Odie的英语课 521 Vague language 1

516~520 复习① 朋友来我家做客，问我bottle opener（开瓶器，起子）在哪儿，我说：在那儿。—> There it is.在这儿。—> Here it is. 我手里正拿着起子，递给ta，说：给你。—> Here you are. / Here. / Here you go. ② 学校组织去秋游，大多数人都到了，有几个人很晚才到，见到他们我说：你们来了。—> Here you are.我们还以为你们不会来了！We thought you'd never come!③ 下午公司开会，brainstorming（头脑风暴），中间我建议大家休息一下喝杯咖啡，就说：现在我们休息一下喝杯咖啡好吗？—> Shall we break here and have a coffee? ④ 办公室里的打印机不打印了，同事找我帮忙，我修好了，有种小满足小得意，就说：你瞧，我（终于）把它弄好了。—> There, I've (finally) got it working. here and there 到处，各处；零散地，零星地房间里各处散放着几本书。There are a few books here and there in the room. 他只是到处看看。He just looked here and there. 她说话声音太轻，我只零星听到一两个词。She spoke so softly that I only caught a word here and there. 这节课开始，我们来学习：vague language 模糊语言vague expressions 模糊表达，模糊词语vague 模糊的，不清楚的，不明确的language 语言expression(s) 表达，表示；词，词语，措词请大家和我读vague languagevague expressions很常用的像是 大约，大概 about：会议大约有二十人。There are about twenty people at the meeting.除了数字，我们还常用 有点儿 kind of（美国）/ sort of（英国）来修饰形容词或副词：这里面很冷。It's cold in here.这里有点儿冷。It's kind of cold in here.