Name: 不要把這些詞混為一談 | 令人困惑的相似詞 (DON'T Get These Words Mixed Up | Confusingly Similar Words)
Uploaded: 2021-06-01T18:30:37.000Z
Duration: 12 min 22 s

An enemy, anemone. What? Okay, these  English words are confusing. Stick with me,  

一個敵人，海葵。什麼？好吧，這些英語單詞讓人困惑。跟著我走。

you're going to improve your  pronunciation and learn some new words.

你要改善你的發音，並學習一些新詞。

情態副詞

Today we're going over words that are confusingly  

今天我們要討論的是那些令人困惑的詞彙。

similar in English. This video is dedicated to my  English language learners but everyone is welcome.

類似的英語。這個視頻是獻給我的英語學習者的，但也歡迎大家來觀看。

Yesterday, I was reading a book  with my son. It was this book  

昨天，我和我的兒子一起讀一本書。是這本書

and in it, we were reading about sea creatures.  Specifically this sea creature. And I read “The  

而在其中，我們正在閱讀關於海洋生物的文章。  特別是這個海洋生物。我讀了 "The

sea anemone looks like a flower.”  He stopped me and said, “An enemy?”

海葵看起來像一朵花。"  他攔住我，說："是敵人？"

You see, and anemone and an enemy are very  similar. Just one switch sound. An enemy is  

你看，海葵和敵人是非常相似的。只是一個開關的聲音。敵人是

bad, someone who's hostile. Opposed to someone or  something. So my son was kind of concerned that  

壞的，有敵意的人。反對某人或某事。所以我兒子有點擔心

enemies were in this book. I hope in your life  you only have friends and allies, no enemies.

敵人在這本書中。我希望在你的生活中，你只有朋友和盟友，沒有敵人。

Anemone on the other hand is this thing. And  I got to see some once of the coast of Oregon.  

另一方面，海葵是這種東西。我還看到了俄勒岡州海岸的一些情況。  

This is my husband. I'm behind the camera.

這是我的丈夫。我在相機後面。

Let's make a little tongue twister. An enemy,  anemone. An enemy, anemone. An enemy, anemone. An  

我們來做個小繞口令。敵人，海葵。敵人，海葵。敵人，海葵。一個

enemy, anemone. An enemy, anemone. Slow it down  if you need to but this will be a great way to  

敵人，海葵一個敵人，海葵。如果你需要的話，請放慢速度，但這將是一個很好的方式來

practice relaxation with the N sound. See, N is  made just with the front part of the tongue. N.  

練習用N音放鬆。看，N只是用舌頭的前半部分發出的。N.

And some of my students use the  back of their tongue which makes it  

我的一些學生使用他們的舌頭後面，這使得它

sound more like and NG. Ng, ng. They put  tension there. We want the back relaxed,  

聽起來更像是和NG。NG，ng。他們把緊張放在那裡。我們希望後面的人放鬆。

the tongue nice and wide, n, nananana.  Anemone, an enemy, anemone. Okay. Moving on.

the tongue nice and wide, n, nananana.  海葵，一個敵人，海葵。好的。繼續前進。

Now this one, my niece messed up in a  job interview. She was pretty embarrassed.  

現在這個，我的侄女在一次工作面試中搞砸了。她很尷尬。  

艾米麗，告訴我你的工作面試情況。

I was in a job interview and they asked me,  “When you encounter a problem that you can't fix,  

我在一次工作面試中，他們問我："當你遇到一個你無法解決的問題。

what do you do?” And I said, “Sometimes you just  need to twerk it until you find a solution.”

你是怎麼做的？"我說，"有時你只需要扭動它，直到你找到一個解決方案。"

And I meant sometimes you just need  to tweak it until you find a solution.

而我的意思是，有時你只需要調整它，直到找到一個解決方案。

And they looked at me like  “What is she talking about?”

他們看著我說："她在說什麼？"

So did you not feel totally solid on either of  

那麼，你是否在這兩個方面都沒有感到完全穩固？

those words or you did and just  was like oops, it just happened?

這些話還是你做的，只是像哎呀，它剛剛發生？

I knew I shouldn't say twerk but tweak  and twerk got confused in my brain.

我知道我不應該說twerk，但tweak和twerk在我的大腦中被混淆了。

I knew that twerk was wrong but it just  

我知道扭腰是不對的，但它只是

came out and I mixed them up at  that moment under the stress.

出來了，我在那一刻在壓力下把它們混合起來。

They sort of looked at each other but,  sort of, just kept on going and ignored it.

他們有點互相看了看，但是，有點，只是繼續往前走，沒有理會它。

I did get a job offer but I said no to it.

我確實收到了一份工作邀請，但我拒絕了。

Okay. So even though you said twerk it in  the job interview you still got the job?

好吧，那麼即使你在面試時說了 "手淫"，你還是得到了那份工作？

Tweak versus twerk. Tweak means to improve  something by making an adjustment to it. For  

調整與扭動。調整是指通過對某一事物進行調整來改進它。對於

example, if I'm in my studio trying to get  a shot and the lighting isn't quite right,  

例如，如果我在我的工作室裡試圖拍攝一個鏡頭，而燈光又不太合適。

I might say, “We need to tweak the lighting.”  Make minor adjustments. Turn this one up,  

我可能會說，"我們需要調整一下燈光"。  做些小調整。把這個調高。

move this one a little bit. It's not a major  change. Just a little something. A tweak!

把這個人移開一點。這不是一個重大的變化。只是一個小東西。一個調整!

Twerk on the other hand is a dance  that involves jiggling your butt.  

另一方面，Twerk是一種涉及抖動屁股的舞蹈。  

I'm going to put a link right here to a video  that has a lot of good examples of twerking.  

我在這裡放一個鏈接，可以看到一個視頻，裡面有很多關於扭腰的好例子。  

It's explicit and you will see a lot of  butts in it. Behind, rear-ends. But you can  

它很明確，你會在裡面看到很多屁股。後面的，後面的。但你可以

see why you wouldn't want to talk about  twerking something in a job interview.

明白為什麼你不想在求職面試中談及扭動的東西。

Hopefully, they understood what my niece meant  when she said twerk understood that she meant  

希望他們能理解我侄女說的twerk是什麼意思，理解她是指

tweak. Make a little change. Nothing to do  with your behind. By the way, if you've ever  

調整一下。做點小改變。這與你的屁股沒有關係。順便說一下，如果你曾經

mixed up a word or you find two words really  confusing, put them in the comments below.

如果你把一個詞弄混了，或者你發現有兩個詞真的很混亂，請把它們放在下面的評論中。

Have you ever wondered about the difference  between wonder and wander? Wonder with an o  

你是否曾想過驚歎和徘徊之間的區別？驚奇是指用O

has the uh as in butter vowel. Wonder, wonder. It  means to think. To speculate, to be curious. Hmm,  

有如黃油元音的uh。Wonder, wonder.它意味著思考。推測，好奇。嗯。

I wonder what David is going to make for dinner.  To wander means to go aimlessly, casually.  

我想知道大衛會做什麼晚餐。  徘徊的意思是漫無目的地、隨意地走。  

We wandered around the farmer's market for a  while. It can also be something you do with  

我們在農貿市場上閒逛了一會兒。這也可以是你與

your mind. Rachel, are you paying attention?  Sorry, I let my thoughts wander. This means  

你的思想。瑞秋，你注意到了嗎？  對不起，我讓我的思想走神了。這意味著

I let my thoughts aimlessly take their own  path. My mind wandered. I wasn't focused.  

我讓我的思想漫無目的地走上自己的道路。我的思緒飄忽不定。我沒有集中注意力。  

If I wonder what David is making for dinner, I  might wander downstairs to see what he's cooking.  

如果我想知道大衛在做什麼晚餐，我可能會下樓去看看他在做什麼。  

I'm going to wander down. I'm not going to rush  down. If I see one of the boys playing in their  

我將在下面徘徊。我不會衝下去。如果我看到一個男孩在他們的房間裡玩耍

room or the living room, I might stop and play  a while. Remember, wandering is to go somewhere  

房間或客廳，我可能會停下來玩一會兒。記住，遊蕩是去某個地方

without rushing, without great purpose. I want to  see what David is cooking but I'm open to being  

不急不躁，沒有很大的目的。我想看看大衛在做什麼，但我願意被

distracted along the way. Wander spelled with  an A, the ah as in father vowel.

一路走來，心煩意亂。Wander的拼法是A，是父親元音的啊。

Some example sentences with wander and wonder.

一些帶有wander和wonder的例子句子。

我想知道她是否看到了我的電子郵件。

It's now wonder you're hungry, you haven't eaten all day.

現在你餓了才怪，你已經一天沒吃東西了。

Do you have any plans today? No, I'm just  going to wander about  and explore the town.

你今天有什麼計劃嗎？沒有，我只是想到處逛逛，探索一下這個小鎮。

I wonder if you can pass this 5-question quiz.  

我想知道你是否能通過這個5個問題的測驗。  

It's a lot easier than the quiz that's coming  later in this video. I'm going to play some  

這比本視頻後面的測驗要簡單得多。我將會播放一些

clips. Tell me based on the pronunciation and  the context if you're hearing wonder or wander.

夾子。根據發音和上下文告訴我，你是聽到了奇蹟還是徘徊。

Do you w*nder what your opponent might be wearing?  

你想知道你的對手可能會穿什麼嗎？  

Do you speculate about it? Think about it? Are  you curious about it? That's wonder with an O.

你會猜測它嗎？思考它嗎？你對它感到好奇嗎？那是帶O的奇蹟。

Ed Koch used to w*nder around New York City.

埃德-科赫曾經在紐約市四處遊蕩。

Now, that's a clue. If the next word is around,  this is probably going to be wander with an A.  

現在，這就是一個線索。如果下一個詞在身邊，這可能是要用A來徘徊。

在沒有明確方向的情況下四處走動。

Which made me w*nder, how  often do I really rest at home?

這讓我不禁想到，我到底有多長時間在家裡休息？

Made me w*nder. Made me think about this.

讓我感到震驚。讓我想到了這一點。

Visitors can w*nder through  the centuries-old temples.

遊客可以在有數百年曆史的寺廟中徜徉。

W*nder through. Walk through slowly,  experience, move about casually, not rushing.

走過。慢慢走過，體驗，隨意走動，不要著急。

Relax and let your mind w*nder gives your  subconscious mind time to take up ideas.

放輕鬆，讓你的頭腦清醒一下，讓你的潛意識有時間去接受想法。

Mind. But we're not talking about thinking.  We're talking about letting your mind move  

思想。但我們不是在談論思考。  我們談論的是讓你的思想移動

without direction or objective.  Just letting your mind w*nder.

沒有方向或目標。  只是讓你的頭腦胡思亂想。

Okay, this next one, I messed  up recently in writing. Oops.

好吧，接下來這個，我最近在寫作上搞砸了。哎呀。

我把即將發生的和即將發生的弄混了。

And there's also immanent pronounced just  like imminent but with a different spelling  

還有immanent的發音與imminent相同，但拼法不同。

and a totally different meaning. How cruel is  that? Pronounced the same, spelled differently,  

和一個完全不同的意義。這有多殘酷？發音相同，拼寫不同。

首先，讓我們來談談前兩個問題。

Imminent with the letter I. Starts with  an ih as in sit vowel. Ih, imminent.  

iminent與字母I同音，以ih開頭，如坐元音。Ih, imminent.  

And everything else about the  pronunciation is the same as  

eminent with an e. Imminent means  lightly to occur at any moment.

即將發生的意思是在任何時候都可能發生。

I haven't gotten the Covid vaccine yet, but Philly  has opened it up to anybody, so it's imminent.

我還沒有接種Covid疫苗，但費城已經向任何人開放，所以它即將到來。

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