# Kevin 英文不難 Podcast

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## #103
- bizarre 古怪的
- ritual 儀式
- remotely 間接
- weirdos 怪咖
- basis 根據
> basis on
- deceased 去世的人
- corpse 屍體
- pouch 小布袋
- **even** say ,**even** have 甚至
- apparently 顯然地
- feel strongly
- consent 同意 v.
- op : original post
- As of now = from now on（從現在開始）
- As for now = right now
## [#102](https://docs.google.com/document/d/17rDAkUOC7GEHqtCiVJoUxQLXMuTnjebFVxPT7GDvNOc/edit)

- insane 發瘋 v. 發瘋的a.
- stressful 有壓力的 a
- insane stressful 超級有壓力

- wealthy 富裕的
- miserable 悲慘的
- lottery ticket 彩券
- seemed like… 看似
> “Something” seemed like a good idea, but turns out I was wrong.

> Jack seemed to think he knows a lot, but he doesn’t.
- attended 參加
寫信邀請客戶至公司活動時可寫：
> Please let me know your possibility of attending this event.

> Feel free to contact me if you have any inquiries. We would be glad if you attended this event.
- reunion 同學會
> - High school reunion
> - College reunion
> at college reunion
- Alum 校友單數，alumni 校友複數
- hedge fund 避險基金
- prestigious 有名望的
> - a prestigious school
> - a prestigious company
- scramble 拼湊
> 寫信邀請客戶至公司活動時可寫：
> - Please let me know your possibility of attending this event.
> - Feel free to contact me if you have any inquiries. We would be glad if you attended this event.
- constantly 不間斷
> John is constantly asking for my opinion at work.
- undermining 扯後腿
> My coworkers are always undermining one another

- one another 兩人以上
- each other 兩人
> The husband and the wife love each other.

## #101
- tampon 衛生棉條

- frankly 坦白說
> Frankly, my dear, i don't give a damn.
> 坦率地說，親愛的，我一點也不在乎
> [name=亂世佳人]

- plagiarism 剽竊、抄襲 n.（plagiarize v.）
- placed properly 放置正確
### 句型
- that's the worst 糟透了
> Winters in taipei are the worst is always wet and cold.
- however 轉折語
- as a result & therefore 結論、結語
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## #100
- to go off the tracks 偏題
- recall 回想起
- to steamroller someone 壓制、強迫 人 局勢
- steamroller 壓路機
- hindsight 回頭看（事後諸葛）n.
> hindsight is 2020 ***or*** hindsight be in 2020

> In hindsight we shouldn't have accepted that deal
> with a supplier.
- constant 不斷的
- interruptions 干擾
> Two candidates the country would be better serverd if we allowed both people to speak with fewer interruptions felt despermation.
- moderator 主席、主持（控制流程）、仲裁者

Q : Jack treated me friendly.
A : friendly 友好的 adj
> Jack treated me in a friendly way.
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## [#99](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15w-CGlcJAjpu7XJW37twhZyo2oSXbIrdfWZf2uHUlpo/edit)
- To play one’s cards close to one’s chest 保密、不透露自己的計畫
> Our boss likes to play his cards close to his chest. He never gives us too much information, which is why working with him is so difficult.

以下兩者說法皆與此片語相同
> - You do like to play things pretty close to the chest.
> - I’m playing this one pretty close to the chest.

- finest 警察n、 最棒的adj
- bravest 消防員n 、 最勇敢的adj

- reassign 重整
- R & D research and developement
- fair enough
> 夠公平、可以接受，用於討論事件不認同但無法反駁

- the dice are loaded against me 描述某情境對自己不利
- dice 骰子n
> If you apply for a job when you are over 40, the dice are loaded against you.

- poker face 面無表情、隱瞞自己的情緒
> John has a poker face, so I never know what he is thinking.

- to hold all the cards 握有所有的權力、籌碼
> Our supplier holds all the cards, so we can’t really negotiate with them. We need them more than they need us.

- dicing with death 做危險的事情
> 與死神丟骰子

> You’re dicing with death driving at that speed.

> Every time you ride a motorcycle without wearing a helmet, you are dicing with death.
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## [#98](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BlM6tEbYYwFF1ikT0q5t4Cg3GxPt7WiTdJkKMuzaVZI/edit?usp=sharing)

### Twitter 發文
I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it ***dominate*** your life. **We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge**. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!

- dominate 支配、掌控
> Our company dominated the high-end real estate market for 30 years.

#### 句型解析：插入句
**Under the Trump Administration** 是插入句。
插入句可以讓你的文章有更多細節，也可避免每次寫 email 像小朋友只會 SVO 主動受的句子。插入句可有可無，因此拿掉 “Under the Trump Administration” 仍不改原意 We have developed some really great drugs & knowledge. ＊插入句前後記得加逗號

#### 如何檢查插入句是否正確？
刪掉插入句，如果語意通順就正確。
1. The man ~~, who is wearing a blue coat,~~ is my father. (O)
2. The idea ~~, which I think needs more planning,~~ is my boss’s. (O)

### 新聞逐字稿
#### 4’37
The president’s doctors and White House officials have been giving **confusing and conflicting** information about the president’s **condition** all weekend.
#### 5’18
On Saturday, White House doctor Sean Conley repeatedly **dodging** questions about whether the president was so sick he needed oxygen.

- confusing 令人困惑的
> Our company dominated the high-end real estate market for 30 years.

- conflicting 衝突的（公司報告、訂單有衝突時可以用這個單字）
> I would like to know why the two departments gave conflicting data.

- condition 狀態
> The president is in stable condition.

- dodging 閃躲（避開問題的時候可以用）
> During the meeting, our supplier kept dodging our questions.

#### 6’24
Yesterday and today he was not on oxygen. Thursday no oxygen, not at this moment, yeah, and yesterday with the team, while we were all here, he was not on oxygen.
#### 6’50
But now, Conley says he did actually **administer** oxygen to the president on Friday at the White House after his blood oxygen dropped.

- actually 前後文一定相反

- administer 給予（藥物、逞罰）
> The doctor administered some medicine to the patient
> Tests will be administered to the children at 2 o’clock this afternoon.

#### 7’41
I was trying to **reflect** the **upbeat attitude** that the team, the president, through this course of illness has had. Didn’t want to give any information that might **steer** the course of illness to another direction, and in doing so, you know, it came off that we’re trying to hide something, which isn’t necessarily true.

- reflect 表現、展現（藥物、逞罰）
> The statistics reflect a change in people’s spending habits.

- upbeat attitude 正向態度
> Jack has a very upbeat attitude. This is why everybody likes him.

- steer 引導至某方向
> ok, so now I’d like to steer our discussion back to the original topic, which is...

### #97
- below the belt 垃圾招數 奧步
出自拳擊，出拳打跨下
> [That's below the belt.](https://youtu.be/yxMq-EGvtaY)

> watch a long dull movie 看無聊電影
> episode 集，節目yes電影no
- as sleep as can be 最...怎樣;最想睡

- pull your punches 出自拳擊，出拳收一下

> Do yo think this project is a good idea dont pull your any punches i want you to tell me what you think？

- move the goalposts 做事做到一半，突然改標準
> We were almost going to sign contract and the other company moved the goalposts and demanded more money.

> death toll 死亡統計
> goalpost 得分區

- the ball is in your court 網球，下一步你來

- play hardball 棒球，來硬的來拼了

- throw in the towel 拳擊，to get up

### #96

#### 【故事一】
Actual conversation I had with a guy a week ago.
Any past **medical history**?
"High blood **pressure**. That's it"
No other history?
"Nope. That's it."
(Proceed to take off his shirt.)
Sir. What is that huge **scar** on your chest?
"Oh that's from my **triple bypass**."
That's **medical history** sir. Anything else you want to add in now?
"Oh does CHF and diabetes count? I have those also"

- medical history 疾病史
- pressure 某壓力下
> under pressure
- scar 疤痕
- bypass 繞道
- triple bypass 心臟繞道手術
- Anything else you want to add in now? 你還需要補充什麼？

#### 【故事二】
This happened to me 3 days ago! A guy came in with a wheelchair.
"Do you have any medical **issues**?"
"No"
"…. Umm, why are you in a wheelchair?"
"Oh, I have a degenerative neuromuscular condition. And type 2 diabetes."

- issue 問題較小 problem 較嚴重 （口語用法差異不大）
- issue =\\= problem （正式）

#### 【故事三】
I **admitted** a guy for **pneumonia**, which was odd because he was young and strong, no other medical issues, x-ray didn't look quite right. The pieces just didn't add up and so I started questioning him more closely.
Me: Do you use any drugs? Patient: Drugs! That's disgusting. I'm not a druggie! I've never touched drugs in my life.
I move on to other questions and suddenly:
Patient "ok, doc, I just want you to know I may have used cocaine once or twice many years ago. I just **snorted** it though. That wouldn't cause this, right? Me: How long ago? Patient: Like ten years, maybe longer. Me: It shouldn't be **affecting** you after this long. Patient: ok ok, well actually, more like five. Me: Years? Patient: Uh, like five months ago.

This goes on forever, until he admits he spent the past three days in a hotel with some people smoking crack non-stop. He finishes with: "But I don't want you to think I'm one of those dirty druggies.”
No, I think you're the idiot who lied and was getting treated for pneumonia instead of getting the proper treatment for crack lung, which is what he had.
Here's a tip: I genuinely don't care. I'm not your momma, your spouse, or your **priest**. Don't waste my time and endanger your health. Whatever horrible twisted thing you think is too shameful to talk about, I promise you, I've seen worse.

- admitted 承認;讓某人報到
- pneumonia 肺炎
- snort 吸
- affect n. effect v.
- priest 牧師

### #95

#### 故事 (1)
This was in rural Alabama. A middle aged married couple came to the ER after they had been drinking for almost the entire night. Things got heated and they got into an argument. The woman eventually fell off the porch of their trailer into the shrubs a few feet below.
- rural 偏鄉的
- ER 急診
- shrub 灌木叢

The husband came to help his wife. She didn't suffer anything too serious, just a couple of scratches here and there. Except for something the husband said looked like a piece of glass or pipe stuck in the woman's arm when she hit the ground.
- look like .. A、B需做比較
- look

He decided to not come to the hospital because he could remove this object himself. He got his largest pair of pliers and gripped on to this glass/pipe looking thing stuck in his helpless wife's arm. He clamped down and pulled and pulled. Trying to remove this object and it wouldn't budge. The alcohol started wearing off on both of them, and they decided to finally come to the ER.
- plier 鉗子
- grip 抓住
- budge 移動

Upon arriving to the ER, the doctor immediately realized this poor woman had a compound fracture in her arm, and this "pipe or piece of glass thing" was her bone sticking through her skin that her husband was trying to pull out with a pair of pliers.
- compound 開放性
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#### 故事 (2)
OBGYN student, I was delivering my first baby. It was an older lady from the rural side of town. When I asked her to push as the baby had fully crowned, a wad of worms exited her anus. I'm talking at least 60 live worms. I gagged so hard, but managed to keep a straight face throughout and deliver the baby. I realized then and there that OBGYN was not for me.
- OBGYN 婦產科
- anus 肛門
- worm 蟲
- gag 噁心想吐
- then and there 那裡那時後
- here and there 這裡那裡