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hey guys welcome back to let's talk this is me Mira today we're going to learn certain American English idioms right
各位好，歡迎回到《Let's Talk》，我是 Mira。今天我們要學習一些美式英語的慣用語
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these would really help you sophisticate your English improvise your English and make it sound really smart plus it gives
這些用語能幫助你讓英語更精緻、更靈活，並讓你的聽起來更有智慧。此外，它還能給你
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it gives you a great advantage because you don't have to speak long sentences anymore you can just use these idioms
帶來很大的優勢，因為你不再需要說很長的句子，你可以直接使用這些慣用語
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and convey your feelings convene your expressions and convey your message by using simple idioms right so this is a
來表達你的感受、傳達你的想法和訊息。所以這是一個
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great strategy you just speak in a smart way and to shorten your sentences all right let's start with the first one
很好的策略，你可以用更聰明的方式說話，並縮短你的句子。好的，我們從第一個開始
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this is certainly something that most of you must have heard before so at a boy is something something that's sort of a
這個你們大多數人一定都聽過，「Atta boy」是一種
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it gives us an image that an elderly person or a father is patting the daughters or the sons shoulder saying
它給我們一個畫面，就像一位長者或父親拍著女兒或兒子的肩膀說
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hey good job it actually means that it means a great job or it means
「嘿，做得好」。它真正的意思是「表現得很好」或「表示
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appreciation so so if you at all want to
讚賞」。所以，如果你想要
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say congratulations or well done or good job or a great job you can always bat someone's back and say atta boy
祝賀別人，或說「做得好」、「表現得很好」，你都可以拍拍某人的背說「Atta boy」
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maybe someone's won a competition or someone has actually done a great trek
比如有人贏得了比賽，或是有人完成了一項艱鉅的任務
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or ran in athletics and performed well or simple things and winning things and you know you want to encourage them so
或是在田徑比賽中表現出色，或是簡單地贏得了某些東西，而你想要鼓勵他們，那麼
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these are this is nothing but of an idiom to encourage someone or someone's good world add a boy is a great way to
這些就是用來鼓勵別人或讚賞別人良好表現的慣用語。「Atta boy」是一個很好的方式
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start of course with an exclamation mark all right guys let's move on to the next one bite the bullet it really means
當然，要加上一個驚嘆號。好的，各位，我們來看下一個「Bite the bullet」，它的真正意思是
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doing something unpleasant you know or doing something you know what I will
去做一件令人不愉快的事，或是去做一件你知道我會
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just rewrite this properly I want you to
把這個寫清楚一點，我希望你們
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be able to see it on Pleasant or doing
能看到「不愉快的事」，或是去做
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something that you have been wanting to
你一直想做的事
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do for example I will use the sentence
舉例來說，我會用這個句子
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and I would say after three months of yes-no yes-no I'm going to bite the
我想說的是，在三個月的猶豫不決之後，
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bullet and go to gym today do you get what I'm trying to say doing something I have been wanting to do or doing
我今天終於下定決心要去健身房了。你懂我的意思嗎？去做我一直想做的事，或是去做
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something unpleasant for example after this could be unpleasant as well going
某些不愉快的事。舉個例子，接下來去健身房對某些人來說可能也不太愉快，
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to the gym for some people but there's another example after fighting with my mother I bit the bullet and I went to
但還有另一個例子，跟我媽吵架之後，我下定決心去向她
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apologize to her or you know what I'm thinking I'm just going to bite the bullet and go to school tomorrow again
道歉。或者你知道嗎，我在想，我明天就豁出去了，再去上學吧。
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doing something you have been wanting to do did you get it fantastic let's move on to the next one bite the dust it
去做你一直想做的事。你懂了嗎？太棒了，我們繼續下一個，bite the dust（一命嗚呼）。
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actually means to fall in the ground really hard or suffer defeat you know so
它其實是指重重地摔在地上，或是遭受失敗。你知道的，
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fall or defeat you know what they say right
跌倒或失敗。你知道大家怎麼說吧？
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they say that whenever someone gets married people say another one bites the dust which means look at that person or
他們說每當有人結婚時，人們會說 another one bites the dust（又有一個人中招了），意思是看看那個人，
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look at those two people they got married they are now going to suffer defeat all their life so you can always
或是看看那兩個人，他們結婚了，他們現在要一輩子受苦了。所以你隨時可以
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say that you know what don't bother he's just someone who has recently bit the dust which means he's recently been
這樣說：「你知道嗎，別管他了，他只是個最近 bit the dust（結婚）的人。」意思是說他最近
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married oh you can actually put it when someone's exercising or playing a certain game and you know he's been so
結婚了。哦，你也可以在某人運動或玩某種遊戲時使用這個詞，你知道他或她已經累得
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tired or she's so that he or she falls on the ground really hard so you know what he tried to
不行了，結果他或她重重地摔在地上。所以你知道嗎，他試著
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perform well but he finally bit the dust when his legs gave up or when her legs gave up yes
表現得很好，但當他的腿支撐不住，或是她的腿支撐不住時，他最終還是 bit the dust（倒下了）。
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very practical and something that really pre okay now the next one is put your
非常實用，而且是很真實的情況。好了，下一個是 put your money where your mouth is（言行一致）。
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money where your mouth is I know it sounds a little aggressive and it sounds a little harsh but you know that there
我知道這聽起來有點咄咄逼人，也有點刺耳，但你知道在你生命中的某些時刻，
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are certain moments in your life where certain people don't follow what they say and certain people do things that
有些人說一套做一套，有些人做了
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you know they have said before and they don't do it anymore or they just talk so here's something that you can always say
你知道他們以前說過的事，但他們不再做了，或者他們只是光說不練。這裡有一句話你可以隨時對
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to those people put your money where your mouth is which means do as you say
這些人說：「put your money where your mouth is（拿出誠意來證明）」，意思是言行一致。
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okay do as you say okay so imagine my
好的，言行一致。好，想像一下我的
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friend promised me that she's going to come down to my city and spend some time with me so I can very casually say I
朋友答應我她會來我的城市和我共度一些時光，所以我可以非常隨意地說
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know that she will not mind it she will not take it offensively I can say hey you promised me you will come and visit
我知道她不會介意，她不會覺得被冒犯，我可以說嘿，你答應過我你會來看我
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me so put your mouth where your money is and come here put your money where your mouth to see what happens to people when
所以拿出實際行動吧（put your mouth where your money is）過來這裡，拿出你的錢（put your money where your mouth）看看當人們
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they twist and turn it really doesn't matter so much but put your money where your mouth is I will tell her do what
扭曲它的意思時會發生什麼事，這真的沒那麼重要，但 put your money where your mouth is 我會告訴她做你
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you you do what you said you said you're going to come or for example you're shouting at your sibling your younger
該做的事，你說過你要來，或者例如你對著你的兄弟姐妹大吼大叫，你的弟弟或妹妹
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sibling and you know that that person has been promising to clean up the Wardrobe and clean up the cupboard but
你知道那個人一直答應要清理衣櫃和清理櫥櫃
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he or she hasn't so you can say you know what put your money where your mouth is and clean up that cupboard you promised
但他或她還沒有做，所以你可以說你知道嗎，拿出實際行動（put your money where your mouth is）並清理那個你答應過我的櫥櫃
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me do you get what is what this idiom means great let's move ahead okay next is getting in someone's hair do you know
你明白這個idiom是什麼意思了嗎？很好，我們繼續，好的下一個是 getting in someone's hair，你知道
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what that means that actually means to irritate someone or annoy someone okay okay so I can always say that do you
那是什麼意思嗎？那實際上是指激怒某人或惹惱某人，好的好的，所以我可以總是這樣說，你知道嗎
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know what I'm now going to accompany you today for lunch because she gets in my hair
我今天要陪你去吃午餐，因為她 getting in my hair
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that means she annoys me it's literally not getting in someone's hair but someone when someone annoys you or this
那意思是她惹惱我，字面上不是指進入某人的頭髮，而是當某人惹惱你，或者這個
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loud music is getting in my hair because it is so loud it's irritating you and it's annoying you do you get it
太大聲的音樂 getting in my hair，因為它太大聲了，它很刺耳，讓你很煩，你明白了嗎
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yes so you can always use this and you can say something is getting in your hair that means something is bothering
是的，所以你可以隨時使用這個，你可以說某事 getting in your hair，那意思是某事在困擾
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you so I'm gonna say that is I'm gonna
你，所以我打算說那是，我打算
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write that as well what's up okay move
也把它寫下來，怎麼了，好的，繼續
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on hit the ceiling hit the ceiling means
hit the ceiling，hit the ceiling 的意思是
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getting really angry okay getting angry
變得非常生氣，好的，變得生氣
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like really really shut the damn music it's getting in my hair if you don't
像真的真的很生氣，把那該死的音樂關掉，它 getting in my hair，如果你不
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shut it I'm going to hit the ceiling very soon uh-huh nice one right I actually could combine both of them in
關掉它，我很快就會 hit the ceiling（發火），嗯哼，不錯吧，我其實可以把這兩個結合在
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one sentence I'm so happy alright hit the ceiling which means getting really angry so anything went
一句話裡，我太高興了，好的，hit the ceiling，意思是變得非常生氣，所以任何事情發生了
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whatever gets you angry maybe someone's behavior someone's talk or when someone does not put their money where their
任何事讓你生氣，也許是某人的行為、某人的談話，或當某人言行不一時
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mouth is that is the time you can hit this feeling that means when someone doesn't do what they promised you get
那就是你可以感受到這種情緒的時刻，意思是當某人沒有做到他們承諾的事，你就會
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angry right so you can actually mix and match all these things I'm sure you should next up is face the music which
生氣，對吧？所以你其實可以混合搭配所有這些事情，我相信你應該這樣做。接下來是 face the music
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actually means facing the consequences I know it sounds really nice
這其實意味著承擔後果。我知道這聽起來很棒
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but it means to face consequences of
但它意味著要面對
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your actions so there are things in life that we end up doing and we are not ready for the consequences we don't know
你行為的後果。生活中有些事我們最終做了，卻沒有準備好承擔後果，我們不知道
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what's going to happen but we should be prepared for the battle we should be prepared for our actions and
會發生什麼，但我們應該為這場戰鬥做好準備，我們應該為我們的行為做好準備，而且
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we should be able to face the consequences for example I am studying I'm studying my graduation and I sort of
我們應該能夠承擔後果。例如，我正在讀書，我讀到畢業，然後我算是
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you know I stopped I stopped like this continue my education and get into maybe
你知道，我停止了，我就這樣停止了，繼續我的教育，然後投入也許
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acting or something that is not relevant to my degree then I must be ready to face the music I must be ready to face
演戲或一些與我學位無關的領域，那麼我必須準備好承擔後果，我必須準備好面對
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the consequences that hey things might work out things might not work out so whenever you're advising people or
結果，嘿，事情可能會成功，事情也可能不會成功。所以每當你建議人們或
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suggesting people something and the you know they decided to do something that will have consequences
向人們提議某事，而你知道他們決定要做一些最終會有後果的事情時
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eventually you can always say don't worry but be prepared to face the music
你總是可以說別擔心，但要準備好承擔後果
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right face the consequences of your actions okay guys moving moving on we have out
對吧？承擔你行為的後果。好了各位，繼續，我們有 out of the woods
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of the woods usually the doctors say this whenever they check a patient and they have to
通常醫生會在檢查病人後這樣說，他們必須
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convey to the family or the patient himself or herself that nothing you don't have to worry about anything
告知家人或病人本人，你不必擔心任何事
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you're out of the woods that means out
你已經脫離險境了，意思是脫離
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of danger out of danger right so maybe
危險，脫離危險。對吧，所以也許
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you're hiding from your parents right and then your parents just come home to get their keys and probably you were
你正在躲著你的父母，然後你的父母只是回家拿鑰匙，可能你正在
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watching TV or you're watching laptop during your study hours then your friend you're from your parents leave then you
看電視或在學習時間看筆記型電腦，然後你的朋友你從你父母那裡離開，然後你
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can say oh thank god I'm out of the woods now that means out of danger they won't yell at you they won't scream at
可以說 oh thank god I'm out of the woods 現在的意思是脫離險境了，他們不會對你大吼大叫，他們不會對你尖叫
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you okay moving out moving on this is this is something that this is the one that I really like okay feel like a
你沒事了，繼續前進吧。這是，這是我真的很喜歡的一句，OK，feel like a million dollars
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million dollars which actually means that you probably dress up so well you're feeling so good your mood is
這實際上意味著你可能打扮得非常漂亮，你感覺非常棒，你的心情
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great you have done a great job at work or in college or you in general you're feeling um a
很好，你在工作上、在大學裡或整體上表現得非常出色，你感覺那天
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that day right and that is the time you can actually say hashtag which literally is over
很棒，而那就是你可以實際使用 hashtag 的時候，字面上意思是 hashtag feel like a million dollars 我今天感覺好極了
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hashtag feel like a million dollars I am feeling like a million dollars today or maybe you know what when someone
或者也許，你知道嗎，當有人
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actually praises me someone says that hey today you are looking fantastic I actually feel like a million dollars and
稱讚我時，有人說嘿，你今天看起來棒極了，我真的感覺好極了
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I thank that for something thank you so much you made me feel like a million dollars
我為此感謝某事，非常感謝你，讓我感覺好極了
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see how I used the phrase to return a compliment as well that's right feel like a million dollars
看到我如何用這個片語來回應讚美了嗎？沒錯，feel like a million dollars
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feeling what should I write guys all right amazing yes
feeling，我該寫些什麼，各位？好的，amazing 是的
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feeling amazing last one pull someone's leg now this one is very common yet may
feeling amazing，最後一個 pull someone's leg，這個很常見，但可能
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used in different ways which probably doesn't make sense sometimes but pulling someone's leg means just trying to just
用在不同的方式上，有時可能聽起來沒有道理，但 pull someone's leg 的意思是只是試圖
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someone is being naughty and someone's trying to make not make fun of you but just just you know be naughty and just
某人很頑皮，某人試圖不是取笑你，只是，你知道，很頑皮，只是
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go make jokes on you you know but they don't mean offense or they don't mean anything wrong they're just trying to be
開你玩笑，你知道，但他們沒有惡意，或者他們不是想表達什麼不對，他們只是試圖
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not to you okay so you can always say usually my brother pulls my leg so I always go like hey stop it don't pull my
對你開玩笑，OK，所以你總是可以說，通常我哥哥會開我玩笑，所以我總是會說嘿，停下來，不要再開我玩笑了
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leg anymore that means don't trouble me don't make jokes on me okay troubling someone right so you can
這意思是別煩我，別拿我開玩笑，OK，煩擾某人，所以你可以
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always say that don't worry I was just joking or don't worry I was just pulling your leg and then that person will not
總是這樣說，別擔心，我只是開玩笑的，或者別擔心，我只是在開你玩笑，然後那個人就不會
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feel uncomfortable anymore okay so guys these are the idioms for the day please go ahead and use them make your and your
再感到不舒服了，OK，所以各位，這些就是今天的慣用語，請儘管去使用它們，讓你和你的
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English much more interesting and fun and really okay that's all for the day guys
英語更有趣、更好玩，真的，OK，今天就到此為止，各位
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I will be back very soon with another such addressing listen until then make sure that you're smiling you're
我很快就會回來，帶來另一個這樣的講座，請耐心等候，直到那時，請確保你保持微笑，你
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practicing spread a lot of love this is me Mira signing off ciao
練習 spread a lot of love，我是 Mira，再見，ciao
