind me you can see a train.
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This leads us to our next expression, lose your train of thought.
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This means to forget what you were talking about, or thinking, because of an interruption.
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The loud noise made me lose my train of thought.
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Now this used to be a small prison and to say that someone's actually in prison, we use the expression behind bars.
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This means to be in prison.
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Use it like this.
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The gang of car thieves are all behind bars.
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Behind me are headstones.
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These belong on a grave.
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And that gives us our next English expression, pushing up daisies.
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This English expression means to be dead and buried.
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He was warned that he'll be pushing up daisies if he keeps driving so fast.
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As we look around the city, you can see that there's one building that's a lot taller than all the others.
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It's that tower behind me.
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So we could use the expression, it's head and shoulders above the rest.
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This means to be much bigger or better than everyone or everything else.
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She is head and shoulders above the rest of the applicants for the job.
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This statue behind me is really famous in this city and as you can see he's not wearing any clothes at all.
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So you would probably say he's naked or you could use this next expression, he's Stalkers.
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Stalkers means to be completely naked.
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Use it like this.
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He came out of the bathroom stalkers because he forgot to take his towel.
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In the UK, we usually don't say call a cab, we say hail a cab.
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Use it like this.
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In English we say we're going to hail a cab, basically it means to wave your hand to stop a taxi in the street.
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They stepped out into the rain and put their hand up to hail a cab.
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I've been walking for over an hour now making this video.
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So I could say I was tired, or I could use the expression, I'm pooped.
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If you're pooped, you're extremely tired or exhausted.
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So you might say...
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After working all day, I was far too pooped to go out for dinner.
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Now this statue is a member of the royal family riding a horse.
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And that leads us to our next expression.
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Straight from the horse's mouth.
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This expression means to get information directly from the person who knows all about it.
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She knew the shop was closing because she heard it straight from the horse's mouth when the owner told her.
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This big fella behind me leads us to our next expression.
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The lion's share.
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The lion's share means the largest portion or the majority of something.
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She was like this.
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He spent the lion's share of his Saturday morning tidying the house before his guests arrived.
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and the next expression is it's fishy
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if something is fishy it means it's suspicious
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or you don't trust it something about his sudden decision to
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sell the business felt fishy the coffee shop behind me is one of my favorites
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because it gives all its profits to homeless people However, it's quite tricky to find.
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And that's because it's off the beaten track.
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Off the beaten track means located far away from busy roads or popular places where most people go.
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Often it's quite hard to find.
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We found a brilliant little seafood place off the beaten track.
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Now we're in one of the main shopping streets, which lets us use our next expression, to shop around, which is what these people are doing.
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This means to compare prices and quality at different places before you buy it.
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It's worth shopping around instead of buying the first thing, you see.
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This city has two football teams.
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Liverpool, who play in red and Everton, who play in blue.
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That reminds me of two really useful English phrases.
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out of the blue.
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Out of the blue means unexpectedly or without any warning.
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It was out of the blue when he asked her to marry him. And into the red.
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This means to spend more money than you really have.
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Paying for the roof to be fixed pushed their bank account into the red.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节 B1 级别的口语课以视频“Sound More British · Everyday Expressions explained in the City”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有：expression, English, lead, track。 这段视频共有 104 个句子、1167 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 10:16。 说话人语速平稳，每分钟约 114 个词，很适合跟读。 88% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，词汇容易理解。
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 |
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| splash 动词 | /splæʃ/ | 濺 /溅, 潑 /泼 |
| stalker 名词 | /ˈstɔːkə(ɹ)/ | 潛行者 /潜行者, 跟蹤狂 /跟踪狂 |
| poop 名词 | /ˈpuːp/ | 大便, 便便 |
| chalk 名词 | /t͡ʃɔk/ | 白堊 /白垩 |
| hail 名词 | /heɪl/ | лынзы, 雹 |
| rope 名词 | /ɹoʊp/ | 繩子 /绳子, 繩索 /绳索 |
| daisy 名词 | /ˈdeɪ.zi/ | 雛菊 /雏菊, 延命菊 |
| cathedral 名词 | /kəˈθiːdɹəl/ | 大教堂, 主教座堂 |
| warn 动词 | /woɹn/ | 警告, 提醒 |
| statue 名词 | /ˈstæt͡ʃu/ | 雕像, 塑像 |
| phrase 名词 | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | 短語 /短语, 片語 /片语 |
| interruption 名词 | /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/ | 中斷 /中断 |
| reviewer 名词 | 評論家 /评论家 | |
| tidy 形容词 | /ˈtaɪ.di/ | 整齊 /整齐, 整潔 /整洁 |
| applicant 名词 | /ˈæp.lə.kɪnt/ | 申請人 /申请人, 求職者 /求职者 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
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| look around 动词 | 環顧 /环顾 |
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 |
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| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | are called · was warned · be fixed |
| 定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物 | cheese, which is · person who knows · around, which is |
| 比较级 -er than / more … than — 比较两个事物 | taller than · better than · more money than |
| 过去进行时 was/were + -ing — 过去某一时刻正在进行的动作 | were talking · was closing |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 16 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 I'm, we're, you're。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “th” 音: cathedral /kəˈθiːdɹəl/, thief /ˈθiːf/, cloth /klɒθ/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: splash /splæʃ/, interruption /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: interruption /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/, unexpectedly /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪdli/
中文母语者容易读错的音：
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: splash /splæʃ/, poop /ˈpuːp/, chalk /t͡ʃɔk/, rope /ɹoʊp/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/
- /æ/ — 嘴张大，不要读成 /e/: splash /splæʃ/, statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/, applicant /ˈæp.lə.kɪnt/, taxi /ˈtæksi/, attract /əˈtɹækt/
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。
- 用正常速度逐句跟读，每句重复到你的节奏与说话人一致为止。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 splash, stalker, poop 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。